Susan Apps-Bodilly discusses Timber! A Northwoods Story of Lumberjacks, Logging, and the Land
January 7, 2027 @ 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Join author Susan Apps-Bodilly to discuss Wisconsin’s logging boom and its impact on our landscape
Long ago, huge trees filled the Northwoods. In the mid-1800s, logging camps and sawmills opened. Lumberjacks moved in. This was the beginning of the logging boom, when millions of trees were cut to help build towns and cities. What was it like to live and work in the woods? How did giant logs get from the forests to the sawmills? What happened after the forests were cut down?
The latest book for young readers from father-daughter duo Jerry Apps and Susan Apps-Bodilly explores the origin story of Wisconsin’s logging boom, the damage it caused to the land, and the extraordinary efforts to restore the cutover land and log sustainably. Timber! will inspire readers to explore, protect, and learn more about the trees and forests in their own communities.
About the Speaker
Susan Apps-Bodilly, author of Seeds in Soil: Planting a Garden and Finding Your Roots and One Room Schools: Stories from the Days of 1 Room, 1 Teacher, 8 Grades and co-author of Old Farm Country Cookbook: Recipes, Menus, and Memories, worked as an elementary and middle school teacher for more than twenty years and recently retired from teaching second-grade students. She has a master’s degree in curriculum and instruction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is happy to do hands-on activities with familes and kids to demonstrate projects and recipes from any of her books.
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