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Chris Hardie For Agri-View
Dec 23, 2023
Dec 23, 2023

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One can’t have a birthday without a cake, though the fire marshal wouldn’t allow 60 candles.

Sherry Hardie/For Agri-View

Chris Hardie poses for his 60th-birthday photo.

Sherry Hardie/For Agri-View

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Chris Hardie For Agri-View

“Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.” – Benjamin Franklin

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Chris Hardie and his wife, Sherry, raise animals and crops on his great-grandparents’ Jackson County farm. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 2001, he’s a former member of the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council and past-president of the Wisconsin Newspaper Association. Email chardie1963@gmail.com with comments.