This continues a series adapted from the book, “A Port Oneida Collection,” Volume 1 of the twopart set, “Oral History, Photographs, and Maps from the Sleeping Bear Region,” produced by Tom Van Zoeren in partnership with Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear. Here we continue a look at the Goffar Farm, along M-22 on Lake Narada, picking up when it was owned by Milton & Olive Manney. Their nephew Don Dechow remembered,
In 1937 I finished the 8th grade at the Port Oneida school. The closest high school was in Glen Arbor, six miles from our home. Dad arranged with Uncle Milton to provide me a ride to school each day. They went by the corner of M-22 and Wheeler Road and I got down to that point at 8:00 each morning. Dad usually allowed me to drive our Model A Ford to the corner and leave it there until we came home . . . Uncle Milton had a model A Ford too . . . This Ford was usually full of students picked up on the way to Glen Arbor. We had a lot of adventures. Once we pushed the Ford to Glen Arbor from way out in the country. We high school boys had a lot of muscle.
Uncle Milton (who was superintendent of Glen Arbor Schools) did not put up with any foolishness in school and he presented a curriculum that would be hard to beat in any school of that time. There were only two teachers and he was one of them. He taught math, all the sciences (and the school offered them all on alternate year schedules), geography and woodworking, as well as coaching all the boys’ teams and sometimes the girls’ teams too. He was also the school administrator.
