by Jason Vaughn | Dec 5, 2013 | Magazine Article
Hide is a project that began as a commentary on Wisconsin’s hunting tradition, using deer stands as a metaphor for the changing values of the sport. When my sudden cancer diagnosis interrupted the project, hide took on a much deeper, more personal meaning. I was...
by Augusta Scescke | Nov 19, 2013 | Magazine Article
Buying produce, milk, and eggs from your local farmer is a great way to eat sustainably and support Wisconsin’s 66,600 small family farms. Like most small businesses, family farms operate with a very thin profit margin. When bad things happen on a farm, it can be...
by Augusta Scescke | Nov 19, 2013 | Magazine Article
Did you know that Kewaunee is home to the world’s largest grandfather clock? Or that Elvis Presley (a black belt in Karate) broke up a fist fight in 1977 at the intersection of East Washington Avenue and Highway 51 in Madison? How about that there are almost thirty...
by John Pidgeon | Nov 19, 2013 | Magazine Article
The book that caused me the most anguish […] the one I feel most tender toward.—William Faulkner, 1955 Somewhere in that leisurely tortured syntax,where minds, like streams, overflow into streams,a man and his Caddy retrace their tracksthrough the flux of luckless yet...
by Patricia Zontelli | Nov 19, 2013 | Magazine Article
The moon alert in the sky,tomorrow like an arm waving, I love to go outlate in the evening, stand beside the huge barn, ricketyover its rusty machinery. Familiar as loaves of bread,white wooden houses rise and fall under the moonlight,breathing the same air I breathe...
by Irene Zimmerman | Nov 19, 2013 | Magazine Article
You wonder why I’m at the pianoin the middle of the morning when I should beworking, but last night my mother—yes,I know she’s long dead—last night my motherlurked again in the brooding forest ofher mental illness, pruning with her sharpshears the tiny shoots of trust...
