History 419, 42 years later

History 419, 42 years later

by | Nov 2, 2010 | Soviet Union, Wisconsin

September 7, 2010 A clap of thunder ricochets down Park Street in the space between the Mosse Humanities Building and Chadbourne Hall. Winds off Lake Mendota drive sheets of cold rain upon students in flip-flops and T-shirts, who screech and laugh, excited this first...
On the Edge of Things

On the Edge of Things

by | Jul 6, 2009 | Wisconsin

To grow up in the northwoods was to grow up on the edge of things. On Mother’s day, Highway 17 filled with cars heading north past patches of dirty snow that remained still in the shaded ditches. On Memorial day the flow reversed, the trees growing bare, the winds...