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ISBN: 978-1-967311-94-1
Pages: 176

A Village Looks Ahead: Reviving a Town, Rekindling a Spirit

Format: Soft Cover

$17.95

Overview

When a flood uncovers a 1940 bank bag in the library basement, Link Lake must decide what—and who—it’s willing to save.

 

In A Village Looks Ahead, a small Wisconsin town wrestles with change as two efforts collide: a library writing class unearths the community’s buried past while the mayor’s Planning Commission pushes boldly toward self-reliance—food, power, and a future by design.

Old mysteries resurface (including that long-whispered 1940 robbery), and new pressures mount: WLLK—“The Voice of Reason”—fans debate on the airwaves, a recall election splits neighbors, and a tornado drives families into the library’s storm shelter.

Through it all, librarian Jackie Jo Jensen and Mayor Jon Jessup ask a defining question: Can a place honor what it was while becoming what it needs to be? As one townsman says, “When we forget our histories, we forget who we are.”

A warm, timely novel of memory, grit, and the everyday heroism of a community choosing its next chapter.

A Village Looks Ahead: Reviving a Town, Rekindling a Spirit

$17.95

Overview

When a flood uncovers a 1940 bank bag in the library basement, Link Lake must decide what—and who—it’s willing to save.

 

In A Village Looks Ahead, a small Wisconsin town wrestles with change as two efforts collide: a library writing class unearths the community’s buried past while the mayor’s Planning Commission pushes boldly toward self-reliance—food, power, and a future by design.

Old mysteries resurface (including that long-whispered 1940 robbery), and new pressures mount: WLLK—“The Voice of Reason”—fans debate on the airwaves, a recall election splits neighbors, and a tornado drives families into the library’s storm shelter.

Through it all, librarian Jackie Jo Jensen and Mayor Jon Jessup ask a defining question: Can a place honor what it was while becoming what it needs to be? As one townsman says, “When we forget our histories, we forget who we are.”

A warm, timely novel of memory, grit, and the everyday heroism of a community choosing its next chapter.

Details

Format: Soft Cover
ISBN: 978-1-967311-94-1
Pages: 176