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FERTILE CLAY & ATTIC DUST explores the cranial rafters of this senior's mind recovering memories of childhood growing up on a dairy farm in central Wisconsin. The recollections are mixed with present day observations and impressions shaped by a liberal arts education. When the memories have been faded by age and dulled by a sleepy imagination, I have relied on retrievals by relatives and friends. Moment and place buried in this dusty loft require strong stimuli to bring them back.

The diversity of these memories is limited or extensive depending on variable fortunes and misfortunes, travels and travails.

Russell E. Mauer was born on June 5, 1929 in Mauston, Wisconsin. As a farm kid, he remembers the first 20 years as the best years of his life. He spent many hours fishing in the trout stream running through the dairy farm. Driving the tractor was his favorite work assignment. He graduated from St. Olaf College with a Bachelor of Arts in Biology in 1952. That same year he was drafted in the Army and became a medical technician stationed at the Presidio in San Francisco, California. After the army he attended graduate school at Washington State University and earned a Ph D in Animal Science specializing in Reproductive Physiology. In 1975, after 10 years in research at Abbott Laboratory in North Chicago, Illinois, he entered the commercial field doing embryo transfer in livestock. His wife, Dorothy, was the major influence for advancement resulting in exposure to a diversity of life's essences. She died in 2002 survived by two sons, a daughter, a foster daughter, and a granddaughter. Russell retired in 2007 and presently lives in Crystal Lake, Illinois.