From Kings 4:26, “And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.” Solomon may have had thousa…
Sharp is a presumed male perspective. Axes, knives, razors, the occasional lawn mower. In my once childhood axes mattered more as chainsaws we…
The job is gone now, along with churning butter and lighting kerosene lamps. But I remember when hauling bundles on a thresh run was a way of …
When my grandfather, H.R. Johnson, went searching for a wife at the turn of the century, he looked for a woman who could cook, sew, put up pre…
The time and dependence of rural Wisconsin on the railroad has long been history. Growing up in the ‘30s and ‘40s in an unincorporated village…
My grandfather tended honey bees, to the consequence he used a reoccurring expression, “well ain’t he an old bee,” as when an older person was…
I was so tired I had to do the dishes in bed.
The Scheckel boys grew up on the 238-acre farm near Seneca in the middle of Crawford County in the 1940s and 1950s. We went after bounties tha…
Now, this is the story of Shorty McGrall
Editor’s note: This letter was submitted by Sharon Fortunak. The letter was written to Sharon from her teacher while she was hospitalized for …
Among car guys is a more personal query, what was the ugliest car ever? The Ford Edsel, 1958-60, places well as does Citroen and Studebaker. U…
Humans are always bucking a headwind.
The Country Today is seeking submissions for the Yarns of Yesteryear feature on page 1B. Stories can include accompanying photographs. We also…
The bachelor brothers, Joe and Bill Bernier, lived down the road from the Scheckel farm out on Oak Grove Ridge, a tad north of Seneca, Wiscons…
There has been a lot of talk about immigration with people wanting to come into our country. This a story about my grandmother who immigrated …
It was an ordinary table, very ordinary. An overstatement to say it was ordinary. That table was functional. Sourced at Boston Furniture on Ma…
This article is about my great-grandfather Hans Hansen. He was born in Laaland, Denmark, on Oct. 16, 1852.
She was the last to know it was raining.
What do you do when you have an overabundant supply of milk and eggs and the selling price continues to go down while costs go up?
The sound of tractors pulling plows, discs, field cultivators and spreaders filled the air at the Clarence and Edna Sjodin farm northeast of C…
Uncle Clayton lived and breathed on a 240-acre farmstead below the watch of the ghost mountain below the village of Bancroft, inelegantly know…
Teachers did not have much of a problem with discipline at the Oak Grove School that I attended from 1948-1956. There were no big city temptat…
Editor’s note: The following yarn is the third of three parts. Parts one and two were published in the March 24 and March 31 editions.
Editor’s note: The following yarn is the second of three parts. Part one was published in the March 24 edition. Part three will be published i…
Editor’s note: This yarn is divided into three parts. Parts two and three will be published in the March 31 and April 7 editions.
The horse trailer arrived on a Saturday afternoon in Pepin, Wisconsin, the small town where we had resided for two years. Since we were buildi…
“Good fences make good neighbors” seemed to be the consensus of most farmers who lived on the average 80-, 120-, and 240-acre farms in the Sta…
Every boy growing up will admit, if they’re honest, that they have pulled some stupid stunts. They say it has something to do with the youthfu…