Land Auction

On November 17, 2008, the family farm will be auctioned off. The family moved to Oakville in the summer of 1957. My sister who lived across the street already left town and she and her husband purchased a new home in another town and will not return.

The very small acreage supported my parents and their 11 children. Over the years we grew strawberries, musk melon and sweet corn for sale. We grew cattle and hogs and butchered our own meat. Dad had rented out the farmland for quite a few years as he concentrated on his garden and woodworking.

The house is slated for demolition, though it probably will not be torn down before the auction.