Carol Engel:  

Hey Badger Friends, It has been such a long time! Hard to believe all that's happened since we last saw one another. After moving to Phoenix as a newlywed (let's not go there) in l972, I divorced in '79 and returned to Williams Bay. In 1982, I remarried and moved to Yankton, SD. A year earlier, we decided to purchase a golf bag business, which was the reason for the move. In some ways, the need to leave WI was difficult for me because I was so happy to be back in the Lake Geneva area after being away for several years. As a self-professed "late bloomer," I decided at 27 to enroll at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion. Balancing the responsibility of raising my daughter, Alicia, studying, and working in our business kept me extremely busy during the years we were in SD. In l989, we sold our golf bag business and moved to Charlottesville, VA. We fell in love with C'ville while there on vacation a year earlier. While staying at this amazing inn (the house was owned by Thomas Jefferson's daughter in the la...Expand for more