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Farm boy Brian Reisinger shares his family’s history on the land in southern Wisconsin in his new book "Land Rich/Cash Poor." ...
Brian Reisinger's "Land Rich Cash Poor" emerges as an anthem to the family farm in America, romanticized despite the never-ending work even in good times, which have been sparse in the last century.
DEWITTVILLE — It was a February night in 1862, noted for being President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, when the newborn was found wrapped in a blanket. The child had been left in the driveway of the ...
"Poor Farms” were county or town-run residences where paupers ... John Raley, became caretaker of the Poor Farm in 1942, moving his family into the caretaker’s home on the farm.
While poor farms in other states earned a bad reputation for ill treatment of inmates, the people at the Dodge County farm were like a family. Inmates who could help did what they could.
The Poor Farm operated until 1942, and in 1943 it was purchased for $5,000 by a private owner, William Robison. The Robisons turned the place briefly into the Durango Chick Hatchery and Farm.
Brian Reisinger’s “Land Rich Cash Poor” emerges as an anthem to the family farm in America, romanticized despite the never-ending work even in good times, which have been sparse in the last ...
Brian Reisinger's “Land Rich Cash Poor” emerges as an anthem to the family farm in America, romanticized despite the never-ending work even in good times, which have been sparse in the last ...