Home is a simple word, but the experience of finding home is personal, complex, and always evolving.
The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters invites people across Wisconsin to join our Finding Home series and explore what it means to find home through the lenses of science, arts, history, literature, and civil discourse.
In every region of the state, people shape their sense of home through cultural expression, ecological knowledge, and community care. Many are also noticing changes in the places they know best, from shifting seasons to new pressures on land, housing, and water. Finding Home programs explore how people respond with creativity, stewardship, and resilience.
At its core, Finding Home brings people with different perspectives together with the goal of deepening understanding and identifying shared values and common ground.
This Finding Home interview features Ashland Representative Angela Stroud. In this video, Angela reflects on moving to the Lake Superior region from more than 1,200 miles away. Despite the distance and change, she says it only took a few months for the waters of Lake Superior and the surrounding forests to feel at home.
Angela describes the region as a place where people hold many different perspectives but share a deep shared appreciation for the place they call home. She sees energy affordability as one of the most pressing challenges facing her community today and believes that government has a responsibility to act in the public interest by helping address issues like access to affordable, sustainable energy.
Angela notes that her district stretches from Superior to the Bad River area, encompassing nearly the entire south shore of Lake Superior and bordering approximately 10% of the world’s fresh surface water. As she puts it, “water is life.”
She also believes that division is one of the biggest barriers facing society. By reconnecting with one another, Angela says, people often discover they share many of the same hopes and goals for their communities and the future.
