by Stanley A. Temple | Aug 28, 2014 | Magazine Article
In the mid-19th century, the passenger pigeon was the most abundant bird in North America, numbering three to five billion, according to scientist and naturalist A. W. Schorger. A former Wisconsin Academy President, Schorger wrote in 1955 what is still considered to...
by Jason Smith | Aug 27, 2014 | Magazine Article
At the 2014 Governor’s Conference on Economic Development, UW–Madison School of Business economist Morris Davis raised the alarm about our “massive brain drain” problem in Wisconsin. In his presentation at the conference, and in subsequent media appearances since...
by Brenda Bredahl | Aug 27, 2014 | Magazine Article
It wasn’t long after Brian Roegge lost his job as a credit union manager that he and wife Sue began weighing the risks and rewards of opening an independent bookstore. “We looked at bookstores for sale all over the Midwest, including one in Illinois near my parents,”...
by Jason Smith | Aug 27, 2014 | Magazine Article
Erik A. Evensen is an award-winning designer, illustrator, and graphic novelist, and a professor of Design at the University of Wisconsin–Stout. He is the author/illustrator of Gods of Asgard: A Graphic Novel Interpretation of the Norse Myths (Jetpack Press, 2012),...
by Robert H. Dott Jr. | Aug 27, 2014 | Magazine Article
At long last we have a biography of Increase A. Lapham, one of Wisconsin’s most important early residents. He was surveyor, botanist, geologist, antiquarian, meteorologist, limnologist, and all around good citizen. Thanks to Martha Bergland and Paul G. Hayes, we now...
by Lewis Koch | Aug 26, 2014 | Magazine Article
Curator, photographer, librarian, archivist, Monuments Man, teacher, philosopher, flaneur, iconographer—Paul Vanderbilt was all these things. No matter what his specific role in life and work, primarily, and most distinctively, he was a proselytizer for “the notion of...
