George Loman: A Man of Principle
56654 became their zip code and they indeed earned it. The folks who talked about George used reverential tones, held in high esteem by...
Survival in the Northern Wilderness: A mother's story--Part II
When against the wishes of her father Violet eloped with Orrah Kielczewski she never dreamed that she would be living off the land and...
Survival in the Northern Wilderness: A mother's story
Violet was born July 9th. 1903. It would seem to be an indication of her family’s financial straits when as a 6 years old she floundered...
Ol' Joe Part II
Ol’ Joe was appreciative when real horsepower was replaced by tractors, cars, trucks, boat motors and other gasoline contrivances but in...
Ol' Joe
He wasn’t always Ol’ Joe, but for the rest of us it seemed incongruous that he was ever any age other than he was. Joe was born on the...
Mrs. Ham
Mrs. Ham didn't feel well and a pain in her abdomen was stern, so a concerned Mr. Ham somehow relayed word to Intl'l Falls that a do
Inexplicable Frank: Frank has it tough.
In late January of 1913 Frank wrote his family in Indiana that he was making progress but since last summer he had been short of breath...
Inexplicable Frank: Part 3 of a Pioneer Story
Frank and his son George lived eight miles south of Stratton, Ontario and on the way to their homesteads there were miles of muskeg and...
Inexplicable Frank: A Pioneer Story
It takes some musing and gauzy imagination to come to a realization that where we live was once one of America’s last frontiers, yeah...