Sat, Apr 26
|Historic Temple Theatre of Viroqua
Michael Perry
$15 Students | $25 Adults • Michael Perry is a farm boy turned humorist, New York Times bestselling author, volunteer firefighter/first responder, corporate speaker, and amateur snow plow driver from rural Wisconsin, known for leaving audiences laughing (and nodding, and sometimes getting misty)..
When & Where
Apr 26, 2025, 7:00 PM
Historic Temple Theatre of Viroqua, 116 S Main St, Viroqua, WI 54665, USA
About this event
$15 Students | $25 Adults
Michael Perry is a farm boy turned humorist, New York Times bestselling author, volunteer firefighter/first responder, corporate speaker, and amateur snow plow driver from rural Wisconsin, known for leaving audiences laughing (and nodding, and sometimes getting misty) from his “reflective roughneck” takes on life in rural America.
Perry’s bestselling books include the volunteer firefighter memoir Population: 485 (subsequently adapted for the stage), Truck: A Love Story, Coop, Visiting Tom, and Montaigne in Barn Boots. Among his other twenty-plus titles are The Scavengers (for young readers), his novel The Jesus Cow, the essay collections Peaceful Persistence, Million Billion, and Hunker, and his most recent book, the deeply powerful novella Forty Acres Deep.
Raised on a small Midwestern dairy farm, Perry put himself through nursing school while working on a ranch in Wyoming, then detoured into writing. He lives with his wife and two daughters in rural…