by Jason Smith | Dec 16, 2014 | Magazine Article
Fifteen years ago, University of Oregon president Dave Frohnmayer delivered a prescient commencement address on a political and cultural phenomenon called “the New Tribalism.” “I hear an ancient noise rising in Oregon. … It sounds like the cacophony of a hundred...
by Marilyn Shapiro Leys | Dec 15, 2014 | Magazine Article
First the eyes, he thought. Watch the eyes—where are the eyes watching? Forward, searching over heads, sorting out the familiar ones ahead on the rickety gangplank? Or backward, back to the steamship, the eyes glancing over the shoulder—the right shoulder, usually,...
by Myles Dannhausen Jr. | Dec 15, 2014 | Magazine Article
Norbert Blei began his career as a writer in the same way as did many young writers of the 1950s: at the bottom of the journalistic totem pole. Blei’s first professional job was reading and running teletype messages at Chicago’s City News Bureau. He later moved on to...
by Jason Smith | Dec 15, 2014 | Magazine Article
In the quest for a more sustainable—and profitable—glass of milk, many dairy farms in Wisconsin are switching from feedlot-based operations to rotational grazing on prairie grasses and legumes like clover. According to the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade,...
by Jason Smith | Dec 9, 2014 | Magazine Article
Harvest Park of downtown Reedsburg is the new home of Ruminant (The Grand Masticator), a John Deere 6600 harvesting combine clad in 34 agriculturally themed backlit stained glass panels. An endearingly outsized mash-up of stained glass, agricultural symbolism, and...
