Stories from the round barn
By: Jacqueline Dougan Jackson.
Publisher: TriQuarterly Books
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: Duggan family -- Anecdotes.; Dairy farming -- Wisconsin -- Beloit -- Anecdotes.; Family farms -- Wisconsin -- Beloit -- Anecdotes.; Farm life -- Wisconsin -- Beloit -- Anecdotes.
Description: Using stories, anecdotes, history, and even veterinary science, Jackson braids together a series of dramatic fragments and episodes to vividly recreate life on the Dougan dairy farm.

Founded in 1911 by W.J. Dougan near Beloit, Wisconsin, the Dougan farm, with its unusual round barn, is symbolic of a vanishing era. A renowned farm which was among the first to introduce many aspects of modern dairying to its operation, the Dougan farm eventually became a victim of agribusiness-style dairying and was closed.

As Jackson recreates the texture and tone of life on the farm, larger themes emerge: the constant balancing between material life and spirit, the quest for humane values within a hard world of business and labor, the difficult lessons fundamental to childhood.