We began publishing when my wife Lucille typed up the memories my mother and father had written. That was in  December 1974.

At that time, we had a local printing shop take photos of the pages she had typed and bind them into books with the title, “The Memoirs of Harold C.T. Peterson.” We then enclosed the bound memoirs in covers made out of finished wood from a cherry tree that Harold had on his farm in Bone Lake, WI.

From then on, Lucille and Ken just kept on writing. They did this while receiving advanced degrees, managing their own careers, and raising a family, watching their four children excel in everything they did.

For a period of time, local publishers printed and bound our books. We later trained in desktop publishing around the same time Ken was recovering from his cancer surgery.

After learning how to design our books on Adobe software, we purchased a high-end printer and printed our own books. These were then bound by Spring Prairie Printing near Hawley, MN.

For us, book publishing became a hobby instead of a for-profit enterprise.