A Wisconsin man wants people to contribute to an oral history of rural life in the state. Farmer and published author Ed Janus,
right, has teamed up with the
University of Wisconsin-Marathon County to create The People of Rural Wisconsin Project, a website for first-person audio stories about rural life in the Badger State, Keith Uhlig reports for the
Marshfield News Herald.
Janus considers himself "an audio journalist, a story collector who records interviews
in the style of Studs Terkel, Chicago author and master of the oral
history interview," Uhlig writes. "He was enthralled with radio journalism at an early
age, and he embraced the oral history style of storytelling in the 1960s
when he interviewed political demonstrators." (
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