Virtual Exhibit: Tonie's Journal

Retold by her Grandchildren Mary Jane Peschmann and Tom Zimmer, enjoy the stories and memories gleaned from the writings of Antonia (Tonie) Claas during the first half of the 20th Century.

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For nearly fifty years, Tonie Claas kept a daily journal of the lives of her Fussville Wisconsin farm family and the events of the surrounding community. Explore the lives and times, the hardships and joys, the simplicity and the struggle of the era which she, her husband and her children experienced.