JD Like others have said you need to write this stuff down. one day those grandsons of yours will need to sit down and read the history of your family. I have lost so many of the stories of both sides of my family over the years and I wish I had paid more attention to them and wrote down a lot of them but I didn't. I guess I'm preaching to myself too. Both sets of my grandparents are gone as well as all my great uncles and aunts but I still remember a lot of their stories and was fortunate to be growing up when they were still alive. One of my favorites one was my Great uncle Bill he was a Navy seebe in the Pacific in world war II went to work for Misner Marine out of Tampa when he got back. Ran a friction crane driving pilings the rest of his life most of the time off of a barge. Drove the pilings that hold the monorail up at Disney World where it travels over the made lake in the early seventies. Got to go see him drive those pilings when I was a kid. He wasn't a really big man but had a chest that was a foot and a half thick and arms that looked like corner posts on a fence line and the biggest hands I have ever seen on a man to this day. Drank as hard as he worked and rode an old Harley just about everywhere he went and that was before it was cool to ride one. Keep telling your stories and I'll keep reading them
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Pat Browning. The setting is rural Wisconsin, halfway between East Troy and Elkhorn, on Hodunk Road, our nation was at war, and I was 6, 7 and 8 years old. George was our "threshing neighbor." He was the one with the threshing machine, a JI Case on steel wheels, and he pulled it to our farm with a JI Case standard tractor also on steel. In those days, steel wheeled implements were common. The roads were general gravel, so the lugs cutting into them wasn't a problem. George would set up the thresher, s
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