I’ve written about my cousins Jack’s and Wayne’s resistance to getting out of bed when their fathers called them for morning milking. A student of mine had a brother with the same problem, and it was driving her father to distraction. She devised a solution that she...
Coach Douglas McKenzie called this winning group of basketball players, “my state tournament team.” He thought by the time we were juniors or seniors we’d be a championship team for sure. The 1951 Mineral Point eighth-grade starting five is pictured above....
December 7, 1941: B-17 C (Flying Fortress) my wife’s uncle, pilot Earl Cooper, flying in darkness and low on fuel, approached Pearl Harbor. He intended to land at Hickham Field for refueling before continuing on to Clark Field in the Philippines. As dawn broke and...
When I was four years old, my best friend was Binny. His name probably wasn’t Binny, but I couldn’t say his name right, so he was always Binny to me. He lived next door, so we often played together. We’d ride our tricycles, play in the backyard with our trucks, and...
As an eight-year-old, I knew the abruptness of nightfall. We lived in a chicken house while waiting for construction of a real house that was never completed. We had no electricity, no running water, no plumbing, and no bathroom. Have you ever read under the light of...
I frequently visited my cousin Wayne Paull when he was living alone after his wife, Elvira, passed away. Wayne, with his stories and country philosophy, always made my visit interesting. He kept me entertained from the time I arrived until I left. I’ll tell you a few...
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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.
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