Echos of the past--Wisconsin

[Rat Trapper]

So who's going this Year?

 

[mark/wi]

I will try to be there on Saturday. Mark

 

[Rat Trapper]

I will be there around 1 PM. Hope you don't buy all the good stuff before I get there.

 

[rushlake1]

Enjoyed the rifles on the CLA tables.

 

[mark/wi]

There was some really nice things to see, had my wife along or I would stayed longer. I saw a few people I know. Mark

 

[Rat Trapper]

The president of the CLA has been there the last few years. Always enjoy seeing his set up. Great venders seemed like more people in period dress than in past. I would recommend everyone that lives with in couple hours of Oshkosh WI to attend next year.

 

[D. Buck Stopshere]

If you're referring to "Doc" Maxfield, he was stationed here at Fort Bragg back in the '70's.

He moved on to Wausau to set up homesteading, and one year, he sent me a photo of two bucks taken in northern WI, probably in the '80's, with his Brown Bess flintlock musket I sold him.

Hope maybe our paths will cross again. Lived near Madison from '55 till '69. Seems like there was a rendezvous there at Prairie Du Chien. I do remember attending "doin's" at Fort Atkinson, IA later on . Any of that still going on in IA & WI?

 

[Prairieofthedog]

Yes,both places still have their annual Rondys.But both are getting smaller every year.We camp at Prairie every year for a full week.