We are excited to announce a new effort, in collaboration with South Central Library System, to increase the capacity of public libraries across the state to digitize their local history resources. SCLS will distribute digitization kits to Wisconsin’s public library systems, which can then loan out the kits to their member libraries starting this fall…. Read More…
Memories and Family Stories
By Clovis Harold Tripp. Submitted by Carol McDonnell, Stone Lake Area Historical Society. In 1901, my Grandpa Fred Ernest Tripp moved to Washburn County, Wisconsin with his wife and four small children. In those early years, Grandpa Tripp would farm in the summer and work in the woods with his brother Rob in the winter…. Read More…
An American Girl
An American Girl — My Great-Grandmother, Christine Henk By Lexi Hutton, age 10. Submitted by Connie Schield, Stone Lake Area Historical Society. Christine was born on December 12, 1905 at home in a log cabin built by her father. She was the fourth child of Bertha and Joseph Herman. Her family had crossed the ocean… Read More…
Making Cheddar Cheese
By Doug Strand. Submitted by Connie Schield, Stone Lake Area Historical Society. I started working at the Stone Lake Dairy in 1953. I was working as an apprentice to learn cheese making. I worked for two years, then took my test and passed. I was twenty-four years old. We made American Cheddar cheese. Every Thursday… Read More…
The Sad Fate of a Beautiful Doe
The Sad Fate of a Beautiful Doe By Carolyn Skille Crotteau. Submitted by Carol McDonnell, Stone Lake Area Historical Society. My Dad was a true sportsman who supported our family during hard times by trapping and hunting in the Stone Lake, Wisconsin area. One day during deer hunting season, he and I were having lunch together… Read More…
Growing up on the Isle of Pines on Lake Little Sissabagama
Memories of growing up on the Isle of Pines on Lake Little Sissabagama By Ted Crandall, as told to Peter Lytle. Submitted by Connie Schield, Stone Lake Area Historical Society. My parents, Walter and Mary Crandall, were the caretakers of a private fishing camp on a seven acre heavily wooded island on Lake Little Sissabagama… Read More…
Geocaching the kids’ honeymoon
An interactive honeymoon – Wisconsin side of Lake Superior near the Apostle Islands Submitted by Linda McShannock Chuck and I spent the last couple of years building a log cabin on his property on the Wisconsin side of Lake Superior. When my daughter and her boyfriend came up to spend a weekend with us at the… Read More…
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