Meadow at Blaska Experimental Work Farm

Tag: Gilbertson's store

  • The weather outside is delightful

    Up here in Wisconsin, anyways! These last few golden but threadbare years, the Werkes fantasized that if we were to establish a southern outpost, it would be somewhere around Asheville NC. The Great Smoky mountains, forests, waterfalls, art scene, craft brews. Some of the greatest motorcycle riding in America. Yeah, we did the Tail of…

  • We spent New Year’s Eve back in time

    In a place out of the way. They don’t make places like this any more. Gilbertson’s general store, established in 1894, located in the kind of crossroads town so vital to Wisconsin’s countryside in the days before the horseless carriage. An unincorporated place called Keyeser (pronounced like “Kaiser”), located 11 miles due north of Sun…