Athens, WI: The Place Where Time Stood Still

By Ed Semon

The real power of memory lies in the richness of experience a town such as Athens offered. I donʼt fully understand the strength of that bond, yet I feel the power of attachment. Some may despise those provincial places; we gloried in ours. Daily we played, fished, swam and hung out together. We were inseparable from our friends.

How often in any personʼs life does someone buried deep in your memory, someone you have not spoken to in five decades call to say, “Eddie! Remember me!”

The town and the times Buck and I talked about had little to do with numbers or buildings. We spoke of magic places that no longer exist: Second Dam, Erbachʼs Woods, the clean river, Helendale Farm. We spoke in reverent voices about our friends now sadly mostly gone. George, Harold, Andy, Ralph, Lloyd, Bob. We spoke of that better time before World War II, television, jet planes.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ed Semon
• Release date: Jun 24, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301481019

Ed Semon

Ed Semon, retired from teaching reading and study skills at Waukesha County Technical College, is now living the Wisconsin dream with his artist wife Jeanine, on beautiful Bolton Lake near Lac du Flambeau. Between swimming and boating, he writes for the theater, short stories and his novel Capture a Comely Woman, soon to be published.

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