River Road Ramblings

Comments and photographs from an old local historian and backwoodsman about life in the St. Croix River Valley

Friday, January 4, 2013

Carryings On at the Luck WI Museum

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Thursday, Luck HS students helped with the temporary offsite storage of Museum materials to let the carpenters connect the old storage roo...

Immunization and Breakfast at McDonalds

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Cushing's favorite son, Doc Squirt on a winter emergency call back in 1910.  His syringe is filled with flu vaccine! Finally went i...
Thursday, January 3, 2013

Sauntering through the Woods

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   One of my online friends with Myasthenia Gravis is mourning the loss of running as a part of her life.  She was struck with MG a few mon...

On the Watkins Route

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    Vernon Peterson, of Siren WI wrote this about 4 years ago about his time as a Watkins salesman going door-to-door in Polk and Burnett C...

Luck Library-Museum Addition Progress

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Chuck Adleman, president of the Luck Area Historical Society, sent me these photos of the addition to the Luck library and museum.       ...
Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Cushing Drive-through 2006

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Some photos from my Cushing Drive through back in 2006.   Was inspired by a similar photo collection made in the 1990s by Francis Burnstead....

Prednisone -- The Lyrics

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To keep my myasthenia gravis under control, I take prednisone to keep my immune system running on low.  In autoimmune diseases, like MG, ...
Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Eureka Center 100 years ago

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Old Creamery (east of Eureka 1 mile) Baptist Church General Store  Creamery -- now the K J's

1907 in Wolf Creek WI, along the St.Croix River

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Wolf   Creek Store 1907     SELHS was given the 1907 record book for the Wolf Creek Store.  It lists all of the charges and payments...

Indians Uprising St Croix Valley?

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EARLY HISTORY OF THE FRIENDLY VALLEY  by Maggie Orr O’Neil      (1930s booklet)                         Indians John Moses, Chi...
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