by Kyle Farris | Jul 22, 2021 | Magazine Article
On a cool, sunny morning, Eric Leis trudges through the glassy water of Lake Onalaska and stops about fifteen feet from shore. He dips a large, flat rake into the water and sweeps it along the bottom. A parasitologist and fish biologist at the La Crosse Fish Health...
by Angela Woodward | Jul 22, 2021 | Magazine Article
Stacks of artwork, both finished and unfinished, overflow William Weege’s printmaking studio in rural Arena. Piles of coarse paper clutter the tables on either side of an imposing printing press, while prints from the many decades of Weege’s career rest in drawers or...
by Candice Wagener | Jul 22, 2021 | Magazine Article
It’s a steamy summer evening at KC37, which is what pilots call the small airport just south of Brodhead, Wisconsin. Surrounded by miles of farmland and sheltered from the sun under a striped awning, a group of pilots and small-plane enthusiasts talk about the latest...
by Jason Smith | Jul 22, 2021 | Magazine Article
From time-to-time I pick up the phone and call Bill Berry. Most readers will know Bill, who lives in Stevens Point, from his long-running role as a journalist and author. For over thirty years Bill has covered the issues and ideas that affect our rural communities,...
by Jane Elder | Jul 16, 2021 | Magazine Article
I’ve spent much of my career working for positive change, from advancing environmental policy to championing the value of the arts in our lives. At some point along the way, I was introduced to the now classic (at least in the field of systems theory) 1997 work by...
by Gary Jones | Mar 10, 2021 | Magazine Article
Ayad Akhtar first came to my attention when I wrote a feature for Peninsula Pulse on Door County’s Big Read selection, American Dervish. This was Akhtar’s 2012 coming-of-age novel about the Pakistani-American son of Muslim immigrants living in Milwaukee. Years later I...
