Geiger grew up on his family's dairy farm, and when he went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison he pursued degrees in dairy science and agricultural economics. "So Elmer, born a city boy, transformed his life and began a love affair with a Wisconsin family farm," according to the book's back-cover description. But he fell in love with a farmer's daughter, Julia Burich, and when her father died a half year after their marriage, Julia's mother asked Elmer to take over the farm. By the time he was 18, he was a foreman supervising men double and triple his age during the Great Depression. After his mother Anna was killed by a train, Elmer went to work at a local foundry when he was a young teenager. When he was a young man, Elmer was not on the path to become a farmer. The stories were told not only in the house, but also while making firewood, hay, lumber and doing a host of other farm chores." Geiger was a "sponge," he said, "soaking up the recollections as Grandpa Elmer and Grandma Julie came to the farm four, five, six and even seven times a week some summers. They began to talk about their lives and their farm in 1981, when their daughter, Rosalie, and her husband, Randy Geiger, Corey Geiger's parents, became the fifth generation to operate the farm, Geiger said. Geiger's grandparents, Elmer and Julia Pritzl, are the main characters. He used actual events and people to narrate the stories, and delves into the reasons behind the decisions real people made. The book is organized as a series of stories "carefully knit together," Geiger said. It's a dairy story, it's a food story, and ultimately, it's a story about creating America's Dairyland." "While this book is my family's story," said Geiger in an email interview with USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin, "(it's) also a Wisconsin story. Geiger, managing editor of Hoard's Dairyman.Ībout the book, 'The Wisconsin Farm They Built' Today we open the cover of "The Wisconsin Farm They Built: Tales of Family and Fortitude," a nonfiction book about the history of a family farm, written by Corey A. This article first appeared on Wisconsin Newspaper Association and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.USA Today network statewide coverage of the release of The Wisconsin Farm They Built by Corey Geiger. He has written for both The UWM Post and Media Milwaukee student news publications and was part of a Media Milwaukee team that won a second-place award for In-Depth Story in the 2020 WNA Foundation Better Newspaper Contest. Stahl is a senior at UW-Milwaukee and will graduate with his journalism degree in the fall. RELATED: Jerell Rushin leaves Wisconsin to join The Tuscaloosa News RELATED: Star News adds Shawna Konieczny as reporting intern His focus will be on openings and closings, while also writing regular features on local businesses. He will cover local business news as the newspaper's "Streetwise" reporter. Jay Stahl has joined the reporting staff of the Wausau Daily Herald as a summer intern, the newspaper announced Wednesday.Ī Wausau native, Stahl introduced himself to readers in a column. Jay Stahl joins Wausau Daily Herald as business reporting internīy Julia Hunter, Wisconsin Newspaper Associationīy Julia Hunter, Wisconsin Newspaper Association May 28, 2021
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