MANKATO, Minn. (AP) — When she was a child, Pat Stoeckel wasn’t much of a doll person. Instead, she spent her formative years riding her father’s horses.
I was born in the winter of1950. While it was 5 years since the end of WW2 the country was nowhere near recovered. There were still food shortages and rationing and many people displaced without adequate housing. My family lived in a community who had taken up residency on boats on the ...