Summary Information

Title: Ben Logan Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1935-2011

Creator:

• Logan, Ben, 1920-

Call Number: M2010-162

Quantity: 8.9 c.f. (8 record center cartons, 2 archives boxes, and 1 oversize folder), 0.3 c.f. of photographs (1 archives box and 1 oversize folder), and 4 tape recordings

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers, 1935-2011, of author Ben Logan, consisting primarily of drafts and materials related to his books, The Land Remembers: The Story of a Farm and Its People (1975), The Empty Meadow (1983), and Christmas Remembered (1997), and other writings including an unpublished novel based on his experiences in World War II (“Something Beyond the Sea”), other fiction, articles, screenplays and filmstrip scripts, from the time he was a student at the University of Wisconsin, in a creative writing program in Mexico, and while employed for Ford Farming and United Methodist Communications. Other materials include: correspondence; historical materials relating to Gays Mills, and Seneca in Crawford County, where Logan grew up on the farm where The Land Remembers is set; notes on presentations and appearances Logan made and classes he taught. The photographs include images of Logan; of readers visiting the farm, Seldom Seen; of assignments for Ford Farming; and of Mexico.

Note:

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Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-m2010162

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