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Wisconsin People & Ideas – Summer 2021

In this issue: Everything you need to know about Wisconsin: Meet La Crosse biologist Eric Leis, who travels the globe in search of the source of mass mussel dieoffs. Angela Woodward draws parallels between the craft of renowned printmaker William Weege and his approach to prairie restoration on his southwestern Wisconsin property. Culture writer Candice Wagener follows the Wisconsin Fjying Hamburger Social as it travels the state, spreading the joy of flying in small airplanes. We take a closer look at the artists and works that compose our James Watrous Gallery exhibition, Vulnerable Bodies. Plus contest award-winning fiction and honorable mention poems, as well as reviews of books you should be reading.

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Photo of Jane Elder in front of Academy offices

From the Director

The Right Lever at the Right Time

By:

Jane Elder

Finding the right lever to pull at the right time can result in big change.

Editors Note

Out to Pasture

By:

Jason Smith

Do our rural communities have a say in the decisions that affect them?

A scene from a recent Wisconsin Flying Hamburger Social in Brodhead

Wisconsin Table

The Flying Hamburger Social

By:

Candice Wagener

The Wisconsin Flying Hamburger Social makes its rounds to community airports across the state.

Based at the La Crosse Fish Health Center, which is part of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, biologist Eric Leis investigates unexplained mussel deaths around the world. Photo by Michael Lieurance/UW–La Crosse.

Report

Mussel Murder Mystery

By:

Kyle Farris

La Crosse Fish Health Center biologist Eric Leis investigates unexplained mussel deaths around the world.

Wisconsin printmaker William Weege’s legacy lies with the artists he worked with and the land he restored, as well as in his own groundbreaking creations. Photo copyright © 2021 by Richard Graves. Used by permission.

Essay

William Weege: Unfinished Work

By:

Angela Woodward

Wisconsin printmaker William Weege’s legacy lies with the artists he worked with and the land he restored, as well as in his own groundbreaking creations.

@ the Watrous Gallery

Vulnerable Bodies

By:

Valaria Tatera, Erica Hess, Masako Onodera, Yevgeniya Kaganovich, J Myszka Lewis, Demitra Copoulos, Jody Clowes

An art exhibit explores the ways in which our bodies map the fissures of this cultural moment.

Fiction

Without Provisions

By:

Barbara Kriegsmann

Eva would tell her father about the proposal herself.

Photo of Lauren Fox and her book, SEND FOR ME

Book Review

Send for Me, by Lauren Fox

By:

Gary Jones

A family’s history, like an old jigsaw puzzle, often has missing pieces, stories forgotten or kept secret.

Photo of Anthony Bukoski and his book THE BLONDES OF WISCONSIN

Book Review

The Blondes of Wisconsin, by Anthony Bukoski

By:

Christopher Chambers

The Blondes of Wisconsin provides an intimate look into the lives of the working-class Polish-Americans who live and love and work in northern Wisconsin.

Book Review

Sheltering with Poems: Community & Connection During COVID

By:

Jason Smith

For those of us who have been taking shelter among words during the Covid-19 pandemic, a new collection of Wisconsin poetry created just for the occasion has arrived.