Jim Widmer's 'Spirit of Rural Wisconsin,' Part II

Jim Widmer's 'Spirit of Rural Wisconsin,' Part II at the WHS. "...As a young man, Jim Widmer could see that Wisconsin's rural landscape of rolling hills dotted with family farms was under pressure from agricultural industrialization, automobiles and suburbanization. Traditional rural culture was shifting as mass media broadcast urban ways into farmhouses and modern roads connected farmers, markets, tourists and the countryside."