Reminisce

Let’s Reminisce

The Big Ant Hill and Other Special Places

THE BIG ANTHILL AND OTHER SPECIAL PLACES When my brother, Gordon, and I were kids, often on a Sunday afternoon we would take a long walk back to a field near the woods on our farm and visit the “big anthill”. This ant hill…

Industrialization of Small Family Farms

The Industrialization of Small Family Farms after WW II In Iowa by Myrna Wood      Picton, Ontario       I was in Grade 11 when I detasseled corn and made $400. It was in the early Fifties when the hybrid corn industry hit my…

Christmas at Our House

CHRISTMAS AT OUR HOME I think our dogs probably enjoyed Christmas as much as we did back in the early 1960s. They seemed to know they had gifts under the tree, and would visit the tree daily to investigate if anything else had arrived…

More School Days

MORE MEMORIES OF SS#14 SOPHIASBURGH I was behind a stopped school bus recently, and I couldn’t help but notice that it was only after the bus had completely stopped and activated its lights, did the kids leave the doorstep, walk the long driveway to…

School Days

MEMORIES OF SS#14 The year was 1956, and the entire school – all 13 of us – wondered what our new teacher would be like. Little did I know when she walked into the classroom of that one room school, not far from where…

Dancing the Jive

BURNIN’ UP THE DANCE FLOOR I consider myself very fortunate to have grown up in the era of ‘57 Chevs, Elvis Presley, Ricky Nelson, white bucks, blue suede shoes and duck-tail haircuts. The dance back then was the jive and at the age of…

I Remember When

I REMEMBER WHEN…… – the cats eating out of old enamel pie plates. They were left outside and if they were full of water the next morning, then we had a good rain overnight. “Rained last night,” “How much?” “About an inch – the…

Spring Planting

SPRING  PLANTING“Ter-r-r-y. Time to get up! Got a lot of work to do today.” Even though my alarm ensured I was always awake when he called, I would lie there and wait for his call from the bottom of the stairs. Although still dark,…