Photo 45-GCA-5

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I grew up on this farm. See comments- 1983-photo 48-KCS-29.My father quit farming in 1983 and had a sale of all equipment but kept ownership of the farm and rented it out.By that time I had graduated from The University of Minnesota and was working at 3M- Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing. I eventually inherited the farm and sold it in 2007.It was originally owned by my grandfather, Charles Dressler and then by my father, Fred Dressler.
I went through 8th grade in a one room country school house 1/2 mile south of the farm.

My Dad Leroy Taylor and his friend Larry Behken were flying around in I think a cub anyway they had engine trouble and landed in Fred's hay field and story goes they rebuilt the engine in the shed. Larry went on the become a commercial pilot and for a long time he brought his friends from flying back to hunt pheasants. They would always hunt at Freds and invite him down to Lyman for supper.

The airplane was an Aeronica Chief. I remember when that happened. They actually landed in a field just north of and adjacent to our home place on a farm that my father, Fred Dressler, had purchased from the original owner Clyde Pratt. This is shown in photo 45-GCA-2.

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