The quiet season : remembering country winters

Title:

Author:

Apps, Jerold W., 1934-

ISBN:

9780870206085

Personal Author:

Apps, Jerold W., 1934-

Physical Description:

1 online resource (161 pages)

Contents:

Preparing for Winter -- Butchering -- Making Wood -- Farm Kitchen -- First Snow -- Fun in the Snow -- Winter Chores -- Deer Hunting -- Thanksgiving -- Christmas Is Coming -- The Real Meaning of Christmas -- Fishing on Ice -- Trap Line -- Blizzard Below-Zero Morning -- Going to Town -- New Skates -- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning -- Wash Day -- Box Social -- Selling Potatoes -- Radio -- Lamps and Lanterns -- Signs of Spring -- Remembering.

Local Note:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

Personal Subject:

Apps, Jerold W., 1934--Childhood and youth.

Apps, Jerold W., 1934--Family.

Subject Term:

Winter -- Wisconsin -- History -- 20th century.

Farm life -- Wisconsin -- History -- 20th century.

Rural families -- Wisconsin -- History -- 20th century.

Geographic Term:

Wisconsin -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.

Wisconsin -- Rural conditions.