Francis Hole, Poet Laureate of Soil Sciences
Francis Hole was a longtime member of Madison Friends Meeting. He taught, played music, wrote songs and parodies, and was an inspiration to everyone who knew him.
The Real Dirt on UW-Madison’s ‘Poet Laureate of Soil Sciences’
CITY CAST Madison, Rob Thomas – Posted on September 10
When I heard that the Maximum Fun podcast “E Pluribus Motto,” in which hosts John Hodgman and Janet Varney dig into the facts and trivia of all 50 U.S. states, was doing an episode on Wisconsin, I started listening a little smugly. How could two out-of-staters possibly tell me something about my home state that I didn’t already know?
And then they started talking about Francis Hole, UW-Madison professor emeritus, and the earth almost literally shifted under my feet. Who was this man they called “the poet laureate of soil sciences”?