A Year of Memories, Cornish Food and Culture, Heirloom recipes, Kitchen and Culture, Monday Memories
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...
Iowa County Blog, Irish Food and Culture
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...
Farming, Iowa County Blog, Reflections
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...
Harold's Favorite Places - Iowa County, Iowa County Blog
“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...
Cornish Food and Culture, Iowa County Blog
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...
Heirloom recipes, Italian Food and Culture, Kitchen and Culture
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...
Harold William Thorpe novels are now included on Goodreads! 