A House in the Country contains four essays by Mary Logue which document the trials of renovating her old Swedish farmhouse, and her observations on life in a small town in rural America. Bats and plaster lath fill her life with chaos and charm. Four multi-color wood engravings by Gaylord Schanilec capture several of the buildings in this small Mississippi river town.

One white January morning I photographed Mary Logue’s house in the village of Stockholm, Wisconsin. The first section of our book would be titled “Winter,” and I thought an engraving of her house in winter should open the book.

In June the engraving was complete and I returned to the house. No one was home, so I took the liberty of wandering the grounds, taking pictures. This felt mildly intrusive and I was a bit uneasy when I noticed a woman waving from the garden of a house across the way. It was Mary Logue. I had the wrong house.