Survival in a Northern Wilderness: A Mother's Story--Part XXXII
The Fort Frances Times reported that The S.S.Clipper was towed to the Falls River by a large boat after it had hit a reef in the Ranier...
Survival in a Northern Wilderness: A Mother's Story--Part XXXI
The bear hit the ground, Orrah said she moved like lightning and was roaring like thunder. It seemed like slow motion as he got his 763...
Survival in a Northern Wilderness: A Mother's Story--Part XXI
For about a month in 1948 Orrah and son Wes guided some rich folks from Florida by the name of Kelses down near the Border Mill while the...
Survival in a Northern Wilderness: A Mother's Story--Part XVII
In the waning days of summer in 1944 Orrah and Violet towed a boom of logs to the Border Mill, leaving eleven year old Floyd and nine...
Survival in a Northern Wilderness: A Mother's Story--Part XVI
Mr. J. A. Matthew’s houseboat had eight rooms, a combination dining and living room, a small galley, a pump-room and bathroom downstairs...
Survival in a Northern Wilderness: A Mother's Story--Part XV
The two young hired men not only jumped ship taking a good portion of what was left of their summers grubstake. The desertion was the...
Survival in a Northern Wilderness--A Mother's Story: Part XIV
According to Violet, when she was getting ready for school lessons. “all hell broke loose” and she lost the battle to teach her children....
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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...
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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...