TERRY
As I write it is 10:00 and Terry is comfortable as she has the TV on and is reading the huge Sunday paper. She was able to sleep until about 9:30 this morning. She will be busy with the paper for a while.
I have enjoyed looking through the reunion book
Bergen Church and Marboe School #1 were across the road from each other. Bergen, surrounded by the cemetery sat on the west side of the road while the school, in the upper left, sat on the east side of the road. Six miles away was Wood Lake School where I went to school through the 3rd grade. What was the link? Well pretty much everyone who went to Bergen Church went to one of the two schools. I am guessing both had similar numbers but I know Wood Lake School, which closed in the spring of 1956 had 12 students in the last year. I was lucky as I had a classmate and I think Joan and Dave did as well. I do not know IF there was someone in every grade.
You are looking at the cover of the reunion book which contains 87 pages. Carol, David, Pat, Donna and Sandy among others I am sure did a super job on the reunion and the book. Wood Lake School still remains in place but Bergen Church and Marboe #1 are either moved or demolished. I do think Bergen Church was moved to Lidgerwood but was not used as a church after it was moved.
I have NO idea what the numbers would be IF there was still a church and a school still open but my guess is the numbers would be small. I do remember that in our Sunday School Class we had as least 6 and that was just one class. Of course those kids were taken from both schools.
I would add that Wood Lake School lost much of it's character when they got rid of the outhouses!!!
I begin to watch the Ryder Cup of golf at noon. BUT there are 12 single matches and I am guessing the last twosome will finish maybe by 6:00 or so and I do not think I can watch that much golf. The US is leading 11-5 and they need 14 1/2 to win. That means they need to win 3 and tie one to win the cup. That seems like it should be a cake walk but you never know! Anyway I will watch it from time to time but NOT all day.
I went to the grocery store this morning as I will be making a pork tenderloin with onions and apple slices with mash potatoes for Terry later this afternoon. I would say that my cooking skills have been elevated to a C- from a D over the last several years.
Here is what Bergen looks like compared to the first picture. The grounds are kept up fairly nicely but I don't know if that makes it more attractive for anyone wanting to use it!!! So of our family we have Mom, Dad, Ronald and Dave there now. Janet is in the Kulm cemetery which is about 100 miles west of Bergen and is where John and Janet lived for several years. The Bergen Cemetery looks pretty nice but pretty bare. I am not sure there ever were many trees but what was there is now gone. The bell is there and reminds me of the times we were able to ring it before church. Fun memories for sure. I should add that many friends and family like Grandpa and Grandma are here.
Sundays are often kind of hard for me and today is no exception. For some reason I tend to sit back and reflect on the past. I mean the way way past. I would say there are so many memories but of course the difficult part is missing family that is not longer with us. AND why should that be as nobody lives forever but still the loss is always painful.
The other thing that lingers and at time stings is how times change life. I do not know but I am guessing IF one could put a dot on where our farm used to be and then make a circle from that with a radius of 6 miles you would find maybe the population has gone down 90%. Just from where our farm was there is today 3 farmers where there were 9 when I was still at home. Farms get larger and we see more and more people living OFF the farm.
No I actually am out of words for today. I will sign off and see where the rest of the day takes me. I did have my FP today and it was very good.
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