Details: Author: Gary Jones Paperback 208 pages. 5.5 x 8.5" ISBN: 9780870209239 Publication Date: Fall 2019 Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press
On a gray and drizzly day in 1983, writer Alice D’Alessio and her math professor husband, Laird, made their way down a curving, tree-lined driveway on their way to a picnic. They were visiting 115 acres of land in Wisconsin’s unglaciated Driftless Area that Laird had inherited from his parents. Emerging from the trees, Alice had her first glimpse of the valley that would become a twenty-five-year labor of love for the couple. Details, below.
Small town Wisconsin native Peggy Prilaman Marxen recounts her family's rural farming life and its evolution from her settler ancestors to the modern day.
Details: Author: Jerry Apps Hardcover 192 pages. 5.5 x 8.5" ISBN: 9780870209062 Publication Date: Fall 2019 Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Mary Kellogg Rice describes a unique Milwaukee project in the post-Depression years which trained thousands of unskilled, uneducated women in the production of a variety of handicrafts.
Juliette Kinzie's book, first published in 1856, provides an early narrative for colonizers who felt that the native culture should be respected and protected. This hardcover edition shares the stories and interactions between her family and the Winnebago people.