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Apr 22, 2021

Those first two episodes in this mini-series about farm work and the agrarian myth asked us to move beyond our images of red barns and silos to understand with more nuance the challenging realities of contemporary farm work, even for Wisconsinites who grew up on family farms.  These next two episodes explore what it...


Apr 8, 2021

This episode looks behind Americans imaginings and stereotypes about rural life--what scholars call the agrarian myth--to see the realities underneath.  The realities of rural life turn out to be a lot more complex than our stereotypes.