by Therese Oldenburg | Apr 22, 2025 | History, Travel
I think this year I’m going to work my way around the world by exploring my own state! I’ve already been to Rome, WI last week, so my journey has already begun! Immigrant Place Names In Wisconsin In Wisconsin the names of towns often reflect the diverse...
by Therese Oldenburg | Jan 18, 2025 | Food & Cooking, History
From the Heart, Through the Hand: Sharing Recipes When I was a young bride, I received a Betty Crocker Cookbook and an empty wooden recipe box as gifts, ready to be filled with favorite recipes. Forty+ years later, my Betty book is well used (and I still refer to it...
by Therese Oldenburg | Dec 25, 2024 | History
This year I had time to really dig into my family ancestry on Ancestry.com and I kept finding stories about my ancestors that blew me away. They faced challenges or opportunities that must have seemed daunting and scary at the time. But they made decisions that...
by Therese Oldenburg | Dec 20, 2024 | Food & Cooking, History
The photo above is my Dad, Bob Seidel, carefully checking ingredients for Czech dumplings that my son Josh is making I recently started working on my family ancestry using Ancestry.com. My father, Bob Seidel, was the youngest son of two Czech immigrants, Rose and Emil...
by Therese Oldenburg | Mar 8, 2024 | History
I love to do historical research and in 2023 I became absorbed in learning more about my hometown’s founding settlers. I did the research as a part of a program I was offering at Nature At the Confluence, an environmental center located at the confluence of...
by Therese Oldenburg | Jan 19, 2024 | History, Outdoors and Nature
Nature At The Confluence Legacy Trees are Eastern Cottonwoods Nature At The Confluence is an environmental learning center in South Beloit, IL, right on the border of Beloit, Wisconsin. I was the founding executive director at this beautiful space which was built on a...
