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Two days before Thanksgiving in the 1950s, Mom cut up a turkey and baked it in the oven. She felt the turkey breast became unnecessarily dry when a bird was roasted whole. Mom packaged and stored the turkey and gravy…

Last Tuesday’s election got me thinking back to 1956 when Weekly Reader introduced me to this political process. One article indicated that someone other than Eisenhower might become president. At nine years old—It was a punch in the gut! My…

Halloween in North Freedom during the 1950s was different than it is today. Parents did not order fancy Superhero or Princess costumes from Amazon. If kids wanted special effects like the Star War sabers or Cinderella wands of today, we…

I visited North Freedom last summer. Things have changed! Almost all of the businesses from the 1950s are gone. Like many small villages, North Freedom is a sleeper town for surrounding cities. Sound sad? Not really! The North Freedom Library…

The Schroeder family lived on the upper farm on the east end of Walnut Street in North Freedom, Wisconsin, during the 1950s and 1960s. Carolyn’s maternal grandparents lived on the adjacent lower farm. The farms were operated together by Carolyn’s…

The Schroeder family moved into the house on the upper farm in North Freedom, Wisconsin in 1948. Carolyn was one-and-a-half years old; her brother, David, was a baby. Carolyn’s maternal grandparents lived at the end of the half-mile road on…