The Palmer Farm

"While I know you remember clearly staying at the farm at different times and I'm sure your recollections are pleasant ones, the 160 acres was at least one-third bottom land that, during a rainy spring, stood under water for weeks at a time, drowning out acres of crops more than once. I can see my mother now standing at the kitchen window, looking over the "lake" that formed on our land when the Sugar River overflowed its banks, and worrying about the loss of our corn crop." [Ref]