by Shelby Deering | Feb 15, 2016 | Magazine Article
On the outskirts of Plain, Wisconsin, a small town of around 800 that lies less than an hour from Madison, stands a nondescript white brick building surrounded by farmland. From the outside, the Cedar Grove Cheese factory looks exactly like the numerous cheese plants...
by Dena Wortzel | Feb 15, 2016 | Magazine Article
Looking closer at the photo, I couldn’t tell if the expression of the woman dressed in white in the out-of-focus selfie was sad or ironic, or just indecipherable. Sue had been a medical transcriptionist for 32 years at a clinic in Menomonee Falls. But at the time she...
by Bill Berry, Jerry Apps | Feb 15, 2016 | Magazine Article
The voluminous new history of Wisconsin agriculture by author and historian Jerry Apps is a pleasure to consume, learn from, and enjoy. Sorry, but this is as close to critical this review is going to get. As many know, Apps is a master storyteller and prolific...
by Kathryn Gahl | Feb 15, 2016 | Magazine Article
I was sweating and drooling. It was April. I had almost made it through fifth grade. And now I was leaving the planet. Permanently. Until I heard, “Abigail, honey. Wake up!” I couldn’t. “You have a fever,” the voice said, panicky. It belonged to Jane, my mother,...
by Rafael Francisco Salas, Tom Berenz | Feb 15, 2016 | Magazine Article
I met Tom Berenz back in 2008 when we were teaching together at Ripon College. Both Wisconsin-based painters with backgrounds in traditional methods, we often met to discuss our views on painting and art. Since then we have exhibited together and from time to time...
by Helen Klebesadel | Oct 16, 2015 | Magazine Article
In terms of American Democracy, the arts are for everyone. They are not reserved for the wealthy, or for the well-endowed museum, the gallery, or the ever-subsidized regional professional theater. As America emerges into a different understanding of her strength, it...
