Blue Shadows Farm: A Novel

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Blue Shadows Farm Books by Jerry Apps Fiction: The Travels of Increase Joseph In a Pickle Blue Shadows Farm Nonfiction: The Land Still Lives Cabin in the Country Barns of Wisconsin Mills of Wisconsin and the Midwest Breweries of Wisconsin One-Room Country Schools Wisconsin Traveler’s Companion Country Wisdom Cheese: The Making of a Wisconsin Tradition When Chores Were Done Country Ways and Country Days Humor from the Country The People Came First: A History of Cooperative Extension Ringlingville USA Every Farm Tells a Story Living a Country Year Old Farm: A History Audio Books: The Back Porch and Other Stories Children’s Books: Eat Rutabagas Stormy Tents, Tigers, and the Ringling Brothers Casper Jaggi: Master Swiss Cheese Maker Blue Shadows Farm 1 A Novel Jerry Apps Terrace Books A trade imprint of the University of Wisconsin Press Terrace Books, a trade imprint of the University of Wisconsin Press, takes its name from the Memorial Union Terrace, located at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Since its inception in 1907, the Wisconsin Union has provided a venue for students, faculty, staff, and alumni to debate art, music, politics, and the issues of the day. It is a place where theater, music, drama, literature, dance, outdoor activities, and major speakers are made available to the campus and the community. To learn more about the Union, visit www.union.wisc.edu. Terrace Books A trade imprint of the University of Wisconsin Press 1930 Monroe Street, 3rd Floor Madison, Wisconsin 53711-2059 www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/ 3 Henrietta Street London WC2E 8LU, England Copyright © 2009 by Jerry Apps All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any format or by any means, digital, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or conveyed via the Internet or a Web site without written permission of the University of Wisconsin Press, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles and reviews. 1 3 5 4 2 Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Apps, Jerold W., 1934– Blue Shadows Farm : a novel / Jerry Apps. p. cm. ISBN 978-0-299-23250-4 (cloth: alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-299-23253-5 (e-book) 1. Family farms—Wisconsin—Fiction. 2. Farm life—Wisconsin—Fiction. I. Title. PS3601.P67B58 2009 813´.6—dc22 2009007121 For Sue, Kate, and Natasha The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. —Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature ...