The uprising happened many years ago, in the early 1970’s. I reminisced the experience this past Saturday as I attended Wheaton High School’s class of 1978’s forty-fifth class reunion. I believe it was the last skirmish to ever take place where Wheaton High School students were attacked by Native American children posing as an Indian war party. Let’s review the political landscape of the early 1970’s that would lead to the unrest between the Native Americans and we the European…..
I am aware that it has been a dry spring and summer since it is approaching the middle of July and I have only mowed our lawn once! Our local paper announced on its front page this past week, “Rainfall in Wheaton was 3.46 inches below normal during June”. That kind of a headline is the reason I never ever considered farming as my life’s occupation. Farming can be likened to visiting the casino every summer with the families’ nest…..