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Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jerry App's farm stories open the barn door to understanding life in the country.
"Even with the all the hard work, we had more time (perhaps we took more time) to enjoy what was all around us: nights filled with starlight, days with clear blue skies and puffy clouds. Wonderful smells everywhere—fresh mown hay, wildflowers, and apple blossoms. Interesting sounds—the rumble of distant thunder, an owl calling in the woods, a flock...
"Even with the all the hard work, we had more time (perhaps we took more time) to enjoy what was all around us: nights filled with starlight, days with clear blue skies and puffy clouds. Wonderful smells everywhere—fresh mown hay, wildflowers, and apple blossoms. Interesting sounds—the rumble of distant thunder, an owl calling in the woods, a flock...
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
Physical Desc
xiii, 160 pages : illustrations ; 18 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Life during the early to mid-20th century is often seen as a time of backbreaking work for meager returns. Often, the strength and resiliency of family and neighbors are overlooked. The author gives insights into the lighter side of country life. Through these stories based on the author's childhood memories, enjoy life as it used to be. Includes country witticisms and advice.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Enjoy a portrait of Wisconsin farm life as seen through the eyes of a boy growing up in Waushara County during the 1930s and 1940s. Acclaimed Wisconsin historian and author Jerry Apps evokes memories of a time when almost as many Americans lived on farms as in cities, and examines day-to-day rural life. Fieldwork was done with horses, cows were milked by hand, lanterns were the source of light, and community was essential for survival. Apps explores...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xi, 205 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In More Than Words, Jerry Apps writes about his path to becoming one of the Midwest's bestknown and most revered writers. He shares the joys, disappointments, and frustrations of the writing life and describes the genesis and creation of many of his best-known publications. As Jerry recounts his storied writing and publishing career, he provides an insider's view into the sources of ideas for his work, his research strategies, and his guidelines...
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...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
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.
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 copy of Every farm tells a story (softcover), 1 copy of Chicken soup for the caregiver's soul (softcover), 1 Lace and Trace farm animals game, 1 Places in the heart (DVD), 1 A day on the farm puzzle (300 pieces), 1 Link and Think: Hobbies game, 1 Jacob's Ladder toy, 1 Old maid card game, 1 The Fabulous Ballroom Collection (CD), 1 Farm images of the past, Kit Activity instruction card & Memory Kit survey : 1 clear plastic container ; 15 x 171/2 x 6 in.
Language
English
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Description
Description for Every farm has a story: "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...
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...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Enjoy a portrait of Wisconsin farm life as seen through the eyes of a boy growing up in Waushara County during the 1930s and 1940s. Acclaimed Wisconsin historian and author Jerry Apps evokes memories of a time when almost as many Americans lived on farms as in cities, and examines day-to-day rural life. Fieldwork was done with horses, cows were milked by hand, lanterns were the source of light, and community was essential for survival. Apps explores...
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