by Sears Homes | Jul 19, 2011 | Uncategorized |
The Sears Berwyn was an extremely popular house for Sears, and probably one of their top 20 best selling homes. Sadly, due to their popularity, I’ve also seen them in a variety of mutated forms. See pictures below. One of the defining features of the Berwyn is...
by Sears Homes | Jul 17, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Before my father’s death on June 10, 2011, I’d never heard of Lake Mills. Heck, before my father’s death, I never knew I had an Aunt Addie (who lived and died in Lake Mills)! And I most certainly never knew that she’d been shot (allegedly) by...
by Sears Homes | Jul 17, 2011 | Uncategorized |
About two years ago, I was organizing my collection of DVDs when I noticed a frighteningly consistent theme. Somewhere in Time (Christopher Reeve) The Final Countdown (Kirk Douglas) Frequency (Dennis Quaid) Peggy Sue Got Married (Nicholas Cage) Field of Dreams (Kevin...
by Sears Homes | Jul 16, 2011 | Uncategorized |
In early September, I’ll travel to Lake Mills, Wisconsin to do research on my Aunt Addie’s alleged murder. In the meantime, I’ve learned that there are a few kit homes in Lake Mills, and a myriad of kind souls have taken photos of these kit homes and...
by Sears Homes | Jul 16, 2011 | Uncategorized |
In the 1880 Federal Census, my great, great grandfather (Homer Hoyt) is listed as “Homah Hoyt.” Homer was from Vermont (and living in Lake Mills, WI at the time) and I can just hear the long-time New Englander telling the census taker, “Ah said, mah...
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