“Sharon, who was now twenty-one years old, had completed her teaching preparation and would now go to Ed Meadow’s farm home near Logan Junction, where she had taken a teaching position just outside of town.” – Bittersweet Harvest The story of my cousin’s...
“A few minutes later, Mary, Catherine, and Ruby entered his room. ‘Dad,’ Catherine said, ‘Mr. Henning, Mr. Roberts, and the others are doing our milking so that Ruby and I can get to school.’” ~ Bittersweet Harvest Harold’s Favorite Places: Avoca School...
On the north side of Mineral Point, where Pine Street turns westward into Garden and Alice streets, is a cluster of properties that is no longer owned by my mother’s family, but once was a Fitzsimons compound of sorts. It once held the homes of several close-knit...
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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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