Tuesday, February 3, 2026

Her documents

A friend called yesterday to tell us Wis. Public TV was showing a history of our town.  We watched it and enjoyed it, but it was quite similar to Lynn's "The Reasons for Stevens Point", a project in her master's degree program.  It, too, is about the founding and development of the town where we have lived since 1968.  She has a PhD from UW-Madison but I thought momentarily that that slide-tape/filmstrip was her only foray into history and the past.  No!  Definitely not!  She created a good sized paper called "Who we came from" about her complex background and family history.  Then, I remembered a second good sized paper about her childhood and growing up.  It turns out she is far more of a historian than I remembered.