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Jerold Apps
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Biography:
Jerry Apps, born and raised on a Wisconsin farm, is Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of more than 30 books, many of them on rural history and country life. His nonfiction books include: Living a Country Year, Every Farm Tells a Story, When Chores Were Done, Humor from the Country, Country Ways and Country Days, One-Room Schools, Cheese, Breweries of Wisconsin, Ringlingville USA (History of Ringling Brothers circus), Old Farm: A History, Barns of Wisconsin, Horse Drawn Days: A Century of Farming With Horses, and Campfires and Loon Calls. His children's books include: Stormy, Eat Rutabagas, Tents, Tigers and the Ringling Brothers, and Casper Jaggi: Master Swiss Cheese Maker. He has an audio book, The Back Porch and Other Stories. Jerry has published four novels, The Travels of Increase Joseph, In a Pickle: A Family Farm Story, Blue Shadows Farm and Cranberry Red. Jerry is a former publications editor for UW-Extension, an acquisitions editor for the McGraw-Hill Book Company, and editor of a national professional journal.
Jerry has won awards for his writing from the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Library Association (the 2007 Notable Authors Award), American Library Association, Foreword Magazine, Midwest Independent Publishers Association, Robert E. Gard Foundation, The Wisconsin Council for Writers (the 2007 Major Achievement Award), Upper Midwest Booksellers, and Barnes and Noble Bookstores, among others. In 2010 he received the Distinguished Service Award from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.
(From the author's website)
Works by Jerry Apps:
Jerry Apps, born and raised on a Wisconsin farm, is Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of more than 30 books, many of them on rural history and country life. His nonfiction books include: Living a Country Year, Every Farm Tells a Story, When Chores Were Done, Humor from the Country, Country Ways and Country Days, One-Room Schools, Cheese, Breweries of Wisconsin, Ringlingville USA (History of Ringling Brothers circus), Old Farm: A History, Barns of Wisconsin, Horse Drawn Days: A Century of Farming With Horses, and Campfires and Loon Calls. His children's books include: Stormy, Eat Rutabagas, Tents, Tigers and the Ringling Brothers, and Casper Jaggi: Master Swiss Cheese Maker. He has an audio book, The Back Porch and Other Stories. Jerry has published four novels, The Travels of Increase Joseph, In a Pickle: A Family Farm Story, Blue Shadows Farm and Cranberry Red. Jerry is a former publications editor for UW-Extension, an acquisitions editor for the McGraw-Hill Book Company, and editor of a national professional journal.
Jerry has won awards for his writing from the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Library Association (the 2007 Notable Authors Award), American Library Association, Foreword Magazine, Midwest Independent Publishers Association, Robert E. Gard Foundation, The Wisconsin Council for Writers (the 2007 Major Achievement Award), Upper Midwest Booksellers, and Barnes and Noble Bookstores, among others. In 2010 he received the Distinguished Service Award from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.
(From the author's website)
Works by Jerry Apps:
- Barns of Wisconsin (September, 1977-- revised August, 1995)
- Mills of Wisconsin (October, 1980)
- One Room Country Schools (April, 1996)
- Cheese - The Making of a Wisconsin Tradition (April, 1998)
- Stormy (May, 2002)
- Eat Rutabagas (May, 2002)
- The People Came First - A History of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension (July, 2002)
- Ringlingville USA - The Stupendous Story of Seven Siblings and Their Stunning Circus Success (October, 2004)
- Every Farm Tells a Story (March, 2005)
- Breweries of Wisconsin, Second Edition (April, 2005)
- Country Ways and Country Days: From Weathervanes and Tractors to Auctions and Outhouses . . . Remembering Rural Life (July 2005)
- Country Wisdom: Timeless Values and Virtues from the American Heartland (July, 2005)
- When Chores Were Done (Amherst Press, 1999. Voyageur Press, 2006)
- Humor from the Country (Amherst Press, 2001. Voyageur Press, 2006)
- Tents, Tigers and the Ringling Brothers (October 2006)
- Living a Country Year: Wit and Wisdom from the Good Old Days (June, 2007)
- In a Pickle: A Family Farm Story (September, 2007)
- Casper Jaggi: Master Swiss Cheese Maker January, 2008
- Old Farm: A History (October, 2008)
- Blue Shadows Farm (September, 2009)
- Horse-Drawn Days: A Century of Farming With Horses. (Paperback, Wisconsin Historical Society Press. May 2010)
- The Travels of Increase Joseph: A Historical Novel About a Pioneer Preacher (Paperback Edition, University of Wisconsin Press, July, 2010)
- Campfires and Loon Calls -
- Garden Wisdom: Lessons Learned from 60 Years of Gardening
- Barns of Wisconsin (Revised Edition) (Places Along the Way) (Hardcover, Wisconsin Historical Society Press; 3rd edition July 2010)
- Cranberry Red - October, 2010
- Rural Wit and Wisdom: Time-Honored Values from the Heartland (May, 2012)
- Tamarack River Ghost: A Novel (University of Wisconsin Press, November, 2012).
- Limping Through Life: A Farm Boy's Polio Memoir (April, 2013)
- Letters from Hillside Farm (Fulcrum Publishing, April, 2013).
- The Quiet Season: Remembering Country Winters (August, 2013)
- The Great Sand Fracas of Ames County: A Novel (Terrace Books, September, 2014).
- Whispers and Shadows: A Naturalist’s Memoir (Wisconsin Historical Society Press, May, 2015).
