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Roshara Journal: Chronicling Four Seasons, Fifty Years, and 120 Acres

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A photographic diary of a small Midwestern farm and the circle of relatives who’ve made it their home

In Roshara Journal, father-and-son team Jerry and Steve Apps share the monthly happenings at their circle of relatives’s farm in central Wisconsin. Featuring Steve’s stunning photos and fifty years of Jerry’s journal entries, Roshara Journal captures the changes—both from month to month and over the decades—on the landscape and farmstead.

The Apps circle of relatives has owned Roshara since 1966. There they nurture a prairie restoration and pine plantation, care for a large garden that feeds three generations, observe wildlife species by the dozens, and make stronger a population of endangered butterflies. In documenting life on this piece of land, Jerry and Steve remind us how, despite the pace and challenges of modern life, the seasons continue to influence our lives in ways large and small. Jerry explains that his journal entries develop into a lot more than mere observations: “It kind of feels that when I write about something—a bur oak tree, as an example—that old tree becomes part of me. . . . Writing takes me to a place that goes beyond statement and understanding, a place filled with feeling and meaning.”

In the tradition of Bernd Heinrich in Maine, Barry Lopez in the Canadian Arctic, and Aldo Leopold just an hour down the road in Baraboo, Jerry and Steve Apps combine statement, experience, and reflection to tell a profound story about one place on the planet.


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