Monday, April 22 is Earth
Day. When I published my first book in
1970 (The Land Still Lives, Wisconsin
House), I asked Gaylord Nelson, U. S. senator, former Wisconsin governor and
the founder of Earth Day to write an introduction to the book. Senator Nelson wrote:
Today
the crisis of the environment is the biggest challenge facing mankind. To meet it will call for reshaping our
values, to put quality on a par with quantity as a goal of American life. It will require sweeping changes in our
institutions, national standards for the goods we produce, a humanizing of our
technology, and close attention to the problem of our expanding population.
Most
of all, it will require that the people assert their right to a decent
environment and that they evolve an ecological ethic of understanding and
respect for the bonds between man and his planet.
What Senator Nelson said in 1970
is as important today, even more important than then.
THE OLD
TIMER SAYS: Spring has just got to be hiding somewhere. But where?
STORIES
FROM THE LAND: Look for my twice-monthly
column in THE COUNTRY TODAY newspaper.
First one will appear on April 24.
UPCOMING EVENTS:
April 23, Larry Meiller Show, Wisconsin Public Radio, 11-11:45
a.m.
April 25, Walworth Big Foot Historical Society, 6:00 p.m. Horse
Drawn Days
April 30, Barnes and Noble, West Madison, 7:00 p.m. Launch of
Limping Through
Life and Letters From Hillside Farm.
May 4, Plainfield Library, 10:00 a.m. Ames County Novels.
May 8, 6:30, Wisconsin Historical Society Museum (Downtown
Madison) Breweries of Wisconsin. Dinner,
need reservations.
May 9, Reedsburg Library, 7:00 p.m. Garden Wisdom
May 14, Trempealeau Library, 1:00 p.m. Trempealeau Fourth
Graders and 7:00 p.m. Jerry Apps: A Farm Story.
May 15, Magers and Quinn Bookstore, Minneapolis. Presentation and booksigning.
May 18, Dregni’s, Westby. 10-2:00, Book signing.
May 19, Books and Company, Oconomowoc. 2:00 p.m. Book signing
May 23, Richfield Historical Society, 7:00 p.m. Stories from the
land
May 24-31, Colorado
June 6, 7:00 p.m. Dane County Genealogy
June 7, 7:00 p.m. Patterson Memorial Library, Wild Rose. Launch
of LETTERS FROM HILLSIDE FARM and LIMPING THROUGH LIFE.
June 8, 11:00 -3:00 Book signing, Tri-County Thresheree,
Plainfield
ANNOUNCEMENT: Interested in learning how to write you own
stories? Sign up for one of my upcoming
one-day workshops that I am teaching at The Clearing in Door County.
Saturday,
June 22, 9-4
Saturday,
November 3, 9-4
SPECIAL
ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THOSE INTERESTED IN PURCHASING “JERRY APPS: A FARM STORY” DVD
DVD Jerry Apps: A Farm Story List $16.95 The Patterson’s price only $15.00 ($20.00 shipped)
Special Bundle Offer exclusively by the Patterson:
Tamarack River Ghost & Jerry Apps: A Farm Story – List $43.90
The Patterson’s Price Only $35.00 ($43.00 shipped)
Patterson Memorial Library
500 Division St. PO Box 305
Wild Rose, WI 54984
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