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The Book Stories From the Round Barn
Told in the inimitable, animated voice of Jacqueline Dougan Jackson, Stories From The Round Barn is an affecting addition to the canon of the American memoir of rural life. 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.
-- Northwestern University Press

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"Barefoot" - "S. O. B." - "Dehorning" - Press Reviews - Podcasts!
All stories ©1997, Jacqueline Dougan Jackson


"Podcasts"
We offer the following chapters in podcast form. We are registered with I-Tunes or you may click any microphone below to hear the chapter read by Karl Schmidt from the series "Chapter a Day" broadcast originally on Wisconsin Public Radio. These podcasts are published here with the permission of Karl Schmidt.
 
Chapter 01 - "Prologue" (4:33)
Chapter 02 - "The Preacher Fellow" (0:26)
Chapter 03 - "The First Milk Route" (15:13)
Chapter 07 - "The No-Leged Farmer (6:11)
Chapter 08 - "Barefoot" (3:09)
Chapter 09 - "Agnes" (5:20)
Chapter 12 - "Grandpa's Blue Memo" (24:52)
Chapter 13 - "Ronald's Courtship" (6:22)
Chapter 14 - "Sleep Little Baby" (14:55)
Chapter 15 - "Jim Howard" (16:30)
Chapter 17 - "Circumcision" (3:58)
Chapter 18 - "Grampa Dresses" (5:09)
Chapter 19 - "S. O. B." (2:37)
Chapter 20 - "Daddy Churns" (6:21)
Chapter 23 - "The Show" (6:52)
Chapter 24 - "Chez Nous" (4:21)
Chapter 27 - "Dehorning" (3:34)
Chapter 29 - "An Educated Man" (3:23)
Chapter 30 - "The Facts of Life" (21:27)
Chapter 33 - Billy Beadle" (10:40)
Chapter 39 - "Snakes" (21:56)
Chapter 41 - "Craig's Minutes" (3:57)
Chapter 42 - "Musical Beds" (5:29)
Chapter 43 - "Stuart Peterson" (11:08)
Chapter 44 - "Grampa and Grama's Intimate Life" (15:22)
Chapter 46 - "P. C." (7:21)
Chapter 47 - "A Sower Went Forth" (16:46)