Wisconsin People & Ideas
In early December we traveled to Elkhorn, Wisconsin, to take some photographs of author and photographer Richard Quinney at his family farm for an essay in the forthcoming Winter 2018 issue of Wisconsin People & Ideas magazine.
When you were three years old, I knocked on the men’s room door,and, taking your hand, opened the door cautiously.
I’d never been in a men’s room before.Urinal against the wall, a small white cake
Beneath the butcher-wrap paperlay Formica of gray with black flecks,and after my mother and her side-kick
So tell your story, each version more distantand yet … still fresh, never finished.
No matter whether death was suddenor a gradual decline,
You need to remind the mind over and over againto come back to quiet,
to the dark hollows of where words and no wordsare found, like hunting morels in a forest.
As my mother tells it,when the Great Warcame my Great-GrandmotherGuarneschella lied. Datesare relative. Domenicowouldn’t be 16. Wouldn’t beconscripted. Didn’t matter.
An annual Christmas Bird Count in Blanchardville provides participants with a sense of community and pride in their conservation efforts.
Our connections to the places we call home transcend easy categorization and are often wrought with contradiction.
Just as wine has a distinct terroir, cider takes on the characteristics of the area in which the apples are grown.
For some people, there is only one story that carries them through an entire lifetime.
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