10. Viewing the only known photograph of the Wade House featuring the plank road out front
9. Setting up our book tent under an oak tree near a hitching-post and watering-trough like those at the Mather Inn
8. Enjoying the sound of hoofbeats and the jingle of harness fittings as the stagecoach passed us on its rounds of the Wade House property
7. Watching brother-in-law Franklin learn to card wool with an antique drum carder
6. Helping children make butterflies and bookmark tassels out of rainbow-colored wool
5. Seeing children’s faces when they learned the wool had been dyed with Kool-aid
4. Being so enthralled by conversations about wool that Emily had to remind me to mention the book
3. Hearing people say that after reading about us in the Sheboygan Press they had come to the fair specifically to buy our book
2. Signing a book for a little girl descended from the Mathers of Racine County
1. Finding Plank Road Summer on display in the Wade House gift shop
Plank Road Stories 