Author Dennis McCann Shares Stories from Wisconsin Cemeteries

Link to June 27 Wisconsin State Journal column by Doug Moe, "Author digs up buried stories".

Excerpt:  A Janesville native, McCann now divides his time between Madison and Bayfield. He worked on the Janesville Gazette before moving to the Milwaukee Journal in 1983. He’d always admired Bill Stokes — who traveled the state for the Journal, uncovering one entertaining feature after another — and soon it was McCann who was doing the roving, searching out local legends and colorful characters, and introducing them to his readers in fluid prose that made writing look easy, which it is not.

As McCann notes in the new preface, he often found himself in cemeteries: “It might sound funny to say the dead have inspired a lot of stories for me, but it’s true.”

One of McCann’s favorite tales from “Badger Boneyards” is titled “The Virgin Em and Her Many Husbands,” and it began in the reading room of the La Crosse Public Library.