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Farm News: Dairy Author Looking For Stories At Farm Tech DayscommentsPosted: 07.01.2011 In Wisconsin - there's stories to numerous to count on how the dairy industry began, changed, evolved and survives - but one author's trying to document some of them during Wisconsin Farm Technology Days! According to Janus, “Generations of Wisconsin dairy farmers, cheesemakers, and others who shaped the dairy industry have come and gone. Sadly, for us, they left little record of their lives and today they are mostly forgotten. This is our loss.”
By bringing microphones and questions to Farm Technology Days, the Wisconsin Dairy History Project ensures that the voices of today’s generation of dairy men and women will not be lost. Trained historians will record the stories and insights of Wisconsin dairy people so their voices can be added to the great heritage of Wisconsin. “This is something we really must do if we are to remember who we are in the future,” said Janus.
The dairy story project will sign up individuals from 8:00 am until 12:00 pm, with half hour interviews to be recorded between 1:00 pm and from 4:00 pm each of the three days of the show. People may also sign up in advance for a story session by contacting Connie Nikolai at 715-261-6368 or connie.nikolai@uwc.edu.
According to Eric Giordano, Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Public Policy and Service,
“Older farmers and others in the dairy industry are leaving us every day, and with their departure, Wisconsin is losing some of its most cherished and important history. Think of the stories we might hear in a rural coffee shop or the ones that children and grandchildren meant to record but did not. Many men and women at Farm Technology Days have stories to tell and we hope they will share them and preserve a key piece of Wisconsin history.”
This dairy story project is the first event in a long term project to create a regional and even statewide learning community that will enlist farmers, dairy people, retired people, students and historians to begin to tell the real and quite wonderful story of the dairying and its people. After all, the dairy industry, as Ed Janus writes, actually created Wisconsin as we know it. In the coming months and years the project will organize and train both volunteer and professional interviewers and writers to help tell the quintessential story of our state.
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