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Renewing the Countryside: Wisconsin
Oral History Program, University of Wisconsin–Madison
RENEWING THE COUNTRYSIDE: WISCONSIN. By Jerry Hemds, Jody Padgham, and Jan Joannides. Minneapolis, MN: Renewing the Countryside, 2007. Distributed by University of Wisconsin Press. 173 pp. Softbound, $26.95.
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New York's junior senator Hillary Clinton, around this time last decade, gave a speech entitled "It Takes a Village to Raise a Child," which became a book, It Takes a Village and Other Lessons Children Teach Us (1994). As I read Renewing the Countryside Wisconsin—both the profiles of the local, regional, and community businesses and organizations and the afterword explaining how Wisconsin's contribution to the