Wendell Nelson

Wendell Nelson taught English at Winona (Minnesota) State University and the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, and for the past 21 years has been a Reference Librarian at the Portage County (Wisconsin) Public Library. He has also been a local and architectural historian for 31 years, researching and lecturing on and writing about old buildings of Portage County and Central Wisconsin.

Wendell has written the following books:

The Past in Our Present: [A selection of Old Houses of Portage County, Wisconsin] (1979) Houses That Grew: A Guide to Old Houses of Stevens Point, Wisconsin (1984)*

Of Stones, Steam, and the Earth: The Pleasures and Meanings of a Sauna (1992)*

Hebephrenia: Annual Winter Madness (1997)*

Memoirs of Macedonia: Volume /: Clothes Make the Man: Clerking in ^a Small Town Men's Store (2005)* Portage County Chronicles: The House by the Side of the Road: The Pipe House (2005)

From an Eternal Faith, A Gift of Timeless Art: The First Baptist Church of Stevens Point, Wisconsin (2005) Christmas Passages: Ten Memories (2005)*

The Dream of Years: A History of the Wisconsin Central/Soo Line/Canadian National Depots in Stevens

Point, Wisconsin (2010)*

Paper-mill Village: A Miscellaneous History of Whiting, Wisconsin (2010)*