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 […]
Taking the Calves to Market
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 […]
The Sleigh Ride
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 […]