by Brenda Bredahl | Oct 12, 2017 | Magazine Article
Greg Vreeland loves trains. “They are big, colorful, and go places, and kids seem to be genetically programmed to love trains,” says the founder and co-owner of the Wisconsin Great Northern Railroad, located in Trego, a few miles from Spooner in Washburn County. ...
by Jane Elder | Jul 27, 2017 | Magazine Article
Dan Egan’s The Death and Life of the Great Lakes is a new and important addition to contemporary books that tell the complex story of the one of the world’s most important freshwater ecosystems. An award-winning reporter at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Egan has...
by C. Kubasta | Jul 27, 2017 | Magazine Article
Melissa Range’s newest collection of poems, Scriptorium, brings together what seem to be disparate elements: medieval religious manuscripts, Old English literature, “hillbilly” stories from East Tennessee. They will come together—but you have to spend some time in...
by Nicholas Gulig | Jul 27, 2017 | Magazine Article
The election happened and now you’re driving north.November freezes in the birch trees. The fieldshave nothing left. In Wisconsin where you pass themthe hills go rolling autumn through the cold.You’re home again. The edges of the cloudsturn gray. You change the...
by Hansa Kerman Pistotnik | Jul 27, 2017 | Magazine Article
Exhausted, this light.It was supposed to shinepiercingly brightset the roof ablazemelt the fire escapespark mica in the wallsinge a rat’s whiskersin its hole.But side-swiped by a taxi doorwindow-slammed off discount storeit launched from hood of truckin a streamonly...
by Georgia Ressmeyer | Jul 27, 2017 | Magazine Article
Life may not be as bleak as it seems. The hurried seasons—spring, summerand fall—may plow into winter’s caboose, send it vamoosing. Usually winter sits on a side rail out backnot moving an iced-up muscle. Now and then we poke it with a shovel,but that accomplishes...
