William Felker

William Felker (born June 26, 1940) is a former professor of Central State University and published author from Ohio, United States.

William Felker
BornJune 26, 1940
Hennepin, Minnesota

Life

William Felker was born in Hennepin County, Minnesota to Robert Felker and Mary Keefe.[1] Felker went to college at University of Minnesota and got his B.A in Philosophy and M.A in foreign languages and area studies.[2] Felker also went on to get his Ph.D in foreign languages and history at the University of Tennessee.[2] In mid-1978, Felker moved to Yellow Springs, Ohio this is where he began to write Poor Will's Almanack.[3] Throughout his career he has won three awards including one from the Ohio Newspaper Association.

Poor Will's Almanack

Felker's Poor Will's Almanack currently appears in fifteen regional and national publications including the Yellow Springs News[3] In the almanac Felker writes about everything from phenology to gardening and animal husbandry.[4] The almanac began in 1972 with the gift of a barometer from his wife. Felker began to graph and record the barometric pressure and its relation to the weather.

In these records, he began to see patterns in the number of cold fronts each month.[3] His notes later developed into a nature almanac for the local newspaper. These articles evolved into an almanac that was first published in 2003.[3] In the almanac Felker writes about everything from phenology to gardening and animal husbandry.[4] Felker now reads segments of his almanac on radio station WYSO.[2] Bill publishes his notes from over the years in a series of monthly books.[5]

Home is the Prime Meridian

A mission to organize his most meaningful newspaper essays resulted in a collection of 40 articles that Felker wrote throughout the years.[6]

gollark: Memory *and* storage space *and* available CPU/GPU cycles *and* network bandwidth, actually.
gollark: I should really just replace my laptop with a several-kilogram desktop in my backpack and a portable monitor thing. Also a cart with batteries to power it.
gollark: I know, it's ridiculous, they should have socketed memory chips on the DIMMs.
gollark: I also can't get Linux to recognize the existence of the power button, but that's not a huge issue.
gollark: The display can rotate 180 degrees because of a neat hinge mechanism, but it also has a TN panel which is barely viewable 45 degrees off the right angle.

References
  1. "Minnesota Birth Index". Retrieved December 16, 2016.
  2. "Reflections on the Homely Laws of Phenology". Retrieved December 16, 2016.
  3. "Poor Will's Almanack". WYSO.org. Retrieved December 13, 2016.
  4. "KIRKUS REVIEW". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved December 13, 2016.
  5. "Book Nook: An Interview With Bill Felker". WOSU. Retrieved October 4, 2018.
  6. "Bill Felker's new book offers riches of home". Retrieved April 2, 2018.
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