My great grandfather, Henry Buzicky, bought and built this farm around 1900. My grandfather, John C. Buzicky grew up here as did my father and my aunts and uncles as well as my cousins; Marv, Karen, Mark, Sharon and Mike around the time this picture was taken.

Wow, I've never seen this picture before! I was born here in July 1961, and grew up on this piece of property. At the time of this photo, the house still had a shake shingle roof, as did all of the buildings. Summers were spent doing a lot of changes to all of these buildings. It was either shingling, painting, tearing down and rebuilding, and we even moved a number of the buildings around. As soon as you were able to hold a hammer, you were given a job! It seems the concrete slab foundation was already poured for our biggest grain bin, near the other two, so we must have erected that a few weeks after this photo. I remember pouring that slab, and then pushing bolts through the holes to assemble that steel bin that is not quite there yet. A new machine shed replaced a few of the old buildings behind the barn. And the circular feature just behind the farm that almost looks like a crater, was actually a HUGE pile of rocks that had been collected for years and moved there since it was a low area on the property. This was all buried with another summer of digging by Coonie Smith, a family friend with a large cable driven Schield Bantam backhoe that we eventually purchased to clean up other properties we had. I would be nice to see a photo from around 1963, when I bearly remember the entire driveway had a row of trees on each side, and created a shady tunnel you'd drive through.

The more I think about this, I am finding it hard to believe that this was from 1968. It seems more like 1972+ for me to be doing all the dangerous things I was helping with during the era of this photo. It was a different time, but still?