Echoes from the Past; Pathways
“If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.”
This quote by author Pearl S. Buck rings so true, especially for a region as rich in history as we are around Lake Superior.
The tragedy of history as a profession is that it rarely pays well.
Thus reporting of local history often falls to those who simply love
and are intrigued with the past and who keep their day jobs. God bless
them.
Nan Wisherd is such a regional lover of history. Her “day job” is
as owner of Northland Tax Services Inc. in Brule, Wisconsin. By night –
and weekends, judging from the research that she does – this
great-great granddaughter of some of Brule’s earliest settlers traces
the region’s past … and hence her own.
Both Pathways and Echoes from the Past are oversized volumes, the
former dealing with the Brule region and the latter with the 1800s on
Lake Superior. The size of the books allows Nan to reproduce some great
copies of original documentation such as certificates, homestead
affidavits, notated maps and the like – all large enough to read. The
texts are generously sprinkled with black-and-white photos, usually in
good readable quality.
Nan tells stories clearly as a solid sampler of the times. I value her diligence in searching our yesterday.
 – KLM
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