Subject: Jerry Apps To Appear at the Mineral Point Opera House - FREE EVENT Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 08:12:36 -0500 Message-ID: <77942C456083474BB1F893621DDE5D9D0276E6CE@NAMIDM50B.corp.mattel.com> From: "Speltz, Mark E." <Mark.Speltz@AmericanGirl.com>
Mineral Point Historical Society
Jerry Apps To Appear at the MP Opera House
Mineral Point, WI Well-known author, storyteller, and historian
Jerry Apps will present "Stories from the Land," a program of readings
and commentary on Thursday, September 11, at the Mineral Point Opera
House at 7 pm. This free, public event is part of the Mineral Point
Historical Society's summer-long Farm Life initiative.
Born and raised on a Wisconsin farm, Apps has authored more than 25
books, many of them on rural history and country life. An engaging
speaker and talented storyteller, he will read from several of his
books, including Country Ways and Country Days and In a Pickle: A Family
Farm Story. Apps will also read from his newest book, Old Farm: A
Story, which will be published this fall by the Wisconsin Historical
Society Press. Apps is Professor Emeritus at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison
"Stories from the Land," is sure to remind Mineral Point area farm
families of party-line telephones, farm life before electricity, and how
farm kids and parents worked together to make a living on small family
farms.
Apps' appearance in Mineral Point is made possible through generous
support that the Mineral Point Historical Society Farm Life project has
received from area businesses, organizations, and individuals for "Farm
Life: A Century of Change for Farm Families and Their Neighbors", a
public exhibition that will run on weekends through October 19 at 203
High Street in Mineral Point. Hours are noon to 5 pm on Fridays and
Saturdays and noon until 3 pm on Sundays. Admission is $5 and children
under 12 are free. For more information, please call 608-987-2884 or
visit www.mineralpointhistory.org.
September 2, 2008
PR CONTACT: Judith Clayton
Jclay10@aol.com
608-987-1180
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