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Supporting Wisconsin writers from 1964 to 2022
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Not one, but two Wisconsin writers are finalists in the 2015 USA Best Book Awards.
Kathleen Ernst’s A Settler’s Year: Pioneer Life Through the Seasons
and Jerry Apps’ Wisconsin Agriculture: A History ,
both published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press, are two of six finalists for this award in the U.S. History category.
Kathleen and Jerry are both former winners of multiple CWW awards for their writing. Read about them and the rules for awards contests for work published in 2015 at http://www.wiswriters.org/awards.htm. Entries are being accepted until Feb. 1, 2016.
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Wisconsin Historical Society has announced the debut of Jerry Apps most recent book, Wisconsin Agriculture: A History.
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Prolific Wisconsin writer and oft-CWW Award winner Jerry Apps has done it again. Published a new book. The Wisconsin Historical Society announced publication of The Quiet Season: Remembering Country Winters in a news release, which says, in part:
“Celebrated rural historian, Jerry Apps, recalls the sights, sounds, sentiments-and yes chill-of winters on the farm in his newest Wisconsin Historical Society Press book The Quiet Season: Remembering Country Winters (Hardcover: $22.95; ISBN: 978-0-87020-607-8). He shares stories growing up and keeping warm on a farm in central Wisconsin in the 1930s and early ’40s. His memories are of a “quieter season” – a winter world before electricity when farmers milked cows by hand by the light of a kerosene lantern. It was an era when a major part of every winter’s work was “making wood” to heat drafty farm homes and rural country schools and when a lack of indoor plumbing meant every morning began with a rousingly-cold dash to an outhouse.”
The book can be purchased for $22 by:
Scheduled book events the WHS included in its release are listed below.
Time: 7 pm
Location: Rock Garden Supper Club, Green Bay, Wisconsin. The Friends of the Brown County Library have teamed with Wisconsin Public Television and the Wisconsin Historical Society Press to host a special celebration of author Jerry Apps’s newest book “The Quiet Season” with a sneak preview of the WPT documentary based on the book “A Farm Winter with Jerry Apps.” This ticketed dinner and book event will include a discussion of the documentary and book. A book signing will follow. Tickets are $16 each; reservations are required. Contact the library at 920-448-5806.
Time: 6 pm
Location: UW Library auditorium, Library Mall, Madison, Wisconsin. The Friends of the UW Library host a celebration of author Jerry Apps’s newest book “The Quiet Season” with a sneak preview of the WPT documentary based on the book “A Farm Winter with Jerry Apps.” Apps will lead the event and share stories of rural winters. A book signing will follow.
Time: 4 – 6 pm
Location: The Clearing, Egg Harbor, Door County, Wisconsin. The Clearing hosts a book reception and signing for celebrated rural historian Jerry Apps who will be signing copies of his newest Wisconsin Historical Society Press book “The Quiet Season,” among many others.
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Location: Oakwood Retirement Center, Madison, Wisconsin. Join Jerry Apps as he shares stories from his new Wisconsin Historical Society Press book “The Quiet Season.” A book signing will follow.
Time: 2 pm
Location: Books and Company, Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. Join Jerry Apps as he shares stories from his new Wisconsin Historical Society Press book “The Quiet Season.” A book signing will follow.
Time: 7 pm
Location: Wild Rose High School Auditorium, Wild Rose, Wisconsin. Wisconsin Public Television and the Wild Rose Public Library are cohosting a special premiere of their new documentary “A Farm Winter with Jerry Apps” in the author’s home town. The event will include a sneak preview of the show and Jerry Apps will share stories of Wisconsin winters from his Wisconsin Historical Society Press book “The Quiet Season,” upon which the book is based. A book signing will follow.
Time: 7 pm
Location: Wisconsin Historical Museum, Madison. Author Jerry Apps shares winter farm stories from his new book “The Quiet Season.” A sneak preview of the Wisconsin Public Television documentary based upon the book, “A Farm Winter with Jerry Apps,” will also be shown. A book signing will follow.
Time: 10 am to 1 pm
Location: Velveteen Rabbit Book Store, Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. Join Jerry Apps as he shares stories from his newest Wisconsin Historical Society Press books “Limping through Life: A Farm Boy’s Polio Memoir” and “The Quiet Season.” A book signing will follow.
Time: 10 am to 1 pm
Location: Fireside Books, West Bend, Wisconsin. Join Jerry Apps as he shares stories from his newest Wisconsin Historical Society Press books “Limping through Life: A Farm Boy’s Polio Memoir” and “The Quiet Season.” A book signing will follow.