Farley Center Book Discussion: “The Land Remembers” by Ben Logan

Farley Center Book Discussion on The Land Remembers by Ben Logan
11:00-12:30

This beloved American memoir is about a farm and its people, recollections of a boyhood in Wisconsin’s driftless region in the 1920s and ’30s. Ben Logan grew up on Seldom Seen Farm with his three brothers, father, mother, and hired hand Lyle—”the fifth Logan boy.” The boys discussed and argued and joked over the events around their farm, marked the seasons by the demands of the land, tested each other and themselves, and grew up learning timeless lessons.

Author, Ben Logan (1920–2014) grew up in southwestern Wisconsin, traveled as a merchant seaman, and worked many years in New York as a novelist, lecturer, and writer/producer of films and television. He returned in the 1980s to Seldom Seen Farm. The farm is now privately owned but has been preserved as a farm forever through a land trust with the Mississippi Valley Conservancy.

Please feel free to bring snacks to share. We plan on having the discussion outside if weather permits If not, then we will hold the discussion in the Center on the lower level conference room. Attendees will be required to wear masks inside.

Facilitator: Catherine Young
http://www.catherineyoungwriter.com/

Come join Catherine Young for a discussion of Ben Logan’s The Land Remembers outdoors at the Farley Center in Verona, Wisconsin
Saturday, November 13th 11AM-12:30PM

We’ll explore why his writing is so powerful and how art can help us cherish land.

If you do not know The Land Remembers come out of love for land and out of curiosity for this fine Wisconsin writer’s work.

Catherine Young is a performing artist and writer whose life is devoted to protecting water. Trained in fluvial geomorphology, Catherine worked as a national park ranger, naturalist, educator, farmer, and mother before completing her MFA in creative writing in British Columbia. Her prose and poetry is published internationally and nationally, including in The Driftless Reader.

Rooted in farm life, Catherine lives with her family in Wisconsin’s Driftless bioregion. Her podcasts and writings can be found at:
http://www.catherineyoungwriter.com/

Questions? Please contact programs@farleycenter.org

https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/5547.htm