6/21/2023 0 Comments Michael perry population 485![]() I know you’re concerned right now about the state of my freezing toes that day. Together with videographer Wendy Woodard, we had just shot a scene in one of more than 40 short, feature films the three of us produced for Wisconsin Public Television. It was the winter of 2003, at a farm tractor dealership outside New Auburn, Wisconsin, the setting of Perry’s 2002 breakout memoir, Population 485. The farmboy-poet making his mark against all odds and elements. Mike Perry stood straight up on the seat of a 1970s Massey Ferguson tractor, opened his arms to the zero-degree winds that slashed across the surrounding snowfields of Chippewa County, and began to read some verse aloud. ![]() From left: Sean Porten as Jed, Arthur Grothe as the Beagle, Amber Dernbach as Lisa and Michael Perry as the Narrator/himself in Population 485. ![]()
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