2019 Good Ideas Day 1 - Barns of Wisconsin

Barns of Wisconsin by Jerry Apps

Join celebrated rural historian Jerry Apps for a discussion of the history of Barns of Wisconsin, based on his top-selling Wisconsin Historical Society Press book of the same name. His talk will explore the myriad barn designs-from rectangular to round, gable roof to gambrel, and fieldstone to wood-and the equally diverse Wisconsinites who crafted them. He will discuss the evolution of barns as well as efforts to preserve these symbols of Wisconsin agriculture.
Jerry Apps is the award-winning writer of nearly 50 non-fiction and fiction books, including 14-and counting-with the Wisconsin Historical Society Press. Born and raised on a central Wisconsin farm before electricity, indoor plumbing, and central heating, Apps
grew up to become a county extension agent and professor at the University of Wisconsin College of Agriculture and Life Sciences in Madison, Wisconsin Since his retirement, he has been writing full-time and has become the subject of several Wisconsin Public Television documentaries, including the Emmy-Award-winning “A Farm Winter with Jerry Apps”, based on his Wisconsin Historical Society Press book, “The Quiet Season: Remembering Country
Winters”. He is a Wisconsin Academy fellow. He and his wife Ruth split their time between their home in Madison and their farm in Roshara, Wisconsin.