Thank you, Nick, for this intimate look at the land you grew up on... your Dad, on that sweet little antique tractor, made my eyes well up. You were so blessed to have had such a wonderful place to help you become who you are... and, thank you, for becoming that person :)
Sir i am from India.....in this lockdown situation i really thankful to you... because I watch your classes with big interst. And your rich geological class and speech motivate us ...we really lucky to watch you through RUclips,,,,,,.... because it is IMPOSSIBLE TO many indian to get studying opportunity in usa or in western countries.. SO PLEASE CONTINUE YOUR VALUABLE CLASSES IN RUclips. Thank you sir , Thank you very much.
We in the US would love to see some vids from you in India, about whatever you know. Really! Even if you aren't a professional teacher, you know things we don't.
While I really enjoyed the "Nick From Home" series, I now realize it just set the stage to more fully appreciate 'Nick On The Fly". I am also enjoying comments from around the world which serve to remind all of us, we live someplace special. Just open our eyes to the specialness that is about us. To me, that is the greatest gift Nick has given us. And to think this all would not have been possible without Nick, all that went into making Nick who he is today and a unique set of circumstances that birthed "Nick From Home". Thank you Nick and all you Zentners!
Maybe one of Nick's most precious videos because it tells the story of Nick's own spark/genesis for learning about geology. Minute mark 11 minutes says, "It only clicks beautifully for you, if you've been to these places. You've kind of experienced these places. with a totally different set of eyes. Then if someone comes in and tells you a story about what happened, you've already done the hard work, you've already sized up the feature with your own eyes and other senses and maybe have a personal memory of that place. Then if someone tells you a little bit of geology, it sticks immediately and that is what happened here. So, whenever I think of drumlins, and here the word drumlins, .... I think of this drumlin, this big drumlin, on the family farm in southern Wisconsin." Not only a testament of Nick's roots for loving geology but also a BIG lesson on how people use everyday experiences to spark them and chart out their entire careers. As a senior citizen who is now a beginning student learning about Ice Age Floods, I hope to visit many/most of the sites that Nick explains, in wonderful ways, in his videos. Thank you Mr. Zentner and thanks to your family farm for sparking a learning awakening for you and your many video followers!!
When I had the "opportunity" to paint our barn one summer in northeast Indiana, I built a compressor from an old engine and ran it with the tractor. This ran a big paint gun that left a 3 foot swath of paint. I guess I was an engineer because I was too lazy for honest work. That was 60 years ago and I still prefer a spray gun to a paint brush so I must still be lazy.
Well it is lazy people like you that have made the modern world rich. Build your own compressor? Awesome. Just think, with the same effort as Nick you could have painted 3 of you neighbor's barns in addition to your own.
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I grew up in Northern Ontario in the 50s. My Mom Dad and I relocated to the Chicago area in the early 60s but for many summers returned home NE of Duluth. To get there we drove and it was an old highway then through Wisconsin and I remember vividly it was like a roller coaster. I suspect we were crossing those drumlins Today all that is smoothed out on the interstate. The area around Madison is just so beautiful. A perfect picture of Midwest farmland.
I think everyone should work on a farm for a year. To know the joy and misery of plowing, planting, harvesting. Whether is plants and /or animals. I hated sitting for hours on the '49 JD model M. Best years of my life. Learning how to put down pets and animals is one of the hardest lessons of life.
I had to put down my old racehorse who was nearly 25, this Feb and I never cried harder. I'm still so sad about his loss... My husband farmed rice for his half brother when we met. Farming or Ag instills good skills and work ethic.
Thanks so much for sharing Nick. It reminded me of our family farm in Maine, only our rocks came up in the fields every year , and farmers made stone wall fences out of them . I wish I knew more about that now. We love the show. TY
Interesting, my father was raised on a Whitefield, NH farm. When visiting that old homestead, we used to walk the huge well-crafted stone walls. It's possible that those walls may have been the only way around certain times of the year. I mean they weren't as great as Roman empire roads but when wet or snowy they may have been the only way to get around with a wagon and oxen. Large stones on the outside and smaller stones in the middle and several feet off the pasture land. There may be some similarities in N.H. and Wisconsin rocks, certainly over in the Appalachians, there was no shortage of rocks. :-)
Sorry for the loss of your dad last summer, your farm is a beautiful place and I'm sure your mom is absolutely thrilled to see you again at the old homestead❤
This was so sweet, I teared up. Having the farm in your family is epic. i hope you keep it always. In 1894 my Danish great father died on his newly acquired Nebraska land just four years after coming from Denmark with his wife and 5 kids. They were foreclosed on for the lack of $4.96... yep four dollars. I got to see it in 1985 while attending with my Dad, his 50th high school reunion. I was my Dad's date. Sweet memories! The family who bought it still has it 100+ yrs. later. Preserving their dreams if you're able is a wonderful thing. The barn paint job was grreat. I wanted to rent a sprayer for you and encourage our sons collectively, to repaint it, same color! I loved the last frames of your Dad. So touching! I know he'd be immensely proud of how you touch our lives! And those of your students! Thx from Lat. 48, FH, WA.
No place like home! And The Fireside fish fry. 🐟 The place where Muffler boy was born! Hwy 12 gotta love it. ❤ If we had smell-o-vision we'd get a wiff of the freshly cut grass. Thanks for taking us home again. 😊
Nick, may your father rest in peace. Very kind of you to visit mom. Drumlins must be important to the state of Wisconsin, the state capitol is built upon one. Both your formation theories sound credible. As a GIS image analyst I would need some LIDAR imaging time to pick a theory. We both graduated in '79 and when you came home to paint the barn I was finishing my tour at Bitburg AFB Germany as a new F-15 Jet Mechanic. My basic geology was I knew the Alps were older than the Rocky's, The alps had glaciers which were fun to ski on. And land shape was defined by erosion. Hug and Kiss to your mom and Liz/family, travel safe, take a few extra days and travel west through Canada *-) Dunk
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Here's a fist bump to all the other farm kids who grew up driving antique tractors (1949 John Deere for me), bucking bales, and being told to go paint the barn! Now I will have to investigate the geology of our family farm in north Idaho. Thanks for the field trip and great views--the barn is a beauty.
Nick, this, and your mother’s farm are beautiful. Watching this with someone from the region and she’s really enjoying all of what you do here. Thank you sir.
Thanks much for this informative video. Thanks, also, for gracefully allowing us to have lived so much of OUR lives without questioning the geologic basis of our most familiar places, and now including us in your audience. It has only been in retirement that I seem to have the time to follow these interests. Along with time, I am allowed to be a novice in many areas again. Your kind in your encouragement and superb teaching skills are a gift to us all.
That is such beautiful land. I am in Northern Illinois right at the border and I've always been in awe of Wisconsin's natural beauty my whole 40 years of life.You were truly blessed to have had such times with your family. God bless you
We became avid fans of Wisconsin and its barns after our Oregon Daughter met Wisconsin Boy via a college webpage class. She now knows how to drive on snowy-icy roads, not to wear just a sweater for a quick trip to the store during December, and Football. Love the rolling drumlins of S Wisconsin. His home town is Burlington where they lived for 6 years. The base of your barn is beautiful. Your father must have had some artist in him. The barns nearer Burlington have different stones than yours? less red and green. More grey and some that creme yellow.?? My favorite stone is that creme yellow. Burlington, just S from the big Catholic Church has a very old and cared for house of these yellow stones. Best though is a small old wall still used as the S wall of a store in the downtown. The person(s) who built it put areas where these round river rocks form serpentine patterns. The city saved it from demolition and the outside of the wall is now one side of a walkway from a parking lot to the Main Street. Now, I'm homesick for WI and the kids and the really nice people of Wisconsin. Thank you, too, for your talks about the Northwest. I'm hoping to get home to Oregon at some time and travel the Gorge and up thru Wallula Gap to niece's in Medical Lake.
I have read nearly all the comments and don’t know if Professor Nick reads these but here goes. I went to HS with Nick and yes, his hair was curly back then. Both parents were teachers (didn’t have his dad as a teacher but as a fb coach and his mom helped me learn to swim). Have driven past the farmstead about a thousand times. Nick was pretty studious in HS so no surprise he is a prof. As for painting the barn with a small brush, it was probably, knowing his dad, his father’s way of reminding Nick that hard work is necessary in life no matter how educated you may be. And yes, it was his dad on the tractor st the end. Nick: if you read this, say HI to your Mom and sisters for me! Looking forward to vids about kettles, moraines and eskers next!
I live in Iowa but frequent wisconsin alot (best trout fishing in the nation) and love the geology of I see traveling from northeast iowa into southwest wisco. it never gets old
One good thing about this video-learning is you can learn at your own pace. You can pause the video to write down notes, pause and complete the chart before he erases it off the Blackboard, back up and replay Parts of it if you want to, play the whole thing Over and over a number Of times until you get it. It's great! Keep up the good work, Nick!
I've driven US-12 through Southern Wisconsin many times so I unknowingly have driven past this exact spot. I'll have to pay closer attention next trip. My Grandparent's farm was in Northern Wisconsin and it too has similar features.
Wonderful tour! You are right about just opening our eyes to the world around us and asking questions. After your Nick at Home series I look more carefully at landscapes and wonder about their geologic history.
I'm a midwesterner and know the drumlins and fun to hear a couple stories of their origins. Thanks for sharing your family farm too, the barn and the fieldstone foundation. Then the little ride on the tractor.
What a beautiful place! Dude! Drop on down to Northeast Alabama and Northwest Georgia and tell us about the Cumberland Plateau!! It is a wonderful place to live with mountains and canyons and beautiful waterfalls...but heck, I don't know how it happened. Thanks.
YES! The subglacial floods are the only hypothesis that makes sense. There were 4 major advancements and retreats of the glaciers during the last ice age. As the 3rd advancement was melting and retreating, it would have deposited the sand, clay, gravel, and some boulders all over the midwest. When the 4th advancement of the glaciers was sitting on top of Wisconsin, something, most likely a fragmented comet, hit the ice sheet in numerous places, causing unbelievable amounts of water to melt. That water would've filled the impact holes, making its way under the ice sheet. As the water flowed towards the edge of the glacier, it would've cut out incredible amounts of till. If you look north of Madison on a topographical map, you can see dozens of channels cut into the bedrock that go east/west. Those channels are where the high pressure subglacial flood waters escaped from under the ice sheet. It's believed that these subglacial floods only lasted a few weeks. Had they gone on a little bit longer, there probably wouldn't be any drumlins at all. I've been planning a trip around the US to film the evidence of a catastrophic event at the end of the ice age that caused floods beyond anyone's wildest imagination. I'm gonna be doing an episode about drumlins, first. A farm I lived on as a kid had a huge drumlin on it. I'm gonna see if the current owners will let me film there. Otherwise, I live in Waterloo, WI, and this town has drumlins everywhere. I'm glad this theory is gaining traction. The evidence of a catastrophic flood is right under our feet, and becomes obvious when you realize it's there.
Oh man! I love the message about the rocks in the foundation and the Drumlins, but as a retired cultural resource specialist, I so hope someone is interested in restoring that barn!! Wow. It's a beauty!
In Indian mythology, the drumlins would be real tears as the Ice Queen melted away. With our dualistic Western minds, full of Descartian logic of number and measure, it's hard for us to grasp the mystery and beauty. But even Descartes had his revelation from Angels, or so he tells us. Scrooge might say "humbug". But how many times have you dropped something shiny and can't find it? Then return hours later to find it in the very spot you've already looked? The little people aren't thieves! lol. Nice to see you're still making the occasional video. Thanks and best wishes; and long may it continue, if you have the time and inclination.
Wonderful! So enjoyed the history, not only of drumlins but of your family farm (have always loved old barns) and your early beginnings in geology (while wearing farmer's overalls no less)... love it!!! I am sorry to hear you lost your dad last year. On a "who cares" note, your mom drives the same car I do, mine is a 2009 and the lighter silver color -- love that CRV! You're a treasure, Nick... Looking forward to NOTF #7!
Hi Nick! I listened to all of your original podcasts and enjoyed learning about the geologic history of the Pacific NW. How excited I was to see that you had a YT channel AND a video about the drumlins! I live in northern Illinois (right where the Valparaiso and Minooka moraines converge) and spend many weekends hiking the Ice Age Trail in Kettle Moraine South. While hiking, I like to imagine the long trip those erratics, like The Stone Elephant east of Lake LaGrange, took from their original Canadian Shield “birthplace” down to our humble Midwest fields. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and travels.
Wow! Great episode! I too, learned in college in the 80’s ( I have a minor in geology) that drumlins are depositional features. Neat to hear the new thoughts as to their formation! Love the Wisconsin scenery and especially you Dad at the end... beautifully done! Thank you Nick!
Brilliant ,once again thank you Nick for your time ,effort and explanation .Looked like home from home too (except it was sunny !!!!).from Plymouth UK .
I'd forgotten what rural Wisconsin looks like this time of year. I grew up a little north of you, in what I now know was another drumlin region of WI. I helped remove many tons of boulders from our fields. The foundation of your barn brought back memories. My father was a bricklayer, so I also helped split lots of beautiful "Canadian expatriate" boulders for the fireplaces he was building. (Every farmer for miles around had a pile of boulders along their fencerows, that they'd picked out of adjoining fields. The farmers would let us have the stone for free.) I remember the purple quartzite, gneiss, and granites well. We'd even find sandstones that contained iron-rich veins. The boulders I remember best (worst?) were the basaltic monsters. They were huge, and couldn't be split. I studied metallurgy in college, but very nearly became a geologist. Thanks for the memories.
My take on how drumlins form is that the small spoonfulls of cookie dough remain in place when the ice melts and retreats. Then, when another pulse of glaciers comes along, the cookie dough has hardened enough to become an impediment where the glacier drops even more sediment due to slowing and compression, all the while shaping the incipient drumlin into a teardrop shape. Do this a bunch of times, retreat, progress, retreat, progress, each time leaving more and more seds at the site of the drumlin. In a few thousand years you have a big beautiful place to mow grass and scare all the insects.
Granites ehh. I lived in a house that was at least 1847, likely earlier in Pella Iowa area. We had a basement. Mostly grey and dark grey seabed sedimentary with an overabundance of small shells like clam at around 1/4 inch. Some greenstones and kimberlites. Blue/clear sapphires were the hards and very little iron. Almost no quartsite. The water mains were 30f down so I saw a little. It's so very location specific. A lot of old vents getting eroded by all sorts of forces. Seems to me the river bank is steep where little water flow and glacial till drops.... So many mountains basically lost.
Being from west central wisconsin myself ,,,,, New Richmond to be exact I have always been fascinated with how the glaciers have formed our part of the state here. Thank you for feeding my curiosity and the opportunity to learn a little bit more than I knew before
Lot's of drumlins in NY State. The Finger Lakes Region SE of Syracuse, is famous for them. The Lake were scooped out roughly in a north/south alignment by glaciation, with high drumlins in between the lakes, roughly five miles wide and hundreds of feet high in places, separating the lakes. Glacial moraines are found on the south ends of the lakes There is a small old ski area south of Syracuse, called 'Drumlins'. In Northern NY State, drumlins can be found that are completely made of boulders, spaced roughly 50 yards apart and 50 feet high, again running in a north south alignment. Lots of hills made of sand and gravel, with some boulders strewn in with it. Lot's of exposed bedrock, with evidence of glaciation. Iron, zinc, lead and talc mines, in NNY. In Northern NY State, where I am from, there are several 'drumlins made up of entirely boulders, stacked up about 50 feet high and roughly 50 yards apart, again, running in a north/south alignment. There aren't easily found, because they are in a hard wood area, but if you know where to look.....Many hill of sand and gravel, strewn with large boulders in NNY, many are used as gravel pits for construction and they are added to cement, to be used for sidewalks and roads. Many rural roads are still gravel though. Your family farm property, reminds me of my home area in Northern NY State. Dairy farming is huge in NNY and I worked on my uncle's farm when growing up. St. Lawrence County is the largest in the state and there were once more dairy cows, than people. Lot's of hard work as a kid and teen, but I look fondly back on it now. Before my wife's family moved to the Finger Lakes region, she grew up in NY City and even in the city, one can find evidence of glaciation on exposed bedrock, in Central Park. Sorry for the loss of your dad! I hope mom is doing well.
We lived in Jamesville for 2 yrs while my Air Force Dad studied Russian at the Univ. Beautiful country, woods were my backyard, all gone now as I saw by google maps. He took us row boating on the lake, nearly capsized as I remember.
A new idea behind drumlins! I think I like the second explanation better. The cookie dough metaphor is helpful. Gorgeous landscape. Gorgeous time of day. And muffler boy is there too. Thanks again, Nick.
This is a great way to show the drumlins. I am glad you were able to see them in the different light once you discovered geology. I am looking at the terrain around my house much more differently now. Thank you for sharing your summer with us Nick and all of your followers in the comments. Great group!! Even muffler boy is following along.
Nick, my husband and I moved from Waterloo, Iowa to Wenatchee in November of 2018. I've been enjoying and sharing your videos of Washington with my Midwestern friends, but it was so nice to see a Midwest farm and learn about geography there. Hope the humidity and the bugs don't get too bad! 🙂
That farm looks so peaceful… thanks for sharing all the home spun details about your roots. And it brings up one question about glaciers that I never ever understood… namely HOW did glaciers ‘flow’ over flat countryside? It’s obvious how glaciers flow downhill from a mountain… but in a flat place like Wisconsin, what pushed the trillions of tons of ice cross country?… it indeed that’s what they did.
Very near where I grew up in North Dakota, there are unusual drumlins in southern McHenry county. One of the drumlins called Hogback Ridge is 17 miles long and straight as an airport runway! The state geologists have mapped the area and published ideas on how the drumlins formed. Their research can be found online.
Thank you Nick for having us over at the ole' homestead. I too am guilty of looking at the scenery without much afterthought as to "why" it looks like that. Since watching your videos, I have been much more attentive to the exposed rock layers along the roads of Kentucky/Tennessee. Let's all share a salt covered tomato and appreciate the scenery on this humid afternoon
I love your videos, they follow my trains, ya? There is so much to be learned and discovered about why things are actually the way they are, I got into your videos because one came up about Ellensburg blue, I grew up in Yakima, ya ya, all jokes aside I did, lived there about 16 years, stomped all over that state and now I find I knew nothing about it. Nothing, mt st Helens I remember that like yesterday, super traumatic for a child not knowing what's happening. My birthday party was to be the day after, and never happened because no one wanted to go out, the national guard was clearing roads and rooftops, we had 4 to 6 in of ash where I lived it was great for my tonka trucks and dozers. I had a blast making new roads and thing, whatever, I digress, thank you for your time in doing these videos.
Thank you for this wonderful introduction to Wisconsin beautiful green landscape, a florescent rich green. Perfect review of drumlin geology made me happy, (recalling the drumlins in Ireland). What a treat to visit the barn with colorful rocks--amazing!
Hello there Nick, it’s good to see you again we miss you greatly but understand everyone needs to move on, we had a great weekend of rock hounding in central Oregon, and thought of you often. I feel for you, I too lost my father a year ago, it must be bittersweet to return home.
Thank you Nick for these videos! I learn something new from each one not to mention the beautiful views of places I am unlikely to see in person. Thanks again!
The little huh of surprise and emotion at the little drop of paint on the rock doesn't get by someone who's had similar experience. Life is a wheel that impart motion to all other wheels that touch it .
I could hear that happiness and knew what it was before you ever turned and showed it 🤣🤣
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Thanks for sharing the farm you grew up on. Does remind me of a few areas here in western Washington. Regardless, it's a beautiful place and amazing that there's no irrigation and yet it's so green! Enjoy your visit back home!
Prof Nick. Thank you again for such an interesting and personal narrative/lecture on the fly. I have not been to wisconsin and do appreciate the continued learning about the geology of the U.S. as you venture and share your travels. Take care and be safe.
Nick, love learning about geology and glaciers from you. But since I live in western Wisconsin, I've become fascinated with the "driftless area". A great topic for you.
Thank you NIck for getting to see your famil'ies farm, beautiful place, you, like me, got started in geology by observing things around you that no one you knew then could explain, I had a backyard garage next to my parents house that was made of boulders from the tri-states mining district, black jasproids, carbonates, cherts, that I wondered about every day! Strange how future geologists get started.
Nice in that genuine midwestern manner. Normally at this time of the year I'm conducting tours of the glacial landscape of Southeast Alaska but with no tourism this year instead I'm home in the muggy summer heat Central Illinois, and still the glacial history is on my mind but in a totally different approach. Always expanding. Thanks, Nick, and cheers to you and your family farm.
Thank you. This was wonderful. I hope you retain the link to this place for the rest of your life. It is always good to know that you have a home. Spoken from one that was born into a military family where home was where you are.
Nicely done, professor. I have relatives in southern WIsconsin (Beloit and Madison), and have noticed the drumlins more than once when driving to see them from either north (Minneapolis) or south (St. Louis). I couldn't agree more about the "Aha" moments afforded by direct observation. A dozen years of living on the Colorado Front Range, with frequent field trips to the west slope and other parts of the state reinforce that notion. My first trip to Glacier National Park was last summer (2019), and on the return, I spent a night in Missoula, where even I, nothing more than an interested amateur, could see the beach margins from glacial Lake Missoula marching up the hill behind the University campus.
Now, that's a great episode! Just enough geology sprinkled in to be educational, and lots of farm life enjoyment to watch. (I know, easy for me, in Ohio, not working on that farm, to say. But there are parts of my childhood (like putting away, and putting up the storm windows at home, and other things around the house that I did with my dad,) that I sure can relate to how much I learned as a child without realizing how important it was. Sorry to hear about your dad's passing... I lost my mom in 1979, and dad in 1990. You just never know... Thanks for this episode, and I will be watching on September 9th when the live stream videos make a return. I know we have glacial moraines in my area... we even have a town called... Moraine... but I need to look for the closest drumlin...
Nick, Glad that you could be home with family and enjoy a fish fry. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and telling me something that i should have, but didn't know about my home state. Maybe you got to enjoy a few OF's with your fish?
Sorry I missed the Live. I was patching fence on my family's place. I'm always amazed to see crops without irrigation, ya oughta see our electric bill! ;) Thank you for presenting the new Drumlin Theory. We'll see if it sticks.
Thank you, Nick, for this intimate look at the land you grew up on... your Dad, on that sweet little antique tractor, made my eyes well up. You were so blessed to have had such a wonderful place to help you become who you are... and, thank you, for becoming that person :)
Sir i am from India.....in this lockdown situation i really thankful to you... because I watch your classes with big interst.
And your rich geological class and speech motivate us ...we really lucky to watch you through RUclips,,,,,,.... because it is IMPOSSIBLE TO many indian to get studying opportunity in usa or in western countries.. SO PLEASE CONTINUE YOUR VALUABLE CLASSES IN RUclips.
Thank you sir , Thank you very much.
We in the US would love to see some vids from you in India, about whatever you know. Really! Even if you aren't a professional teacher, you know things we don't.
Thank you...
While I really enjoyed the "Nick From Home" series, I now realize it just set the stage to more fully appreciate 'Nick On The Fly". I am also enjoying comments from around the world which serve to remind all of us, we live someplace special. Just open our eyes to the specialness that is about us. To me, that is the greatest gift Nick has given us. And to think this all would not have been possible without Nick, all that went into making Nick who he is today and a unique set of circumstances that birthed "Nick From Home". Thank you Nick and all you Zentners!
Maybe one of Nick's most precious videos because it tells the story of Nick's own spark/genesis for learning about geology. Minute mark 11 minutes says, "It only clicks beautifully for you, if you've been to these places. You've kind of experienced these places. with a totally different set of eyes. Then if someone comes in and tells you a story about what happened, you've already done the hard work, you've already sized up the feature with your own eyes and other senses and maybe have a personal memory of that place. Then if someone tells you a little bit of geology, it sticks immediately and that is what happened here. So, whenever I think of drumlins, and here the word drumlins, .... I think of this drumlin, this big drumlin, on the family farm in southern Wisconsin." Not only a testament of Nick's roots for loving geology but also a BIG lesson on how people use everyday experiences to spark them and chart out their entire careers. As a senior citizen who is now a beginning student learning about Ice Age Floods, I hope to visit many/most of the sites that Nick explains, in wonderful ways, in his videos. Thank you Mr. Zentner and thanks to your family farm for sparking a learning awakening for you and your many video followers!!
Once again, another sublime walk through a part of America that I may not make it to physically. Thank you so much.
Perfect, this episode touched on all things close to my heart. farms, barns, stone foundations, beautiful landscape. Thank you Nick!!
When I had the "opportunity" to paint our barn one summer in northeast Indiana, I built a compressor from an old engine and ran it with the tractor. This ran a big paint gun that left a 3 foot swath of paint. I guess I was an engineer because I was too lazy for honest work.
That was 60 years ago and I still prefer a spray gun to a paint brush so I must still be lazy.
But Nick had all that time to think, and it looks like he used it :-)
Well it is lazy people like you that have made the modern world rich. Build your own compressor? Awesome.
Just think, with the same effort as Nick you could have painted 3 of you neighbor's barns in addition to your own.
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"Muffler Boy"!! He's everywhere!
And he's so dedicated to his life's task of annoyance.
I grew up in Northern Ontario in the 50s. My Mom Dad and I relocated to the Chicago area in the early 60s but for many summers returned home NE of Duluth. To get there we drove and it was an old highway then through Wisconsin and I remember vividly it was like a roller coaster. I suspect we were crossing those drumlins Today all that is smoothed out on the interstate. The area around Madison is just so beautiful. A perfect picture of Midwest farmland.
Dude. You really inspire me. To do something similiar in south africa on you tube.
I think everyone should work on a farm for a year. To know the joy and misery of plowing, planting, harvesting. Whether is plants and /or animals. I hated sitting for hours on the '49 JD model M. Best years of my life. Learning how to put down pets and animals is one of the hardest lessons of life.
I had to put down my old racehorse who was nearly 25, this Feb and I never cried harder. I'm still so sad about his loss... My husband farmed rice for his half brother when we met. Farming or Ag instills good skills and work ethic.
Thanks so much for sharing Nick. It reminded me of our family farm in Maine, only our rocks came up in the fields every year , and farmers made stone wall fences out of them . I wish I knew more about that now. We love the show. TY
Interesting, my father was raised on a Whitefield, NH farm. When visiting that old homestead, we used to walk the huge well-crafted stone walls. It's possible that those walls may have been the only way around certain times of the year. I mean they weren't as great as Roman empire roads but when wet or snowy they may have been the only way to get around with a wagon and oxen. Large stones on the outside and smaller stones in the middle and several feet off the pasture land. There may be some similarities in N.H. and Wisconsin rocks, certainly over in the Appalachians, there was no shortage of rocks. :-)
Sorry for the loss of your dad last summer, your farm is a beautiful place and I'm sure your mom is absolutely thrilled to see you again at the old homestead❤
This was so sweet, I teared up. Having the farm in your family is epic. i hope you keep it always. In 1894 my Danish great father died on his newly acquired Nebraska land just four years after coming from Denmark with his wife and 5 kids. They were foreclosed on for the lack of $4.96... yep four dollars. I got to see it in 1985 while attending with my Dad, his 50th high school reunion. I was my Dad's date. Sweet memories! The family who bought it still has it 100+ yrs. later. Preserving their dreams if you're able is a wonderful thing. The barn paint job was grreat. I wanted to rent a sprayer for you and encourage our sons collectively, to repaint it, same color! I loved the last frames of your Dad. So touching! I know he'd be immensely proud of how you touch our lives! And those of your students! Thx from Lat. 48, FH, WA.
No place like home! And The Fireside fish fry. 🐟 The place where Muffler boy was born! Hwy 12 gotta love it. ❤ If we had smell-o-vision we'd get a wiff of the freshly cut grass. Thanks for taking us home again. 😊
Nick, may your father rest in peace. Very kind of you to visit mom. Drumlins must be important to the state of Wisconsin, the state capitol is built upon one. Both your formation theories sound credible. As a GIS image analyst I would need some LIDAR imaging time to pick a theory. We both graduated in '79 and when you came home to paint the barn I was finishing my tour at Bitburg AFB Germany as a new F-15 Jet Mechanic. My basic geology was I knew the Alps were older than the Rocky's, The alps had glaciers which were fun to ski on. And land shape was defined by erosion.
Hug and Kiss to your mom and Liz/family, travel safe, take a few extra days and travel west through Canada *-) Dunk
Tooligan Borders closed.
@@davidj4662 US/Canada border NOT closed Thousands of semi trucks pass every day. As for personal car, show a negative Covid-19 test less than 24 hr old and we drove over
As a Wisconsinite myself, I still love learning about the geology here. Thank you, i hope to hear more about my little state.
Here's a fist bump to all the other farm kids who grew up driving antique tractors (1949 John Deere for me), bucking bales, and being told to go paint the barn! Now I will have to investigate the geology of our family farm in north Idaho. Thanks for the field trip and great views--the barn is a beauty.
Nick, this, and your mother’s farm are beautiful. Watching this with someone from the region and she’s really enjoying all of what you do here.
Thank you sir.
Thanks much for this informative video. Thanks, also, for gracefully allowing us to have lived so much of OUR lives without questioning the geologic basis of our most familiar places, and now including us in your audience. It has only been in retirement that I seem to have the time to follow these interests. Along with time, I am allowed to be a novice in many areas again. Your kind in your encouragement and superb teaching skills are a gift to us all.
That is such beautiful land. I am in Northern Illinois right at the border and I've always been in awe of Wisconsin's natural beauty my whole 40 years of life.You were truly blessed to have had such times with your family. God bless you
Just brilliant family history and geology. 12 out of 10
From one farmboy to another, that brings back memories. 🙂
We became avid fans of Wisconsin and its barns after our Oregon Daughter met Wisconsin Boy via a college webpage class. She now knows how to drive on snowy-icy roads, not to wear just a sweater for a quick trip to the store during December, and Football. Love the rolling drumlins of S Wisconsin. His home town is Burlington where they lived for 6 years. The base of your barn is beautiful. Your father must have had some artist in him. The barns nearer Burlington have different stones than yours? less red and green. More grey and some that creme yellow.?? My favorite stone is that creme yellow. Burlington, just S from the big Catholic Church has a very old and cared for house of these yellow stones. Best though is a small old wall still used as the S wall of a store in the downtown. The person(s) who built it put areas where these round river rocks form serpentine patterns. The city saved it from demolition and the outside of the wall is now one side of a walkway from a parking lot to the Main Street. Now, I'm homesick for WI and the kids and the really nice people of Wisconsin. Thank you, too, for your talks about the Northwest. I'm hoping to get home to Oregon at some time and travel the Gorge and up thru Wallula Gap to niece's in Medical Lake.
I have read nearly all the comments and don’t know if Professor Nick reads these but here goes.
I went to HS with Nick and yes, his hair was curly back then. Both parents were teachers (didn’t have his dad as a teacher but as a fb coach and his mom helped me learn to swim).
Have driven past the farmstead about a thousand times.
Nick was pretty studious in HS so no surprise he is a prof.
As for painting the barn with a small brush, it was probably, knowing his dad, his father’s way of reminding Nick that hard work is necessary in life no matter how educated you may be.
And yes, it was his dad on the tractor st the end.
Nick: if you read this, say HI to your Mom and sisters for me!
Looking forward to vids about kettles, moraines and eskers next!
I live in Iowa but frequent wisconsin alot (best trout fishing in the nation) and love the geology of I see traveling from northeast iowa into southwest wisco. it never gets old
Thank you for the walk around your farm, and the video of your dad. Special.
Damn, will probably miss out on this one. Departing to eastern WA tomorrow morning. Planned on stopping in Ellensburg for Vinmans bakery for snacks.
well you can get the Vinmans, since he can't until he returns home.
❤ wow! What a great video! I grew up on the Ill-Wis site line. Miss the trees and greenery. Nice video of your Dad on the tractor!
One good thing about this video-learning is you can learn at your own pace. You can pause the video to write down notes, pause and complete the chart before he erases it off the Blackboard, back up and replay Parts of it if you want to, play the whole thing Over and over a number Of times until you get it. It's great! Keep up the good work, Nick!
My dad would have loved you, Nick. He was an Australian, but he loved North American geology - largely because it was so "new".
Thanks for the glimpse of home, I grew up in wisconsin also. Oh the trees!
I've driven US-12 through Southern Wisconsin many times so I unknowingly have driven past this exact spot. I'll have to pay closer attention next trip. My Grandparent's farm was in Northern Wisconsin and it too has similar features.
Wonderful tour! You are right about just opening our eyes to the world around us and asking questions. After your Nick at Home series I look more carefully at landscapes and wonder about their geologic history.
Professor, thank you for sharing this with us. Your videos are a joy to watch.
I'm a midwesterner and know the drumlins and fun to hear a couple stories of their origins. Thanks for sharing your family farm too, the barn and the fieldstone foundation. Then the little ride on the tractor.
The fish at the fireside is so good! Also devils lake in baraboo has some amazing geology and I would highly recommend exploring that!
What a beautiful place! Dude! Drop on down to Northeast Alabama and Northwest Georgia and tell us about the Cumberland Plateau!! It is a wonderful place to live with mountains and canyons and beautiful waterfalls...but heck, I don't know how it happened. Thanks.
YES! The subglacial floods are the only hypothesis that makes sense. There were 4 major advancements and retreats of the glaciers during the last ice age. As the 3rd advancement was melting and retreating, it would have deposited the sand, clay, gravel, and some boulders all over the midwest. When the 4th advancement of the glaciers was sitting on top of Wisconsin, something, most likely a fragmented comet, hit the ice sheet in numerous places, causing unbelievable amounts of water to melt. That water would've filled the impact holes, making its way under the ice sheet. As the water flowed towards the edge of the glacier, it would've cut out incredible amounts of till. If you look north of Madison on a topographical map, you can see dozens of channels cut into the bedrock that go east/west. Those channels are where the high pressure subglacial flood waters escaped from under the ice sheet.
It's believed that these subglacial floods only lasted a few weeks. Had they gone on a little bit longer, there probably wouldn't be any drumlins at all. I've been planning a trip around the US to film the evidence of a catastrophic event at the end of the ice age that caused floods beyond anyone's wildest imagination. I'm gonna be doing an episode about drumlins, first. A farm I lived on as a kid had a huge drumlin on it. I'm gonna see if the current owners will let me film there. Otherwise, I live in Waterloo, WI, and this town has drumlins everywhere.
I'm glad this theory is gaining traction. The evidence of a catastrophic flood is right under our feet, and becomes obvious when you realize it's there.
Oh man! I love the message about the rocks in the foundation and the Drumlins, but as a retired cultural resource specialist, I so hope someone is interested in restoring that barn!! Wow. It's a beauty!
In Indian mythology, the drumlins would be real tears as the Ice Queen melted away. With our dualistic Western minds, full of Descartian logic of number and measure, it's hard for us to grasp the mystery and beauty. But even Descartes had his revelation from Angels, or so he tells us. Scrooge might say "humbug". But how many times have you dropped something shiny and can't find it? Then return hours later to find it in the very spot you've already looked? The little people aren't thieves! lol.
Nice to see you're still making the occasional video. Thanks and best wishes; and long may it continue, if you have the time and inclination.
Wonderful! So enjoyed the history, not only of drumlins but of your family farm (have always loved old barns) and your early beginnings in geology (while wearing farmer's overalls no less)... love it!!! I am sorry to hear you lost your dad last year. On a "who cares" note, your mom drives the same car I do, mine is a 2009 and the lighter silver color -- love that CRV! You're a treasure, Nick... Looking forward to NOTF #7!
Thank you Sir. Nick. We appreciate what you do.
Beautiful shots of Wisconsin, great teacher!! Thanks Professor Nick :)
Hi Nick! I listened to all of your original podcasts and enjoyed learning about the geologic history of the Pacific NW. How excited I was to see that you had a YT channel AND a video about the drumlins! I live in northern Illinois (right where the Valparaiso and Minooka moraines converge) and spend many weekends hiking the Ice Age Trail in Kettle Moraine South. While hiking, I like to imagine the long trip those erratics, like The Stone Elephant east of Lake LaGrange, took from their original Canadian Shield “birthplace” down to our humble Midwest fields. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and travels.
Wow! Great episode! I too, learned in college in the 80’s ( I have a minor in geology) that drumlins are depositional features. Neat to hear the new thoughts as to their formation! Love the Wisconsin scenery and especially you Dad at the end... beautifully done! Thank you Nick!
Brilliant ,once again thank you Nick for your time ,effort and explanation .Looked like home from home too (except it was sunny !!!!).from Plymouth UK .
I'd forgotten what rural Wisconsin looks like this time of year. I grew up a little north of you, in what I now know was another drumlin region of WI. I helped remove many tons of boulders from our fields.
The foundation of your barn brought back memories. My father was a bricklayer, so I also helped split lots of beautiful "Canadian expatriate" boulders for the fireplaces he was building. (Every farmer for miles around had a pile of boulders along their fencerows, that they'd picked out of adjoining fields. The farmers would let us have the stone for free.) I remember the purple quartzite, gneiss, and granites well. We'd even find sandstones that contained iron-rich veins.
The boulders I remember best (worst?) were the basaltic monsters. They were huge, and couldn't be split.
I studied metallurgy in college, but very nearly became a geologist. Thanks for the memories.
My take on how drumlins form is that the small spoonfulls of cookie dough remain in place when the ice melts and retreats. Then, when another pulse of glaciers comes along, the cookie dough has hardened enough to become an impediment where the glacier drops even more sediment due to slowing and compression, all the while shaping the incipient drumlin into a teardrop shape. Do this a bunch of times, retreat, progress, retreat, progress, each time leaving more and more seds at the site of the drumlin.
In a few thousand years you have a big beautiful place to mow grass and scare all the insects.
Nick, stumbled across your community lecture series, loved them all. You make geology understandable and engaging. Thank you so much!
Granites ehh. I lived in a house that was at least 1847, likely earlier in Pella Iowa area. We had a basement. Mostly grey and dark grey seabed sedimentary with an overabundance of small shells like clam at around 1/4 inch. Some greenstones and kimberlites. Blue/clear sapphires were the hards and very little iron. Almost no quartsite. The water mains were 30f down so I saw a little. It's so very location specific. A lot of old vents getting eroded by all sorts of forces.
Seems to me the river bank is steep where little water flow and glacial till drops.... So many mountains basically lost.
Being from west central wisconsin myself ,,,,, New Richmond to be exact I have always been fascinated with how the glaciers have formed our part of the state here. Thank you for feeding my curiosity and the opportunity to learn a little bit more than I knew before
Nice barn. I take pics of old barns wherever I find em.
Nice to see some geology from my neck of the woods!
beautiful, nice tribute to your father and family
Lot's of drumlins in NY State. The Finger Lakes Region SE of Syracuse, is famous for them. The Lake were scooped out roughly in a north/south alignment by glaciation, with high drumlins in between the lakes, roughly five miles wide and hundreds of feet high in places, separating the lakes. Glacial moraines are found on the south ends of the lakes There is a small old ski area south of Syracuse, called 'Drumlins'.
In Northern NY State, drumlins can be found that are completely made of boulders, spaced roughly 50 yards apart and 50 feet high, again running in a north south alignment. Lots of hills made of sand and gravel, with some boulders strewn in with it. Lot's of exposed bedrock, with evidence of glaciation. Iron, zinc, lead and talc mines, in NNY.
In Northern NY State, where I am from, there are several 'drumlins made up of entirely boulders, stacked up about 50 feet high and roughly 50 yards apart, again, running in a north/south alignment. There aren't easily found, because they are in a hard wood area, but if you know where to look.....Many hill of sand and gravel, strewn with large boulders in NNY, many are used as gravel pits for construction and they are added to cement, to be used for sidewalks and roads. Many rural roads are still gravel though.
Your family farm property, reminds me of my home area in Northern NY State. Dairy farming is huge in NNY and I worked on my uncle's farm when growing up. St. Lawrence County is the largest in the state and there were once more dairy cows, than people. Lot's of hard work as a kid and teen, but I look fondly back on it now.
Before my wife's family moved to the Finger Lakes region, she grew up in NY City and even in the city, one can find evidence of glaciation on exposed bedrock, in Central Park.
Sorry for the loss of your dad! I hope mom is doing well.
We lived in Jamesville for 2 yrs while my Air Force Dad studied Russian at the Univ. Beautiful country, woods were my backyard, all gone now as I saw by google maps. He took us row boating on the lake, nearly capsized as I remember.
@@peacenow4456 l lived waaay up north by the St. Lawrence River. Almost Canadian, eh!?!
Cool video. Your family farm is so beautiful. Thanks for sharing
Such a beautiful spot
Thanks
A new idea behind drumlins! I think I like the second explanation better. The cookie dough metaphor is helpful. Gorgeous landscape. Gorgeous time of day. And muffler boy is there too. Thanks again, Nick.
This is a great way to show the drumlins. I am glad you were able to see them in the different light once you discovered geology. I am looking at the terrain around my house much more differently now. Thank you for sharing your summer with us Nick and all of your followers in the comments. Great group!! Even muffler boy is following along.
Nick, my husband and I moved from Waterloo, Iowa to Wenatchee in November of 2018. I've been enjoying and sharing your videos of Washington with my Midwestern friends, but it was so nice to see a Midwest farm and learn about geography there. Hope the humidity and the bugs don't get too bad! 🙂
That farm looks so peaceful… thanks for sharing all the home spun details about your roots. And it brings up one question about glaciers that I never ever understood… namely HOW did glaciers ‘flow’ over flat countryside? It’s obvious how glaciers flow downhill from a mountain… but in a flat place like Wisconsin, what pushed the trillions of tons of ice cross country?… it indeed that’s what they did.
Thanks for including the shots of you sweating, that's the only thing that kept me from being unbearably homesick.
Very near where I grew up in North Dakota, there are unusual drumlins in southern McHenry county. One of the drumlins called Hogback Ridge is 17 miles long and straight as an airport runway! The state geologists have mapped the area and published ideas on how the drumlins formed. Their research can be found online.
Great geology lesson.. On Wisconsin. Thank you.
Awesome tour of the homestead & Drumlin theory. Wished I could have had such an amazing childhood homestead...landed here from Geol 101 #7
The work put into that foundation is another story.
That is so awesome to see your family farm and what a drumlin looks like!!!
Thank you Nick for having us over at the ole' homestead. I too am guilty of looking at the scenery without much afterthought as to "why" it looks like that. Since watching your videos, I have been much more attentive to the exposed rock layers along the roads of Kentucky/Tennessee. Let's all share a salt covered tomato and appreciate the scenery on this humid afternoon
Love the rocks in the old family barn, and the barn, the views, and the Drumlin info... thanks for another great video 👍
I love your videos, they follow my trains, ya? There is so much to be learned and discovered about why things are actually the way they are, I got into your videos because one came up about Ellensburg blue, I grew up in Yakima, ya ya, all jokes aside I did, lived there about 16 years, stomped all over that state and now I find I knew nothing about it. Nothing, mt st Helens I remember that like yesterday, super traumatic for a child not knowing what's happening. My birthday party was to be the day after, and never happened because no one wanted to go out, the national guard was clearing roads and rooftops, we had 4 to 6 in of ash where I lived it was great for my tonka trucks and dozers. I had a blast making new roads and thing, whatever, I digress, thank you for your time in doing these videos.
Thank you for this wonderful introduction to Wisconsin beautiful green landscape, a florescent rich green. Perfect review of drumlin geology made me happy, (recalling the drumlins in Ireland). What a treat to visit the barn with colorful rocks--amazing!
Complete with the signature farmer's overalls! You've taken me home to the northern Mid-West. We never had equipment that moved that fast!
Hello there Nick, it’s good to see you again we miss you greatly but understand everyone needs to move on, we had a great weekend of rock hounding in central Oregon, and thought of you often. I feel for you, I too lost my father a year ago, it must be bittersweet to return home.
You are right in my neighborhood. Cannot wait to hear what you say about our boring geological features.
Thank you Nick for these videos! I learn something new from each one not to mention the beautiful views of places I am unlikely to see in person. Thanks again!
Beautiful farm, Nick. Lots of memories too, eh!
Sorry to hear about your dad.
The little huh of surprise and emotion at the little drop of paint on the rock doesn't get by someone who's had similar experience. Life is a wheel that impart motion to all other wheels that touch it .
I could hear that happiness and knew what it was before you ever turned and showed it 🤣🤣
Thanks for sharing the farm you grew up on. Does remind me of a few areas here in western Washington. Regardless, it's a beautiful place and amazing that there's no irrigation and yet it's so green! Enjoy your visit back home!
What a paradise! It would be hard to leave a place like that, even for Ellensburg.
Prof Nick. Thank you again for such an interesting and personal narrative/lecture on the fly. I have not been to wisconsin and do appreciate the continued learning about the geology of the U.S. as you venture and share your travels. Take care and be safe.
Nick, love learning about geology and glaciers from you. But since I live in western Wisconsin, I've become fascinated with the "driftless area". A great topic for you.
Imagine getting through an entire video without once even mentioning basalt! 🤣
What a beautiful farm in the northern prairie.
Thank you NIck for getting to see your famil'ies farm, beautiful place, you, like me, got started in geology by observing things around you that no one you knew then could explain, I had a backyard garage next to my parents house that was made of boulders from the tri-states mining district, black jasproids, carbonates, cherts, that I wondered about every day! Strange how future geologists get started.
Nice in that genuine midwestern manner. Normally at this time of the year I'm conducting tours of the glacial landscape of Southeast Alaska but with no tourism this year instead I'm home in the muggy summer heat Central Illinois, and still the glacial history is on my mind but in a totally different approach. Always expanding. Thanks, Nick, and cheers to you and your family farm.
Thank you. This was wonderful. I hope you retain the link to this place for the rest of your life. It is always good to know that you have a home. Spoken from one that was born into a military family where home was where you are.
Nicely done, professor. I have relatives in southern WIsconsin (Beloit and Madison), and have noticed the drumlins more than once when driving to see them from either north (Minneapolis) or south (St. Louis). I couldn't agree more about the "Aha" moments afforded by direct observation. A dozen years of living on the Colorado Front Range, with frequent field trips to the west slope and other parts of the state reinforce that notion. My first trip to Glacier National Park was last summer (2019), and on the return, I spent a night in Missoula, where even I, nothing more than an interested amateur, could see the beach margins from glacial Lake Missoula marching up the hill behind the University campus.
Now, that's a great episode! Just enough geology sprinkled in to be educational, and lots of farm life enjoyment to watch. (I know, easy for me, in Ohio, not working on that farm, to say. But there are parts of my childhood (like putting away, and putting up the storm windows at home, and other things around the house that I did with my dad,) that I sure can relate to how much I learned as a child without realizing how important it was. Sorry to hear about your dad's passing... I lost my mom in 1979, and dad in 1990. You just never know...
Thanks for this episode, and I will be watching on September 9th when the live stream videos make a return.
I know we have glacial moraines in my area... we even have a town called... Moraine... but I need to look for the closest drumlin...
Hello from my family farm in the NW Illinois driftless. All of our old foundations are dolomite.
Great episode. Beautiful country and very interesting geological and, cultural, history lesson.
Nick, much appreciated thank you.
Nick, Glad that you could be home with family and enjoy a fish fry. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and telling me something that i should have, but didn't know about my home state. Maybe you got to enjoy a few OF's with your fish?
Beautiful. Thank you
Neat stuff Nick. Thanks for posting!
Great video! Learn something new every day.
Sorry I missed the Live. I was patching fence on my family's place. I'm always amazed to see crops without irrigation, ya oughta see our electric bill! ;) Thank you for presenting the new Drumlin Theory. We'll see if it sticks.
So lovely. Thanks for the opportunity to see your home 🥰
Love this guy!! Ive learned something new today!!! Thank you for taking us on a trip down nostalgia lane! 👍🏻✨