The cookie jar caught my attention first whenever I entered Aunt Berniece’s kitchen. Whatever it contained would be good, but I said a little prayer before lifting the lid. “Please, God, make it be tea biscuits.” I loved Aunt Berniece’s Cornish tea biscuits. My...
by Harold William Thorpe and Karyn Saemann Be sure to check out the historical photo gallery at the end of this article. In Giddyap Tin Lizzie, Will O’Shaughnessy, a descendant of Irish immigrants, holds fast to his ethnic heritage while experiencing the great...
The following anecdotes illustrate numerous ways my family-farmer relatives showed kindness to me, and positively influenced work habits, attitudes, and my view about how to treat others. How I admired these adults, even as a child, enough to want to learn from them...
“You’re thinking about that school teacher, are you?’ Will felt himself blush. ~ Giddyap Tin Lizzie For more than a century, on a hill on the east end of Main Street in Linden, Wisconsin, stood a school. A two-story, wooden frame school building with a tall belfry...
In the O’Shaughnessy Chronicles, descendants of southwest Wisconsin’s hard rock-mining, nineteenth century Cornish immigrants weather early twentieth century change. “‘Have you ever eaten Cornish tea biscuits, Earl?’ ‘Can’t say that I have.’ Will...
Mary Mangardi McGuire, a descendent of the first Italians to settle in Mineral Point in the early 20th Century has generously shared information and stories for our Italians in Mineral Point page. As part of the project, here is Mary’s recipe for Genoa Minestrone...
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When a sibling unexpectedly inherits his grandfather’s dairy farm, Will O’Shaughnessy turns to selling Fords in rural, pre-World War I southwestern Wisconsin.
A richly wistful epic tale of a bygone era....Readers will yearn for more. ~ Midwest Book Review
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