The day could not have been more beautiful\u2026clear blue skies and sunshine, a very light breeze with temperatures in the comfortable 80-degree range. After the belated arrival of a few stragglers, we set off @11 a.m., led by Tom\u2019s spry gray 2CV, setting a comfortable pace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our first stop, less than two miles after crossing Highway 95 and following Broadway Street, was Jackson Meadow<\/a><\/strong>, an idyllic planned community in the lush countryside adjacent Marine. Tom had alerted the residents that we would be driving through, and a number of families were out (with kids and cameras) to smile and wave as our odd collection of uncommon automotive conveyances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n From there we continued on \u2018rural routes\u2019 (Old Guslander Trail\/170th<\/sup> Street North, then Olinda Trail\/Highway 3) to the Swedish Settler\u2019s Monument<\/strong> and Hay Lake School Museum<\/a><\/strong> near Scandia<\/a><\/strong>, the monument commemorating the first Swedish settlement in Minnesota in 1850. Schooling began in 1855, and this building was operative from 1896 to 1963.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Travelling another two miles up scenic Highway 3 brought us to the Gammelgarden (Old Farm) Museum<\/a><\/strong> on the edge of Scandia, a unique open-air museum preserving , presenting, and promoting Swedish immigrant heritage. We lucked out in that Lynne Blomstrand Moratzka, the museum director, was there with her husband installing a new horse sculpture. She gave us some background on the place. Among the collection of historic structures on-site is the oldest surviving church building in Minnesota.<\/p>\n\n\n\n From Scandia we zipped east on Scandia Trail over to Highway 95 heading north, then east on Highway 243 to cross the river to Osceola, WI, winding through town to the outskirts and the former Classic Motorbooks offices and warehouse grounds, site of many enjoyable \u201cWheels and Wings\u201d gatherings of collector (<\/a>MORE INFO<\/a>), always an amiable mix of foreign and domestic. W&W is an outgrowth of the annual book-sales and car-shows sponsored by Classic Motorbooks. Citro\u00ebn Club members participated annually with much pleasure in those days, though the foreign-domestic balance unfortunately is not so much the case at W&W since the move of Classic Motorbooks headquarters to Saint Paul and the car show\u2019s relocation to the city airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tom Warth\u2019s story is an intriguing one. He came to the USA in the 1950s when life in post-war England was still colored by rationing and a somewhat under-developed standard of living (no central heating, etc.). Tom found a congenial environment in which to build a business and began slowly by importing and selling car books. The business grew in the car-crazy America of the 1960s and 70s, and beyond simply acting as a central clearing house for other\u2019s publications, Classic Motorbooks began commissioning and publishing its own product, with great success. Tom sold the business in 1988 (\u201cfor an unimaginable amount\u201d) and diverted his energies to Books for Africa (\u201cMy most important life\u2019s work,\u201d he claims). Present in our tour group was one of Tom\u2019s earliest clients, a (now retired) orthodontist with whom Tom traded car books for work on his kid\u2019s teeth. \uf04a<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/intermarque.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/citroentour-2-800px.jpg\")
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