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    Gruhlke, Vera King.

    Verlag: Madison, Wisconsin: Wisconsin House, Ltd., (). First Edition., 1971

    Anbieter: Lighthouse Books, ABAA, Dade City, FL, USA

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    Signed by the Author. Octavo, brown cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 183 pp. Fine in a Near-Fine, mylar protected dust jacket with lightly rubbed edges. From dust jacket: The Ed Gein murders in Wisconsin in the early 1950s shocked the whole nation. Villages in the vicinity of Plainfield and Wautoma, as well as these more populated spots found themselves temporarily tarnished and overwhelmed by the crimes. The great small town tradition, however, of neighborly kindness and of deep regard for place and roots, rescued the local people from their sense of horror. In her effort to show the real Wautoma, and not the one embarrassed by the murders, Verna King Gruhlke opens the door to her town as it was in a perhaps more leisurely past. She shows us that small towns have their own kind of charm and atmosphere. She has the intimate understanding of small town life that brings the reader face to face with America as it was a generation ago. Her observations are sensitive and full of nostalgia as well as of humor. Friends, relatives, come intimately to life in her stories and episodes emerging from her girlhood memories, and from her views of Wautoma as it is today. Part of the strength of Small Town Wisconsin is the hope it contains that thread of American life which created and stabilized us as a people in our hometown places may never be broken. Small towns are symbols of our strength and our faith. Frankly, Verna King Gruhlke is looking backward with tenderness, yet sometimes with salty comment and opinion. She entertains the reader, yet also arouses in him something of the deep and usually unexpressed desire that bids us to return to our roots. Wautoma as it was, and is, is small town America anywhere and we cherish with the author the flavor of many small towns where life was, and is still, quieter and yet full of excitement in miniature. Wisconsin, Americana, American History, U. S. History, U.S.-iana, United States History. zslic.