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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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.