by Thomas Ferrella | Aug 2, 2018 | Magazine Article
I came to this project through another life. In 1991, when I was working as an emergency medicine physician, I observed the construction of a memorial at the intersection of East Washington Avenue and 4th Street in Madison where two young Madison East High School...
by Eric Carson | Aug 2, 2018 | Magazine Article
People tend to see a river as an immutable part of the landscape. We notice the changes that happen on a monthly and seasonal basis: the effects of spring snowmelt and summer drought and the rise and fall of intermittent floods. But we generally accept the notion that...
by Jason Smith, Scott Gordon | Aug 1, 2018 | Magazine Article
For over fifteen years, David Jorgenson* has been digging up and selling wild ginseng roots that grow on his property near the Mississippi River in Vernon County. Like many “diggers,” Jorgenson got into ginseng harvesting after a neighbor saw a few of the...
by Jason Smith | Jul 24, 2018 | Magazine Article
They said it was crazy—no, unconscionable—that I, born and raised in Wisconsin, had never been to a Culver’s Restaurant. Nikita, who grew up in Sauk City with one of the Culver kids, used to go there all the time. Amanda travels a lot between Madison and Sparta to...
by Jane Elder | Jul 24, 2018 | Magazine Article
Midwesterners pay a lot of attention to sun and rain, and checking the weather report is part of our daily routine. Most of us, though, aren’t checking our mobile devices to see what tomorrow’s soil conditions will be. Perhaps we should. It turns out that, for all of...
