Be it ever so humble. . .

This is where Stan's Grandma and Grandpa, Nils and Rebecca Rolfsrud, staked a claim in western North Dakota early in the 1900s. They of course didn't know it at the time, but they were on top of the now-famous Bakken Oil Shale Formation, which is now helping to make the nation energy independent.
Stan's father (born 1912) wrote the note below when passing along the faded photograph before he died in 1994.