Though the grocery store up here carries both the NYT and the Tribune, I’ve been getting most of my news from Wisconsin Public Radio—its “Ideas Network” station is both more reliably interesting than WBEZ and a good white noise cover when the frogs of sunset get too deafening. I caught this interview with Bill Bishop, … Continued
Hee. Glad he included the “ostensibly.” Takes the pressure off. Seriously, though, VI is a founding member of the indispensable LTH Forum, and his blog is a great source for info on Chicago farmers’ markets, CSAs, and local eating in general.
We made the NYT. Also, Don Hall, aka “Angry White Guy in Chicago,” calls the tech “perfect.” Because, really, it’s all about the lighting . . . (He liked, you know, the text and the acting too.) Here’s a couple of photos from this weekend’s final shows at the Chopin (thanks Kristin!):
Brian Ellison confirms what I’d suspected: Cedar Ridge Winery and Distillery, original producers of Death’s Door gin and vodka, drowned along with the rest of Cedar Rapids. Flood recovery prospects are unknown. Most of Death’s Door’s distilling was recently moved over to the new Yahara Bay distillers in Madison—started by Nick Quint, the cousin of … Continued
Anyway. That was 2004. I kept a loose eye on various island-related developments (the wheat, the beer, the vodka) but it wasn’t till 2007, when I realized I was still thinking about this (and, really, starting to feel a little nuts for doing so), that I got it together to do something about it. One … Continued
One sad testament to the speed of my, uh, creative process is that most of the “work” I’ve done since getting here has to do with transcribing the 25 hours of tape I recorded last summer. Sigh. Actually, it’s laborious, but not unpleasant—I have a weird, masochistic love for transcription. It forces you to stop … Continued
Oy. One more reason to leave town for the summer.
OK. What am I doing here, exactly? It started with a hotel. I first came to Washington Island in 2004, in the thick of winter, to write a travel story about a new hotel and restaurant started by a friend of a friend. It was snowing, I’d never been to Door County before, and as … Continued
In Midwest Floods, a Broad Threat to Crops (NYT) Midwest Flooding Raises Costs of Staple Crops (NPR) Wisconsin Crop Losses Will Total Tens of Millions (Wisc. State Journal) And then this, from Wisconsin Public Radio yesterday (third item): Flooding May Affect Organic Certification