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The Quiet Season: Remembering Country Winters Hardcover - 2013 - 1st Edition

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The Quiet Season
Remembering Country Winters
Jerry Apps "As I think back to the days of my childhood, the frost-covered windows in my bedroom,
the frigid walks to the country school, the excitement of a blizzard, and a hundred other memories, I realize that these experiences left an indelible mark on me and made me who I am today."--From the Introduction

Jerry Apps recalls winters growing up on a farm in central Wisconsin during the latter years of the Depression and through World War II. Before electricity came to this part of Waushara County, farmers milked cows by hand with the light of a kerosene lantern, woodstoves heated the drafty farm homes, and "making wood" was a major part of every winter's work. The children in Jerry's rural community walked to a country school that was heated with a woodstove and had no indoor plumbing. Wisconsin winters then were a time of reflection, of planning for next year, and of families drawing together. Jerry describes how winter influenced farm families and suggests that those of us who grow up with harsh northern winters are profoundly affected in ways we often are not aware.

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  • Title The Quiet Season: Remembering Country Winters
  • Author Jerry Apps
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 160
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wisconsin Historical Society Press, Madison, WI
  • Date 2013-08
  • ISBN 9780870206078 / 0870206079
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.6 in (20.57 x 13.97 x 1.52 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Historical
    • Cultural Region: Midwest
  • Library of Congress subjects Wisconsin - Rural conditions, Farm life - Wisconsin - History - 20th
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013002122
  • Dewey Decimal Code 977.504

About the author

Jerry Apps was born and raised on a central Wisconsin farm before electricity, indoor plumbing, and central heating came to the country. He has been a rural his­torian and environmental writer for more than forty years and has published fiction and nonfiction books on many rural topics, including Ringlingville USA, Casper Jaggi: Master Swiss Cheese Maker, Horse-Drawn Days, Old Farm, Garden Wisdom, and Limping through Life for the Wisconsin Historical Society Press. He is a former county extension agent and professor emeritus at the University of Wis­consin College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. Jerry and his wife, Ruth, divide their time between their home in Madison and their farm, Roshara, west of Wild Rose.
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