Gays Mills Spring Festival

Gays Mills Spring Festival

2022 Gays Mills Spring Festival Spring Festival arrives in Gays Mills Saturday and Sunday, May 7th & 8th! Come tour one of Wisconsin’s prime apple growing areas while they are in bloom! Enjoy the annual Festival of Folk Music and Dance, as well as a flea...

Rivers show us patience

I’m late for a meeting. The car in front of me travels slowly, cautiously navigating every curve of the road along the Kickapoo River. I consider passing, yet the double yellow line offers a constant companion to travelers of Highway 131, where sight lines disappear...
Fishing on a Driftless Summer Day

Fishing on a Driftless Summer Day

Authors note: I wrote this story for Tapestry Magazine ten years ago, but it could have happened yesterday. Rivers have had their say again, and seldom have they spoken so loudly. Halfway through summer, people throughout the Midwest are still wrangling with the...

The fall color celebration

Everyone loves a party. Whether it’s 50 years of marriage, 25 years of a career, another year among the living, or another workweek among the gainfully employed, we humans gleefully celebrate that which we have accomplished or successfully put behind us. And so it is...
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