A home for Snow without winter

Years of neglect have turned one of the area's oldest homes, the Snow family home in Neosho Falls, into a state of elegant ruin. George Snow earned the moniker "Big Father" for his work as an Indian agent for the region.

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May 18, 2020 - 10:18 AM

The Snow family’s “Rockland Home” hides amidst a tangled jungle of trees and brush in the southeastern corner of Neosho Falls. Photo by Trevor Hoag / Iola Register

Everything can change in a year, one falling of the snow.

You can lose yourself while finding your home, though shrouded in purple and bruise-black thunderclouds, after the passage of hundreds of miles.

You can see something for the first time, despite seeing it a thousand times before.

You can look in the mirror and find a stranger.

I imagine that’s how Maj. George Catlin Snow would feel today were he to gaze upon his beloved “Rockland Home” tucked away in the southeastern corner of Neosho Falls.

—The moment being akin to staring into the eyes of something alien, though nonetheless intensely alive.

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