This week, as we put the final polish on this issue of WMH, Madison was visited by a preview of high summer. The many months of waiting for spring—or, as some call it in Wisconsin, second winter—were suddenly and gloriously answered by several days of azure skies, bright sun, and a high heat index. This taste of summer hints at good things to come for my family and friends: canoe camping on the Wisconsin River, hiking at Devil’s Lake, s’mores by firelight, picnics and outdoor weddings, the farmer’s market on Madison’s Capitol Square, and, of course, a visit to the family cabin up north (ours is almost on the right side of the border, in the part of the Upper Peninsula that supports the Green and Gold).
This issue of…
