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PHOTOS BY ANNA HAYNES
John “Hans” Pattison walks along with some of the geese he raises, April 16 on his property along the Sauk River outside of St Cloud. Pattison sells goose eggs and live geese, but chooses not to butcher any birds himself.
A Blasmusik kind of guy Variety is spice of life for Pattison
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John “Hans” Pattison stands proudly with the bell of his tuba April 16 at his home near St Cloud. Pattison has played the tuba his entire life, and still loves the German brass-band music that he played throughout his career.
BY SARAH COLBURN | STAFF WRITER
T. CLOUD – For more than six decades, John “Hans” Jay Pattison has been blowing away on his tuba to the delight of audiences across the Midwest. He played on the mall in Washington D.C. at Bill Clinton’s presidential inauguration and he’s taken center stage at countless weddings, anniversary parties, ballroom dances, county fairs and even funerals. Pattison – known musically as Jolly Jay, to his friends and family as Jay, to his German friends as Hans, and if he were ever to get in trouble with the law, as John – specializes in traditional Blasmusik, German for brassband music. It’s joyful music, dance music, celebratory music, polka music. The music has been his lifeblood, his passion, his career and his mainstay for more than 50 years. Born in Houston, Texas where his dad was with FBI intelligence, his family moved to Minnesota after WWII. He was raised on a Stearns County farm and Pattison helped on the family land when he wasn’t in front of audiences. In his later years, he’s raised and sold geese and chickens. From the time he was 13, through high school, a two-year stint in the Navy, and back on the family farm, Pattison has never strayed from the bass horn – better known as the tuba. No matter what he was doing to put food on the family table, the tuba has always been a part of his life – a big, shiny, bold, brass part. “My grandma would hum these folk songs, the tunes played here in this area; the older songs are folk songs turned into dances, waltzes and polkas, and many of them have words or melodies,” he said.
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John “Hans” Pattison takes care of a variety of chickens, guinea hens and a couple of ducks on his farm near St. Cloud. Pattison sells live birds and eggs and has about 100 chickens now, a paltry sum compared to what he did for many years.
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played the 1929 Club every Monday night for 10 years, formed his own group, Jolly Jay and his Band, and though he auditioned for and earned a spot in the U.S. Navy band, he turned it down because it meant he’d be active duty for two more years. He was stationed out of Newport, Rhode Island on a destroyer ship, DD823, the USS Samuel B. Robert ship, but missed playing gigs. Prior to his service in the Navy, Pattison attended the University of Minnesota to become a mortician. He grew
up in a house in St. Cloud just across from the Presbyterian church. He watched out the window as hearses came and went for funerals, he’d watch the caskets roll in and out. For him, it was genuinely intriguing and fascinating. After a year of schooling, meeting the sons of undertakers who were carrying on their family businesses, and working part-time in the Colbert Funeral Home’s embalming room, he decided the track wasn’t for him. Once out of the service, Pattison planned to settle in
New Ulm but opted for St. Cloud so he could help on the family farm. He still lives on the agricultural farm land that was once part of his grandmother Hartfiel’s family place. The Pattisons hail from the Black Isle, between Scotland and Denmark in the North Sea. They were farmers there, and when they came to Stearns County, they could own land and Pattison’s grandfather milked 88 Brown Swiss cows by hand. They raised and bred work horses.
He’s also in love with marches; his mother’s grandfather played cornet with the John Philip Sousa band and when Pattison was 11, his grandmother wanted him to give the instrument a try. They brought the silver cornet to a local repair shop and the person there said it couldn’t be fixed. His grandmother gave the instrument to Pattison page 3 the shop on trade for a new cornet. That original is something Pattison said he’d give anything to have back. “I wished I had it in my possession now,” he said. At the age of 13, Pattison started on the bass horn and has continued ever since. He’s played with every local group imaginable: the Whoopee John band, Fezz Fritsche and the Goosetown Band, and Ivan Kahle, the group he was with for Clinton’s inauguration. The band, he said, was filled with Republicans and none of them were quite sure how they were tapped for the honor. For Pattison, though, his biggest thrill was when he played as part of the Erwin Seuss band and went to Austria and Germany in 1979. “That was the most honorable, exciting adventure I ever His German heritage is precious to Pattison, and he keeps his grandmother’s baptism certificate framed made,” he said. “To play in the on the wall at his home near St. Cloud. Pattison lives on 100 acres of his family’s agricultural land next to the Sauk River. land of my ancestors.” He’s made vinyl records,
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Pattison married his wife, Leona, who was a Grebinoski at the time, in Opole. They have four daughters together and lived in town in Waite Park
ing at Sears and Roebuck from page 2 doing in-store sign printing. He didn’t enjoy it and before Pattison moved to worked hard to develop a his grandmother’s prop- nightly schedule of playerty. She had 100 acres of ing live music. woods and open land by the Sauk River. He was Pattison page 4 playing music and work-
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The farm land, which he rented out to neighbors, was the place where he built a small house. His wife maintained their Waite Park home as she grew up on the farm, didn’t drive and didn’t want to live in the country. Pattison started with poultry and meat birds and then got into geese. He remembers geese on his childhood farm and said they had Christmas goose, not turkey, until he was a teen. He butchered a few geese, butchered chickens for people and then decid-
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OWRY – Kerosene lamps, metal lunch pails crafted from old syrup cans, canning supplies and glass jars. They’ve been sitting on the shelves of the fruit cellar inside the Anderson/ Stivland family home place since the early 1900s. Though the house, that was ordered from a Sears and Roebuck catalog in 1928, has changed hands throughout the Anderson and Stivland family lineage, those now-antique items still have their place on the shelves of the fruit cellar. “When we moved out, I told my daughter, ‘Those things were sitting on the shelf when I came and they’ll be sitting on the shelf when I leave,’” Rebecca Stivland said. “They weren’t mine and I thought they needed to go with the house.” Through the years, though, the house has passed from generation to generation. The farm has had many iterations through the years. Dale Stivland’s great-grandfather found the property in 1867 and it wasn’t
officially homesteaded until 1874. Dale has the actual piece of paper, signed by President Grant, to prove it. He takes pride in the history of the land and his place on it. “It’s an honor,” Dale Stivland said. The family home has had as many iterations as the actual farm land. The original sod house was replaced by a log home that was completely deteriorated by the 1970s. That log home was then replaced with a wooden house belonging to Stivland’s grandfather, AR Anderson. Anderson came home one Saturday night to find the house was on fire; it was a total loss. That wooden house was replaced with the $3,200 Sears and Roebuck house that still stands today. The home has served as home to Dale’s parents who sold it to Dale and Rebecca, who then sold it – and 10 acres of the original 160-acre homestead – 20 years ago to their daughter, Sadie Schlief, and her husband, Kev-
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We’ve all heard about life in the big woods and on the prairie. Laura Ingalls Wilder’s popular books include “Little House in the Big Woods,” “Farmer Boy,” “Little House on the Prairie,” “On the Banks of Plum Creek” and “The Long Winter.” Wilder’s collection of books has sold more than 60 million copies in more than 100 countries, according to the official website. Then there is the Little House on the Prairie television series that ran from 1974-83, for which I can only imagine the number of viewers over the years. The audience demand today is still 8.5 times higher than the average television series. That’s a whole lot of lovin’ for the stories of pioneer families, their hardships and joys in the 1800s. These are not unlike the histories of many of our readers’ families. The year of Laura Ingalls’ birth, 1867, coincides with the year Andrew Anderson located the 160acre property he and his wife, Marie, would settle near Lowry. You can read more about the Anderson/ Stivland family in this issue of Country Acres. While the Ingalls family moved around the Midwest – including Wis-
consin, Kantion alternated sas, Minnesooccasionally to ta, Iowa and make walls that South Dakota were a cou– the Anderson ple feet thick. family stayed They even figput. Later, Milured out how dred Anderson to incorporate married Henry glass windows, Stivland, and Random Reflections s t r u c t u r i n g the rest, as they the framing so by Diane Leukam say, is history. they wouldn’t The Stivlands be crushed by cherish their family sto- the sod above. Roofs were ries and hand them down combinations of wood, through the generations. sod and tarpaper. OthThe two families er materials like plaster, probably have much in wallpaper and sheeting common, beginning with were sometimes used as each of them having lived well. in a sod house on the farm I can imagine some at one point. These houses of the sights and sounds made sense on the prairie, of these pioneers, these a place where there was no literal sodbusters, as they wood available for build- worked to build such a ing. The Andersons’ home home. Living in it would was built into the side of a be something else, too. hill, and others were built I wonder how much dirt on the flat prairie. Having dropped onto the famiemigrated from Sweden, ly; during a heavy rain the Andersons were likely it might even have been familiar with the tradition- mud. al sod roofs common in Life was rough on their homeland. these settlers and, accordLike everything in ing to some sources, more the pioneer days, building than half of them didn’t these houses was a labo- make it as farmers. rious process. Until the Each farm has its own shallow “grasshopper” history, though, and some plow came along, the sod are more colorful than othwas cut by hand using a ers. Much of it intertwines spade to slice through the with the machinery used thick roots of the natural throughout the years. That prairie grasses. The sod concept comes into play bricks were placed grass- over in Rice, where we side-down with the direc- visit with Lyle Schefers.
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(Above) Rebecca Stivland waters flowers in one of the three greenhouses that make up Stivland Gardens. (Right) Dale Stivland shows off giant cherry tomato plants in the greenhouse in 2020.
Stivland from page 9 the kitchen and main level bath. They put in new doors and windows throughout the house, paying special care to choose replacements that were in line with the original home. Their work wasn’t done. In 2008, when straight-line winds forced them to decide whether to keep the family barn, which needed a new roof, an uncle stepped in to help financially, in order to save the historic barn.
The Schliefs’ children, Mason and Aanan, decided early on that they wanted to have their graduation parties in the barn so through the years the entire family cleaned, scraped and painted the historic building. As they emptied the barn and cleaned out the haymow, they discovered a wall of old barn woods, woods that came from previous barns to build the 1918 structure.
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Mason Schlief and her brother, Aanan, cleaned four feet of hay off the barn floor; it took them years to do, but both kids wanted to one day celebrate their graduations in the 1918 family barn.
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Doyamo from page 12 “Regardless what you’re teaching, it’s about community (in Holdingford),” he said. “The school is really self-reliant and unique. They have a big impact in the community.” The rural community of Holdingford is a bit of a different scene than what Doyamo is used to. Growing up in Minneapolis, he attended an urban school, graduating from Addison High School. One of his earliest experiences with agriculture was through Common Ground, a program aimed to create opportunities for urban students to be involved in agriculture through hands-on activities like gardening. “I always participated in that throughout elementary school,” he said. The first seven years of Doyamo’s life, however, also played a role in his interest in agriculture. Doyamo was born and lived on a farm in southern Ethiopia. He and his family are part of the Sidama tribe. “Ethiopia is 80% agriculture,” he said. “So, participating in Common Ground allowed me to connect with my background.” At 7 years old, his family decided to move to the United States as a civil war raged on in their country. “The northern part of Ethiopia dealt with famine, the southern part dealt with insurgencies with organizations and tribes; it was at a turmoil,” he said.
“It wasn’t healthy to live in Ethiopia with all of that going on.” The family, which included Doyamo’s parents and his sister and brother, moved to the United States for a more stable life. For Doyamo, acclimating to a new country was fairly easy. “I was actually pretty outgoing,” he said. The family started in the East Coast, eventually making their way to the Midwest and then to Minnesota where most of Doyamo’s parents’ friends and family are. “In third grade, that’s when I shined,” Doyamo said. “I knew how to interact with other kids to where the teacher recommended me to the gifted and talented program when we were living in Michigan. From there, I was learning everything; I turned into a sponge. The English just started coming naturally.” He felt the move to the United States was new and exciting. “You could say I was forward-thinking,” he said. “We (he and his siblings) adapted really well.” By fifth grade, Doyamo was a translator, helping other kids who just came from Ethiopia to the United States adapt. “I always had the hunger for knowledge and I loved to learn,” he said. Since leaving Ethiopia, Doyamo has only been back once, in 2015. “A lot changed, as far as economics and the relationships with other tribes,” he said of the country. “But overall, you could tell it still had that
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Agriculture teacher John Roberts (left) and student teacher Mesay Doyamo discuss teaching strategies April 12 in the industry technology shop at Holdingford Public Schools. Doyamo is student teaching at the school.
Ethiopia is 80% agriculture. So, participating in Common Ground allowed me to connect with my background. - Mesay Doyamo energy.” After graduating high school, Doyamo began work at one of two gas stations his father owned. “My dad had a successful taxi business and ended up investing in two gas stations around the time I graduated,” he said. “He put me and my brother in charge of these gas stations, so I went into family business.” When the market declined, the family decided to sell one gas station and keep the other, leasing it out. In 2002, Doyamo met his future wife, Amy, and
the two would have three children – Elijah, Mikah and Laylah. As a husband and father of three, going to school at that time was not feasible. “At first, I wanted to go to school for accounting, but having responsibility, I decided to join the workforce,” he said.
For 10 years, Doyamo worked in sales and delivery for a tire company while raising his family. In 2012, the owner of the tire company Doyamo worked for encouraged him to go to school “He (Doyamo’s boss) somewhat forecasted what the industry was going through. He noticed a change in the industry, when it came with employees who had educational degrees,” he said. “The industry was changing where they wanted certified mechanics.” Doyamo needed a career change anyway, so he saw it as an opportunity. He thought about going for a two-year degree in
filming, something his father suggested. “He wanted me to start doing documentaries of back home and the growth it was going through (in Ethiopia),” Doyamo said. The timing was right, in terms of his family and work situation, so Doyamo went for it. After earning his Associate of Science degree from North Hennepin Community College, he transferred to the College of Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Sciences at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities in 2017 to major in agricultural education. The career change occurred while he was studying at the community college. He reconnected with the same people who invited him into the agriculture world in Minnesota when he was young, bringing it full circle. “I met personnel who actually worked with Common Ground,” he said. “It brought me back to my childhood and I started getting involved in the (school’s) greenhouse.” Doyamo met with his advisor to discuss his career change. “I wanted to get into agriculture,” he said.
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The pandemic made schoolwork challenging too, with classes being converted to virtual. “I really struggled with that,” he said. “Hands-on learning is crucial, but I tried to make the best of it.” The journey to getting here, he said, was worth it. He cannot wait to graduate in May and start his teaching career. “Seeing the excitement in students’ faces when they learn something new, that’s the best,” he said. “People said I always did something that made them think, so teaching must be my true purpose.”
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The Schefers family participated in a tractor blessing April 25 at St. Stephen Catholic Church in St. Stephen; the family drove 15 of their tractors to town. Pictured are Cory (front, from left), 12, Elizabeth 11, Ben, 10 and Veronica 13; Back: Becky and Lyle.
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His collection includes the very first tractor he ever bought. He actually sold it 20 years ago and bought it back for the exact same amount he sold it for. While it was gone, the tractor passed through three different farm families before making its way back to Schefers. It’s one of the gold stars of his collection. When he brings in new equipment, Schefers works on the restoration with Jamie Skroch. Together, they change all the fluids, a job that usually costs between $400 and
$500 per tractor, and then they assess any mechanical work that needs to be done. Schefers stores the tractors in a shed, part of which is climate-controlled. He’s working to build a new 80- by 80foot climate-controlled shed so he can protect his entire collection. Skroch does a lot of work on the units repairing them. Devin Buzzard, another employee, enjoys buffing them, shining the rims and doing the detailing. “These are the clean-
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“There’s something to be said about the nostalgia of sitting on a tractor that’s older than I am.” - Schefers said.
Schefers from page 18 carpentry and swore he’d never become a farmer. After a car accident injured his hand, carpentry was no longer a good fit; he did some work for an excavation company and then found himself turning back toward his roots. In most recent memory, the Schefers had as many as 600 dairy cows on the farm and today they have roughly 400. Becky begins her day at 2 a.m. Together, the couple operates the dairy farm and in addition to the crops and the animals, are considering a large addition to the barn with robots. Lyle began his original farm with nine cows and when he got his first milk check he bought two gallons of paint to paint his barn, because that’s all he could afford at the time. He credits his success to hard work, perseverance and finding truly
good people to spend time with. Today, he’s the only one left in both his parents’ families who still farms. His tractor collection pays homage to the start-up of his own PHOTO SUBMITTED farm and his (Top) Cory (from left), memories Veronica, Benjamin and of farming Elizabeth Schefers ride in a trailer with his on July 4 behind a Farmall which is grandpart of Lyle Schefers’ vintage tractor parents, collection. riding on the PHOTO BY NATASHA BARBER (Bottom) The Rev. Ron Weyrens, priest at c o m St. Stephen Catholic Church, blesses b i n e the Schefers’ tractors April 25 in St. w i t h Stephen. The blessing was part grandpa of the parish’s 150-year behind the celebration. wheel and enjoying the large meals his grandmother would make. tion as he could find vol“There’s something unteers to drive them, to be said about the nos- from the biggest in his talgia of sitting on a trac- fleet, a modern-day Case tor that’s older than I am,” IH Steiger 620 Quad, Schefers said. to the smallest, a little For this year’s trac- 12-horse. tor blessing, he brought And, along with each as many in his collec- was the story of a friend.
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Wild Parsnip can be a danger to humans and cause a Phytophotodermatitis reaction. This plant is shown with a dollar for size comparison.
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