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We have a new book, I’ve Always Wondered About That, published by Tumblehome Learning, coming out this Fall. It is a Question and Answer format. Some of the questions are; Why is there a big E at the top of … Continue reading →

The science column Ask Your Science Teacher has appeared weekly in the Tomah Journal since 1993. A similar column, Science Made Easy, has been published in the Monroe County Herald for the last two… Source: New Book Coming Out

The science column Ask Your Science Teacher has appeared weekly in the Tomah Journal since 1993. A similar column, Science Made Easy, has been published in the Monroe County Herald for the last two years. It is a Question and … Continue reading →

We Wisconsinites always look forward to the first signs of Spring. I suppose those signs are unique and different for each of us. One of the first signs for me is baseball Spring Training, when pit… Source: First Signs of … Continue reading →

We Wisconsinites always look forward to the first signs of Spring. I suppose those signs are unique and different for each of us. One of the first signs for me is baseball Spring Training, when pitchers and catchers report to … Continue reading →

Our son, Paul Scheckel, passed away on Tuesday, January 24, due to pneumonia. He was 50 years old. Paul was in the hospital for 10 days, the last 4 on life support. Ann and I were with him at the … Continue reading →

Our son, Paul Scheckel, passed away on Tuesday, January 24, due to pneumonia. He was 50 years old. Paul was in the hospital for 10 days, the last 4 on life support. Ann and I were with him at the … Continue reading →

A traveling library stopped in Seneca, in the heart of Crawford County, once a week in the 1940s and 1950s. It came out of Prairie du Chien, the County seat, and made regular stops for several hours at a time, … Continue reading →

There was no television on the Scheckel farm out on Oak Grove Ridge in the middle of Crawford County in the 1940s and 1950s. Our Silvertone radio had an aerial, a wire that ran from the house to the windmill, … Continue reading →

We did not have television or newspapers on our farm out on Oak Grove Ridge in the middle of Crawford County in the 1940s and 1950s. Our news came from our school Weekly Reader, the Movietone News which seared in … Continue reading →