About George

Why a black & white book about a boy’s adventures with cows 
and music? That’s George Woodard. A dairy farmer with a movie
camera who used his son in two black and white feature films 
between milking his 25 cows every day. ‘ The Summer of Walter
 Hacks’, a 1952 mystery about an 11-year old fiddle playing farm
boy who rides around town on a bicycle fixing farm equipment.
 And ‘ The Farm Boy’, a 1944 love story and war driven adventure
 through the Ardennes forest in Belgium during what would become known as the Battle of the Bulge. Both critically acclaimed films were mostly shot on his farm.

Music? The films were financed mostly from  ‘ The Ground Hog Opry’, an old time radio stage show Mr. Woodard created which became popular to sold out Opera Houses and Town Halls all across Vermont.

And that’s why a black & white book about a boy’s adventures with cows and music. George is also a two time award winning film actor, a Country Music contest winner, a National Jr. College cross country ski champion and an award winning filmmaker. Mostly he milked cows.

Read the article in Progressive Dairy - ‘Retired Vermont dairy farmer writes children’s Christmas book’ by Audrey Schmitz, November 21, 2024