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Author Archives: Glenn Borreson
Old Fitch Coulee School Pictures
It’s been a long time since I added a post to this blog! I realized I have a couple old Fitch Coulee School photos that other folks might enjoy seeing and even adding information about. Here they are: This first … Continue reading
A Parsonage Through the Years
The parsonage of Pigeon Creek Lutheran Church has been featured before in this blog. I have been fortunate to have Carsten Taylor recently send me photos of the parsonage through the years. Three of them are included here: first, the … Continue reading
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Pigeon Falls Band
On a postcard from September 1911, we get to see the Pigeon Falls Band from that era. Someone well acquainted with Pigeon Falls history could probably supply some details. The postcard was mailed by Thos. Thorson. A number of Thorsons … Continue reading
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In Pigeon Falls 110 Years Ago
Recently I gained access to a couple old postcards from Pigeon Falls, Wisconsin. I am sharing them with the idea that our readers not only might appreciate them, but with the hope that someone can add a bit of information … Continue reading
Working in the CCC
My mother was a scapbook maker par excellence. After she died in 2010, we gathered together more than 20 of them with various parts of our family history. What a treasure! Reviewing one of these scrapbooks recently, I noticed this … Continue reading
Pigeon Falls Years Ago
Here are a couple more photos I came across recently, both of Pigeon Falls before my time. This first one of the Ekern mill is perhaps a place that Borresons and Estensons new well–and perhaps did business with. This second … Continue reading
Pigeon Falls Church Pictures
After a long time away from this blog, I was doing some Internet searches and came across a few photos that I thought may interest our readers. The first is a group photo at Pigeon Creek Lutheran Church very likely … Continue reading
A Tobacco Farmer Tribute
For the past few years I have been trying my hand at flat plane carving, an old Norwegian craft. With four or five generations of Borresons having had their hand in tobacco farming, I decided to modify a Harley Refsal … Continue reading
Tobacco Raising in the Eighties
Tobacco was a Borreson crop for four generations, maybe five, depending how one does the counting. I thought I had written my last post on this subject, but when I recently came upon some good Borreson stories from the eighties, … Continue reading
Descendants of Bernt Borresen
Sometimes one little discovery solves many a mystery! Bernt Borresen, our grandfather Emil’s uncle and his godparent in 1872, has been something of a mystery. First, I thought he had no family, but it turned out he lived in La … Continue reading
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Borreson Cousins 