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I happened to be “googling” my mother tonight and came across your story. My mother, Mary Rodden Nagel, died in 2002 on February 1st. She and Doris (Gardner) remained friends all of that time. I would love to be in contact with you.
Ann Nagel Tittiger, September 8, 2011
Editor’s note: Ann is referring to our story, Kamikazes Attack USS Comfort. Mary Rodden and Doris Gardner were aboard, survived, were friends, and both were from Wisconsin.
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Writing this book changed my life and I now spend a lot of time speaking to groups, and collecting info about these brave women.The book is limited to overseas experience. I interviewed almost 200 and have more than 100 oral histories in the book, covering all theaters of war. There were some I could never reach, and then recently a friend told me about her aunt who was on the USS Comfort when it was kamikazied, and soon will share her letters with me. Because of that I began Googling the subject, and found your website - WOW!
There is so much I want to share, but hope you will include my book in your site somehow. Among some reasons: many of "my nurses" were from Wisconsin, or trained sometime at Camp McCoy: book includes stories from the first flight nurses; African- American nurses serving in the segregated army; nurses who were prisoners of the Japanese in the Philippines, and many many more stories - all true.
Now that most of them are gone, I am hoping that their relatives will be involved in finding about their experiences.
I have most books that are about or by the nurses of the 1940s, and continue to find new ones. One day I will be able to make a good list!
I may never get to read your whole website, but much of what I read today relates to so much of what I know. And, my husband flew C-123s in Vietnam in 1963-64, when no one knew what was beginning to happen there. But that is another story for another day.
Thanks for writing all that you have, and keep up the good work. I will be checking in pretty constantly for a while.
Diane Burke Fessler, June 6, 2011
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I came across your website after typing in "Schuster's round barn" on Google images. (My daughter is going to have her birthday party at that farm.) I enjoyed looking at your photos but wondered if you have seen the stone barn on the corner of Reiner Rd and Burke Rd. I believe it would be considered in the town of Burke, east of Madison. I pass it every now and then and wonder if it is being preserved in any way. If you're in the area it's worth a look. Thanks again for your photos.
Victoria D.
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I ran across your website last night and thought you might like to add the Chase Stone Barn to your gallery. I run our town website, www.townofchase.org, and I have many photos of this barn and the complete history of it.
In summary, the barn was built in 1903 and is on the State and National Register of Historic Places because it is one of the last surviving all-fieldstone barns in the country. Our town purchased it in 2007 so that we could protect it and make it part of the new Chase Stone Barn Park. The town is currently in the process of raising funds to help restore the barn and develop the park. Once complete, the barn and park will be a gathering place for all types of events.
The barn measures 100' long by 60' wide and the walls are two feet thick. The stones were gathered from local farm fields over a century ago, however their origin was Canada. Massive glaciers pushed and tumbled the stone to the Wisconsin region during three known ice ages over the past 70,000 years. Some of the stones are over 2 billion years old!
The barn was once part of a very large farm. Today only the stone barn remains.
Thanks for your time,
Kristin Kolkowski
Stone Barn Committee
Town of Chase, Pulaski, Oconto Cty, WI
February 10, 2011
Editor’s note:
Kristin,
Thank you very much for the tip on the barn and the photos. I did not know about it. Your photos are wonderful. That said, I like to post my own photos on the web site so come spring, I will get over there. I will probably do a story on it as well, like I did with the round barn at Willow Springs here in Marathon. Thanks again.
Regards,
Ed Marek
PS I think in the interim, I will post some of what you sent in my letters section to get the word out quickly by that route.
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