![]() While away to college I met and married a girl. It was then on to Michigan State University, where I would earn my bachelor degree and learn to be a Spartan fan through good times and bad. Years of working after school and summers would allow me to pay for my two years at Grand Rapids Community College without loans or debt. Working on these farms, I saved nearly every dime I earned and still have my original “bank book” from the State Bank of Caledonia - now Chemical Bank- where I would watch my fortune grow. No different than you and I hoping to sell our home. And while I may at times get nostalgic for the wide open spaces of the “good old days” I never forget that those farms were owned by the farmer and his family who had every right to sell their property and make a profit. Today, many of these farms are now subdivisions and neighborhoods. Mucking stalls would prepare me for work in politics in more ways than you can imagine. I ran a trap line along a few miles of the creek that ran through our property and made a pretty good living (for a kid) off of muskrat, mink, and raccoon hides.Īs I grew older, I was able to work at neighbor’s farms baling hay, feeding animals and “mucking” stalls. Here my brother, sister and I raised and rode horses, bought and sold 4H beef steers, and wandered the surrounding farms, fields and forests looking for adventure. When I was about a year old, it became clear the Harrison family was outgrowing our apartment home and my parents bought 13 acres out on Morse Lake Road. I still enjoy an evening stroll down Main Street and into the par. My mother would push me in a stroller down Main Street after my baths and before my bedtime. We lived in a small apartment overlooking Emmons Lake and Caledonia Lakeside Park. My mother, Judy (Burgess) was a Caledonia High graduate and built a successful insurance business here. My father, Bill Harrison, was the agriculture teacher and tennis coach at Caledonia High School. I have called Caledonia home since the day I was born, August 1, 1968. ![]()
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