Table of Contents
Foreword
1946 Plat Map of Townsend
1978 Plat Map of Townsend
Introduction
Chapter 1: A Young Girl Grows Up in Townsend
Chapter 2: They Expect Me to Make a Living Here?
Chapter 3: When Townsend Went Marching to War
Chapter 4: Lost in the Bermuda Triangle
Chapter 5: I’ve Been Working on the Laona Line
Chapter 6: I’m on Vacation! Resort Life in Townsend
Chapter 7: Cruisin’ on Down the Mighty Mississipp
Chapter 8: Born to Sorrow: Townsend Tragedies
Jack Ward, Alice Cassler, John Rovge, Clint and Karen Aderholdt
Chapter 9: Townsend’s Top Ten Lost Treasures
Our Lady of the Woods Chapels
Townsend Sportsman Club
Woodrow Wilson School
Mielke’s White Cabin Bakery
Front Street Bible Church
Thelen’s Appliance
Kabat’s Antique Shop
Brookside Cheese Factory
Nicolet Road Dump
Betty Bodde’s Store
Chapter 10: Townsend’s Most Memorable Characters
Susie Bacon, Bessie Bagocus, Rudy Christianson
John Deede, Evelyn Evrard, Frank Kurauski
Julia Lauder, Laura Burns McGuire, Herb Pintsch
Mattie Rabbitt, Harvey Ramsdall, Veronica Schwartz
Myrtle Swanson, Hattie Williams, Harry Zimdars
Oral Interview Sources
Acknowledgements
Sources
Bibliography
