Tell It Like It Was - Farewell Vic Kuchem and Paul Bauermeister
Adapted from the original email story sent by Paul Ovaitt on September 26, 2022 Farewell to Vic Kuchem and Paul Bauermeister Gentle...
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Apr 16, 202315 min read
Tell It Like It Was - Bill Ferris - One Man, Many Tractors
Adapted from the original e-mail story sent by Paul Ovaitt November 8, 2022 One Man, Many Tractors – Bill Ferris – ready-mix truck -...
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Apr 1, 202311 min read
Tell It Like It Was - More Men, Women, Tractors
Adapted from the original email sent by Paul Ovaitt October 16, 2022 More men, women, tractors – Ain’t too proud to beg – Doris Hopen –...
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Mar 25, 202311 min read
Tell It Like It Was Men. Women, Tractors
Adapted from the original email story by Paul Ovaitt originally sent on September 20, 2022 Men, Women, Tractors – Bernice – Glen - Hannah...
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Mar 11, 20239 min read
Tell It Like It Was - The Story Behind the Stories
Adapted from the original email sent by Paul Ovaitt on September 2, 2022 You Talking to Me? – Repaying a Debt – A Couple Drinks – Miranda...
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Mar 4, 202315 min read
Tell It Like It Was - Still digging up BONES Part 3
Adapted from the original story emailed by Paul Ovaitt on August 27, 2022 Digging Up Bones Part 3 - She’s So Paleolithic – Joe Harl –...
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Feb 25, 20232 min read
Tell It Like It Was - It's Not As Easy As It Looks (Digging Up Bones Part 2)
Bones, bones, bones, bones, ossium, ossibus, kokotsus, des os, huesos, ossos, kokalos, ossi, knochen, mifupa, and more…bones, bones,...
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Feb 18, 202311 min read
Tell It Like It Was - Digging Up Bones, Part 1
Adapted from the original email letter from Paul Ovaitt, sent July 27, 2023 Digging Up Bones, Part 1 – Maria, the Poet of WashMO –...
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Feb 11, 202326 min read
Tell It Like It Was - Walter Kamphoefner and the One-Room Lutheran school
One-room Lutheran grade school – Walter Kamphoefner Gentle readers, stop me if you’ve heard this one. I once lived 10 years in an old...
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Feb 4, 202315 min read
Tell It Like It Was - The Stacks of Labadie Part 2
Adapted from the original email-letters from Paul Ovaitt - Original date July 6, 2022 The Stacks of Labadie Part 2 or Who Keeps Knocking...
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Jan 28, 20239 min read
Tell It Like It Was - The Stacks of Labadie Part 1
Adapted from the original email-letters from Paul Ovaitt - Original date June 17, 2022 The Stacks of Labadie. Bob Hofer. Dave Nadler....
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Jan 21, 202311 min read
Tell It Like It Was - Pitman-Thilking Part 3
Adapted from the original email-letters from Paul Ovaitt - Original date May 23, 2022 Eric Pitman – Mops! - Franz Mayer – the coroner –...
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Jan 14, 202312 min read
Tell It Like It Was - Pitman-Thilking Part 2
Adapted from the original email-letters from Paul Ovaitt - Original date May 8, 2022 CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN by Ada Habershon and Charles...
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Jan 7, 20239 min read
Tell It Like It Was - Pitman-Thilking #1
Adapted from the original email-letters from Paul Ovaitt - Original date April 29, 2022 (Turn on your sound and press the play button to...
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Dec 17, 20226 min read
Tell It Like It Was - RAZING THE SMITHY
Adapted from the original email-letters from Paul Ovaitt - Original date December 17, 2022 Gentle readers, when I wrote my blacksmith...
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Dec 10, 202219 min read
Tell It Like It Was - The Village Smithy
Adapted from the original email-letters from Paul Ovaitt - Original date April, 16 2022 Paul: Henry, would you kindly start this story...
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Dec 3, 20229 min read
Tell It Like It Was - Aloys Struckhoff Part 3
Adapted from the original email-letters from Paul Ovaitt - Original date March 22, 2022 Gentle readers (I know there are a few of you),...
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Nov 26, 202211 min read
Tell It Like It Was - Aloys Struckhoff Part 2
Adapted from the original email-letters from Paul Ovaitt - Original date March 11, 2022 Gentle congregation: I stand before you today to...
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Nov 19, 20229 min read
Tell It Like It Was - Aloys Struckhoff Part 1
Adapted from the original email-letters from Paul Ovaitt - Original date March 2, 2022 Gentle readers, it was the fall of 1927. Calvin...
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Nov 12, 202216 min read
Tell It Like It Was - Searching for Leeman
Adapted from the original email-letters from Paul Ovaitt - Original date February 12, 2022 Gentle readers, I was never a boy scout. I...
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