Wisconsin’s doing it

…his printed rhetoric is being collected at only one site in North America: the Historical Society’s headquarters building in Madison, according to James Danky, the society’s newspaper and periodicals librarian.

Danky began seeking Hutton’s newsletters after Danky’s wife saw a reference to them in The New Yorker. He sent a letter to Hutton in Texas in 2003.

Hutton then telephoned Danky and offered to provide back copies of the newsletters, a year’s subscription and the four books, all for $40.

“My books and papers can be found in several libraries in Australia, but Wisconsin is the only state, so far as I know, to carry them,” Hutton wrote in a 2003 letter to Danky.

“In one way, this is only fitting,” Hutton says as he describes living in the Wisconsin CCC camp from April 1938 through September 1939.

“While there I planted countless jack pines, helped construct a road between City Point and Mather, helped construct garages with living quarters at Black River Falls and Babcock, produced and wrote most of the camp newspaper, and rode an army truck 17 miles every Sunday morning to Pittsville for Mass.”