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The Teaching Press is proud to promote community storytelling, advocacy, and literacy with our forthcoming release, Equality Now Project: Words of Advocacy, Injustice, and Celebration of Identities by HSED Students from Literacy Services of Wisconsin.
In the words of educator Kathrine Yets, the goal of this project is “to recognize these diverse voices. They are brilliant and they have the power to change the world.”
In this collection of essays, artwork, and poetry, Milwaukee-area writers, aged 19-60 years old, lift their voices to speak about racism, sexism, poverty, self-discovery, and the need for advocacy. Through the individuality of these authors, a diverse community emerges—one that is willing and capable of taking hold of their future and pushing toward equality for all.
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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
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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
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.
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- Storyteller Mai Xong on the book cover
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- Descendants of Mai Xiong at the book launch
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- Author Sandra Shackelford with her collaborator and transcribers, May Lee Lor and Ma Lee Lor
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- The daughter of storytellers Thao Chong and Yee Vang holds her parents’ stories in her hands
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- Sandra Shackelford with Pa Lee, the woman who inspired the book 30 years ago
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- Pa Lee and Sandra Shackelford
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- “I was the baby in this photo!” —30 years later
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- The book’s Project Manager, Designer, and Chief Copyeditor
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.
This 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.
UW-Green Bay’s Teaching Press launches rare collection of oral storytelling and photographs on December 13
Read all about our new title in Inside UW-Green Bay News
Click here to purchase your copy of A Portrait of Grief and Courage: Hmong Oral Histories and Folktales today!
You are invited to explore the world of unintended consequences of producing carbonless paper and its underlying chemistry of Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) on the health of the Fox River and Lower Green Bay. Using an interactive timeline, this book by author Greg Neuschafer offers an overview of 70-years of PCBs impacting the river, from initial chemistry development through discovery of its toxicity, to societal mobilization, to the dozens of complex court cases, to government and contractor intervention including actual physical cleanup, and finally environmental recovery. Each page of this timeline and resource book folds out, and features QR codes (scannable with a smart phone) that direct you to selected original references in the electronic searchable library to begin your journey.
This book is on sale now. Email The Teaching Press to purchase your copies!
Learn more about how our team created this book here.
Author Greg Neuschafer published The Lower Fox River Clean Up: An Electronic Resource Library with The Teaching Press in October 2023. Email the Teaching Press to buy your copies!
Interviewers’ notes: This interview was conducted via e-mail by Abby Jurk and Autumn Johnson, in stages, from 2022-2023.
Why embark on this project?
Let me begin with some converging parameters.
In “The Tempest” William Shakespeare wrote “what is past is prologue”. In geology, my chosen field of university study, a basic tenant is, the Uniformitarian Principle which describes that the same natural processes that operate today in our environment have operated in the past.
Author Greg Neuschafer speaks at the book launch, October 2023
Winston Churchill in a 1948 speech to the House of Commons paraphrased American philosopher George Santayana, who said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. During four decades of oceanography research for the US Navy I learned the need to chronicle scientific processes and progress in order for new discoveries to stand future scrutiny.
For a number of years, I have supported UWGB’s Professor Kevin Fermanich’s Lower Fox River Watershed Water Monitoring Program. In a meeting with him after his annual student conference in 2018, he showed me a video clip of the operation of the high-tech filter-cake PCB cleanup process. We discussed the enormity of the Fox River Restoration in terms of scale, funding resources and time. I rhetorically asked if someone was summarizing all the effort going into this project? Dr Fermanich said he believed UWGB’s Professor Emeritus Bud Harris who had been a personal consultant to the technical cleanup operations was assembling a memoir. Continue reading
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