Driving a country road, I passed an old well house. It didn’t look like a wishing well. It looked rustic, more like a shed, a practical structure. I stopped and took a photo of the well. Right by it ...

It’s a scene Normal Rockwell would have liked. We see an old hand-dug well, a corncrib, and an outhouse. A fine old cedar leans back as if taking a gander at my camera and me. We time travel here ...

A Dickinson Township business is trying to raise nearly $25,000 for a new well after state officials deemed the hand-dug structure that has supplied the property’s water for more than a century ...