The Gard Reader
This electronic book is a work in progress — a collaborative project by the members of the Robert E. Gard Wisconsin Idea Foundation Board. The work is compiled and edited by Mike Warlum and includes selections from works by Robert Gard. The audio clips were read by various readers, identified below.
Part I: Robert Gard, Community Arts Developer
- The River — The Source
from Coming Home to Wisconsin (chapter 1, 18 pp.)
- Feeling for Places
from Grassroots Theater (chapter 1, covering Gard's work with Crafton and Drummond, 42 pp.)
- The Wisconsin Idea Theater
from Prairie Visions (Gard's beginnings at the University, 8 pp.)
- Grassroots Art
from Coming Home to Wisconsin (including the story of the man with the dogs in the woods, 6 pp.)
- A Portrait of Place
from Grassroots Theater (the parts of this chapter telling the farmers' meeting and ice storm stories, 13 pp.)
- Rural Writers
from Grassroots Theater (the part dealing with the nine people who came to Bascom Hall, 11 pp.)
- Altering the Face and Heart of America
from Grassroots and Mountain Wings (in its entirely, a wonderful summary for this section, 14 pp.)
Part II: Robert Gard, Folklorist and Story-Collector
- Avalanche
from Johnny Chinook (the story of the Frank Slide, 6 pp.)
- The Romance of Wisconsin Place Names
(the introduction and 10 pp. of selections)
- The Oneidas, Was There a Bourbon Among Us?, Spirit Rock, Country Tales, The Eagle
from This Is Wisconsin, 35 pp.
- Prologue, Part I, Entries 3 & 11, Part II, Entry 13, Part IV, Entry 8, Part V, Entries 9 & 19
from The Trail of the Serpent, 35 pp.
Part III: Robert Gard, Storyteller
- The Big One
(Chapter 18, 9 pp.)
- The Cardiff Giant
(Chapter 9, 15 pp.)
- Wild Goose Country
(the story of the woman in the blind, pp. 67-72)
- Saving the March
from Wild Goose Country (11 pp.)
- The Plaque (pp. 33-35), The Tradition of Bob LaFollette and LaFollette's Graduation (pp. 50-54)
from University Madison U.S.A.
- The Land, The Land and Wisconsin Is a Kaleidoscope of Change
from My Land My Home My Wisconsin (30 pp.)
- An Innocence of Prairie
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