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The Truth About Townsend: Volume II
  Poor Man's Paradise (1940-1980)

  This is the second book in the award-winning series detailing the evolution of Townsend, Wisconsin, a wide-open logging settlement that has become a trendy tourism and retirement community. This informative and entertaining book chronicles four decades of growth as the township turned from farms to resorts in a boom and bust cycle.

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larger image The Truth About Townsend $35.00 Volume I 1860-1940. Hard Cover. 210 pages with 100 photos. Amazing story of small settlement's struggle to survive in the Central Wisconsin northwoods. Detailed history from the wild and woolly logging days to the doomed dependence on dairy farming. Compiled using oral interviews, books, journals, newspaper articles and tombstones.	larger image The Truth About Townsend $25.00 Volume I 1860-1940. Soft Cover. 210 pages with 100 photos. Amazing story of small settlement's struggle to survive in the Central Wisconsin northwoods. Detailed history from the wild and woolly logging days to the doomed dependence on dairy farming. Compiled using oral interviews, books, journals, newspaper articles and tombstones.
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larger image Sunrise Sunset $12.50 A heartwarming and inspirational mainstream novel that traces the circle of life from infertility to Alzheimer's Disease. A beautiful novel of love and loss.	larger image Portly Princess of Thynneland $17.75 A delightfully entertaining tale of an overweight princess growing up in a land where it is illegal to be fat. Her exploits and adventures are not only humorous but insightful!