Published In:
Ann Arbor News, January 4, 2001
Caption:
Superior Township resident Donald Staebler, 90, sits in his rocking chair with his last two remaining barn cats, which he decided to let into his house. Staebler is selling his 100 acres and home on Frains Lake to Washtenaw County, with an agreement that the county will turn the land into a park and preserve the farm and farmhouse where he grew up.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, January 4, 2001
Caption:
Donald Staebler, 90, walks up to his house after tending to his cows at his farm along Plymouth Road. The 100 acres of land Staebler is selling to Washtenaw County include frontage on picturesque Frains Lake. Currently there is no public access to the 16-acre lake because the entire lake frontage is privately owned. Staebler says he could have sold the land to a developer for more than the 1.5 million the county will pay.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, January 4, 2001
Caption:
Donald Staebler, 90, throws some hay to his cows on his farm along Plymouth Road. Staebler still maintains a herd of 46 Angus beef cows, feeding them himself each day.