Search Results for Farm life -- Wisconsin.

One small farm : photographs of a Wisconsin way of life

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Schreiner, Craig.
[2013]
Electronic resource

When horses pulled the plow : life of a Wisconsin farm boy, 1910-1929

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Larson, Olaf F.
©2011.
In 1910, when Olaf F. Larson was born to tenant livestock and tobacco farmers in Rock County, Wisconsin, the original barn still stood on the property. It was filled with artifacts of an earlier time: an ox yoke, a grain cradle, a scythe used to cut hay by hand. But Larson came of age in a brave new world of modern invention, tractors, trucks, combines, airplanes, that would change farming and rural life forever. "When horses pulled the plow" is Larson's account of that rural life in the early twentieth century. He weaves invaluable historical details, including descriptions of farm equipment, crops, and livestock, with wry tales about his family, neighbors, and the one-room schoolhouse he attended, revealing the texture of everyday life in the rural Midwest almost a century ago. This memoir, written by Larson in his ninth decade, provides a wealth of details recalled from an earlier era and an illuminating read for anyone with their own memories of growing up on a farm
Electronic resource

Century farm : one hundred years on a family farm

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Peterson, Cris.
1999.
1st ed.
The story of a 100-year-old family farm in Wisconsin is told in photographs and in anecdotes about the three generations of Petersons who have owned and farmed the land.
Book

What the moon said

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Rosengren, Gayle,
[2014]
When Esther's family moves to a farm during the Great Depression, she soon learns that there are things much more important than that her superstitious mother rarely shows her any affection.
Book

The pumpkin war

2024-06-02T17:46:50Z

Young, Cathleen,
[2019]
First edition.
Twelve-year-old Billie enjoys summer on Wisconsin's Madeline Island, where she harvests honey, mucks llamas stalls, and grows a giant pumpkin, determined to reclaim her title in the annual pumpkin race.--
Book

The land remembers : the story of a farm and its people

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Logan, Ben,
1975.
Book

The pumpkin war [spoken word]

2024-06-02T17:46:50Z

Young, Cathleen,
[2019]
Unabridged.
Twelve-year-old Billie enjoys summer on Wisconsin's Madeline Island, where she harvests honey, mucks llamas stalls, and grows a giant pumpkin, determined to reclaim her title in the annual pumpkin race.
CD

Visiting Tom : a man, a highway, and the road to roughneck grace

2024-06-02T17:46:50Z

Perry, Michael,
©2012.
1st ed.
Details the author's experiences and conversations with his octogenarian, cannon-shooting neighbor Tom Hartwig, who, armed with an arsenal of stories and an anti-authoritarian streak a mile wide, offers guidance and inspiration.
Book

Simple things : lessons from the family farm

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Apps, Jerold W.,
[2018]
Electronic resource

Blue Shadows Farm : a novel

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Apps, Jerold W.,
©2009.
"Silas Starkweather, a Civil War veteran, is drawn to Wisconsin and homesteads 160 acres in Ames County, where he is known as the mysterious farmer forever digging holes. After years of hardship and toil, however, Silas develops a commitment to farming his land and respect for his new community. When Silas's son Abe inherits Blue Shadows Farm he chooses to keep the land out of reluctant necessity, distilling and distributing "purified corn water" throughout Prohibition and the Great Depression in order to stay solvent. Abe's daughter, Emma, willingly takes over the farm after her mother's death. Emma's love for this place inspires her to open the farm to school-children and families who share her respect for it. As she considers selling the land, Emma is confronted with a difficult question - who, through thick and thin, will care for Blue Shadows Farm as her family has done for over a century?
Electronic resource

Roshara journal : chronicling four seasons, fifty years, and 120 acres

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Apps, Jerold W.,
[2016]
Electronic resource

The Jesus cow : a novel

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Perry, Michael,
[2015]
First edition.
When Harley Jackson finds a calf in his barn bearing the image of Jesus Christ, he hopes to keep it to himself to avoid a scene, but word gets out anyway, and Harley has to decide how to deal with the media circus, and save his Wisconsin farm from developers.
Book

Every Farm Tells a Story : a Tale of Family Values.

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Apps, Jerry.
2018.
Electronic resource

Dairy country

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Stone, Lynn M.
c1993.
An introduction to the dairy farming industry of Wisconsin.
Book

First farm in the valley : Anna's story

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Pellowski, Anne.
1982.
Anna, the American-born daughter of Polish immigrants, longs to escape the rigors of Wisconsin farm life to visit the romanticized Poland of her dreams.
Book

In a pickle : a family farm story

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Apps, Jerold W.,
©2007.
"The year is 1955. Andy Meyer, a young farmer, manages the pickle factory in Link Lake, a rural town where the farms are small, the conversation is meandering, and the feeling is distinctly Midwestern. Workers sort, weigh, and dump cucumbers into huge vats where the pickles cure, providing a livelihood to local farmers. But the H.H. Harlow Pickle Company has appeared in town, using heavy-handed tactics to force family farmers to either farm the Harlow way or lose their biggest customer--and, possibly, their land. Andy, himself the owner of a half-acre pickle patch, works part-time for the Harlow Company, a conflict that places him between the family farm and the big corporation. As he sees how Harlow begins to change the rural community and the lives of its people, Andy must make personal, ethical, and life-changing decisions."--Publisher's description.
Electronic resource

Voices from the heart of the land : rural stories that inspire community

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Cates, Richard L.
©2008.
Electronic resource

Coop : a family, a farm, and the pursuit of one good egg

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Perry, Michael,
2010.
1st Harper Perennial ed.
In over his head with two pigs, a dozen chickens, and a baby due any minute, Perry gives us a humorous, heartfelt memoir of a new life in the country.
Book

Coop : a year of poultry, pigs, and parenting

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Perry, Michael,
c2009.
1st ed.
In over his head with two pigs, a dozen chickens, and a baby due any minute, Perry gives us a humorous, heartfelt memoir of a new life in the country.
Book

Never curse the rain : a farm boy's reflections on water

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Apps, Jerold W.,
2017.
Electronic resource

Dairy queen : a novel

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Murdock, Catherine Gilbert.
2006.
After spending her summer running the family farm and training the quarterback for her school's rival football team, sixteen-year-old D.J. decides to go out for the sport herself, not anticipating the reactions of those around her.
Book

Tamarack River ghost : a novel

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Apps, Jerold W.,
©2012.
"When journalist Josh Wittmore moves from the Illinois bureau of Farm Country News to the newspaper's national office in Wisconsin, he encounters the biggest story of his young career--just as the paper's finances may lead to its closure. Josh's big story is that a corporation that plans to establish an enormous hog farm has bought a lot of land along the Tamarack River in bucolic Ames County. Some of the local residents and officials are excited about the jobs and tax revenues that the big farm will bring, while others worry about truck traffic, porcine aromas, and manure runoff polluting the river. And how would the arrival of a large agribusiness affect life and traditions in this tightly knit rural community of family farmers? Josh strives to provide impartial agricultural reporting, even as his newspaper is replaced by a new Internet-only version owned by a former New York investment banker. And it seems that there may be another force in play: the vengeful ghost of a drowned logger who locals say haunts the valley of the Tamarack River."--Publisher's description.
Electronic resource

The land remembers : the story of a farm and its people

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Logan, Ben,
[2017]
Book

Farming today yesterday's way

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Bellville, Cheryl Walsh.
c1984.
Traces a year of life on a small dairy farm in western Wisconsin where draft horses rather than modern machines do most of the farm work.
Book

Rural renaissance : renewing the quest for the good life

2024-06-02T17:46:50Z

Ivanko, John D.
©2004.
Authors share their experience and knowledge of trading their urban lifestyle for one more rural in Wisconsin.
Book

Crunching gravel : a Wisconsin boyhood in the thirties

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Peters, Robert,
©1993.
Electronic resource

Our vines have tender grapes [videorecording]

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[2010]
Takes place among the Norwegian immigrants in a Wisconsin farm town. Told from the viewpoint of little Selma and explores grand childhood adventures: making friends, a pet calf, Christmas, a terrifying trip down a flood-swollen river, a barn fire and a ride on a circus elephant's trunk.
DVD
JLC Title 245h [videorecording]

The off season

2024-06-02T17:46:50Z

Murdock, Catherine Gilbert.
2007.
High school junior D.J. staggers under the weight of caring for her badly injured brother, her responsibilities on the dairy farm, a changing relationship with her friend Brian, and her own athletic aspirations.
Book

Montaigne in barn boots : an amateur ambles through philosophy

2024-06-02T17:46:50Z

Perry, Michael,
2017.
First edition.
Written in a spirit of exploration rather than declaration, Montaigne in Barn Boots is a down-to-earth (how do you pronounce that last name?) look into the ideas of a philosopher "ensconced in a castle tower overlooking his vineyard," channeled by a Midwestern American writing "in a room above the garage overlooking a disused pig pen." Whether grabbing an electrified fence, fighting fires, failing to fix a truck, or feeding chickens, Perry draws on each experience to explore subjects as diverse as faith, race, sex, aromatherapy, and Prince. But he also champions academics and aesthetics, in a book that ultimately emerges as a sincere, unflinching look at the vital need to be a better person and citizen.
Book

Crunching gravel : growing up in the thirties

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Peters, Robert,
c1988.
Book

Front and center

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Murdock, Catherine Gilbert.
2009.
Other folks have big plans for D.J. Like her coach. College scouts. All the town hoops fans. A certain Red Bend High School junior who's keen for romance and karaoke. Not to mention Brian Nelson, who she should not be thinking about! Who she is done with, thank you very much. But who keeps showing up anyway.
Book

A farm winter with Jerry Apps : remembering country winters [DVD]

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[2013]
Jerry Apps, the Wisconsin author and historian, shares his wit, wisdom and stories of family, neighbors and communities that worked together to survive the long winter that enveloped his boyhood farm home in Wild Rose. It was a season that could be harrowing and dangerous, but it was also a time of year that drew families close together and created warm memories that are both lasting and universal.
DVD
JLC Title 245h [DVD]

The quiet season : remembering country winters

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Apps, Jerold W.,
[2013]
Electronic resource

The Sin-eater's confession

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Bick, Ilsa J.
c2013.
While serving in Afghanistan, Ben writes about incidents from his senior year in a small-town Wisconsin high school, when a neighbor he was trying to help out becomes the victim of an apparent hate crime and Ben falls under suspicion.
Book

Creating Dairyland : how caring for cows saved our soil, created our landscape, brought prosperity to our state, and still shapes our way of life in Wisconsin

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Janus, Edward.
©2011.
Electronic resource

The Storm Makers

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Smith, Jennifer E.,
2012.
1st ed.
Twelve-year-olds Ruby and Simon have been growing apart since their parents moved them to a Wisconsin farm, but weird weather events that seem tied to Simon's emotions bring a stranger into their lives who introduces them to the Makers of Storms Society, strengthening the bond between the twins.
Book

A little house of their own

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Wilkins, Celia.
©2005.
1st ed.
After achieving her dream of becoming a teacher in her small farm town of Concord, Wisconsin, in 1857, seventeen-year-old Caroline Quiner, who will become the mother of Laura Ingalls Wilder, begins a courtship with Charles Ingalls, a bachelor farmer who aspires to move west.
Book

Thimble summer

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Enright, Elizabeth,
c1938.
Good things seem to happen after nine-year-old Garnet finds a silver thimble in a dried-up old riverbed near the farm where she lives.
Book

Christy Miller collection. Vol. 4

2024-06-02T17:46:50Z

Gunn, Robin Jones,
c2006.
Presents books ten through twelve of the popular Christian fiction series featuring Wisconsin farm girl Christy Miller as she learns about Christianity and life.
Book

Christy Miller collection. Vol. 4

2024-06-02T17:46:50Z

Gunn, Robin Jones,
©2006.
Presents books ten through twelve of the popular Christian fiction series featuring Wisconsin farm girl Christy Miller as she learns about Christianity and life.
Book

Thimble summer

2024-06-02T17:46:50Z

Enright, Elizabeth,
1938.
Unusual things begin to happen when a young girl firnds a silver thimble.
Book

Glenway Wescott personally : a biography

2024-06-02T17:46:50Z

Rosco, Jerry,
©2002.
As a writer, Glenway Wescott (1901-1987) left behind several novels, including The Grandmothers and The Pilgrim Hawk, noted for their remarkable lyricism. As a literary figure, Wescott also became a symbol of his times. Born on a Wisconsin farm in 1901, he associated as a young writer with Hemingway, Stein, and Fitzgerald in 1920s Paris and subsequently was a central figure in New York's artistic and gay communities. Though he couldn't finish a novel after the age of forty-five, he was just as famous as an arts impresario, as a diarist, and for the company he kept: W.H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, Marianne Moore, Somerset Maugham, E.M. Forster, Joseph Campbell, and scores of other luminaries. In Glenway Wescott Personally, Jerry Rosco chronicles Wescott's long and colorful life, his early fame and later struggles to write, the uniquely privileged and sometimes tortured world of artistic creation. Rosco sensitively and insightfully reveals Wescott's private life, his long relationship with Museum of Modern Art curator Monroe Wheeler, his work with sex researcher Alfred Kinsey that led to breakthrough findings on homosexuality, and his kinship with such influential artists as Jean Cocteau, George Platt-Lynes, and Paul Cadmus.
Electronic resource

Winding Valley farm : Annie's story

2024-06-02T17:46:50Z

Pellowski, Anne.
1982.
A young girl shares pleasures and disappointments with the other members of a large Wisconsin farm family in the early twentieth century.
Book

Limping through life : a farm boy's polio memoir

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Apps, Jerold W.,
c2013.
Book

Limping through life : a farm boy's polio memoir

2024-06-02T17:46:50Z

Apps, Jerold W.,
[2013]
Electronic resource

Orchard : a novel

2024-06-02T17:46:50Z

Watson, Larry,
[2003]
First edition.
Sonja Skordahl, a Scandinavian immigrant, finds herself torn between her husband, Henry, and Ned Weaver, an internationally famous artist who uses her as a model, in a novel set against the backdrop of rural Wisconsin.
Book

Drowning Ruth

2024-06-02T17:46:50Z

Schwarz, Christina.
c2000.
1st ed.
Worn out from nursing soldiers at a Milwaukee hospital and struggling to recover from a traumatic love affair, Amanda Starkey returns to her family's rural Wisconsin farm to stay with her beloved sister, Mattie, and young niece, Ruth.
Book

Finding freedom : the untold story of Joshua Glover, runaway slave

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Jackson, Ruby West.
c2007.
Book

A visit to the dairy farm

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Ziegler, Sandra.
c1987.
A class visits a large dairy farm and sees the animals and activities to be found there.
Book

Georgia's bones

2024-06-02T17:46:50Z

Bryant, Jennifer.
2005.
Artist Georgia O'Keeffe was interested in the shapes she saw around her, from her childhood on a Wisconsin farm to her adult life in New York City and New Mexico.
Book

The night crew

2024-06-02T17:46:50Z

Sandford, John,
?1997.
"Anna Batory may be a small, shy farm girl from Wisconsin, but on the streets of Los Angeles she's tough, very tough. She runs a night crew of video free-lancers who roam the city shooting footage of accidents, robberies, and demonstrations to sell to the TV networks or local stations. After her crew films a suicide in progress, she suddenly finds herself the target of a deadly stalker, and her life becomes more dark and dangerous than any news story she's ever encountered"--Provided by publisher.
CD

John Muir [sound recording] : my life of adventures

2024-06-02T17:46:50Z

Gilchrist, Garth.
c2000.
"Professional environmental storyteller Garth Gilchrist recounts some of John Muir's most well-loved tales in these energetic presentations."
CD
JLC Title 245h [sound recording] :

The preacher's lady

2024-06-02T17:46:50Z

Copeland, Lori,
[2016]
It's 1855, and Elly Sullivan works on her family cranberry farm in Wisconsin. She's pledged her unending love to Bo Garrett. At seventeen, Bo rides off for a month---just a month---to see a little of the world before he settles down with Elly. He falls in with the wrong people and the wrong life. His promises to Elly and the Lord are forgotten in a misspent youth. Eight years too late, he returns, having come to the end of himself and having rededicated his life to God. Can Bo convince Elly they were meant to be together despite all the bumps in their path?
Book

The Jesus cow [sound recording]: a novel

2024-06-02T17:46:50Z

Perry, Michael,
[2015]
Unabridged ; [Retail edition].
Life is suddenly full of drama for low-key Harley Jackson: A woman in a big red pickup has stolen his bachelor?s heart, a Hummer-driving predatory developer is threatening his family farm, and inside his barn is a calf bearing the image of Jesus Christ. When the secret gets out; right through the barn door and Harley's miracle goes viral. Within hours pilgrims, grifters, and the media have descended on his quiet patch of Swivel, Wisconsin, looking for a glimpse (and a percentage) of the calf.
CD
JLC Title 245h [sound recording]:

The cherry harvest

2024-06-02T17:46:50Z

Sanna, Lucy,
[2015]
First edition.
The war has taken a toll on the Christiansen family. With food rationed and money scarce, Charlotte struggles to keep her family well fed. Her teenage daughter, Kate, raises rabbits to earn money for college and dreams of becoming a writer. Her husband, Thomas, struggles to keep the farm going while their son, and most of the other local men, are fighting in Europe. When their upcoming cherry harvest is threatened, strong-willed Charlotte helps persuade local authorities to allow German war prisoners from a nearby camp to pick the fruit. But when Thomas befriends one of the prisoners, a teacher named Karl, and invites him to tutor Kate, the implications of Charlotte's decision become apparent -- especially when she finds herself unexpectedly drawn to Karl. So busy are they with the prisoners that Charlotte and Thomas fail to see that Kate is becoming a young woman, with dreams and temptations of her own -- including a secret romance with the son of a wealthy, war-profiteering senator. And when their beloved Ben returns home, bitter and injured, bearing an intense hatred of Germans, Charlotte's secrets threaten to explode their world.
Book

The off season [sound recording]

2024-06-02T17:46:50Z

Murdock, Catherine Gilbert.
p2007.
Library ed. Unabridged.
High school junior D.J. staggers under the weight of caring for her badly injured brother, her responsibilities on the dairy farm, a changing relationship with her friend Brian, and her own athletic aspirations.
CD
JLC Title 245h [sound recording]

Pioneer girl : the story of Laura Ingalls Wilder

2024-06-02T17:46:50Z

Anderson, William,
c1998.
1st ed.
Recounts the life story of the author of the "Little House" books, from her childhood in Wisconsin to her old age at Rocky Ridge Farm.
Book

Where the river Matanuska flows [DVD]

2024-06-02T17:46:50Z

c2005.
1st edition
In 1935, over two hundres farm families from Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin arrived in Alaska's Matanuska Valley to start a new life.The people who built and ran the colony share their reminiscences.
Book
JLC Title 245h [DVD]

Rich in your love

2024-06-02T17:46:50Z

Grant, Pippa,
[2022]
"Secrets always catch up with you. The world knows me as Tavi Lightly, sugar-free social media influencer. But my true purpose lies in secretly restoring a cacao farm in Costa Rica. Unfortunately, to save the farm, I need access to the trust fund that my grandmother has frozen. She's requiring me to do charity work in Tickled Pink, Wisconsin, and until I meet her ultimatum--no trust fund. So to Tickled Pink I go. My first grandmother-approved charity project? Helping local reformed bad boy Dylan Wright. He has secrets too, like how he's hung up on his married best friend. Kick-starting his dating life is as easy as making him famous through association with me. Not so easy is the fact that we're falling for each other. He belongs in Tickled Pink, and I belong on my farm. We might share our secrets with one another, but can we really share our lives too?"
Book

The Christy Miller collection. Volume 1, [Books 1-3]

2024-06-02T17:46:50Z

Gunn, Robin Jones,
©2006.
A collection of previously published books featuring Wisconsin farm girl Christy Miller as she learns about Christianity and life.
Book

Wisconsin in watercolor : the life and legend of folk artist Paul Seifert

2024-06-02T17:46:50Z

Kapler, Joe,
2018.
Electronic resource

Some economic aspects of the vacation farm in Wisconsin

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1968.
Book

The story of Edgar Sawtelle [large print] : a novel

2024-06-02T17:46:50Z

Wroblewski, David.
2008.
1st HarperLuxe ed.
Born mute, speaking only in sign, Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life with his parents on their farm in remote northern Wisconsin. For generations, the Sawtelles have raised and trained a fictional breed of dog whose thoughtful companionship is epitomized by Almondine, Edgar's lifelong friend and ally. But with the unexpected return of Claude, Edgar's paternal uncle, turmoil consumes the Sawtelles' once peaceful home. When Edgar's father dies suddenly, Claude insinuates himself into the life of the farm -- and into Edgar's mother's affections. Grief-stricken and bewildered, Edgar tries to prove Claude played a role in his father's death, but his plan backfires -- spectacularly. Forced to flee into the vast wilderness lying beyond the farm, Edgar comes of age in the wild, fighting for his survival and that of the three yearling dogs who follow him. But his need to face his father's murderer and his devotion to the Sawtelle dogs turn Edgar ever homeward.
Large print
JLC Title 245h [large print] :

The world of Laura Ingalls Wilder : the frontier landscapes that inspired the Little House books

2024-06-02T17:46:50Z

McDowell, Marta,
2017.
First edition.
"This lushly illustrated book from bestselling author Marta McDowell examines Laura Ingalls Wilder's relationship to the landscape and illuminates how it inspired the beloved Little House Books"--
Book

An autobiography of John Muir

2024-06-02T17:46:50Z

Muir, John,
2014.
Biographer Steven J. Holmes once wrote that John Muir was one of the patron saints of twentieth-century American environmental activity. In his lifetime, the engineer, author, biologist, and activist worked alongside powerful men such as President Theodore Roosevelt, railroad executive E.H. Harriman, and conservationist Gifford Pinchot. Muir was responsible for the creation of the Sierra Club and he played an important role in preserving the Yosemite Valley and Sequoia National Park. During his lifetime, Muir published six different volumes of nature and personal writing. After his death in 1914, four more volumes were discovered and released. In An Autobiography of John Muir, editor Stephen Brennan brings to light the many accomplishments of Muir's life through the naturalist's own nonfiction works, including The Story of My Boyhood and Youth and My First Summer in the Sierra. Through the essays featured in this book, readers will learn of Muir's childhood, which was split between Scotland and a farm in Wisconsin. They will travel the world with him, from the High Mountains to the Mono Trail, the Bloody Canyon, Yosemite, and everywhere in between.--
Book

The story of Edgar Sawtelle [spoken word]

2024-06-02T17:46:50Z

Wroblewski, David,
?2008.
Born mute, speaking only in sign, Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life with his parents on their farm in remote northern Wisconsin. For generations, the Sawtelles have raised and trained a fictional breed of dog whose thoughtful companionship is epitomized by Almondine, Edgar's lifelong friend and ally. But with the unexpected return of Claude, Edgar's paternal uncle, turmoil consumes the Sawtelles' once peaceful home. When Edgar's father dies suddenly, Claude insinuates himself into the life of the farm -- and into Edgar's mother's affections. Grief-stricken and bewildered, Edgar tries to prove Claude played a role in his father's death, but his plan backfires -- spectacularly. Forced to flee into the vast wilderness lying beyond the farm, Edgar comes of age in the wild, fighting for his survival and that of the three yearling dogs who follow him. But his need to face his father's murderer and his devotion to the Sawtelle dogs turn Edgar ever homeward.--
CD
JLC Title 245h [spoken word]

Little house in the big woods

2024-06-02T17:46:50Z

Wilder, Laura Ingalls,
?2003.
Five year old Laura Ingalls and her family, Pa, Ma, Mary and Baby Carrie, live in a snug log cabin in the woods of Wisconsin, a full days walk from the nearest town, Pepin. Laura leads a traditional farm life: spending time churning butter and making cheese and maple syrup. Laura goes to town for the first time, and plays with her sister. Each night, while the wind blows, and the wolves howl, the happy sound of Pa's fiddle, brought vividly to life on this recording, keeps the family safe and warm.
CD

Selected writings

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Muir, John,
2017.
"This volume of John Muir's selected writings chronicles the key turning points in his life and study of the American wilderness. The Story of My Boyhood and Youth is Muir's account of his childhood on a Wisconsin farm, where his interest in nature was first piqued; in The Mountains of California, The Yosemite, and Travels in Alaska, we follow him on long journeys into stunning mountain ranges and valleys, where he records native flora and fauna and finds proof of his theories of the effect of glaciers on landscape formation. These four full-length works--along with a selection of important essays--helped galvanize American naturalists, and led to the founding of the Sierra Club and several national parks."--Provided by publisher.
Book

The missing Kennedy : Rosemary Kennedy and the secret bonds of four women

2024-06-02T17:46:50Z

Koehler-Pentacoff, Elizabeth,
[2015]
"Rosemary (Rosie) Kennedy was born in 1918, the first daughter of a wealthy Bostonian couple who later would become known as the patriarch and matriarch of America's most famous and celebrated family. Elizabeth Koehler was born in 1957, the first and only child of a struggling Wisconsin farm family. What, besides their religion, did these two very different Catholic women have in common? One person: Stella Koehler, a charismatic woman of the cloth who became Sister Paulus Koehler after taking her vows with the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis of Assisi. Sister Paulus was Elizabeth's Wisconsin aunt. For thirty-five years--indeed much of her adult life--Sister Paulus was Rosie Kennedy's caregiver. And a caregiver, tragically, had become necessary after Rosie, a slow learner prone to emotional outbursts, underwent one of America's first lobotomies, an operation Joseph Kennedy was assured would normalize Rosie's life."
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Claude Klaver is interviewed by Sharon Story in Fairbanks, Alaska on December 13, 2017.

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Klaver, Claude,
Claude Klaver talks about his personal background, growing up on a farm in Iowa, speaking Low German as a child, working on the family farm after graduation from high school, serving in the Army during the occupation of Japan, deciding to become a minister, attending the University of Dubuque, Iowa, competing his Masters of Divinity in 1953, meeting his wife at Dubuque and marrying in 1950, their children, wanting to serve in Japan, taking a temporary position in central Missouri, deciding to come to Yakutat, Alaska, life in Yakutat, a close encounter with a whale, moving to Wasilla, his responsibility for the area along what would become the Parks Highway, moving to Wisconsin and Illinois when it was time for his children to attend high school, moving back to Alaska to start a Presbyterian Methodist Church in North Pole in 1977, volunteering as the chaplain at Fairbanks Memorial Hospital, taking a position as the director of the Fairbanks Food Bank, the death of his first wife, Joan, having to move the location of the food bank in January, marrying Joanne Tillsworth, retiring from his position at the food bank, becoming a part-time volunteer chaplain at the Denali Center and the Pioneers Home, working with Bingle Camp and Knox Retreat Center at Harding Lake, travel around the country and internationally, moving to Raven Landing in 2017, and enjoying raising a family.
Sound recording

Driftless

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Rhodes, David,
2008.
1st ed.
Home to a few hundred people yet absent from state maps, Words, Wisconsin, comes richly to life by way of an extraordinary cast of characters. Among them, a middle-aged couple guards the family farm from the mendacious schemes of their milk cooperative; a life-long invalid finds herself crippled by her resentment of and affection for her sister; a woman of conflicting impulses and pastor of the local Friends church stumbles upon an enlightenment she never expected; a cantankerous retiree discovers a cougar living in his haymow, haunting him like a childhood memory; and a former drifter forever alters the ties that bind a community together.
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Open horizons

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Olson, Sigurd F.,
1998.
1st University of Minnesota ed.
Open Horizons is Olson's autobiography, and in it he recalls his youth on a remote Wisconsin farm, his summers as a wilderness canoe guide, his thousands of miles of travel through the wilds of the United States and Canada, and his decades-long conservation battles. Throughout, Olson makes a compelling case for preserving the wilderness. He puts forth his own life as an example of how nature can have a spiritual effect on the human soul, and proposes diligence on behalf of those who fight to conserve our forests, wetlands, and dunes.
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John Muir in the new world [videorecording]

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c2011.
The life and the career of John Muir come to life through this inspiring and beautiful documentary set against the magnificent landscapes of the American West. The Scottish-born naturalist was one of the first nature preservationists in American history, inspiring others through his writing and his advocacy to keep the wilderness wild.
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JLC Title 245h [videorecording]

After the fire : a writer finds his place

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Zimmer, Paul.
©2002.
"We all dream of finding the place we can be most ourselves, the landscape that seems to have been crafted just for us. The poet Paul Zimmer has found his: a farm in the driftless hills of southwestern Wisconsin, a region of rolling land and crooked rivers, "driftless" because here the great glaciers of the Patrician ice sheet split widely, leaving behind a heart-shaped area untouched by crushing ice." "After the Fire is the story of Zimmer's journey from his boyhood in Canton, Ohio, and his days as a soldier during atomic tests in the Nevada desert, to his many years as a writer and publisher, and the rural tranquillity of his present life. Zimmer juxtaposes timeless rustic subjects with flashbacks to key moments: his first and only boxing match, his return to the France of his ancestors, his painful departure from the publishing world after forty years. These stories are full of humor and pathos, keen insights and poignant meditations, but the real center of the book is the abiding beauty of the driftless hills, the silence and peace that is the source of and reward for Zimmer's hard-won wisdom. Above all, it is a consideration of the ways that nature provides deep meaning and solace, and of the importance of finding the right place."--BOOK JACKET.
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Little house on Rocky Ridge

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MacBride, Roger Lea,
©1993.
1st ed.
In 1894 Laura Ingalls Wilder, her husband, and her seven-year-old daughter Rose leave the Ingalls family in Dakota and make the long and difficult journey to Missouri to start a new life. From the time of the first publication of the Little House books in the 1930's and 40's, millions of readers have grown up with Laura In galls and her sisters as Pa led the family from the Big Woods of Wisconsin across the plains and Indian country to South Dakota. There Laura marries Almanzo Wilder, and after years of drought and fire destroy their farm, the Wilders must now look for a new future. When Rose Wilder is seven years old, she and her mama - Laura - and her papa - Almanzo - set off on a journey that will take them across a landscape Laura hasn't seen since she traveled it as a child: back through the Dakota territory, Nebraska, and Kansas and finally to Missouri, the land of the Big Red Apple.
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A quiet corner of the war : the Civil War letters of Gilbert and Esther Claflin, Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, 1862-1863

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Claflin, Gilbert.
[2013]
In 2002, Judy Cook discovered a packet of letters written by her great-great-grandparents, Gilbert and Esther Claflin, during the American Civil War. An unexpected bounty, these letters from 1862-63 offer visceral witness to the war, recounting the trials of a family separated. Gilbert, an articulate and cheerful forty-year-old farmer, was drafted into the Union Army and served in the Thirty-Fourth Wisconsin Infantry garrisoned in western Kentucky along the Mississippi. Esther had married Gilbert when she was fifteen; now a woman with two teenage sons, she ran the family farm near Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, in Gilbert's absence. In his letters, Gilbert writes about food, hygiene, rampant desertions by drafted men, rebel guerrilla raids, and pastimes in the daily life of a soldier. His comments on interactions with Confederate prisoners and ex-slaves before and after the Emancipation Proclamation reveal his personal views on monumental events. Esther shares in her letters the challenges and joys of maintaining the farm, accounts of their boys Elton and Price, concerns about finances and health, and news of their local community and extended family. Esther's experiences provide insight into family, farm, and village life in the wartime North, an often overlooked aspect of Civil War history. Judy Cook has made the letters accessible to a wider audience by providing historical context with notes and appendixes. The volume also includes a foreword by Civil War historian Keith S. Bohannon.
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Yellowrocket : poems

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Boss, Todd.
©2008.
1st ed.
"Todd Boss' first collection of poems, set in rural Wisconsin, features a benighted childhood farm, the storm whose "dark musings" destroyed it, and the turbulence of daily life in its many guises. These are poems to rouse and overturn our expectations. Whether they're dealing with a rural youth, the tensions of marriage, or the loneliness of disappointment, a zest for life hums beneath the surface."--BOOK JACKET.
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John Muir : apostle of nature

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Wilkins, Thurman,
[1995]
Nearly a century after John Muir's death, his works remain in print, his name is familiar, and his thought is much with us. How Muir's life made him a leader and brought him insights destined to resonate for decades is the central question underlying this biography by Thurman Wilkins. Born in Scotland, Muir came from a stern background of religious fundamentalism. Life grew sterner yet when the family immigrated to the United States and undertook the backbreaking task of developing a farm in Wisconsin, but Muir's fertile mind enabled him to escape farm drudgery by means of bizarre inventions. Armed with a university introduction to geology and botany, he became a consummate walker, tramping the Canadian forests, the southeastern woodlands, the Sierra Nevada, and several Alaskan glaciers until he had learned about wilderness at nature's own knee. Profoundly attached to dramatic wild places and plants, and to the Sierra and the redwoods in particular, Muir spearheaded efforts to protect forest areas and have some designated as national parks. Muir's wilderness ethic, as revealed in his books, letters, and journals, rests on his conception of the proper relationship between human culture and wild nature as one of humility and respect for all life. In the last decades of his life, John Muir was committed to preserving wild places for their own sake, because of their spiritual and aesthetic values. He became the acknowledged leader of the preservation wing of the conservation movement, and today the half-million-strong Sierra Club that he founded for mountain advocacy and headed until his death continues to shape legislation and public opinion regarding the wilds. John Muir's views seem scarcely to have aged; he is a vivid continuing presence in preservationism and remains its chief apostle. - Jacket flap.
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Rows of memory : journeys of a migrant sugar-beet worker

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Sánchez, Saúl,
[2014]
"Every year from April to October, the Sánchez family traveled--crowded in the back of trucks, camping in converted barns, tending and harvesting crops across the breadth of the United States. Although hoeing sugar beets with a short hoe was their specialty, they also picked oranges in California, apples in Washington, cucumbers in Michigan, onions and potatoes in Wisconsin, and tomatoes in Iowa. Winters they returned home to the Winter Garden region of South Texas. In 1951, Saúl Sánchez began to contribute to his family's survival by helping to weed onions in Wind Lake, Wisconsin. He was eight years old. Rows of Memory tells his story and the story of his family and other migrant farm laborers like them, people who endured dangerous, dirty conditions and low pay, surviving because they took care of each other. Facing racism both on the road and at home, they lived a largely segregated life only occasionally breached by friendly employers. Despite starting school late and leaving early every year and having to learn English on the fly, young Saúl succeeded academically. At the same time that Mexican Americans in South Texas upended the Anglo-dominated social order by voting their own leaders into local government, he upended his family's order by deciding to go to college. Like many migrant children, he knew that his decision to pursue an education meant he would no longer be able to help feed and clothe the rest of his family. Nevertheless, with his parents' support, he went to college, graduating in 1967 and, after a final display of his skill with a short hoe for his new friends, abandoned migrant labor for teaching. In looking back at his youth, Sánchez invites us to appreciate the largely unrecognized and poorly rewarded strength and skill of the laborers who harvest the fruits and vegetables we eat. A first-person portrait of life on the bottom rung of the food system, this coming-of-age tale illuminates both the history of Latinos in the United States and the human consequences of industrial agriculture."--Publisher's website.
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Dairylandia : dispatches from a state of mind

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Hannah, Steve (Journalist),
[2019]
"Years ago, Steve Hannah's chance detour through the Midwest cut short a planned cross-country trip. He found himself in Wisconsin, a distinctly different place from the east coast where he was born and raised. Charmingly beautiful and full of welcoming people, America's dairyland would soon become his home. Dairylandia recounts Steve Hannah's burgeoning love for his adopted state through the writings of his long-lived column, "State of Mind." He profiles the lives of the seemingly ordinary, yet quite (and quietly) extraordinary folks he met and befriended on his travels. From Norwegian farmers to rattlesnake hunters to a woman who kept her favorite dead bird in the freezer, Hannah was charmed and fascinated by practically everyone he met. These captivating vignettes are by turns humorous, tragic, and remarkable--and remind us of our shared humanity."--Publisher's website.
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Genetic engineering : a documentary history

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Shannon, Thomas A.
1999.
"Explore the late twentieth century history and development of plant, animal, and human genetics in this collection of 135 documents. Students, teachers, and interested readers can use this valuable resource to trace the different arguments and concerns surrounding the controversial topic of genetic engineering. Arranged topically, this volume provides an excellent background for research and debate with its broad range of pro and con opinions. With its easy to use format the reader is able to focus on one particular aspect of genetic engineering or to compare and contrast the arguments presented in more than one area. The six different areas included are: Animal Applications, Agriculture, The Human Genome Project, Issues in Research, Ethical Issues, and Cloning. The documents in each section, carefully selected to represent a wide range of positions, present samples of social, ethical, and religious commentary that have evolved due to developments in modern genetics as they relate to plants, animals, and humans."--BOOK JACKET.
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