Ed, Alverna and Katie were among the Sprick siblings who took a sentimental stroll on the Spricks' former farm in the late 1940s. As children, they would play in this area.
The scrapbook caption on this photo read: "Ed thought this was much more pleasant than scouting for Krauts."
The scrapbook caption on this photo read: "Katie got in the way of the scenery." Alverna wrote that. Siblings!
The scrapbook caption on this photo read: "Katie found the first crocuses. They were on "the first hill."
Alverna picked flowers on "the second hill."
Senior scrapblog correspondent and research historian E.W. Sprick describes the location of their walk, and the farm, thusly: "As a forester, I might describe it as E1/2 of the SW1/4 and the W1/2 of the SE1/4 of section 22 and the NENW, NWNE of section 27 of Township 110 north-range 12 west in Wabasha County. [Got that, cousins?] To the Sprick family, it was a 240-acre farm in West Albany Township about 10 miles south of Lake City and 1/4 mile west of County Rd. 4. The south end of the farm had two deep wooded coulees and bluffs overlooking the Zumbro River bottoms. In the spring, the first flowers to bloom in the snow were the pasqueflowers on the south exposure of the bluffs. We mistakenly called the flowers crocuses. Incidently, the bluff land acreage, once considered worthless except for firewood, is now selling for twice the price of the adjacent cropland to people who use it for hunting."
The scrapbook caption on this photo read: "Ed thought this was much more pleasant than scouting for Krauts."
The scrapbook caption on this photo read: "Katie got in the way of the scenery." Alverna wrote that. Siblings!
The scrapbook caption on this photo read: "Katie found the first crocuses. They were on "the first hill."
Alverna picked flowers on "the second hill."
Senior scrapblog correspondent and research historian E.W. Sprick describes the location of their walk, and the farm, thusly: "As a forester, I might describe it as E1/2 of the SW1/4 and the W1/2 of the SE1/4 of section 22 and the NENW, NWNE of section 27 of Township 110 north-range 12 west in Wabasha County. [Got that, cousins?] To the Sprick family, it was a 240-acre farm in West Albany Township about 10 miles south of Lake City and 1/4 mile west of County Rd. 4. The south end of the farm had two deep wooded coulees and bluffs overlooking the Zumbro River bottoms. In the spring, the first flowers to bloom in the snow were the pasqueflowers on the south exposure of the bluffs. We mistakenly called the flowers crocuses. Incidently, the bluff land acreage, once considered worthless except for firewood, is now selling for twice the price of the adjacent cropland to people who use it for hunting."
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The wireless generation might be interested in knowing that the annual National Motocross races are held in the valley below the bluff, Spring Creek.
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