Badger State-A Wisconsin Memoir tells of an Irish Catholic family's move from suburban Chicago to Southeastern Wisconsin in the mid-1970s. Told by the youngest

Compiled by workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Wisconsin. New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce.

"Peggy Marxen grew up in the somewhat isolated environment of northwestern Wisconsin's Sawyer County, yet was surrounded by close-knit extended family. In 1916,