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…
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…
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…
Display at Sauk Prairie Grill
Display of information and pictures of Margaret’s War at Sauk Prairie Grill until the end of April.
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…