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Brabender Farm

Brabender Farm

by Wayne Brabender

 

Brabender Farm is a collection of 12 essays, more than 80 photographs, and over 100 poems that pays homage to Wayne Brabender’s great grandparents who started the family’s 120-acre farm in 1858 in Ashton, Wisconsin. It also honors the Ho-Chunk, who dwelled there before Wayne's ancestors, and the generations of family and neighbors who followed. The author is a retired photojournalist. He came to writing prose and poetry for publication in 2011, when he moved back to the family farm. This is his first book. He’s working on a second, a profile of German Catholic immigrant families that ventured to the tiny village of Ashton over 170 years ago, and decided to stay.