River Road Ramblings

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

Monday, August 12, 2019

Factory Farms -- Coming to NW Wisconsin?

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    The past few months here in NW Wisconsin -- Polk and Burnett Counties, along the St Croix River, a movement has been forming.  It all be...
Thursday, May 30, 2019

Videos from the Rambler

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With Summer soon here, we are gradually catching up with the spring jobs; the new garden fences, the garden and flower bed plantings, and in...
Saturday, May 11, 2019

Speak Up

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    College grades were critical to get into graduate school, so when after the first quarter, I got a B in American Literature I was devast...
Sunday, April 14, 2019

2019 Maple Syrup Season

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We are finishing maple syrup season this coming week.  For us it was a normal season, a normal yield of about 1 quart of syrup per tap, and ...
Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Traveling Pests

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         From Lake D'Arbonne State Park on the northern border of Louisiana, starting week 6 of our winter trip south.      It a...
Wednesday, February 6, 2019

2019 Winter Vacation

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January 9th we headed south driving 3 days and ending up in Sab Angelo state park for a week.  We then moved south to Garner state park near...
Thursday, January 24, 2019

Texas Talk

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Overheard in the local Farm and Ranch store in rural TX. “My foot hurts something awful,” drawled Slim, not really so slim ...
Monday, January 21, 2019

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Margo and I took off headed south Wednesday, January 9th.  We drove 3 days south south west and got to San Angelo State Park in TX and staye...
Thursday, December 20, 2018

Happy Holidays 2018

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The Annual Christmas newsletter is online -- 2018 Christmas Newsletter
Friday, December 7, 2018

Four Cheerios Box Tops and $1 Buys a Radio

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Brother Everett and I got into radios in our early teens. It started when Uncle Lloyd loaned us a WWII crystal radio he used in the barracks...
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