• Maynard – Maynard is a very small town. In the 1950s, it wasn’t even big enough to have a traffic light. Main Street was only about a block long, and the town had the bare essentials of what constituted a town: a gas station, a diner, a couple of bars, a bank, a school, and a nice park. The Volga River, one of the very few rivers in North America that flows from south to north, runs through the town. The town was like many others around it .

  • Oelwein – Oelwein is eight miles south of Maynard and is the biggest town in Iowa’s Fayette County, and it’s where Maynard people go to do their shopping and a lot of their other business. These days it has a population of about 6,400. From the 1930’s through the 1950’s, the town served as a significant railroad hub. Glenn Borland Sr. was a foreman for the railroad.