Writing in Stone: Book List

Writing in Stone invites you and your book club to read a book about Wisconsin’s transformational and inspiring History and share the most poignant quotes and meaningful passages with the project.  Your text selections can be included in the art project in interesting ways: as text on a monument, as an audio recording during the installation, as a speaking statue, as a speaking tree, as text on the background of the installation, as part of a public reading event.

This list is a work in progress.  Suggestions for additional titles welcome.

 Freedom Train North: Stories of the Underground Railroad in Wisconsin

By Julia Pferdehirt

 The Birth of the Grand Old Party: The Republicans’ First Generation

Robert F. Engs Randall M. Miller

 Thomas Paine and the Promise of America by Harvey Kaye

 Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Renewal, 2 Edition

By Patty Loew

 This Wicked Rebellion: Wisconsin Civil War Soldiers Write Home

Edited by John Zimm

 Political Abolitionism in Wisconsin, 1840-1861

Michael J. McManus

 Belle La Follette: Progressive Era Reformer by Nancy C. Unger

 The Heart of Things: A Midwestern Almanac

By John Hildebrand

 Seventh Generation Earth Ethics: Native Voices of Wisconsin

By: Patty Loew

 Ideas Unite Issues Divide.

Essays on the Ethical Life

By Richard Kyte.

 Limping Through Life: A Farm Boy’s Polio Memoir

By: Jerry Apps

Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer By Nancy Unger

Risking Everything: A Freedom Summer Reader

By Michael Edmonds (Editor)

My Double Life, Memoirs of a Naturalist by Frances Hamerstrom

A Sand County Almanac By Aldo Leopold

Whispers and Shadows: A Naturalist’s Memoir

By Jerry Apps

People of the Big Voice by Charles Van Schaick

Wisconsin Indians: Revised and Expanded Edition

By Nancy Oestreich Lurie with Foreword by Francis Paul Prucha

If Trees Could Talk: Stories about Wisconsin Trees

By R. Bruce Allison

Banning DDT: How Citizen Activists in Wisconsin Led the Way

By Bill Berry

Article: Birth of a Conservation Movement: Contour Farming in Wisconsin

By Jessica Luhing (Edible Madison)

Creating Dairyland by Edward Janus

Workers and Unions in Wisconsin: A Labor History Anthology    

By: Darryl Holter

Civil Rights Activism in Milwaukee: South Side Struggles in the ’60s and ’70s

by Paul H Geenen,

Teachers: The Entire Wisconsin State Historical Society Press series: Wisconsin Biographies for Young Readers (this is a fantastic series for older readers too! The series covers everyone from Lucius Fairchild: Civil War Hero to Blue Jenkins: Working for Workers.

Please share your input on the most transformative, inspiring ideas, quotes and passages that you find as you read by September 1 or before.

 With deepest thanks,

Terese Agnew, project organizer

Dory Domanowski, Literary and Historical Text Director

Send entries to Dory:   writinginstone9@gmail.com

Writing in Stone

P.O.Box 175 Elroy, WI 53929