Note: This site was historically the site of the organization "Faded Footprints of Families and Friends of the Lake Russell WMA", and was created and funded by Jim and Bev Winsness and used to present the activities and newsletters of the organization from it's inception until Jim gave up the Secretary position in the spring of 2008. Pearl Wilson has asked that it now longer use the terminology "Faded Footprints...." or "FFFF" and therefore, I have simply replaced those words with "Friends". The many newsletters and sub documents found in the links of the many pages are way to numerous to change, and at the time of the publication of those documents, they were created for that organization, contained the names of the organization, and will continue to exist as historical documents. Since the website has so often been located by families looking for information on their ancestors, it will, at least for the present, remain on-line as a reference 'document'.
This site will not be updated after spring of 2008 by the FFFF orgainzation, however, I will continue to use it to document information I feel of historical or personal interest.
Jim Winsness
"If you go for a walk in the woods in any woods in the WMA, sooner or later you will come across what we came across in these woods - this old stone structure. 50, 100, or 200 years ago, somebody picked up these stones and carried them here. Whatever else he did here the forest shrugged off long ago.
But the structure remains.
Other countries have ruined castles, pyramids, and parthenons. We have these grown over monuments to forgotten farmers. The structure names no names but whispers much about what must have been. There must have been a homestead, an apple tree, a barn, and children playing once their chores were done. All that must have been, or why this.
With enough research into local history, we might have been able to tell you more, but I like leaving the history there in the woods where the moss and the dragon flies and the rain and the snow know it even if we don't."
Adapted from Charles Kuralt
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Found in the Banks County Journal:
June 18, 1943
Life:
Man comes into this world without his consent and leaves it against his will. During his stay on earth his time is spent in one continuous round of contraries and misunderstandings. In his infancy he is an angel. In his boyhood he is a devil. In his manhood he is everything from a lizard up. In his duties he is a damn fool. If he is a poor man he is a poor manager, and has no sense. If he is rich, he is dishonest and is considered smart. If he goes to church he is a hypocrite. If he stays away he is a sinner. When he comes into the world everyone wants to kiss him, before he goes out, they want to kick him. If he dies young, he had a great future before him. If he lives to ripe old age, he is in the way. What's the use, life is a funny proposition after all. -- Norfold Seabag
May 30, 1947
How to live to be 100:
Be moderate in your use of monoxide gas.
Don't antagonize women.
Don't stop to think about marriage once you are married.
Keep your radio turned low between two and four a.m.
Don't read the funny paper while crossing city streets.
Don't stand up in roller coasters.
Drive with both hands and eyes and your brain.
Be sure they're mushrooms.
Have plenty of water under the diving board.
Give an Irish bricklayer his way.
Never try to guess the location of a locomotive by its whistle.
Don't match your health and wits against liquor.
Make certain her husband is out of town.
(author unknown)
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