“My First Tractor” (Free sample of Michael Perry’s audio Voice Mail)

Episode #229 of Michael Perry’s Voice Mail is about the tractor he grew up on. The episode is available to paid subscribers only, but if you’d like to give it a listen, please email [email protected] and we will get you a couple free weeks on us. Subscribers can listen here.

From Mike:

In this episode, I try something new: Randomly dipping into the “archives” (otherwise known as a bunch of mouse-nibbled boxes and plastic file containers stacked around one of my pole barns) and reacting to whatever I find.

On this first foray the topmost item was a 2011 issue of Wisconsin Trails, which included a piece I wrote about the first tractor my father ever bought new—a Massey-Ferguson 135. Looks like a toy now, but it was a big deal back then.

When you receive the email, be sure to scroll down through the photos to the “MARGINALIA” section, where we reveal an error in one of Mike’s books.