Bea's Books: Growing Up In Southern Wisconsin In The 1930s to 2000

Have you ever...heard "olly, olly oxen free" on a shadowy twilight summer night?

been the fox chasing the goose around the circle made in the snow?

rode on the merry-go-round at the county fair?

cracked hickory nuts, husked ground cherries, or shucked an ear of corn?

eaten pancakes with homemade syrup made from maple trees in the grove?

It was a Tuesday. The arrival of a new child, the fifth for Alfred and Josephine in the back bedroom of the farmhouse on Haney Ridge, Crawford County, Wisconsin.

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