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A farmer with an extraordinary gift for language and a writer with the field still fresh on his boots, Justin Isherwood is irresistibly compelling. His writing is possessed by a poetry. As he moves effortlessly from the profound to the practical, he turns the ordinary experiences of farm life into a feast for your senses.
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The custom of my family is to tell stories at Christmas. Specifically, stone stories. Tales whose nativity and metaphor, narrative and scene, are rooted in what appears to the casual observer unremarkable stones. Every year we gathered . . . to hear the stones. excerpt from Christmas Stones & The Story ChairHistory is retold through the gift of story at Christmastime in Justin Isherwood s Christmas Stones & The Story Chair, when he places the farm s great aunts and uncles upon the hard seat of the story chair and they tell their homespun tales to the next generation."

This collection of nearly 50 short essays by Wisconsin writers, explores a personal sense of place. It is wide-ranging yet the essays are united by a common theme, the chapters include both intimate contemplations of lakes or gardens and big-picture overviews of science, politics, and land use.