TOWN OF LITTLE BLACK - Family farms of generations past made Wisconsin the Dairy State and the top cheese producer in the country.
They also produced a crop of literary works which may be best classified as farm memoirs. Wisconsin authors who found their niche and fame in this literary landscape include Laura Ingalls Wilder, Jerry Apps and Michael Perry.
The books often explore back-in-the-day farming story tropes. The joys of getting back-saving advances like electricity, tractors and washing machines. The stress of scraping by in crushing poverty. Having fortunes made or broken on the whims of weather or outside market forces. The stories are recognizable to anyone with a farming background, and they are often served on the page with bittersweet nostalgia and sentiment, a longing for those bygone times.
TOWN OF LITTLE BLACK - Family farms of generations past made Wisconsin the Dairy State and the top cheese producer in the country.
They also produced a crop of literary works which may be best classified as farm memoirs. Wisconsin authors who found their niche and fame in this literary landscape include Laura Ingalls Wilder, Jerry Apps and Michael Perry.
The books often explore back-in-the-day farming story tropes. The joys of getting back-saving advances like electricity, tractors and washing machines. The stress of scraping by in crushing poverty. Having fortunes made or broken on the whims of weather or outside market forces. The stories are recognizable to anyone with a farming background, and they are often served on the page with bittersweet nostalgia and sentiment, a longing for those bygone times.