by Jane Elder | Jan 31, 2018 | Magazine Article
For many of us, 2017 was a year of rapid and unsettling change. Seemingly solid foundations, from core cultural values to venerable American institutions, shifted dramatically. Absorbing the news of the day and sorting out the right response can be an exercise in...
by Ann Zindler | Jan 31, 2018 | Magazine Article
The wrong side of the tracks. That’s where he was from. Run-down properties, running from the rent man, and his dad running in and out of jobs. It was the alcohol that caused it. That, and too many kids. Bennett was the oldest of eight. Now, at seventeen, he was...
by Carl Corey | Oct 19, 2017 | Magazine Article
Meals on Wheels* annually delivers 218 million meals to 2.4 million Americans who are unable to purchase or prepare their own meals. Research shows that home-delivered meal programs significantly improve diet quality, increase nutrient intake, reduce food insecurity,...
by Jason Smith | Oct 13, 2017 | Magazine Article
Standing with my toes in the warm sand, I watched my four-year-old daughter Violet coax out string on a small, orange kite. We were staying with my parents, brother, and his family at a little vacation house on the lakeside of Door County for a few days this summer....
by Jason Smith | Oct 12, 2017 | Magazine Article
In 1964, arts education pioneer Robert E. Gard founded the weeklong School of the Arts program in Rhinelander. Beginning with fifty students and six writing instructors, the School of the Arts grew in scope and vision, leveraging the resources of UW–Madison to create...
by Dena Wortzel | Oct 12, 2017 | Magazine Article
Janesville: An American Story, by veteran Washington Post staff writer Amy Goldstein, is a case study of de-industrialization in an American factory town. But Goldstein, unlike many of those who write and opine on this timely subject, is not interested in diagnosing...
