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Review "I heard you on public radio one day. I love your book!" ( A reader from Wisconsin) -- A Reader's Review (November 2003)"I started reading your book right away and it was hard to put down." ( A reader from Texas) -- A Reader's Review (November 2003)"Thanks for your fun and interesting stories about what life was like on the farm." (A reader from Minnesota) -- A Reader's Review (November 2003)"When I got your book, I started reading it and couldn't put it down." (A reader from Wisconsin) -- A Reader's Review (November 2003)I didn't grow up on a farm, but your stories make me think back to when I was a kid, -- A Reader's Review; December 2003I heard you on public radio one day. I love your book! -- A Reader's Review; December 2003I started reading your book right away and it was hard to put down. -- A Reader's Review; December 2003Thanks for your fun and interesting stories about what life was like on the farm. -- A Reader's Review; December 2003When I got your book, I started reading it and couldn't put it down. -- A Reader's Review; December 2003 Product Description Celebrate the Christmas season with twenty true stories from a simpler time, forty years ago, when happiness was baking cookies, decorating the Christmas tree, or even just getting out of wearing snow boots to school. From the Inside Flap Forty years ago when I was a little girl growing up on our dairy farm in west central Wisconsin, I thought everyone lived on a farm. Then again, many of my kindergarten classmates lived on farms, too, so maybe I wasn't completely off base. Later on, however, after I had graduated from high school and started traveling around the United States, I was hard-pressed to meet anyone who had ever been on a dairy farm, much less lived on one. People would ask me where I was from and when I told them Wisconsin, they'd say, "I suppose you lived on a dairy farm." After a while, it became clear to me that for people in other states, 'Wisconsin' and 'dairy farm' were synonymous. I would explain that not everyone in Wisconsin lives on a dairy farm, and then I would find myself answering questions about what it was like growing up on a farm. Today, most of the small family dairy farms like the one where I grew up are gone. My parents milked 20 cows, but farmers can no longer make a living that way. Milk prices have essentially stayed the same since the 1970s, and many small farmers decided to sell their dairy herds when their business expenses ended up exceeding their gross farm income year after year. Even though most of the small family farms have disappeared, the evidence that they once existed remains -- in the empty dairy barns scattered around the countryside -- in the pastures that have been turned into residential subdivisions -- in the creameries that have been abandoned or converted into other uses. And in my stories about growing up on a Wisconsin dairy farm. LeAnn R. Ralph; Colfax, Wisconsin From the Back Cover Celebrate Christmas during a simpler time when happiness was baking cookies, learning to make lefse, decorating the Christmas tree, or even just getting out of wearing snow boots to school. About the Author LeAnn R. Ralph earned an Bachelor of Arts in English with a writing emphasis and also earned a Master of Arts in Teaching from the University of Wisconsin -- Whitewater. She taught English in a boys' boarding school and also worked as a newspaper reporter for nine years. She is the former editor of the Wisconsin Regional Writer (the quarterly publication of the Wisconsin Regional Writers' Association). In addition to "Cream of the Crop (More True Stories from Wisconsin Farm)" (trade paperback, Sept. 2005), she is the author of "Christmas in Dairyland (True Stories from a Wisconsin Farm" (trade paperback 2003), "Give Me a Home Where the Dairy Cows Roam" (trade paperback 2004), and "Preserve Your Family History (A Step-by-Step Guide for Interviewing Family Members and Writin
