by Erik Richardson | May 1, 2018 | Magazine Article
The Philosopher’s Flight, by University of Wisconsin Hospital emergency room doctor and first-time author Tom Miller, combines magical realism with coming-of-age romance and swashbuckling adventure. Miller’s fantasy novel is set in America in the early years of World...
by Matt Ambrosio | Apr 27, 2018 | Magazine Article
In John Harmon’s home studio, filling the shelves and file cabinets beside a well-used baby grand piano, are hundreds of beautifully handwritten manuscripts that chronicle over sixty years of musical composition. Mementos lining the walls of the Winneconne home where...
by Elizabeth Wyckoff | Apr 27, 2018 | Magazine Article
Me and Janie and Melissa, we want to be other women. Not the women we are expected to be, but the ones we’ve seen on television and read about in novels. Women we barely remember from movies we watched as little girls. Older women. Wealthy women. Sad, married women....
by Curt Meine | Apr 27, 2018 | Magazine Article
Wilderness exists in all degrees, from the little accidental wild spot at the head of a ravine in a Corn Belt woodlot to vast expanses of virgin country. … Wilderness is a relative condition.—Aldo Leopold, “Wilderness as a Form of Land Use” (1925) Our four-car caravan...
by Adam Ryan Morris | Apr 26, 2018 | Magazine Article
I never learned to make things by hand. But I’m fascinated by those who do. When I discovered that some of the world’s most recognizable sports and product mascot costumes—Tony the Tiger, Yogi Bear, Bucky Badger, the Famous Racing Sausages—are designed and handcrafted...
by Max Witynski | Apr 26, 2018 | Magazine Article
It’s a not-so-well-kept secret in Wisconsin that hickory nuts taste better when someone else shells them. Two hickory species are found in Wisconsin, the shagbark (Carya ovata), and the rarer bitternut (Carya cordiformis). With coarse bark that hangs off the tree in...
