Links of the Chain: Tales from a Northwoods Town
"Harnack captures the special quality of life in Wisconsin's North Country. This is a book that residents or visitors familiar with places like Sherman should find of special interest. But its audience need not be confined to Northwoods admirers. If the writing is regional, it's in the broad spectrum of such writing that includes authors such as Sherwood Anderson." -- Robert W. Wells, Milwaukee Journal Book Editor
"You are doing in print what it seems Seurat and Renoir did in oil on canvas: vibrating with the stuff of everyday living and feeling but in your case with a lively sense of value." -- Lester Mondale, Philosopher (brother of Walter Mondale)
"Poignant, reminded me of my own life. The mystique of the Northwoods." -- Antler, Milwaukee Poet Laureate, Recipient of the Walt Whitman Award
"Place has always been important to me. Like grapevines and cocoa beans that reflect through their flavor the soil and water in which they grow. Some places become part of a person's emotional and mental fabric, sometimes even when a person only passes through for a night or two. Mr Harnack has written a collection of evocative, elegiac stories that show us a few of the human threads woven through a small northern Wisconsin town in the Chain of Lakes. The stories span decades and characters disappear and re-emerge, forging, repairing or severing links, bound together by the vibrations and ethos of the remote beautiful, northern woods and water. Reading the book feels at turns like watching the flickering 8mm films of home movies, flashes of a familiar past linking up with the present. Like John Prine's "Lake Marie," which inspires the final tale, the lake town of Sherman, WI is the stage, the foundation and steadfast witness to life, death, loss, love and memory." -- A Reader, Ludington, MI
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