Kay Scholtz

Kay Scholtz lives in central Wisconsin. She's been interested in genealogy, local history, and nature all of her life. Follow her weekly blog posts at "Wisconsin Nature Journal - Open Up Your Eyes and Appreciate the World Around You", at blogspot.com

Kay's latest book, "Gifts from an Oak Tree", is a memoir about her childhood days filled with poverty and memories of her life growing up in the backwoods of Wisconsin. This is not meant to be an autobiography of her life but simply memories of tough times, good times, and Kay's way of coping and understanding "the things we are dealt with in life". The book concludes with her experiences with ovarian cancer in the past few years. Kay hopes her words will help others with little tips on coping with chronic illness and childhood difficulties, living with an alcoholic parent, losing a mother to cancer, and the low self esteem that accompanied growing up in poverty. Journaling in the woods that surrounds her Wisconsin home today has given her peace and she'd like to share that contentment with you.

"Sherwood Memories, A History of Sherwood Township, Clark County, Wisconsin" published in 2015, begins with the townships early settlement sparked by lumbermen who had their eyes on the mighty white pine trees that dotted the landscape in the late 1860's. Sherwood celebrated its centennial in 1974, and Kay's history mentions residents, businesses, schools, post offices, hunting stories, and most importantly, the people who came and went along the way.

"The Wisconsin Krueger Family Tragedy - 16 Years of Letters from Prison" was written with the intention of allowing the Krueger family a chance to tell their side of the story nearly 100 years after the incident at their farm home in 1918, an tragedy that turned their lives upside down forever. The Krueger story is a true, non-fiction work, based on actual letters the Krueger family exchanged over sixteen years. Letters went both ways and were written from mother Caroline Krueger while at home on the Krueger farm in west central Wisconsin to her sons Frank and Leslie Krueger while they were in prison. The book also includes excerpts from letters sent back to her from her sons that span sixteen years.