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Farley Center Book Discussion of Brave Crossing by Author Maria Alvarez Stroud

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Maria Alvarez Stroud “BRAVE CROSSING” Book Discussion
2:00 – 3:30pm, July 10, 2022

Meet at B.O.W.A. – Bur Oak Welcoming Area at the Farley Center (outdoor event)
Please bring your own water bottle and feel free to bring snacks to share.
Join us for an in-person event with Maria Alvarez Stroud, author of BRAVE CROSSING – A Journey In-Between.

Based on her father’s journey from the Philippines in 1916, she’ll be sharing highlights of his journey, as well as insights gathered through research and then lead a discussion hedged around several questions: How welcoming is America to the immigrants who leave everything from their previous lives behind? And how different is it today, from 100 years ago?

About Maria:
This is Maria Alvarez Stroud’s debut novel, although throughout her varied career, writing was central to her work, which included national productions and community engagement campaigns within public broadcasting, statewide educational efforts, and leading a nationally acclaimed media organization.

About the book:
Described as “A wonderful immigrant story”, and “a book you don’t want to put down”, BRAVE CROSSING is “A true story reimagined in a deeply personal way, Brave Crossing is only one man’s journey from another time yet shines a light on every immigrant’s struggle toward the promise of America.”

The novel is a coming-of-age saga told through the eyes of Ricardo, a young Spanish- Filipino, as he voyages to America in 1916. He embarked on his journey thinking he was leaving behind war, rampant disease, unspeakable deaths, and family secrets only to find a country on the cusp of race riots, World War I, and a global pandemic. He learns that each of these each of these events has the power to define who he is and whom he may become.

Books can be purchased from http://littlecreekpress.com/bookstore/brave-crossinga-journey-in-between/ through Maria at https://www.mariaalvarezstroud.com/ or Mystery to Me Bookstore. Books will also be available for purchase at the event.

Please feel free to come early or stay late to take a walk around the Farley Center.
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Farley Center Book Discussion: “40 Days With Jerry Apps by Jeff Wild”

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October 16, 2021

Farley Center Book Discussion on 40 Days With Jerry Apps by Jeff Wild
11:00-12:30

Forty Days with Jerry Apps by Jeff Wild. The author is a retired Lutheran pastor who has read and long admired the books by Jerry Apps for the engaging stories they tell and the insights they provide about rural life in Wisconsin.

Jeff Wild has read Jerry’s books more than once and recognizes something in them which lend themselves to reflection and meditation. With Jerry’s permission, Wild has taken excerpts from the books and uses them to explore in 40 short chapters the meanings, both overt and hidden, that are contained within each excerpt. From gardening to being good stewards of the planet, the themes of Jerry’s books ring true in Wild’s meditations.

This is a book you will turn to again and again.

http://littlecreekpress.com/book…/40-days-with-jerry-apps/

All proceeds from book sales are designated to two nonprofits: Harvest of Hope and the Food, Faith and Farming Network to support rural communities and farmers around the state.

Please feel free to bring snacks to share.

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Farley Center Book Discussion: “The Land Remembers” by Ben Logan

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November 13, 2021

Farley Center Book Discussion on The Land Remembers by Ben Logan
11:00-12:30

This beloved American memoir is about a farm and its people, recollections of a boyhood in Wisconsin’s driftless region in the 1920s and ’30s. Ben Logan grew up on Seldom Seen Farm with his three brothers, father, mother, and hired hand Lyle—”the fifth Logan boy.” The boys discussed and argued and joked over the events around their farm, marked the seasons by the demands of the land, tested each other and themselves, and grew up learning timeless lessons.

Author, Ben Logan (1920–2014) grew up in southwestern Wisconsin, traveled as a merchant seaman, and worked many years in New York as a novelist, lecturer, and writer/producer of films and television. He returned in the 1980s to Seldom Seen Farm. The farm is now privately owned but has been preserved as a farm forever through a land trust with the Mississippi Valley Conservancy.

Please feel free to bring snacks to share. We plan on having the discussion outside if weather permits If not, then we will hold the discussion in the Center on the lower level conference room. Attendees will be required to wear masks inside.

Facilitator: Catherine Young
http://www.catherineyoungwriter.com/

Come join Catherine Young for a discussion of Ben Logan’s The Land Remembers outdoors at the Farley Center in Verona, Wisconsin
Saturday, November 13th 11AM-12:30PM

We’ll explore why his writing is so powerful and how art can help us cherish land.

If you do not know The Land Remembers come out of love for land and out of curiosity for this fine Wisconsin writer’s work.

Catherine Young is a performing artist and writer whose life is devoted to protecting water. Trained in fluvial geomorphology, Catherine worked as a national park ranger, naturalist, educator, farmer, and mother before completing her MFA in creative writing in British Columbia. Her prose and poetry is published internationally and nationally, including in The Driftless Reader.

Rooted in farm life, Catherine lives with her family in Wisconsin’s Driftless bioregion. Her podcasts and writings can be found at:
http://www.catherineyoungwriter.com/

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https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/5547.htm