Inspired by years of talking with farmers, foragers, loggers, tribal activists, seed savers, fishers, railroaders, and nature lovers of all stripes, Dennis Boyer has created in Listen to the Land a fascinating communal conversation that invites readers to ponder their own roles in grassroots environmentalism. The nearly fifty voices that Boyer recreates here cross genders, generations, and geography. They include an Ojibwe leader contemplating nuclear waste, a houseboat dweller, a woman sharing her skills in gathering edible plants, a caboose-tender, a Milwaukeean fighting urban blight—even a recluse who shoots out streetlights.    Each of the extraordinarily varied perspectives that Boyer recreates here considers the question, How do I interact with the Earth? Each has something important to say that expands our understanding of conservation and environmentalism. Listen to the Land encourages you to read a conversation or two and then go outside and start one of your own. 

Listen to the Land: Conservation Conversations

Business & Money

Boyer, Dennis

Economics

University of Wisconsin Press

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Great Wisconsin Taverns: 101 Distinctive Badger Bars

Travel

United States

Wisconsin Trails

All aboard for a glimpse of life on the rails! Weaving together tales of railroading days gone by, this collection of personal reminiscences will delight any fail fan or traveler. Featured are stories of conductors, porters, carmen and tower operators from around the Midwest.

Prairie Whistles: Tales of Midwest Railroading

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

Bower House

For years, scholars of Pennsylvania German Folk Culture have argued about the presence or absence of magic in the Hex Signs that adorn the barns in SE Pennsylvania. This book is not going to waste any space on that tired discussion. All the Hexologists included here are working in a magical way. It is just a natural process that creating geometric star signs with symbols in them would have meaning with intent. The questions raised here are not “If” but “How”. Not as a scholar, but as a user, a practitioner, its clear that that Hexology is ready and willing to accept symbolism of any tradition but most especially that of our prechristian Germanic ancestors . Now along with the many names given to Hex Signs, such as Hexefuus (Witch’s Feet), Hexes, and Barn Stars, is a new one, “Runic Barnstars” As I had shown in my previous book, “Heiden Hexology, Essays and Interviews”, The Runes had been incorporated into Hex Work spontaneously around the world by the emerging Germanic Heathen Rune Magic practioners. In particular, they had become expressions of the Neo-Tribalism in Germanic Heathenry in North America. "I would say this, there is an energy in the magical signs of our Pennsylvania German ancestors. It is very real and powerful. Anyone can participate in making them. In doing so you are tapping into something much larger then mere personal self expression. As I explained to a former teacher and friend, A stream or river has run in its bed for hundreds of thousands of years maybe longer, so it is with folk magic. No one is quite sure how it works, just that it does and always has." Hunter M. Yoder

9 Worlds of Hex Magic: Interviews (Backdoor Hexologist)

Arts & Photography

Taylor,Robert

Blumetti, Robert

Kaldenberg, Wyatt

Yoder, Hunter M.

Montgomery, Jack

Souto, Adel

Waggener, Matthias

Vazquez, Isaac

Donmoyer, Patrick

History & Criticism

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Hauntings and strange happenings are not hard to find on the Upper Great Lakes. Join regional story collector Dennis Boyer on a circumnavigation of Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, and Lake Superior which explores both ancient legends and contemporary paranormal events on the "three big sisters" carved out by the Ice Age. In his latest colletion of ghostly folklore, Boyer takes readers to shipwrecks, lonely lighthouses, deserted islands, and harbor taverns to meet the characters who preserve the lore of these inland seas. In the process he assembles a collection of tales that illuminate not only local brushes with the supernatural, but that also provide a cultural relief map of the shoreline communities of these three big bodies of water.

Gone Missing: A Supernatural Tour of the Great Lakes

History

Americas

Waubesa Pr

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Driftless Spirits: Ghosts of Southwest Wisconsin

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Prairie Oak Pr

Giants in the Land: Folktales and Legends of Wisconsin

Literature & Fiction

Mythology & Folk Tales

Trails Books

Northern Frights: A Supernatural Ecology of the Wisconsin Headwaters

Author Dennis Boyer will guide you to some of the most memorable and unique drinking establishments in the state of Wisconsin. You'll discover over 100 taverns where you are sure to find a cold brew plus a whole lot more. Visit historic downtown taverns, quaint gathering spots in small towns, or your local neighborhood bar. There are breweries, bars, taverns, pubs, and saloons, all offering mouthwatering suds and friendly faces. This is the quintessential guide to the best Wisconsin taverns.

Great Wisconsin Taverns: Over 100 Distinctive Badger Bars (Trails Books Guide)

Food, Lodging & Transportation

Snow on the Rails: Tales of Heartland Railroading

Badger Books Llc

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