When Ole Thoreson married Louise Richards, a French Catholic from Provemont, the Thoresons became one of two religiously split families in Port Oneida.  Daughter Madeline eventually became a nun, thereafter known as Sister Karen (posed here with her mother). 

Being Catholic and Norwegian/French in the predominantly German-Lutheran community was no problem as far as Leonard is concerned—“We got along all right with everybody."

Note the wind turbine on top of the granary.  Leonard’s older brother John bought it and a Zenith radio when he got out of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC’s) around 1936.  The turbine charged a battery which could be carried to the house to power the radio, bringing the world to this quiet farm.