by B.J. Hollars | Apr 15, 2024 | Magazine Article
While much has been written about John F. Kennedy’s presidency, personal life, and tragic death, less is known of his 1960 primary race to win the Democratic presidential nomination. Of the various state primaries in which Senator Kennedy ran, perhaps none provided a...
by Jason Smith | Mar 3, 2021 | Magazine Article
The Wisconsin Academy community was saddened by the news of Ruth Kohler’s death on November 14, 2020. Ruth was a long-time supporter of the Academy and its arts programming. She was named a Wisconsin Academy Fellow in 1989 for her monumental contributions to Wisconsin...
by Michael Hopkins | Aug 22, 2019 | Magazine Article
What can we learn about ourselves by looking at rocks? In her latest book, Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World, Lawrence University geology professor and frequent New Yorker contributing writer Marcia Bjornerud provides a fresh...
by John Lyons | Aug 22, 2019 | Magazine Article
On a particularly hot July day during the summer of 2012, Phil Cochran, Gary Borash, and I were netting fish in the backwaters and side channels of the Mississippi River in southwestern Wisconsin. We were working for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources on an...
by Paul Hayes | Aug 19, 2019 | Magazine Article
My career in newspapers ended the year I turned 61. I remember it well, because the oldest of my four grandchildren was days away from her first birthday when I retired from The Milwaukee Journal on March 31, 1995. The grandchildren don’t remember their grandfather...
