Farming for Oil

Farming for Oil

When most of us think of pumpkins, we envision the Halloween variety, plump and full of white seeds that, when roasted, transform into a delicious snack. At Hay River Farm, just about an hour north of Eau Claire in rural Prairie Farm, Ken Seguine and Jay Gilbertson...
Wonder Spot

Wonder Spot

The Dells of the Wisconsin River (1856): For Recreation Resort to the Dells! Where depressed spirits can be alleviated, gloom and melancholy soon be dispelled and the mind become Greatly invigorated. Leroy Gates has purchased a pleasure Boat for the purpose of...
Exile

Exile

Practice is over. You’ve planted your butt firmly upon the wooden bench of the warming hut, where your stiff fingers unlace hockey skates covered in fresh ice shavings. Around you, other boys revel in the glory and agony of tonight’s scrimmage, still breathing hard....
Crop Tending

Crop Tending

In the kitchen are an empty egg carton and two packages of seeds, cilantro and basil, my favorite herbs. My plan is to start the seeds in the egg carton and have sweet little shoots to plant when it gets warm. I have never done this, but I see myself doing it. I...
My Miss New Orleans

My Miss New Orleans

At first, the music sounded like some kind of Dixie funeral dirge. The students’ expectant faces turned to watch the brass band’s slow march down the aisle of the auditorium. The musicians, dressed in crisp white shirts, black ties, and snap-brim caps, walked in a...