Of all the events we’ve lost as a result of the Covid pandemic, I believe I miss those classic car shows the most. Normally, every spring through fall, memorable old buggies of one kind or another show up in numbers in many of our city and county parks.   Chevy […]

  I’ve been writing a story every week for StoryWorth this year. I was gifted a StoryWorth account at Christmas time and have been posting one story a week in it. At the end of one year, I will have a book put together containing all the stories. How life has changed since I was […]

  When my dad served in World War II, he became very familiar with the food product known as “Spam”. Described as canned meat, Spam has been called a number of things (not all complimentary) since it’s introduction many years ago. Dad actually didn’t mind the stuff, but my mother wouldn’t allow it in her […]

                Many Kenoshans who came of age during the sixties and seventies well remember the old Kenosha teen bars. The teen bars were taverns that allowed eighteen-year-olds to drink beer, at a time when the legal drinking age was twenty-one.   Hearing tales about the teen bars from […]

              When it’s 90 below (or so) in Wisconsin, it’s always nice to remember the warmer times we’ve had. I like to think back to my youth and our many trips to Lake Michigan, fishing for perch, smelt or just swimming. (See my earlier blog articles on those topics) […]

  With Christmas tips in my pocket, I felt like Rockefeller. ~Joe     Growing up in Kenosha, Wisconsin back in the fifties and sixties, many of us boys (and a few girls) had a paper route by the time we were eleven or twelve years old. Our allowances pretty much expired by that age, […]