by Margaret Lewis | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
Some might call it dumb luck; others, impressive prescience. But when I think about the news of recent months—labor controversy in Madison, school budget cuts around the state, nagging joblessness on a local and national level, and nuclear reactor problems in Japan—I...
by Jason Smith | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
Spring is in the air and the election season is upon us here in Wisconsin. Across the state, citizens turn out in droves to fulfill what is known as perhaps the most important of our civic obligations. Of course, there are other obligations for us citizens that...
by Jason Smith | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
It’s night time in downtown La Crosse. The storefronts in the historic downtown area are mostly dark, except for a few brightly lit window displays interspersed throughout the area along the river. A small crowd gathers in front of a glowing window, gazing and...
by Barbara Brown Lee | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
How did you choose to become a museum educator? My family wanted to take a vacation and my father took us to a dude ranch in Arizona up near Flagstaff. I was ten, and, after about one day there, I turned to my father and said, “This is where I want to come to...