| JUNE 2010 |
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Keeping House
Community Banks ensure stability
GHOSTLY HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS decorated with For Sale signs. Foreclosure papers posted in bank lobbies. Desperate families hiding from eviction notices.
Marilyn Leys |
New energy, new shops springing up on Main Street
SPRING IS FULLY IN FLOWER now in Southwestern Wisconsin, and with it the transformation of Viroqua’s Main Street. Downtown anchor Bramble Books opened up in its new spot a couple blocks south; Café Optimo hopes to open this month; and Tulips, a shop that prides itself on odd and beautiful gifts, is rounding out the south end of Main Street.
Helen Beutler |
Bright lives, small cities
BIG-CITY LIFE may offer more opportunities than smaller towns and cities, but that hasn’t stopped people from leaving them: Since the 1990s, people are being drawn away from large metropolitan areas and into small towns. There is something about the lifestyle in big cities that isn’t working for a lot of Americans.
Christian Kayishema |
May Interns
I was delighted to have two interns, Sung Du (Alex) Kim, (of South Korea) and Christian Kayishema (of Rwanda) working with me for the month of May.
Anne O'Connor |
Raw food diet
LONG, LONG AGO, Gabrielle Daniels, of Viroqua, used to eat the typical Western diet: drinking cans of soda, grabbing a Quarter Pounder with cheese and fries from McDonald’s. Over time, she learned that what she ate affected her mood, her body, her life.
Sung Du Kim |
Grief that lingers
MY HIGH SCHOOL class at Kickapoo lost a member to a car wreck during my senior year, and it has become part of our personal histories. The kids involved were coming back from a play practice. One young man, Phil Fedor, was seriously injured; the other, Jim Bender, died.
John H. Sime |
When children die
THERE IS NOTHING in this world quite so perverse as a child’s coffin. Many of us in this community were reminded of that fact this past month when two of our children, Arrow Wildhack and Nathan Gunderson, died in a car accident.
Matthew Voz |
Life’s big questions in the wings
PEOPLE OFTEN ASK me why I am so interested in birds and bugs. And the real answer is I don’t know. Certainly I have said something akin to “if you can’t put it into words you don’t understand,” but as I have gradually recovered from my formal education I realize what is most important often suffers from description.
Daniel Peak |
The world according to pie
MAY IS ALWAYS a month to get through. There’s a lot of joy in May: The lilacs bloom, schools are wrapping up for the year, the busting out of spring and warm weather in the Midwest means that everyone has a concert or a festival or a play.
Anne O'Connor |
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