Nine generations of the Stadum family – from Palmer and Signe on the North Dakota plains to Dean Lloyd, born 2025. Stories, photographs, audio, and the records of lives well lived.
Palmer Stadum's life connects the arrival of rural electricity in North Dakota with a lifelong curiosity for machines, radio, craft, and memory.
Through family documents, museum materials, photographs, and later recollections, his story becomes a map of work, invention, place, and inheritance – a single life seen through the records it left behind.
A 14-minute audio story tracing Palmer's work with Baker Electric and the Rural Electrification Administration, drawn from five archival sources.
