News/Press
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Kickass and disappearing farms
Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper–who grew up on a small Wisconsin dairy farm, in lamenting the plight of the state’s dairy farmers who are going out of business at the…
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May and June AUTHOR TALK schedule
I am scheduling AUTHOR TALKS in as many Wisconsin towns as possible where there were P.O.W. camps. The schedule for the next little while is as follows: May 21, McFarland Library at 7…
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Bill Stokes’ Author Talks in May
NEWS/PRESS Bill Stokes’s upcoming author talks for May LaValle Public Library Margaret’s War book reading/POW history discussion May 7, 6 p.m. Caestecker Public Library at Green Lake May 9, 6:30 p.m. Oakfield Public Library May…
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Display at Sauk Prairie Grill
Display of information and pictures of Margaret’s War at Sauk Prairie Grill until the end of April.
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Meiller show
As a courtesy to the multitudes anxious to read the recently published novel—MARGARET’S WAR, author Bill Stokes will be chatting with Larry Meiller on Larry’s WPR show Thursday Feb. 28 from 11:45 to…
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Odd fact from Margaret’s War
Odd fact gleaned from many years of researching the novel Margaret’s War: The Japanese ensign who was captured Dec. 8, 1941 while commanding a miniature submarine at Pearl Harbor spent all of WW…
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Doug Moe talks to Bill Stokes about Bill’s recently published novel
Doug Moe talks to Bill Stokes about Bill’s recently published novel, MARGARET’S WAR. Written over a period of many years, during and after his newspaper column writing career, the novel deals with the…
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Margaret’s War and Snowstorms of Youth
GazetteXtra Glen Loyd is awaiting delivery of “Margaret’s War,” a new novel written by Wisconsin’s Bill Stokes, one of the Midwest’s foremost writers.
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At 87, Bill Stokes is a first-time novelist
Madison Magazine Doug Moe Newspaper columnist’s book worth the wait In the end, it took 65 years, give or take. For a guy who was great on a newspaper deadline — and no…
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Need a Little Help from my Friends
The big news is that “Trout Friends and Other Riff-Raff” is now available with its full original title. The first publisher wanted to shorten it up, but I alway thought it lost something…
