by Jane Elder | Feb 5, 2019 | Magazine Article
My friend Henry Lickers, the Environmental Science Officer in the Department of Environment for the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne, gives a great talk on seven-generation thinking. An ancient philosophy of the Haudenosaunee people widely embraced by many other cultures,...
by Brenda Bredahl | Feb 5, 2019 | Magazine Article
One sunny winter day just before Christmas, a visitor arrives at 45th Parallel Distillery in New Richmond, Wisconsin. “I’ve heard about this place, but I’ve never been here,” he says. “We just moved back from North Dakota to this area, where my wife and I grew up, so...
by Wendy Vardaman | Feb 4, 2019 | Magazine Article
Peggy Rozga calls to apologize, says she is running late. She’s been working on a poem and lost track of the hour. There’s not enough time to have dinner before the reading in Madison, but perhaps enough to get a bowl of soup and a loaf of fresh bread to take home to...
by Stephen Milanowski | Oct 29, 2018 | Magazine Article
Flattery is not my business. While I’m a portrait photographer, I make images of strangers at events—parades, fairs, pageants, even watermelon-eating contests—that are generally hostile environments for portraiture. The history of portraiture is one long and ugly...
by Paul Buhle | Oct 17, 2018 | Magazine Article
Readers of Wisconsin People & Ideas need no elaborate introduction to writer/photographer/philosopher Richard Quinney, whose “Elegy for a Family Farm” was featured in the Winter 2018 issue. What readers may not know is that Quinney’s Borderland Books, located in...
