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Another look back in the archive for this week’s yarn. If you have a memory you’d like to submit, email it to matt.milner@ecpc.com. Submission…

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Recently I had an opportunity to speak at the Community Center in Kiel about “Old Kiel.” Somehow I lost my connection to my notes and failed t…

The dictionary says, “A heroine is a woman admired or idealized for her courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities.” My choice for …

A dip into the archives this week for Yarns of Yesteryear. This column was submitted by Alice Gaines Oetting, from Dunn County, and ran in Sep…

I moved to the beautiful city of Beaver Dam in 1963, but what was not so beautiful was the Monarch Malleable Iron Range Company. The large fac…

Doing chores during the winters in the 1940s and 1950s on the Scheckel farm outside of Seneca in the middle of Crawford County was not easy, b…

My dad was employed by the University of Wisconsin, Madison from 1944-1977 in what is now called the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences…

Larry Anderson died on December 18, 2023. He was a classmate of mine, the Seneca High School Class of 1960. There were 28 of us, and now only …

Towards the end of his tenure with the Green Bay Packers, Aaron Rodgers often looked, frankly, unhappy. Other appropriate adjectives: haggard,…

We were in the woods every winter cutting down trees when I was a young lad in the 1940s and 1950s on the 238-acre farm outside of Seneca in t…

The stillness of the day was changing by the wind whipping snow into whirling figures. Gripping the treasures from the mailbox, I joined the f…

I read Larry Scheckel’s well written articles about Farmers and the Mississippi (part one and two in The Country Today, and the articles remin…

The Lawyer LincolnOur Mississippi River two-day excursion on the Twilight riverboat from LeClaire, Iowa to Dubuque and back, in mid-October wa…

Editor’s note: This is the third of four pieces as Larry Scheckel continues his trip on the Mississippi.

Our two-day Mississippi River excursion on the Twilight riverboat from Le Claire, Iowa to Dubuque and back, in mid-October was made more stimu…

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Farmers are bringing in the corn crop. It’s a joy to see those four and six row combines or harvesters moving through the field, a small cloud…

On Sept. 8, 2023, Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Corbin Burnes worked eight innings, giving up no hits and no runs. He had thrown 109 pitches when …

Peering outside the window of her school, 8-year-old Abbie Knollmaier (Abbie Oleson today) could hardly contain her excitement as the snow beg…

The Scheckel family lived out on Oak Grove Ridge, two miles northwest of Seneca in the middle of Crawford County, Wisconsin. Seneca was “town”…

Amish farms dot the southern half of the hill country of Monroe County. We see them working the fields and come across their horse and buggy t…

Another trip into the archives this week with a yarn from Pat Luck of North Freedom. This one originally ran in February 2008. Have a yarn to …

Threshing in the valley has been an annual tradition for over 50 years on the Monsignor Michael Gorman farm located off Highway 171 between Bo…

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The Scheckel family farmed two miles northwest of Seneca on Oak Grove Ridge, in the heart of Crawford County, Wisconsin. Seneca was “town” to …

The Scheckel 238-acre family farm was two miles northwest of Seneca on Oak Grove Ridge, in the heart of Crawford County. Crawford County was n…