Remembering Seif Township
Clark Co., WI
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Pictured to the left is Donald & Elaine, the Children of Kenneth Wood. It was taken on the road near their home which little more than a trail. They are clutching their lunch bags while on their morning walk to the Wildwood Grade School in about 1940. "Our neighbors had bikes and they helped us to learn how to ride one, but the sand would sometimes make our bikes stop and we would fall off."
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Christmas Time
One thing I remember and I'll try to describe it; was what we dubbed 'Clodhoppers'. Dad took a piece of a board about the size of our foot. He used a wood rasp and rounded the front of these boards so that they didn't have a square end on the front. Sort of like the front of a ski. Then he covered this with tin wrapping it over the front and back. He then put a strap on it that went over our foot. We used these the same way that we would use skis, but the neat thing about them was you could almost turn a square corner. My brother and I would take turns making a trial and we would try to make it as difficult as possible. One day my brother made a trail that had nearly a 90° turn. Not to be out done I was going to prove I could follow that trail and ended up falling. I broke the end of my tailbone when I landed on a small stump under the snow. It was nearly 6 months before I could bend over and tie my shoes. Contributed by
Elaine (Wood) Greene/Jenson.
Reply: Elaine, I think that's still a clever item for pop to make. I can think of many times I beat the law of averages on accidents and worse. Oh those darn ski's with only a strap to hold them on. I tried to learn figure skating via a book, doesn't work. Always asked for Nancy Drew books, one year I found them up in attic and read before Christmas. Good lesson when I became a parent, hid toys better, like a locked trunk of car. Contributed by Jane Rasmussen.