by Curt Meine, Chelsea Chandler, Bill Berry, Jane Elder | Apr 6, 2020 | Magazine Article
Introduction • By Jane Elder Initiative. It’s a noun that implies impetus and action. Over the last twenty years, the Academy has marshaled its unique capacities as a convening organization at the intersection of science and culture to provide what conservation...
by Nickolas Butler | Apr 1, 2020 | Magazine Article
From his kitchen window, Nathaniel Foxx counted six bulldozers in the neighboring cornfield. Or what was left of the cornfield. It began with a For Sale sign that Foxx drove by for months, but ultimately ignored. No one was going to buy eighty acres out here, he’d...
by Chrissy Widmayer | Apr 1, 2020 | Magazine Article
On a warm fall day in September 1973, James Batt watched as two plaques were affixed to the sandstone entryway of a small office building at 1922 University Avenue in Madison. The squat, cream-colored building was to be the first permanent home of the Wisconsin...
by Jason Smith | Oct 22, 2019 | Magazine Article
Ask a historian. Over the past year or so, this phrase has become my standard answer to questions raised about our so-called “unprecedented times.” Can you believe this or that bit of audacity by our president? What would happen if we went to war in the Middle...
by Michael Hopkins | Oct 22, 2019 | Magazine Article
In a world of superficial relationships enabled by social media, Steve Hannah’s book, Dairylandia: Dispatches from a State of Mind, shows us the value of taking the time to connect with ordinary people through their extraordinary stories. In Dairylandia, Hannah...
by Kathy Dodd Miner | Oct 22, 2019 | Magazine Article
The very title of Tom Montag’s latest book of poetry started a Simon & Garfunkel song playing in my head. “How terribly strange to be seventy,” a 27-year-old Paul Simon wrote in “Old Friends” back in the late 1960s. In having reached and passed that milestone,...
