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Books About Life on a Farm Written Especially for People Who Like to Read! "Highly recommended reading." The Midwest Book Review Reviews & Readers' Comments |
LeAnn R. Ralph Rural Route 2 Author E6689 970th Ave. Colfax, WI 54730 (715) 308-6336 |
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by LeAnn R. Ralph My mother would have said I come by it honestly, this tendency to tell stories. My dad loved to tell stories. Tales about the workhorses. Living in lumber camps in northern Wisconsin where his parents were cooks. The German shepherd from his childhood named Happy. The billy goat who menaced his sisters on their way to school - Dad's sisters were so frightened of the billy goat his German grandmother walked them past where the goat lived, brandishing a broom. Quite a sight, I would imagine, seeing as they lived in Waukesha, Wisconsin, at that time in the 1920's... I grew up on a small dairy farm in west central Wisconsin that had been homesteaded by Norwegian immigrants before the turn of the century (who, incidentally, were my great grandparents). And like my father, I also have stories to tell. Needles, the dog who loved pickup trucks and hated thunderstorms. Irene, the horse who tried to come in the house. Cuddles, the raccoon who became my friend in spite of himself. The bull snake who had his afternoon sunbath interrupted by blood-curdling screams... I lived away from my hometown for about fifteen years. While I was away, I earned a bachelor's and a master's degree in English. I worked on a thoroughbred farm in Kentucky and a Tennessee Walking Horse farm in the southern part of the state. I wrote for a newspaper. I taught English at a private boy's boarding school. And along the way, I discovered you could take the girl off the farm, but you couldn't take the farm out of the girl. When the time seemed right, my husband and I moved back to west central Wisconsin to live in the house my parents had built when they retired from farming. And then I started writing my stories. I hope you have as much fun reading them as I had writing them. LeAnn R. Ralph is the author of the farm books "Christmas in Dairyland (True Stories from a Wisconsin Farm)" (trade paperback; 2003), "Give Me a Home Where the Dairy Cows Roam" (trade paperback; 2004), and "Preserve Your Family History (A Step-by-Step Guide for Interviewing Family Members and Writing Oral Histories" (e-book; 2004) |
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