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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Humor\, Heart\, and Rural Stories with Michael Perry
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DESCRIPTION:Join us in conversation with author and humorist Michael Perry
 \, whose collection of works encapsulates the magic of rural town communit
 ies and the everyday people who reside in them. .\nhttps://wilbraham.li
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 sation with bestselling author and humorist Michael Perry\, whose collecti
 on of genre-spanning works encapsulates the experiences&ndash\;and the mag
 ic&ndash\;of rural town communities and the everyday people who reside in 
 them.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>In Michael Perry&rsquo\;s memoir\,&nbsp\;<em>Populati
 on: 485</em>\, the local vigilante is a farmer's wife armed with a pistol 
 and a Bible\, the most senior member of the volunteer fire department is a
  cross-eyed butcher with one kidney and two ex-wives\, and the back roads 
 are haunted by the ghosts of children and farmers. Against a backdrop of f
 ires and tangled wrecks\, bar fights and smelt feeds\, Perry tells a frequ
 ently comic tale leavened with moments of heartbreaking delicacy and seari
 ng tragedy.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><em>Jesus Cow</em>\, Perry&rsquo\;s fiction deb
 ut\, is a hilarious yet sincere exploration of faith and the foibles of mo
 dern life. Low-key Harley Jackson finds himself entangled in drama from al
 l corners: A woman in a big red pickup has stolen his bachelor&rsquo\;s he
 art\, a Hummer-driving predatory developer is threatening to pave the last
  vestiges of his family farm\, and inside his barn is a calf bearing the i
 mage of Jesus Christ&ndash\;a secret he wants to keep quiet\, until the tr
 uth slips right through the barn door.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Register today to he
 ar more about Perry&rsquo\;s expansive collection of stories!</p>\n<p><str
 ong>About the Author:</strong>&nbsp\;Michael Perry is a New York Times bes
 tselling author\, humorist\, corporate speaker\,&nbsp\;volunteer firefight
 er/first responder\, and amateur snowplow driver. A lifelong resident of&n
 bsp\;the rural Midwest\, his &ldquo\;reflective roughneck&rdquo\; takes on
  life in Middle America have left&nbsp\;hundreds of thousands of readers a
 nd live audiences laughing\, nodding\, and&nbsp\;sometimes misty.</p>\n<p>
 Perry\, a registered nurse who put himself through college working as a Wy
 oming&nbsp\;cowboy and a roller-skating Snoopy produces the popular audio 
 newsletter &ldquo\;Michael&nbsp\;Perry&rsquo\;s Voice Mail\,&rdquo\; perfo
 rms widely as a humorist and speaker\, tours with his band&nbsp\;The Long 
 Beds\, works as a script writer\, voiceover artist and audiobook narrator\
 , and&nbsp\;still makes an occasional call with the local volunteer fire a
 nd rescue service.</p>\n<p>Perry lives in rural Wisconsin and can be found
  online at www.sneezingcow.com.</p>\nhttps://wilbraham.libnet.info/event/1
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