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Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xi, 264 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jerry Apps explores the history of county and state fairs in Wisconsin, from their earliest incarnations as livestock exhibitions to their later multitudes of exhibits and demonstrations, grandstand entertainment, games and rides, and competitions of all sorts. Drawing on his extensive research, interviews, and personal experience as a 4-H leader, county extension agent, county fair judge, and lifelong fairgoer, Apps takes readers back through 178...
Author
Pub. Date
©1996
Physical Desc
ix, 228 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
From 1791, when the first school was established in what is now Wisconsin, to the 1960s, when consolidation was finally complete, the one-room school's history has been one of growth and change. One-Room Country Schools includes unique memories and shared recollections from the people who learned and taught in the one-room schools of Wisconsin.
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
xiv, 221 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
One of the Midwest's best-loved authors tells the story of his land, from the last great glacier that dug out its valleys and formed its hills to his own family's forty-year relationship with the beloved farm they call Roshara. The author chronicles his family's efforts to restore an old granary, develop a productive vegetable garden, manage the woodlots, reestablish a prairie, and enjoy nature's sounds and silences. Color photographs highlight the...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"From 1791, when the first school was established in what is now Wisconsin, to the consolidation of rural school districts in the 1960s, the one-room school's history has been one of growth and change. In One-Room Country Schools, Jerry Apps relays this history through his own vivid recollections of attending Chain O'Lake School in Waushara County, along with the stories of countless students and teachers who populated small country schools across...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xiv, 217 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this continuation of the Apps life story begun in his childhood memoir Limping through Life, Wisconsin's celebrated rural storyteller shares stories from his years at the University of Wisconsin - Madison from 1957 to 1995, when he left the university to lecture and write fulltime. During those years Apps experienced the turmoil of protests and riots at the UW in the 1960s, the struggles of the tenure process and faculty governance, and the ever-present...
Author
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
181 pages : illustrations ; 18 x 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Text and photographs focus on rural objects of the past and how they were used, including kitchen stoves, windmills, threshing machines, and mail-order catalogs, as well as phenomena such as taverns, country stores, and county fairs.
Author
Language
English
Description
"During Jerry Apps's childhood on the farm, he witnessed the second great revolution in farming-- the arrival of electric lines to rural areas, running water in barns, and new farm machines like tractors, balers, and combines. In Every Farm Tells a Story he traces that revolution by way of costs found in his mother's account books for everything from the family's first milking machine to the used telephone pole that supported their first electric...
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