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:
- Calling toll free at 888-999-1669,
- Shopping online at www.wisconsinhistory.org/shop, or
- Dropping by the Wisconsin Historical Museum Shop, 30 N. Carroll St., Madison WI 53703.
Scheduled book events the WHS included in its release are listed below.
- Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013 – Book Launch & Documentary Screening
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.
- Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013 – Book Launch & Documentary Screening
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.
- Saturday Nov. 2, 2013 – Book Reception & Signing
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.
- Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2013 – Book Talk & Signing
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.
- Sunday, Nov. 10, 2013 – Book Talk & Signing
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.
- Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2013 – Hometown Book Party & Special Screening
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.
- Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013 – Book Event
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.
- Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013 – Book Talk & Signing
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.
- Saturday, Dec. 14, 2013 – Book Talk & Signing
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.