This message came from Liz Randall this weekend: (I included pictures taken at the cemetery and of the commemorative quilt, and if Liz sends some of the tractor rally, I'll include those later.)

John and I went to the tractor show [in July] and we also stopped to visit my grandmother, Lucy V. Thompson McDowell. She was in WWI a 2nd Lt. Army Nursing Corp. She spent the second half of her life in Kenosha with my father's brother, Jack. She died in 1980 and is buried in an old cemetery, Green Ridge, in the section with the soldiers...perhaps some of them wounded and she took care of them. We were pleased to see what a beautiful spot it is and there was a flag on her grave.

It's been almost 30 yrs and this is the first time I got to introduce her to John.... we laughed!!!

I also have a cousin that lives in Madison, she fought and beat ovarian cancer when she was 26yrs old and now she works at the University of Wisconsin in Madison helping young people deal with all different types of cancer..Special lady, she's 49 now and has done very well with her life.We went to her home and took her out to a nice restaurant in Madison..She gave us the grand tour of the college and area..Beautiful Clean environment! Madison is GREEN similar to Burlington but a bit larger..

Anyway, Nice trip and we would like to do it again another time...Hope you enjoy all of the pictures! John was in Red Tractor Heaven that week...

About the Harvester quilt:

We met Shirley, who made this quilt at the Wisconsin Red Power, she was raffling it off

...She got the photos used on the quilt from the Wisconsin-Historic Society (McCormick-Deering), did an awesome job... It was a fun show and we took a lot of tractor pics but I thought the ladies would enjoy the QUILT! Liz

Randall's visit to Wisconsin