Gretnablog: June 2017

Spectacle Lake, June 9-13, 2017

Friday afternoon boat ride and training. Driving and docking.

Susan and Kevin's place

Marsha and Annie Bunger came for dinner. Annie will be a senior at Hamline University. We enjoyed seeing them. Susan's cousin, Bob Bunger, passed away in December 2015. Annie's dad.

A swim in the middle of the lake off the pontoon boat

8 a.m. Sunday morning: "shelter in place" - a storm is coming" hail, wind, rain. Dave and Susan put the boat away. This was supposed to be the day we were going to the airport for a fly-in breakfast, then Maggie, Rosyn and Robin Butter were coming swim, boat and eat lunch on the lake, just like we did 60 years ago! Mother nature thought otherwise.

The afternoon version of the storm

The morning after the storm

looking across the lake to the former Odegard lot and the Patterson cabin with the red boat canopy and yellow dock. We (Odegard's) swam there all summer. Our pontoon boat was docked there.

Barry Schreiber, Jeanette Oakes and Susan looking over recent acquisitions

Doc Wetter was the veterinarian in town when we (Odegard's) were growing up. This was his kit to take to farms .

Brickton exhibit ticket stamp

Separate exhibit space for Brickton. Next exhibit will be "Potatoes, Pease and Prisoners of War" involving the Odegard family

Former town of Brockton where they made blond bricks - 20 million a summer. When the Great Northern Railroad came in 1886, the five brickyards in the area closed.

Curriculum poster from schoolhouse - including reading, biology, geography. Print on both sides

The Brickton exhibit

An early moving picture machine

Winter food to store

Potato farm harvest

While renovating the meeting room, this drawing was uncovered. It is a depiction of OJ Odegard shaking hands with an older brother who co-signed to open a Ford dealership in 1914. OJ was under age to sign. He was the livery driver who met the Ford representative arriving by train. "Do you know anyone who would like to sell cars here?" yes indeed.

Schoolroom as in 1870

The schoolhouse where they do week-long sessions for kids in the summer as in 1870. 15 students each week.

Nancy your Twins peanuts are in PA. Come and get them.

Sunset the night before we leave

CCNC golf tournament with Lynne Frazier, year 5

Lynne, Susan, Jean and Susan

Jonathan Haidt at Elizabethtown College

Jonathan Haidt from NYU. Lecture on April 6 at 7:30 p.m. Elizabethtown College. Author of "The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion" and "The Happiness Hypothesis." We were invited to dinner at the president's home to meet him.

I have been reading Jonathan Haidt's books and research for years. He began by studying "disgust" for 20 years, then flipped the topic to "uplifting human behavior." This was a thrill for me to meet and talk with him. His work directly relates to the strengths-based work I do with nurses and social profit groups.

Garden and yard summer 2017

Ryan Fretz will be creating moss armchairs with stumps and pinch pots in the front yard. We will be on a garden tour for the Lebanon County Historic Preservation Trust on July 8. Charming picture.