Wisconsin Death Trip edition by Michael Lesy Arts Photography eBooks
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First published in 1973, this remarkable book about life in a small turn-of-the-century Wisconsin town has become a cult classic. Lesy has collected and arranged photographs taken between 1890 and 1910 by a Black River Falls photographer, Charles Van Schaik.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Michael Lesy teaches in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts at Hampshire College. He is the author of numerous books, including Dreamland, Rescues, and The Forbidden Zone.
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"Protestants behaving strangely in the 1890s . . . an outbreak of craziness—multiple murders, suicides, ghost sightings, epidemics, guntoting teenagers, schoolmarms hooked on cocaine and general mental illness (well, an insane asylum was nearby)—all in a little town called Black River Falls, populated mostly by German and Scandinavian immigrants." -- New York Times
"In Van Schaick's time, ordinary people did not have cameras, difficult contraptions that involved black powder and heavy glass plates; to record the passages of a life--births, marriages, store openings, funerals--so they turned to a professional. Lesy noticed Van Schaicks's many pictures of dead infants and children, dressed in their christening gowns, now placed in tiny coffins. As he looked for the story behind these photos, he found a story of plagues of murder, suicide, farm and business failures, madness, addiction, tramp armies, and the ruin of childhood and the desolation of families by epidemics of diptheria, typhoid, smallpox, and flu. Lesy made a montage, using items from the local paper, contemporaneous regional fiction and poetry, asylum records and the photographs left by Van Schaick, who in Lesy's pages emerges as Arbus's unknown ancestor" -- New York Times
"Lesy's reading of rural decay is history with a wrench, unfolding a scenario worthy of Dreiser, Faulkner, or Joyce Carol Oates at their grimmest." -- Newsweek
"Compelling both as history and as literature, it is a small masterpiece of the historian's art." -- Chicago Daily News
"[This] is an impressive example of the poetry of history. . . . There can be no question that this original work makes us deeply feel one form that misery has taken; and in causing us to feel, as well as consider, Wisconsin Death Trip has enlarged on the uses of history." -- New York Times Book Review
Wisconsin Death Trip edition by Michael Lesy Arts Photography eBooks
Title says it all.Basically, when the mine shut down in Black River Falls, the town became a mix of American Horror Story and the backstory to Stephen King's It.Murder, insanity, crime,suicide,starvation, and monster sightings chronicled in newspaper clippings and some eyewitness accounts.It is beyond me how the events that transpired over the period covered in the book are not well known.Best read in small amounts at a time.No joke.The bleak tone and surreal events take a toll.Product details
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Wisconsin Death Trip edition by Michael Lesy Arts Photography eBooks Reviews
I was able to read this book in one day, and wanted more. Being a former resident of this area of Wisconsin made it even more interesting for me, but all that aside, it was one of the most intriguing books I've read in a long time. The photographs are a wonderful testament to life in that era & locale, if you're a collector of old photographs & post-mortem shots this is a great book for your library. Reading about all of the madness surrounding these people, their bizarre and sad behaviors really makes you think. The author's conclusion really draws it all together for you.
Wife loved it.
As advertised
Bought this years ago at a tag sale and then lost track of it. Fascinating record of brutal and weird crimes committed in Wisconsin in late 1800's into early 1900's. Actually kind of timely,as human behavior is universal.
Ah, the Good Old Days! that time when the men and women were wrapped like a warm blanket in Christian piety. When boys and girls grew up straight and tall, amid swimming holes and Sunday schools, and read aloud in the public schools from the Protestant Bible. When men bore the guns that kept us free on their broad shoulders, and women were demure, graceful, with chaste and untroubled souls.
This remarkable collection of photographs --- many depicting funerals and similarly mournful scenes --- and the accompanying anthology of ephemeral journalism will go a long way towards showing that this, like any other lost Eden, never really existed. These people had other virtues, of course they lived in the presence of death; they cultivated a sort of stoicism in the face of hard lives made harder by the rise of national capitalism.
It seems that people in rural Wisconsin were heirs to the same failures that all flesh is heir to. People committed adultery back then, and bore children out of wedlock. People went mad back then, and often expressed their madness in violence. There was drunkenness, grinding loneliness, indifference to neighbours, and murder. They coped with problems, too, that we have managed to conquer most notably, epidemic disease, and wholly inadequte health care. It is good to remember this when this period is portrayed as a golden age of piety and patriotism.
This book hadn't been available for years and finally was published again. If you ever wondered if "the good old days" were so great, this book shows you how tough you had to be to even live past childhood. Sad,but beautifully written and the photos draw you in to their misery.
for the more morbid among us
Interesting take on history from a young (at the time; this was written early 70s) man who wanted to do history in a different way. It became quite a cult book back in the 70s which is when I originally bought it. I didn't read it seriously then and thought it deserved another chance. It is fascinating, if a little tedious, being obituaries and short news items from the archives of a small town Wisconsin newspaper of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. One can't help but be struck by the bizarreness of many of the entries which are culled primarily from stories of deaths, admissions to mental institutions and other calamities. There is also much to recognize in ourselves sickness, despair, rage. In the end, I think the method remains unpersuasive. A strobe light (so 70s) has been trained on a small area of Wisconsin at a particular time and tiny flashes illuminate tiny episodes of various unconnected people's lives. If it reveals much more than that people are pretty much the same then and I now, I missed it.
Title says it all.Basically, when the mine shut down in Black River Falls, the town became a mix of American Horror Story and the backstory to Stephen King's It.Murder, insanity, crime,suicide,starvation, and monster sightings chronicled in newspaper clippings and some eyewitness accounts.It is beyond me how the events that transpired over the period covered in the book are not well known.Best read in small amounts at a time.No joke.The bleak tone and surreal events take a toll.
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