by Anne Kingsbury
For the Dishwashers
All things are one
If heart delight
in working, if hands
join the world right.
Wendell Berry, 1982
after noon meal and
before Woodland Pattern reading
fish
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Our MIlwaukee – Lakefront Brewery
Sibling Rivalry Brews Success
by Jim Loew
One part sibling rivalry. Two parts brothers. One part beer. Could be a recipe for disaster.
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Local Food! Local Fish! Milwaukee Urban Fish Production
Jon Bales is founder of a new Milwaukee organization, the Urban Aquaculture Center, dedicated to demonstrating how urban fish production can become a sustainable foodproducing industry. Milwaukee has an unprecedented opportunity to remove itself from its rustbelt city image and move in a purposeful direction using a new set of tools. It can do this by embracing the latest in green innovation and becoming recognized as a leader in urban agriculture.
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Groundswells and Ripples: The Community and the River
Unlike the lengthy waterways of Green Bay and Chicago, the rivers of Milwaukee do not go much of anywhere. You can’t get to New Orleans or even Madison by canoe from here, but you can dock a really big boat. “The port of Milwaukee has the broadest bay and deepest channels on the western shores of Lake Michigan,” observed local author John Gurda while summarizing the history of our city through the lens of its three rivers.
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Boxed In!
by Jackie Reid Dettloff When Tom Tolan wrote his community history of Riverwest, he began by focusing on the Milwaukee River: Today, many people think of it as little more than a boundary between neighborhoods, a basement for bridges but I want to give the river its proper due as the most important constant in the […]
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