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Meet the Interns: Publicity Team, Fall 2024

The Teaching Press had 10 students working as interns and staff in Fall 2024. We’re featuring their work in small batches—the same way we print books at the Press!

Our team of Fall 2024 Interns worked together and separately with strong dedication to a rigorous yet fulfilling production of proofreading and copyediting our upcoming title, Equality Now Project. Our publicity team was in part responsible for helping promote our Teaching Press newsletter, including our fifth-year anniversary as a publisher and printing house, our year in books which include titles A Portrait of Grief and Courage, The Viking House Saga, and Home Again and Again. In addition, our publicity team also helped promote outreach activities, organizing interviews conducted by our interns with Equality Now Project’s contributing writers, and our press release of Equality Now Project.

Without further ado, ladies and gentlemen, here are our publicity team interns:

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Meet the Interns: Production Team, Fall 2024

The Teaching Press had 10 students working as interns and staff in Fall 2024. We’re featuring their work in small batches—the same way we print books at the Press! 

Our team of Fall 2024 Interns worked with dedication to a rigorous yet fulfilling production of proofreading and copyediting our upcoming title, Equality Now Project. Our production team worked to help settle us into our new home in Theater Hall 380, and can’t wait to get started printing books in Spring 2025. These interns also wrote blog entries and conducted interviews with the contributors to the Equality Now Project, and worked to celebrate our fifth-year anniversary as a publisher and printing house by prototyping and developing our brand-new newsletter.

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Home Design: An Interview with Caleigh Cleary

Co-Designer Caleigh Cleary

Over the spring and summer semester of 2024, The Teaching Press has been hard at work on our latest project, Home Again and Again, written by Dr. Ann Gentry Recine and Louis Recine. This book is a self-help memoir highlighting the importance of finding and fostering the idea of “home” to lead a happy and fulfilled life.

With this project, The Teaching Press has employed two designers: longtime book designer Emily Heling, and newcomer Caleigh Cleary. What was the experience like for a first-time Teaching Press designer? Project Manager Allie Wendricks asked Caleigh all about it!      Continue reading

“The Beauty and Resilience of Homes”: An Interview with Dr. Ann Gentry Recine

Our summer 2024 project is Home Again and Again: Recollections, Stories, Guideposts by Dr. Ann Gentry Recine and Louis Recine. In this engaging memoir, the authors take readers on a journey through Ann’s life of controlled chaos, faith, and positive perspectives. We had to know more about the duo behind it all , so we  jumped at the chance for an exclusive interview.

Dr. Ann Gentry Recine and Louis Recine

Home Again and Again features a lot of your life in Wisconsin. Do you feel you have found a home here in the badger state?

I think my husband and I proved to ourselves that we were Badgers when we sold our house in Eau Claire and moved away from Wisconsin in the 1990s, to a Southern state—only to move back in nine months. Even though our family experienced amazing Southern hospitality, we deeply regretted selling our Eau Claire East Hill house! We were so viscerally homesick for our neighborhood, that we actually bought the house behind our old house. Yes, I can now see that beloved house with its birch trees and lamp post from the window of the room I am writing in. Sigh! We are at home in a Badger state, in a Badger town, and glad of it. Continue reading

Top 10 Reasons to Read Home Again and Again: Recollections, Stories, Guideposts

Home Again and Again: Recollections, Stories, Guideposts by Dr. Ann Gentry Recine and Louis Recine is  our Spring/Summer 2024 Teaching Press project, and it is set to launch on August 10th at @ Roots Art and Wine Gallery in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

Maybe I’m biased—I mean, I was the Project Manager for the our Hard-Penned Press editorial and design services for this book. But I think this debut memoir has it all: a local Wisconsin author, guideposts for reader’s self-reflection, some crazy life experiences, humor, science that can translate into real life situations, and personable writing.

In fact, our entire summer Teaching Press staff helped create a Top 10 list of reasons why Home Again and Again should be your next book purchase:

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Find Yourself Home Again and Again

Local Authors Launch New Memoir on Saturday, August 10, at 2 Roots

EAU CLAIRE, WI – 08/05/2024 – In the words of Wisconsin author Dr. Ann Gentry Recine, “People all over the world are interested in stories of losing a home and finding it again, because that is the human story.”

Recine, along with her husband Lou, share this human story in their new book, Home Again and Again: Recollections, Stories, Guideposts, a funny yet moving collection of memories and reflections. A celebration of the book will take place on August 10, 2024 at 5:30 pm at 2 Roots Art & Wine Gallery located at 216 S Barstow St, Eau Claire, WI. This event is free and open to the public. Continue reading

New Book Alert! Home Again and Again: Recollections, Stories, Guideposts

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Our Spring and Summer Teaching Press interns have been hard at work on our newest project, Home Again and Again: Recollections, Stories, Guideposts, by Dr. Ann Gentry Recine and Louis Recine.

 In Home Again and Again: Recollections, Stories, Guideposts, Dr. Ann Recine invites readers into her chaotic life-well-lived to explore the concept of “home” and how it’s shaped her into the accomplished woman she is today. Continue reading

Launched! A Portrait of Grief and Courage: Hmong Oral Histories and Folktales

One of the most moving events we could hope for was our December 2023 launch of Sandra Shackelford’s A Portrait of Grief and Courage: Hmong Oral Histories and Folktales, translated and transcribed by May Lee Lor and Ma Lee Lor, and with an introduction by Pao Lor.  Feel free to peruse our photo gallery here, or watch the YouTube video,

This historic collection of oral histories, folktales, and photographs is on sale now at Lion’s Mouth Bookstore (Green Bay), WordHaven BookHouse (Sheboygan). You can order a copy directly from the Teaching Press here. 

 

Now on Sale: The Golden Age of Brown County Enterprise, by Phil Hauck

Did you know northeast Wisconsin was once one of the preeminent business communities in the United States?

It’s true. In the 1980s and 90s, companies like Krueger International, Fort Howard Paper Company, Schneider National and Schreiber Foods were leaders in innovation, creative solutions and cutting-edge technology, unlike anyone else in the U.S.  In this re-issue of The Golden Age of Brown County Enterprise, author Phil Hauck outlines these historic and successful business strategies through interviews with local industry leaders, showcasing the  incredible success of businesses whose names are part of the bedrock of the community.

Phil Hauck was a former writer for the Wall Street Journal who spent thirty years facilitating CEO Groups for The Executive Committee and its successor, Vistage, as well as a Senior Marketing/Sales Executive group.

The Teaching Press was saddened to learn of Phil’s passing in late 2023, and we’re proud to be reissuing his book. In keeping with the family’s wishes, proceeds will support student learning at The Teaching Press— a small and innovative Green Bay business  in its  own right,  for which Phil Hauck raised funding, awareness, and support.

The Golden Age of Brown County Enterprise
Hauck, Phil

Now on Sale! A Portrait of Grief and Courage: Hmong Oral Histories and Folktales, by Sandra Shackelford

A book cover depicting a Hmong woman holding a pictureThis unique collection of oral histories and photographs captures the storytellers, storytelling, folktales, and personal  journeys of the earliest Hmong residents in Northeastern Wisconsin.

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Description

“A shadow in the dark corner of the room moved. Slowly a woman walked toward us. Tears streamed down her face. She pointed toward me and spoke to May Lee in Hmong. This is what she said.

‘Please give me the words to speak my grief.’”

When Sandra Shackelford, an artist and documentarian, heard these words while working for Northeast Wisconsin Technical College’s High Risk Family Support Program, she knew she was about to begin a decades-long project to preserve the words of the Hmong people living in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Forced to flee from their homes in Laos to escape a secret holocaust, the Hmong people have found refuge in America for the past fifty years. This compendium presents readers with gripping and compelling perspectives told first-hand and reveals the hardships faced by this forgotten community. Many voyaged through jungles without much food, water, or shelter. Many lost family members along the way, some even had to be left behind to protect those running.

Transcribed from Hmong into English, these raw testimonies will tell the stories of the grief Hmong refugees faced when first arriving in America and the courage they had to persevere through it.

Details

A Portrait of Grief and Courage: Hmong Oral Histories and Folktales, documented by Sandra Shackelford, translated by Mai Lee Lor, transcribed by Ma Lee Lor. Published by Mimi & Rupert Books, an imprint of The Teaching Press at UW-Green Bay, a student-managed publisher and printing house. With a preface by Pao Lor, author of  Modern Jungles: A Hmong Refugee’s Childhood Story of Survival.  181 pages. For more information, contact the Press Director.

 

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