Last week I spent a hands-on day at the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum in Two Rivers, WI. What a great day! For all you typophiles (yes, there’s actually a forum for you), Hamilton is the largest collection of wood type, wood cuts and historic printing machines in the world. It’s a fully functional museum, which means artists, […]
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Gratitude of Great Proportions
Two weeks ago I went with friends to the Christkindlmarket in Milwaukee. It was a super fun time. Just so you know, the market pictured in the link is from Nuremberg, Germany, not Milwaukee—our Milwaukee market was at the former Pabst Brewery, a community of 25 well-worn corporate and manufacturing structures like the one pictured above. Even though our market […]
How ‘Local’ Builds a Community (or Not)
Last month we visited our son in South Bend, Indiana. When he first moved there I was real excited. South Bend is a college town, meaning it should be cultural, historical, eclectic and all-around cool. Right? Uh, in reality, not so much. Okay, so South Bend’s not horribly bad. But it’s also not quite what you’d […]