The Romance of Wisconsin Place Names - Gard, Robert E.
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Fifty years ago, educator and writer Robert E. Gard traveled across Wisconsin in search of stories about the origins of our state's unique place names. This volume meticulously records the fruits of Gard's labors, in an alphabetical listing of places from every corner of Wisconsin, and the stories behind their often-unusual names, with a foreword by Jerry Apps.

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Produktbeschreibung
Fifty years ago, educator and writer Robert E. Gard traveled across Wisconsin in search of stories about the origins of our state's unique place names. This volume meticulously records the fruits of Gard's labors, in an alphabetical listing of places from every corner of Wisconsin, and the stories behind their often-unusual names, with a foreword by Jerry Apps.
Autorenporträt
Robert E. Gard was a lifelong educator, writer, and folklorist who came to Wisconsin in 1945 to join the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Gard founded the Wisconsin Idea Theatre, the Wisconsin Regional Writers Association, and the Arts Development Program for the University Extension, promoting the arts and culture of Wisconsin's rural communities. Gard also cofounded the Wisconsin Arts Foundation and Council, considered the first official state arts council in the country. In addition, Gard was a Fulbright Research Scholar in Finland in the late 1950s, received the first-ever large-scale grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for work in small communities in 1967, and lectured all over the nation and world. Gard, who passed away in 1992, was a lifelong proponent of recording and learning from the lives and stories of real people from communities large and small.