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Wisconsin People & Ideas – Summer 2016

In this issue: The Poet Laureate calls for poems by heart, Winchester Academy celebrates 25 years, WisContext dives deep, and UWSP goes 100% renewable. Get to know Door County naturalists Roy and Charlotte Lukes and Jack Ritchie, a master of the short crime story, and find lots of Shakespeare going on all across the state. Explore the powerful cultural and historical meanings behind Oneida raised beadwork and read spanking new fiction and poetry by our 2016 contest winners. Did you know that you can get this fine magazine delivered right to your door? Begin your membership in the Wisconsin Academy today and we'll send you this and three more issues of the best magazine about contemporary Wisconsin thought and culture: Wisconsin People & Ideas.

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From the Director

Sharpening Our Creative Edge

By:

Jane Elder

How can specific investments in the knowledge economy and our creative sectors make a brighter future for Wisconsin?

Happenings

Poetry by Heart

By:

William Stobb

What's your favorite poem? Can you recite it by heart?

Happenings

Winchester Academy Celebrates 25 Years of Learning in Waupaca

By:

Jason Smith

Waupaca has its own Academy Talks, thanks to the Winchester Academy.

Happenings

Deep Dive News with WisContext

By:

Emmett Mottl

New explainer website harnesses Wisconsin expertise on issues of local import.

Energy conservation measures under way at UW–Stevens Point include upgrading lights to energy efficient LED lights. Here (l to r), Andy Klessig, Jose Rodriguez and Patrick Houlihan of Faith Technologies replace lighting in a Science Building lecture hall.

Happenings

UWSP Goes 100% Renewable

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The University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point has achieved a new milestone in sustainability.

John Taylor Phillips and Marti Gobel in A Midsummers Night Dream, produced by Door Shakespeare

Essay

Shakespeare in Wisconsin

By:

Elliott Puckette

Why is it that, with so many archaic words and obscure references, Shakespeare’s plays are still being performed today?

Roy Lukes in his element at the Ridges Sanctuary in Baileys Harbor, Door County (photo by Len Villano). Photographs taken by Lukes and published in his regular Peninsula Pulse nature column bring the plants and animals of Door County to life.

Profile

Nature Boy

By:

Myles Dannhausen Jr., Len Villano

The life and times of a true "nature boy," Roy Lukes.

Beaders (l to r) Sandra Gauthier, Judith Jourdan, and Betty Willems at an Oneida Nation Arts Program workshop in 2013. Learn more about Oneida raised beadwork. Photo by Anne Pryor.

@ the Watrous Gallery

Listening to the Beads

By:

Anne Pryor

Raised beadwork has powerful cultural and historic meanings for the Oneida Nation.

Mystery writer Jack Ritchie, 1980. Photo courtesy of Steven Reitci.

Read Wisconsin

Shatterproof: The Stories of Jack Ritchie

By:

Richard Boudreau

Even though he is Wisconsin’s most productive writer of short stories, you might not know about Milwaukee-born author Jack Ritchie.

Fiction

Open House

By:

Allison Slavick

There was no dew, so she could work without the discomfort of grass clippings stuck to wet bare feet. Ken had always said that dry grass in the morning meant there’d be an afternoon thunderstorm.

Book Review

Earth As It Is in Heaven, by Karl Elder

By:

Michael Kriesel

A parable of religious mysticism that’s part love story and part mystery, with a touch of rural hijinks, Karl Elder’s new novel is a welcome addition to the list of titles from one of Wisconsin’s top poets.