
In this issue: Our editor calls in the historians and our director asks us to think beyond the sandbags. Sculpture Tour Eau Claire expands its collection of three-dimensional art and Love WI gets some love from the Wisconsin Humanities Council. Artisanal cold-pressed oils add value as well as challenges to Wisconsin farms and UWM researcher Rebecca Klaper challenges our understanding of how nanoparticles affect the creatures living in our Great Lakes. Krista Eastman's essay reflects on the weird and wondrous Wisconsin Dells and our gallery section ambles through the barnyard iconography of artists SV Medaris and Craig Blietz. Did we mention we've got the the best of 669 poems and 87 stories from our state poetry and fiction contests? Boom!