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Editorial

Jessica Becker

Let me be the first to welcome you here, to this special issue of Wisconsin People & Ideas on the theme of Finding Home. Each of you is an honored guest in this conversation.

Jessica Becker

Welcome to the fall issue of Wisconsin People and Ideas magazine.

In this issue, we’re giving a fresh voice to Wisconsin’s landscapes, traditions, and cultural communities.

Photo of Magazine Editor Sandra Barnidge

I’m always restless during the muddy awakening of fresh spring. I’ve become an avid gardener in recent years, and I love this seasonal transition between rest and renewal.

I’m honored to be the new editor of Wisconsin People & Ideas. I’ve been writing about scientists, artists, community leaders, and historical figures connected to our state for almost 20 years.

It’s the time of year when I knew I would really miss Wisconsin.

Last year, after almost 30 years of living in Wisconsin, I realized it was time to come home. I now reside in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, with the Blue Ridge Mountains floating along the skyline like a backdrop to a movie.

There’s nothing quite like holding a magazine in your hands.

Summertime, according to Gershwin, the living is easy, and summer in Wisconsin is indeed a golden time, a brief season that evokes leisure, cold beer, boats, lakes, and beaches, all of which we touch on in this, our summer issue.

The days are getting longer, the sun is shining on the thick drifts of snow we got last weekend, and my old dog, Clio, my companion for the past fifteen years, sleeps beside my desk as I think about winter, and spring.

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