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Walter K. Billings

Our Village – A short history of Lyn

November 17, 2017 John 0

by Walter K. Billings My first recollection of Lyn was about the year 1876. Word had come to the farm that the many cords of tanbark piled on what was afterwards the ball grounds was on fire. I was too young to go to Lyn that night and could only stand in our yard and […]

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Taking the Calves to Market

June 26, 2017August 11, 2017 John 0

  From the book “How Dear to My Heart” by Walter Kilborn Billings   In the ordinary herd of cattle on the farm there were very few thoroughbreds and in the spring it was the custom to keep the offspring of only the best cows. A neighbour, wishing a good calf to raise could usually […]

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The Sleigh Ride

February 20, 2017August 11, 2017 John 0

By Walter K. Billings   It was about the middle of January. We had been nearly snowed under from a week’s snow storm, then rain that flooded the flats along the creek, and a sudden change to a very cold weather that froze the snow, making a glare sheet of ice from the Lyn Road […]

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