Dairylandia : dispatches from a state of mind /

"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 wou...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hannah, Steve (Journalist) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2019]
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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1: The accidental agriculturalist
  • Of poetry and planting: farmers in springtime
  • The farm that love built: Helen and Paul Lute
  • I'd know that face anywhere: Cliff and Shelly Keepers
  • I've always been lucky: the ballad of Herman Tronrud
  • My apologies, Mr. President: wherein our hero fails to outsmart Jerry Ford
  • The world by the tail with a downhill pull: Katie and Erhardt Schultz
  • Part 2: Ageless
  • Try not to be boring: Emma Washa
  • Love is still love, even when it's frozen: Edna Koenig
  • Beautiful ballerinas, heavenly holsteins: the life and loves of Schomer Lichtner
  • Larger than life, suddenly small: Eric Lloyd Wright
  • Part 3: The dark side of paradise Tragedy without reason: the eerie calm of John Norton
  • The pain of never knowing: Mary Wegner
  • Living with the "enemy": Bill Fero
  • The truth will out: the short, unhappy life of Emmanuel Dannan
  • The banality of evil: Jerry Boyle and the defense of Jeffrey Dahmer
  • Part 4: Not quite plumb
  • "I'm so happy it's just terrible!": Woodrow Wilson Roberts
  • The frogman cometh: Art Gering and the astounding amphibian invasion
  • Big brats, tiny trophies: Dennis Leffin and the wondrous white sausage
  • Dignity in motion: Jim Herther and the world's greatest car wash
  • Nearly naked, seeking snow: In Wisconsin, that's amore
  • Farewell, my doboy: kissing Alex P. Dobish good-bye
  • Part 5: Animals? Yes!!! People? Not so much
  • The elephant in the room
  • Bo knows
  • Oh, deer: the Anna Mae Bauer story
  • Part 6: Your lucky day
  • Poems from the edge: Ellen Kort
  • Short in stature, long on courage: Joe Bee Xiong
  • Making beautiful music: Steve O'Donnell
  • A naturalist's journey: Ken Lange
  • Running for help: Sue Birschbach and Barb Klinner
  • You can't tattoo a soap bubble: Evelyn Ann Fefer
  • The road to temptation: Ed Thompson
  • A million miles to go: Don and Cathryn Tredinnick.