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 “You don’t lay, you don’t stay” could well be the warning for a hen on the Scheckel farm in Crawford County outside of Seneca in the 1940s and 1950s. That normal stay was about 18 months. Baby chicks arrived by … Continue reading →

 We’re coming up on the 63rd anniversary of the Evelyn Hartley kidnapping. It was big, big news for the whole state, nation, and even worldwide. La Crosse had no television station at the time. There was no CNN, FOX News, … Continue reading →

Shocking corn was high on the list of least liked job on the farm for the Scheckel boys on the Oak Grove Ridge farm outside of Seneca in the heart of Crawford County. Dad bought a new McCormick Deering corn … Continue reading →

Fall is here. Some say Fall officially starts on September 21, the autumnal equinox. But we all know Fall starts “right after Labor Day.”  Cooler mornings with frost warnings and dark about 7 0’clock. Remembering back to the farm outside … Continue reading →

Softball was big at Oak Grove, the one-room country school 2 miles northwest of Seneca in the middle of Crawford County, Wisconsin. I started first grade on September 6, 1948. Two 8th grade boys chose sides. Who got to make … Continue reading →

Falling is coming on. You can feel it the air, cooler mornings, gets dark earlier, sumac is turning red, some trees have leaves turning color, especially if they have been stressed. Remembering back on the farm outside of Seneca in … Continue reading →

The Crawford County Fair at Gays Mills is winding down today (Sunday). Phillip, Bob, and I, the three Scheckel boys growing up on the farm outside of Seneca in the 1940s and 1950s, always looked forward to the Fair. We … Continue reading →

It is 1948 and the threshing crew is at the Scheckel farm, a couple miles northwest of Seneca, in the middle of Crawford County. Older brother Phillip is 7 years old, I am 6, and Bob is 5. On toward … Continue reading →

            It was the most exciting day of the whole year, with the possible exception of Christmas Day.  Frank Fradette came up the road from the Bernier farm. pulling the threshing machine with a big orange Minneapolis Moline tractor, and … Continue reading →

Summer was a busy time on the Scheckel 238-acre farm, in the heart of Crawford County, two miles northwest of Seneca 1940s and 1950s. Putting up loose hay (no bales) seemed to go on all summer, days of cutting and … Continue reading →