by Shelby Deering | Feb 15, 2016 | Magazine Article
On the outskirts of Plain, Wisconsin, a small town of around 800 that lies less than an hour from Madison, stands a nondescript white brick building surrounded by farmland. From the outside, the Cedar Grove Cheese factory looks exactly like the numerous cheese plants...
by Kathryn Gahl | Feb 15, 2016 | Magazine Article
I was sweating and drooling. It was April. I had almost made it through fifth grade. And now I was leaving the planet. Permanently. Until I heard, “Abigail, honey. Wake up!” I couldn’t. “You have a fever,” the voice said, panicky. It belonged to Jane, my mother,...
by Annaleigh Wetzel, Dan Howard | Oct 16, 2015 | Magazine Article
While dining at American Bounty, the Culinary Institute of America’s flagship restaurant in New York City, Chef Luke Zahm was surprised to see three dishes on the menu made with ingredients grown in his hometown of La Farge, Wisconsin. After a decade of creating...
by Jacob Turner | Oct 16, 2015 | Magazine Article
This fall, regular visitors to Madison’s Olbrich Botanical Gardens may find themselves in an unfamiliar place. As the sky trades sun for moon, strange shapes glow among the sixteen acres of carefully tended landscapes. On the path near the entrance, a massive and...
by Christine Holm | Oct 15, 2015 | Magazine Article
Mothers make excuses, hardly doe-eyed but entirely well-meaning.Their daughters aren’t wayward. Simply, they misplace their sensesof direction or heighten their prospects of efficiency.Their daughters run errands, stop road-side to look at the name,dead before their...
