By Jerry Apps
ISBN-10: 0870206079
ISBN-13: 9780870206078
The Quiet Season
Remembering kingdom Winters
Jerry Apps
“As i believe again to the times of my early life, the frost-covered home windows in my bedroom,
the frigid walks to the rustic college, the buzz of a snow fall, and 100 different stories, I discover that those reports left an indelible mark on me and made me who i'm today.”—From the Introduction
Jerry Apps remembers winters growing to be up on a farm in valuable Wisconsin in the course of the latter years of the melancholy and during international struggle II. ahead of electrical energy got here to this a part of Waushara County, farmers milked cows by way of hand with the sunshine of a kerosene lantern, woodstoves heated the drafty farm houses, and “making wooden” used to be a big a part of each winter’s paintings. the youngsters in Jerry’s rural group walked to a rustic institution that used to be heated with a woodstove and had no indoor plumbing. Wisconsin winters then have been a time of mirrored image, of making plans for subsequent 12 months, and of households drawing jointly. Jerry describes how wintry weather prompted farm households and means that these folks who develop up with harsh northern winters are profoundly affected in methods we frequently aren't aware.
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