Rural Delivery

by Michael Hofferber. Copyright © 1996. All rights reserved.

This time of year I look for thunderstorms, big boomers with rolling black clouds and great flashes of lightning. I want the kind of storm that sends down sheets of rain, gully-washers, and creates worrisome winds that uproot trees and down power lines.
I wait for the [...]

by Michael Hofferber. Copyright © 1996. All rights reserved.
Many old-timers came of age in the seat of an Allis-Chalmers, a Farmall or even a Poppin’ Johhny. Wisconsin folk historian Jerry Apps’ first tractor was a homemade contraption sculpted from the remains of old trucks, spare parts and down-home know-how.
Apps was only eight years old at [...]

by Michael Hofferber. Copyright © 1996. All rights reserved.
A Sunday Drive usually begins after breakfast, but before lunch, and often just after church when the sun is still laying shadows across the fields. It can happen unexpectedly, like one of those soft summer showers that seem to emerge magically from a clear sky, or it [...]

by Michael Hofferber. Copyright © 1998. All rights reserved.
However old I age or whatever career goals I pursue, it seems, I still remain a little boy watching for Daddy to come home.
My father was a working man of the 1960s, responsible for the gross household income, and for him that meant days and weeks on [...]