The award-winning Wisconsin People & Ideas is the only magazine in the state to focus on contemporary Wisconsin thought and culture. It features articles by and about Wisconsin scientists, scholars, artists, writers, policymakers and others who serve as thought leaders in our state and help shape its culture. We also publish works from contemporary and classic Wisconsin artists, writers, and poets, and host in conjunction with the Wisconsin Book Festival annual, statewide short story and poetry contests, publishing the winning works and holding readings at the Wisconsin Book Festival.

Wisconsin People & Ideas, formerly the Wisconsin Academy Review, has been published quarterly since 1954 and is distributed throughout the state and beyond. Subscriptions are a free Wisconsin Academy membership benefit. Becoming a member is the only way to get the magazine home-delivered on a regular basis.

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SUMMER 2010 CONTENTS

Features

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A GOOD LARK COMES TO LIFE
Clyde Wynia reconstructs the past from rusted metal at Jurustic Park in Marshfield. Brian D'Ambrosio pays a visit to see what makes the sculptor tick

MORE SPIT, MORE FIRE
University of Wisconsin-Madison professor emeritus Bob Skloot takes us on an adventure of theater and empowerment in South India

AN UPSTREAM BATTLE
Asian carp have decimated aquatic ecosystems around the world. What happens when they enter our Great Lakes? The University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute's Philip B. Moy takes us to the front line of the battle to save Wisconsin's waters.

VOICES OF RURAL WISCONSIN: PART II
In part two of our ongoing interview project, Bill Berry examines the past and future of rural leadership in Wisconsin

COMMON GROUND FOR THE COMMON GOOD
Sometimes individual recycling or conservation efforts are not enough. Sandra Kallio outlines some innovative ideas from a recent UW System Wisconsin Idea Forum that help sustain ecologically, economically, and socially healthy communities

THE SUMMER READING LIST
Our review panel offers a selection of books by Wisconsin authors for your summer reading pleasure

Departments

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FROM THE DIRECTOR
Members Central

EDITOR'S NOTES
Entrepreneurs without Borders

CONTRIBUTORS

UPFRONT
Celebrating one hundred years of Robert E. Gard, seeking pathways to healthy aging with UW-Madison's Institute on Aging and our new Academy Evenings series in Menasha, and "Riding the Wind" with Big Top Chautauqua

GALLERIA
The local Wisconsin tavern has for years served as both meeting place and community center in small towns and villages across the state. Photographer Carl Corey shares images from his Wisconsin Taverns series

FICTION
Meet Carter Conway, the subject of the first prize-winning story from our 2010 fiction contest, "Anything that Sticks" by Sheila M. Hanrahan

POETRY
New poems from the runner's up to our 2010 poetry contest

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