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Visits, misrouted road, and a windblown farm barn collapse
John Tilma shares two days of town and country visits with friends, plus a village chronicle of the Vriezelaar farm near Otley. The piece blends light local humor about Tilma’s bachelor status, family roots, and a barn demolished by a wind storm years earlier, with reflections on weather, health fears from 1918, and unemployment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Tilma
G. J. Vriezelaar
Abe Dykstra
Nick van Essen
Otto
Pella
Otley
Tilma
Holland
John
Texas
Geurt Tilma
Hale Center
Great Panhandle
Mr. Tilma
Sweetwater
Mexico
Ted
Gradus
Nellie Vriezelaar