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The first farm we came to when walking home from the Oak Grove Ridge one-room country school to our farm in the late 1940s and early 1950s outside Seneca in the middle of Crawford County, was the Ingham farm. Two … Continue reading →

Watching the snow banks dwindle with the warmer temperatures and the ice slowly disappearing in Lake Tomah, the mind drifts back to the days walking home from the Oak Grove Ridge one-room country school in the late 1940s and early … Continue reading →

via Watercress on the Scheckel Farm

It was a sure sign of spring on the Scheckel farm out on Oak Grove Ridge near Seneca, in the heart of Crawford County, Wisconsin in the 1940s and 1950s.  Dad took my brothers, Phillip and Bob, down into Kettle … Continue reading →

Some years ago, in my teaching career at Tomah High School, Spring arrived, and the students and I decided to list all the signs of Spring. Each class period could only name one sign of Spring. It only took a … Continue reading →

Signs of spring are all around us now. For most people it is the warmer weather, more hours of daylight, return of the robins, ice going out of Lake Tomah, and more walkers and joggers out on our streets and … Continue reading →

via The Baby Chicks- A Sure Sign of Spring

This time of the year, mid-March, I harken back to my days on the family farm out on Oak Grove Ridge, near Seneca, in the heart of Crawford County, Wisconsin. We had milking cows, hogs, sheep, and horses. We pastured … Continue reading →

The Philco radio sat on a small table in the front of the room at the Oak Grove Ridge one-room country school miles northwest of Seneca in Crawford County. Wisconsin School of the Air, originating at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, … Continue reading →

Sergeant Preston of the Yukon was another favorite radio program of the Scheckel boys on the Oak Grove Ridge farm in the 1940s and 1950s. Sergeant Preston was a Canadian Mountie. Preston rode his horse, Rex, and a canine companion, … Continue reading →