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COVER STORY
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FINE ARTS
R6 Foxy Finds
FOOD & DRINK
L12 A Taste for It
R2 Brewmaster
R4 From the Wine Cave
R4 Tricia’s Table
ENTERTAINMENT
R8 Dobie Maxwell
R12 Postcard from Milwaukee
R14 Concert Watch
R18 Live From Japan
R19 Kurt Shipe
R20 CD Review: Boxkar
R22 Jazz at the Trout
R23 Eminance Rocks!
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L14 Hallow-Ian Raises Money
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CONTRIBUTORS
You’ve found another spectacular issue of the SCENE,
and within you’ll enjoy the story of a splendid artist who
resides in Green Lake. Years ago Leslie Trewyn taught art
to hundred’s of students that went through the Hustiford School system, and
has for many years traveled the world, and Wisconsin which has inspired her to
create some of the most colorful, fantastical, and sometimes whimsical imagery
you’ll ever lay eyes upon.
Mike Mentzer tells the story of an old Elm Tree that made my eyes well up.
How does that happen? It’s a tree for gosh sakes! Mentzer is as eloquent with
the written word as they come.
Marty-in-the-Morning of B-104 Radio is again climbing to the roof of his
studio located at OshVegas Palms Resort in a selfless effort to raise money. The
broadcast spectacle if referred to as Hallow-Ian, named for a young man who
has been fighting the good fight against cancer for some six years now, and it
involves Marty doing a radio broadcast marathon for as long as it takes to reach
a set goal in dollars raised from the roof in all of Mother Nature’s late October
elements.
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BY MICHAEL CASPER
Leslie Trewyn knew what she was des-
tined to be from the very start. An artist.
Born Leslie Christenson in Wausau,
Wisconsin it was her aunt Louise Mayhall
who was an early inspiration. Aunt Louise
was an art teacher and artist. And Leslie
made up her mind upon graduating high
school and heading off to college at the
University of Wisconsin in Madison, that
she too would follow the same creative
career path.
“My aunt, as an artist was a weaver,”
Leslie said “not much older than me, and
a real influence when I was young. She
had a beautiful contemporary house when
nobody else did in the 50’s, I patterned my
whole life after her. I never varied. I went
to college, and was determined to be an
artist and an art teacher, and that was it, I
never looked either way.”
In 7th grade Leslie was already painting
murals on the walls of her mother’s friends
homes, and at her dentist’s office.
“We grew up on a farm,” Leslie said “so
you see a lot of chickens, sheep and cows in
my works. The red barn series is based on a
mill in the town of Nelsonville, Wisconsin
which is where my dad grew up, and it
always meant a lot to me.”
She has different versions of the red
barn.
“Sometimes is has a water wheel, some-
times it doesn’t. At times the wheel coun-
terbalances the architectural straight lines.”
The Christenson’s moved near Green
Bay.
“My dad was a teacher in DePere,”
Leslie said “but also wanted a farm, so we
lived on a farm, and I took lessons from
anyone who was supposed to be an artist.
Six kids in our family, I was the oldest, and
I was the artist, my sister was the smart
one, my brother was the runner, and we
on down the line we each had our designa-
tions...so I had to live up being an ‘artist.’
(laugh) I majored in art at Madison, then
taught art for thirty eight years in Hustis-
ford, first grade through twelfth.”
Leslie met her future husband while in
high school.
“I was a senior,” she said “and when
we first started going together he had
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never been on a farm. And he just loved
it, thought it was the most romantic
thing, just like my father. I bought a calf
for him, put a big bow around his neck,
set him on his front porch, and gave it to
him. That started it. We eventually got
married, bought a farm just outside
of Waupun, both taught and ran the
farm and raised the kids.”
After Leslie’s husband suddenly
passed away at the age of 49, Leslie
stayed in the contemporary home
they’d built together for another
eleven years.
“Until one day while driving
through Green Lake,” Leslie said “I
thought I could live here. There was
a lot of art happening here, and a
lot of people interested in art. So I
sold the farm, bought this home, and
built this studio.”
The colors Leslie uses are vibrant.
“The painting is the thing,” Leslie
said “I just need something to inspire
me. After my husband passed away,
and going on by myself, I did a
whole series I called ‘the
strong woman,’ reflecting
on being alone, but being
strong. It’s something that
gets me going. I don’t try to
reproduce something that I
saw, but rather I’m inspired
by what I saw. I graduated from Madison
in the 60’s, and everyone was painting very
abstractly, and I was influenced by that
style, like that of Albert Burri who worked
with collage, putting burlap, papers and
metals into the canvasses...I really loved
that. Eventually I got to meet Fritz Sholder
who was a well known artist Native Ameri-
can artist from Santa Fe, his works are very
large, figurative pieces.”
Ten years ago, Leslie met
Tom Detweiler, who is a retired
professor of environmental
studies at the University of
Michigan.
“Tom and I went on an
eighteen day walking trip
through the Cotswold’s in
England which inspired
another series of landscapes
and farm animals. Not long
ago we went to Croatia, and I
painted several works based on
Dubrovnik which is a walled
city on the Adriatic Sea. It was
attacked during the Serbian
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Leslie paints approximately 50 works
every year.
“About one a week,” Leslie said. “This
has been going on for five decades. When
I was teaching I didn’t get as much done,
but I was showing my work all over from
Chicago to Denver to Ann Arbor. We just
got back from Door County, and I couldn’t
wait to get back! To get into the studio and
get to work.”
Over the years Leslie has done several
triptychs, or a sequence of three paintings.
“I’ve started work on a series that will
eventually have six pieces to it,” Leslie said
“whose theme is the destruction of the
environment. I’ll get back to it eventually,
but I have to do what I feel like doing at
that moment.”
Traveling the world has inspired her
different successions of works.
“We went to eastern Europe,” Leslie
said pointing to other works on her studio
walls. “Those are influenced by, and are my
interpretations of Prague. When we went
to Portugal I thought the patterns of the
landscape looked just like my paintings
(laugh) rather than the other way around.
We went to Scotland, and I painted this
particular town, but of course it’s not really
that specific place, but rather my interpre-
tation. It’s the painting. I have to balance
the blacks, and whites, and shapes, and get
enough curving line.”
Not every painting Leslie creates just
flows.
“Some I’ve nearly worried to death,”
she said “because it just wasn’t working, I
kept changing it, and changing it. That’s
the thing. You have to know when it’s
working. You can teach art, and I’ve taught
a lot adult art classes, but if you don’t ever
‘get’ what makes it work or not work, what
makes it come to life. You can’t teach that.
The painting has to come to life. I think it
has to begin to breathe. And sometimes it
just doesn’t. And you start over, and over
again. But when it does work, sometimes
I have to leave the studio (laugh) I get so
excited!”
Back to ‘square-one’ is without fail, an
option.
“I love to paint, I have time to do it,”
Leslie says “if I ruin something, or if I do
something to a painting that isn’t working,
I feel perfectly fine starting over. I’ll paint
over what I’d done, then start drawing into
it again until I start to get something that
looks interesting.”
Her dog, Gus is always underfoot in the
studio.
“He and his ball were an inspiration
on a painting I started a year or so ago,”
Leslie said “it tells about how I work...or
don’t work. The dog and the ball, and I
just let the painting alone for a long while.
I didn’t think I would paint over it, but it
wasn’t working, and I didn’t know what
to do with it. Then part of a poem by
Raymond Carver came to me, and a few
of its verses are, ‘And did you get what you
wanted from this life even so? I did. And
what did you want? To call myself loved,
to feel myself loved on the earth.’ I had
always loved the poem. The line, ‘did you
get what you wanted from this life?’ and all
Gus wanted in life was the ball. And I was
finally able to finish the painting.”
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So what if we’re a mite late getting to
the party when it comes to 11:11 Comfort
Food (417 S. Main, Fond du Lac; 920-
933-6566)? Readers of another paper serv-
ing its home town have awarded the eatery
specializing in hamburgers and beignets
numerous readers choice awards in its first
year of operation. Good for them, really.
But the place hasn’t come under yours tru-
ly’s scrutiny, has it? Not until now, anyway.
Yes, generous, if imprecisely allotted
ground beef patties (the large variation of
which I was told could have a two or three
ounce variation by an enthusiastic cook/
clerk at my latest visit) may be 11:11’s
savory calling card. But sometimes the
contrarian in me gets the better of my culi-
nary senses, such as my first time at 11:11,
when a veggie burger seemed like the thing
to try.
Think of it this way: if the place can
do right with its sandwich option by carni-
phobes, they must be doing spectacularly
well by the sammies they serve with actual
moo meat, right? That theory proved cor-
rect.
Whether or not the veg’ patty was a
store-bought Garden Burger, another com-
mercial variety, or one of 11:11’s own
concoction, it’s a winner. Neither
with that weird, overtly faux
taste and texture combo
of Boca products nor a
crumbly morsel
lacking
h e f t
w h e n
encountering teeth, it’s worth a meatless
return trip for that reason alone.
Then there’s the bun. The fluffy, hearty
wonderful bun. With that and the assort-
ment of free condiments - ketchup, yellow
mustard, pickle chips, onions (give me
them both raw and fried, thanks) and may-
along with some sautee’d mushrooms and a
hard fried egg, my server thought my cre-
ation to be one especially apt for breakfast.
He was partly right. I’d eat it again at any
time of day.
The traditionalist in me still wanted to
try 11:11’s French fries. Double fried, says
the signage. One might think that going
into the bubbling breach twice would
render the skins-on strands of potato
greasy to the second power. Perhaps amaz-
ingly, that’s not really the case. Julienned
with the same sort of disregard for propor-
tional propriety as the burgers, they may be
Fondy’s most generous portion of pomme
frites, too. What some establishments
would call their large is what 11:11 calls
its small. Not overly salty, they’re worth the
caloric splurge.
A couple of subsequent visits led me to
the their bovine flesh specialty. Lest you’re
famished as the day is long or have a metab-
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single burger may suffice for most patrons.
Especially if said patrons have eaten early
the same day and may plan to do so later in
the same 24-hour period. The same array
of toppings that festooned my veggie patty
complemented my burger at least as well as
they did my first 11:11 entree’.
I must have been close to starvation
to order the Hump Burger, a hamburger
topped with a heap of smoky pulled pork.
As if I wouldn’t down the whole thing? Of
course, I did! The same option
is available for the slit
and flat-top grilled
Nathan’s Beef Frank-
furters they serve
by the vaguely
perverse name of
the Hump Dog.
T h e s a m e
t r e a t m e n t
could likely
be had for their crispy chicken sandwich,
B.L.T., Patty Melt, fried fish sammitch
and, if one desires being a contrarian to the
point of contradiction, the veggie burger.
My next visit will likely be for one of
11:11’s inverted bun specialties. Yup, the
proper top and bottom of the bun are put
in the middle, so the flatter insides can be
grilled. Apart from the Patty Melt with its
Provolone and fried onions, that includes
an assortment of increasingly complex
grilled cheeses. Adding bacon, a thin
burger and egg doubles the price of the
original model, but it’s still under $8. And
if you wanted to add some pulled pork,
that shouldn’t be any trouble, either.
And the beignets? A Fondian friend
who has visited 11:11 both with his chil-
dren and alone tells me that he wishes
the French, fried, pillowy pastries that
resemble the love children of doughnut
holes and ravioli were made on premises.
Maybe that would make them better, but
the ones they import from New Orleans’
Cafe’ Du Monde are still tasty as they
ought to be by my taste buds. The black
raspberry, hot fudge and salted caramel
dipping sauces (one comes with an order)
differently enhance the crunch, doughy,
chewy morsels covered in cinnamon &
sugar, or powdered sugar. A small order is
a big-enough-for-two, eight pieces. Sauce
cups could be wider to facilitate dipping a
beignet’s entire side, however.
Special mention must be made of
11:11’s restrooms, gender-coded with
Popeye and Olive Oyl. Not only do the
paintings of the cartoon sailor and his best
gal fit within the Hollywood theme of the
framed pictures adorning 11:11’s back wall,
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BY MICHAEL CASPER
One would think that, when it comes
to fundraising, there aren’t that many “new
tricks” relative to being creative and think-
ing outside of the box. And you would
probably be right. So the question begs, “If
a Morning Radio Show host climbs up on
a roof, in the challenging weather period
known as late October, will anybody hear
him?”
“Thankfully,” says Marty in the Morn-
ing from B-104.7 Radio, “they have, and
with an even higher goal this year than
last, we hope they continue to open their
hearts, and their wallets. Our listeners, our
advertisers, and even people off the street
who just plain care, have continued to step
up in a huge way these past 2 years. I get
a lot of looks from people driving by off
Highway 41, and just stop to see why a
guy in a parka is sitting at a picnic table on
top of the roof at OshVegas Palms. Quite
frankly, even my family says the same
thing!”
2015 will mark the 6th year of
B-104.7’s “Hallow-Ian” campaign.
“The first few years were truly a labor
of love,” Marty said “back in the first 3
years, we would take over the Cow Palace
(I mean, with a name like that, how could
you go wrong?) on the Fond du Lac
County Fairgrounds, and spend the better
part of the week turning it into a true,
lightly-haunted attraction. Back then, the
school’s typically had the last two days of
the month off for Teacher’s Conferences, so
it was a natural to hold grade school and
middle school dances on Thursday night,
a dance for the high school’s on Friday
night, and then an adult-driven event on
Saturday, ranging from bands to comedi-
ans, to a Dean Martin impersonator. It all
was received very well, but it was also a ton
of work.”
That first year, Ian Locke was chosen
as not only the recipient of the fund raiser,
but it was also his name that was used for
the event, and it’s stuck ever since.
“For those that don’t know,” Marty
explained “Ian was a sophomore in high
school that first year. He was injured in
a football game, taken in for X-rays, and
it was then they diagnosed him with bone
cancer in the leg. My daughter Sydney,
who was in Ian’s class, came home that day
from school and was just torn up about it.
She asked if B-104 could assist in helping
promote the
brat fry cookout
that was being
coordinated,
and I said we
could. I helped
out that week-
end, and was
just amazed at
the outpouring
of support from
the community.
And it was also
that night when
I realized, we needed to not only do some-
thing bigger, but also something that might
have traction and be able to thrive for years
to come. And that’s when we decided to
have the inaugural ‘Hallow-Ian’ event.”
The Cow Palace in Fond du Lac was
already reserved for dances, so turning
the 3 nights into a fund raiser was an easy
choice.
“I will admit before Ian was diagnosed
with bone cancer,” Marty said “I was look-
ing at a way to offer kids something to do
with two days off, give parents a break,
and maybe make some money in the
meantime. But when Syd came home, and
I saw the tears in her eyes, and I saw the
hundreds and hundreds of people come
out for the brat fry...that’s when I kind of
felt God slapped me up side the head and
said ‘this money-making idea will now be a
fundraiser.’”
It’s been a labor of love ever since, and
a real source of pride for Marty and B-104,
and their partners.
“The neat part for me this year has been
running into the Locke family,” Marty said
“and hearing how great Ian has been doing
(now a Junior in college). I’ve also run
into Amy and Aiden, the parents of Baby
Mateo, who was our 2nd year recipient.
I can’t believe how big he has gotten, and
how much Amy and Aiden are doing with
him. We saw them on at least three occa-
sions this year at various fundraising walks
and runs that we are a part of, and it’s the
three of them, and it’s just cool to see.”
It was after the 3rd year of spearhead-
ing Hallow-Ian that Marty decided he had
to do something different.
“I knew I was never going to be able
to build a huge committee to move Hal-
lowIan forward,” Marty said “and I really
wasn’t relishing the thought of asking
people who had given so much already of
their time and talents, to give even more.”
The 3rd year involved Terah Bowe and
her family, and we were raising money for
Baby Clay. Not only was Terah and her
family a very deserving family, Baby Clay
was truly in need and as Marty said, “at
the end of the week, when it came to writ-
ing the check, it just seemed like so much
work, and just too little payoff.”
“There was never any family or indi-
vidual that ever said anything,” Marty said
“but it was my own personal affirmation
that we were fighting a
forest fire with a squirt
gun. And that’s when I
came up with the idea to
get up on the roof.”
One could argue that
sitting on a roof, raising
money, is not all that
novel.
“But, not only am
I on the roof,” he explained “but I’m also
broadcasting live from there. I do my
show from 5a-10a, then I cut in with live
breaks when Jen, Skye and Stevie V are on.
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It’s actually a lot of fun. As long as I don’t
have to repeat the length I did the first year
length, I think we’ll be good.”
That first year on the roof, in 2013,
Marty set a goal to raise $10,000.
“I looked
at the checks
w e w e r e
able to write
the first 3
years,” he
said “and I
wanted to at
least match
that in our
first year on
the roof. I
wasn’t con-
cerned that
we could
raise it, as I
knew folks
in our area
love a chal-
lenge. And once people knew that 100%
of what we raised was going back into the
local communities, and with zero expense,
I just thought we couldn’t lose. My only
concern was how long it would take.”
And that first year?
“33 hours,” Marty laughed. “Which
I can tell you not only sounds like a long
time, it was a long time. It was the first
time on the roof, the only things I was
really concerned about were weather and
bathroom facilities. The weather kicked
my butt a bit, as it was cold, windy, rainy,
some snow flakes. We had it all. I was most
proud of the fact that I didn’t have to come
off the roof for any bathroom breaks. I just
waited to pee until it was dark!”
33 hours of broadcasting later, and
Marty’s goal of $10,000 was achieved. And
the fun was just beginning. Now came the
chance to give the money back…to food
pantries, where he teamed up with Web-
ster’s Pick and Save in Ripon to purchase
pallets of canned food items. He then trans-
ferred those cans to places like Farmer’s and
Merchants Bank in Berlin, where for every
can of food donated, they would match it
with a $1 cash donation.
“I remember calling them, just to con-
firm,” Marty said “I mean, I was sitting on
1,047 cans of food, and was hoping there
was not some type of limit I couldn’t go
over. Thankfully there wasn’t, and we have
been working with them ever since.”
As Marty points out, raising the money
locally, expense-free, and then being able
to give it all back again locally, really hits
home with so many people.
“We realized there were so many great
fund raisers and chari-
table events,” he said
“and so many deserving
individuals and families.
I just knew to stand
out from the crowd, we
had to be different. I
don’t have a committee.
We don’t do raffles. It’s
pretty simple. I go up on
the roof, and I broadcast
live until we reach the
total for the year. Last
year I raised our goal
to $15,000. I was a bit
nervous. We started out
very slow. Then again,
the weather was not
great. I think folks loved
hearing the wind whip me around on air,
and they wanted to see where my break-
ing point was. And that breaking point
happened when Cary McGrath climbed
the ladder to drop off a check, and scared
the long underwear right off my backside!
But it was all worth it the end of the day
when Kevin Michels from Michels Pipeline
called on the phone and asked, ‘how much
longer are going to be up there? I’d kind of
like to get you down from there, but we are
having way too much fun listening to your
teeth rattle on air.’”
The wildest moment of the Hallow-Ian
2014 Roof Top Marathon was when attor-
ney Nate Olson, normally reserved, usually
in a suit and tie, showed up.
“He was wearing a Captain America
costume,” Marty laughed “he and his wife
Carla had the kids out for a party or trick
or treating. He pops out of the car, walks
right to the building, and simply asked
what number was needed to get me off the
roof. We were close at the time, but I also
knew time was not on my side. I was wet
from the rain, I was cold, I was hungry,
I was tired. Bear Grylls would not have
liked my mindset. But Nate wrote a check
for the balance to get to the goal, and off
the roof I came. Our goal of $15,000 was
achieved in just over 15 hours.”
And the goal this year?
“I haven’t decided yet,” Marty said “It’s
got to be bigger, obviously. I’m just not sure
how much bigger I want to make it this
year. $20,000 seems logical, then again…”
Marty does a number of things that
allows everyone a chance to get involved.
Donors can “sponsor” an Hour of Music
while he broadcasts; you can also “pay
to play” meaning, you may just hear the
Carpenters or Metallica on B-104 during
the marathon; and you can also sponsor an
appearance during the Marathon, and join
Marty on the air, on the roof, or send an
employee, a family member, et cetera.
“The one thing I wanted to accom-
plish,” Marty said “was being able to help
a great many more people, and try to make
a difference within more communities. I
remember sitting in a meeting back in Feb-
ruary, at an auto repair shop. A young mom
with 3 young children was at the counter, in
tears. Her van had just been fixed, and she
was looking at the bill. The mechanic was
struggling, but he managed to tell her that,
while fixing the original issue, they found
one other item that really needed atten-
tion. That set off another round of tears.
The mom was doing all she could to keep
it together. But she had done all she could
to round up enough money to get the first
repair done. While she was trying to figure
out what to do, I called the mechanic over
and asked what the additional repair was
going to cost. It wasn’t a huge amount, but
at that time the additional $348 seemed
like a mountain. I told the mechanic to go
ahead and fix it, and that we would write
the check for it. When he went to tell the
Mom, another
round of tears
broke out. It was
unreal, but it’s
the reason we
do what we dd...
helping others.”
For Marty in
the Morning, it’s
really what he
believes his and
B-104.7’s main
purpose is.
“There are a
ton of great radio
stations, and great
media outlets
in the area,” he
said “we all need
to make money
to survive. I just
think how you
choose to do that
is our biggest difference. We could prob-
ably make more money, doing it the way
others do, but it wouldn’t be as much fun.
I’d have to wear shirts and ties every week,
and I’m pretty sure most of the other com-
panies would frown on me for peeing off
the side of the building. There are perks to
owning your own building!”
Find out more about Hallow-Ian 2015
at www.B104online.com or to contact
Marty in the Morning directly to donate or
help out, call the studios at 920-230-1047.
Hallow-Ian 2015 Roof Top Marathon
takes place Friday, October 30th, at Osh-
Vegas Palms Resort in Oshkosh.
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GREEN CHOICES // MARVELOUS ELM TREE
Our Marvelous Elm Tree...
BY MICHAEL MENTZER
The second Titan of the Dutch Gap in
Fond du Lac is about to follow the smoky
destiny of the first.
Already, its outermost branches have
been chewed to tiny pieces and chips by
fearsome blades and funneled into the bed
of a truck to be used as mulch for other
trees and shrubs throughout the Fox Valley
and beyond.
The massive stump, 18 feet in cir-
cumference and six-feet, four-inches in
diameter, has encountered a similar fate at
the mechanical hands of relentless grind-
ing technology that reduced the massive
American elm platform in the ground to
tiny pieces of valuable hardwood mulch.
A mound of black dirt and newly
emerging weeds mark the place where the
massive elm took root and stood for an
estimated 180 years — seven generations
in human terms.
Massive logs and limbs await chainsaws
and splitters at the end of Elizabeth Street,
a one-block dead-end roadway that nudges
the bank of the Dutch Gap and opens
the door to the footbridge that connects
with one-block Guinette Avenue on the
other side, where the first titan, a 170 to
180-year-old bur oak crashed under its
own weight in July of 2010 on the Mike
and Paula Sergi property.
Much of the stately elm will be cut into
firewood — 10 cords or more or about
1,280 cubic feet, according to one estimate
(similar to the Sergi oak) — and some of it
hopefully will be set aside for loftier pur-
poses that could preserve the memory for a
generation or two.
Citified wildness incarnate
We were blessed to know the Big Elm
well for more than 30 years. Our children
and grandchildren ran circles around it and
freed cicadas from crevices in its bark. The
tree anchored our front yard and the south
end of Elizabeth Street and encompassed
all the natural beauty that it shared with
the citified wildness around it.
We marveled at its stature (nearly
90 feet) and its dominance. Its majes-
tic canopy served as an environmental
umbrella and as a resting place and home
to countless birds. It was a favored place for
great horned owls to exchange their haunt-
ing mating calls on cold dark December
nights.
It was the kind of living, breathing
creature that could never be taken for
granted. Even though some people cursed
its piles of leaves on their lawns, drive-
ways and roofs in fall, and the seemingly
millions of tiny elm seeds in their gutters
and downspouts in spring. I never did. I
enjoyed living in its shadow. I was glad it
was there, but I knew deep down for years
that its days were numbered.
I remember a particular winter night
standing beneath the tree in the grip of a
howling wind in the aftermath of a sleet
storm that must have coated the limbs in
a ton or more of ice. In the gale, the Big
Elm flailed its limbs and shattered the icy
cast into splinters of ice that rained down
to form a sparkling layer of crystals on the
street.
In an instant, amid the tree’s distinc-
tive groans there came a deep, resounding,
twisting, giant walnut crack that meant
only one thing to me — a monstrous limb
crashing to the pavement and crushing
me like an owl squeezing the life out of a
rabbit.
Running for my life
I ran away like a little kid, stumbling in
my panic until I was beyond the canopy.
There were no broken limbs (the tree’s or
mine) but I’m sure that particular night
was the time when one of two braided
steel cables that bolstered the elm’s stability
snapped like a piece of brittle string.
I realized that the double-trunked tree
could someday split in two and crash down
on our house. I admit it: I worried about
it whenever the wind howled
or thunderstorms passed
by. I blindly trusted that we
would be safe. Fortunately,
that’s the way it played out.
Thanks to Bob and Jane
I was thankful then and ever since for
the foresight of Bob and Jane Flaherty
who owned our house before we did. They
took steps to add steel cables to the Big
Elm and chemically treat it to buy time in
its fight against elm bark beetles and the
Dutch Elm Disease fungus that the beetles
transmit.
We watched over the tree and con-
tacted Brian Weed, the city’s arborist, with
questions and observations about the elm.
He did his best to safeguard it, and twice
in recent years treated it chemically in
the hope of holding off the inevitable. He
warned us that age and disease were work-
ing against it.
On top of that, reconstruction of the
street several years ago, deep excavation
and installation of a new water main
resulted in extensive cutting of major roots.
No doubt, street construction also worked
against the elm.
Despite all of that, the Big Elm
emerged in spring with seeming strength
and vitality. By mid-summer, though, the
telltale signs were visible in the shriveled
leaves and several leafless branches. By late
summer, the tree wore the look of winter.
The inevitable was at hand, but still it
seemed like death came too quickly. We’re
never quite ready, no matter what the mind
tells us, for the emotional ending.
A four-man crew from Neenah arrived
early in the morning a few weeks ago to cut
the tree down.
“They told us it was big but not this
big,” the lead man said as he leaned back
to look toward the top of the tree. “This is
going to take a while.”
In fact, it took the crew about 10 hours
to cut the tree down, strap the trunk in
pieces to a flatbed and clean up the street.
It took nearly 180 years for the vener-
able old tree to reach its zenith and 40
man hours to cut it almost even with the
ground. A few days later, one man with
a grinder spent a few hours erasing the
stump from the landscape.
A tug on the heartstrings
It’s not pleasant to witness the end of a
once living entity of such natural beauty,
grace and power. Watching the inevitable
take place tugs at the heartstrings.
That was evident in the reaction of
virtually everyone who knew of the tree.
Friends and neighbors and many people
we didn’t know arrived to take pictures
and pay their respects. It was almost like a
funeral visitation for an esteemed member
of the community.
I was anxious to know if the distinc-
tive elm might be in fact two trees that
had grown together early on. The crew
confirmed that it indeed was one tree. The
main trunk rose to a height of about six
feet, then split into two additional trunks,
giving the impression of two trees and
spawning the fear that they could split in
two and fall in two different directions,
flattening anything in its descent.
I also wanted to know if insects and
rotting were at the heart of the main trunk.
That was not the case. The trunk was solid
and viable within its entire 18-foot circum-
ference. I had hoped to count the rings but
I never got the chance.
I’ve often thought about those two
titans of the Dutch Gap, two wood-making
pillars of power a mere 50 feet or so apart.
A buffalo connection
If the estimates are correct, they were
here when Native Americans and buffalo
They took root on the frontier in a slow
and deliberate era and departed in the
lickety-split age of the Internet...

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FOOD & DRINK // BREWMASTER
BY STEVE LONSWAY
When it is beer article writing time,
we choose our beer source differently each
month. This month we went to the nearby
beer store and purchased a beer that could
have easily been grabbed from any of our
brew team’s refrigerator.
This month we are focusing on All Day
IPA from Founders Brewing Company
of Grand Rapids Michigan.
We poured our 12 ounce “samples”
into imperial pint glasses. An immediate
rush of fine bubbles rushed to the surface
as it was poured leaving a perfect head of
dense foam. The liquid itself is a beautiful
pale golden color with just a hint of amber
tones. Tiny bubbles hung on tight to the
sides, but continued to release from the
bottom surface of the glass.
The nose of this brew is reminiscent of
a fresh flower garden with tons of emphasis
on citrusy fruits. Orange and grapefruit
are the most common descriptors our team
used with pine being mentioned as well.
All the fine citrus notes and fresh hop
tones works so nicely with a very pleasing
yeast scent and the all-important bready
malt characteristic. This is what hop heads
crave (we know because we are all guilty as
charged)!
The flavor of the All Day IPA is packed
with a gentle yet obvious hop character
that works so well with the fruitiness the
yeast attributes. With a mere 4.7% alco-
hol by volume, it is crucial that any one
component of this beer doesn’t overwhelm
the other senses. The way the malt, hops
and yeast all coexist is the reason this beer
is found in the personal stock of many
brewers, at least on our team.
Great yeast flavor, malt backbone is
evident but certainly not aggressive, and
the hop bill (measuring 42 International
Bitterness Units) is maximized to perfec-
tion to create a great IPA flavor profile
without the common side effects of IPA’s
i.e. extreme dryness, bitter, over hopped.
The finish is soft, and lingers in flavor.
When it’s all said and done, it is a very
refreshing libation that keeps on giving.
On to the makers; Founders Brew-
ing Company started back in 1996 and
was renamed just a year later to Canal
Street Brewing. At the time, their label
proudly boasted breweries of old that once
resided on Canal Street in Grand Rapids,
Michigan. Just above the black and white
picture of the Canal Street breweries was
the word “Founders.” This eventually
caught on, and is now used as the brewing
company’s brand name.
Founders has gone on to win several
national beer awards from prestigious
events like the World Beer Cup and the
Great American Beer Festival. Their brew-
ery and a few of their beers rate near the
top on popular beer sites such as Ratebeer
and BeerAdvocate.
The brewery’s tap room deserves a visit
if in the Grand Rapids area. What awaits
you inside is a
large bar room
and an impres-
sively long bar.
Seperating you
from the outside,
is a series of glass
panel doors that
fortunately were
open on the day
we visited just a
month ago. On
the other side of
the opened doors
was a very invit-
ing outdoor patio
area that made you feel as though you’re in
your best friends back yard. Back inside, a
large stage separates you from the brewery
windows that overlook a beautiful collec-
tion of stainless steel tanks where the magic
happens!
With a food menu consisting primarily
of appetizers, soups, salads and sandwiches
made with locally baked bread, we are
confident you will find a beer, or two, that
pairs well with each dish. It certainly helps
that they offer 12 to 14 different brews at a
time including a hand pulled selection just
to entice. A large company store meets you
upon exit and too, deserves a visit. Cutting
edge merchandise for a class act brewery!
FINAL WORD: Exceptional session
pale ale, and a great brewery worthy of a
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BY KIMBERLY FISHER
Portugal is a wine region full of oppor-
tunity with a wide variety of landscapes
and growing conditions perfect for viti-
culture. Such diversity allows Portuguese
winegrowers to produce a broad range of
wines. Water and sunshine are the life-
blood of the vine. There is ample rainfall
along the coastal regions, while the interior
of Portugal offers a much drier, hotter
climate.
In the 1960’s and 70’s, inexpensive,
semi-sweet, slightly effervescent roses such
as Lancers and Mateus became popular.
From the 1980’s onward, we find many
producers making still wines. In 1986,
entry into the European Union spurred
research and financial investing towards
building many new state of the art winer-
ies.
The Minho coastal region is home to
the famous white wine known as Vinho
Verde. Vinho Verde is made from the
grapes of Alvarinho (also called Albarino in
Spain), Loureiro, the most planted white
grape variety and Trajaduar. Vinho Verde
thus is not a grape, but rather a name that
means green wine. It can be white, red or
rose. Some notable producers are Twin
Vines, Aveleda and Octave.
Mountains can play a significant role
in viticulture by protecting vineyards from
excessive rainfall and stressful wines. Vine-
yards planted on high elevations, experi-
ence cooler growing conditions, keeping
acidity in check and allowing the grapes
to maintain a balance between sugars and
tannins.
In the Douro region, the Portuguese
have experienced great success with forti-
fied wine. Portugal offers over 300 grape
varieties in the country and they are avail-
able as a pure expression of a single grape
or as a blend.
Some of the best Porto (Port) wines
are made in the traditional manner. Porto
can be made from one harvest or a blend
of years. It is the aging period that deter-
mines the wines style and how it may be
labeled. The two main types are the ruby
or vintage style, which is bottled young,
and the wood or tawny style, which is aged
longer in a cask prior to bottling. Tawny
ports are aged at least six years in the cask
before release.
Primary red varietals included in the
making of Port include:
Touriga Nacional: An early ripening
variety that typically produces lower yields.
Aromas include mulberry, black cherry,
violets, rose petal, strawberry, cardamom,
bergamot and gamy scents reminiscent of
smoked meat.
Tinta Roriz: Also known as Tempra-
nillo in Spain, this grape produces wine
with lots of sugar, body, astringency and
potential for longevity. The nose is often
floral, herbal and spicy while on the palate
are berry and licorice flavors.
Tinta Barroca: This is a thinned
skinned grape growing best in cooler sites
along the Douro where it is a component
of blended dry wines and sweet Porto’s.
It produces wine with softer tannins and
lower acidity and adds good, deep rich
color and a floral fruity nose.
Tinta Cao: This grape takes a long time
to develop and lends longevity and com-
plexity to blended wines. It produces wine
with floral and fruit flavors with a hint of
spiciness.
Touriga Franca: The last of the top
five grapes in the Douro this is the most
aromatic with scents of herbs. The grape
contributes good sugar, acid and fruit
qualities.
Some key producers from the Douro
are Cockburns and Dows. Dows BomFim
is a wonderful expression of still wine com-
prised of the top five red varietals. Whether
you are interested in refreshing whites, still
or fortified wines from Portugal, now is the
time to tap into the undiscovered area that
offers so much adventure.
Kimberly Fisher is Director of Fine Wine
Sales for Badger Liquor & Spirits
From the Wine Cave
FOOD & DRINK // FROM THE WINE CAVE
FOOD & DRINK // TRICIA’S TABLE
INGREDIENTS:
1 1/4 cup Whole Wheat Flour
1 large Egg
2 tablespoons Butter
2 teaspoons Baking Powder
1/2 teaspoon Cinnamon
1 cup Milk
3/4 of one 15oz. can of Pumpkin Pie Mix
1. In a large bowl, combine all ingredi-
ents and mix.
2. Spray skillet with non-stick vegetable
oil, heat over medium heat
3. Spoon two tablespoons of batter onto
skillet to form each pancake.
4. Cook 2 minutes, or until they begin
to bubble, then flip and cook 2 more
minutes.
Pumpkin!!
INGREDIENTS:
2 Large Eggs
1/4 Olive Oil
1 cup canned Pumpkin Pie Mix
1/4 cup Milk
3/4 cup Sugar
1/2 teaspoon Salt
2 teaspoons Baking Soda
1 teaspoon Allspice
1 teaspoon Cinnamon
1 3/4 cups all-purpose Flour
1/2 cup Chocolate Chips (optional, but
why not?!)
1. Preheat over to 350 F
2. Lightly spray muffin pan with veg-
etable oil, or use cupcake liners
3. Combine eggs, oil, pumpkin mix,
milk and sugar in medium bowl and
blend with mixer.
4. Add salt, baking soda, allspice, cinna-
mon, flour and chocolate chips and
mix by hand until all dry ingredients
are moistened.
5. Spoon into muffin pan, filling each
cup 3/4 full.
6. Bake 20-25 minutes.
7. Cool on a wire rack.
October is the month of fall harvest and I want to share Cousin Earl’s Great Pumpkin
Pancake recipe, and Grandma’s Pumpkin Muffin recipe with you!
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Cheers to living
artFULLY in the
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hand-painted flower by Art on Artesia (artist: Lisa
Ritchie) $55. Find this happiness-inspiring piece and
many more artisan offerings at The Plaid Squirrel
Art Gallery and Gift Store on the east shore of Lake
Winnbago, north of Fond du Lac. This delightful
shop is owned by two sisters who seek out unique
items created by local artists, upcycled home decor,
furniture, garden pieces, jewelry and more.
Colorful woven print fit-and-flare shift dress by Everly. Lightweight
polyester fabric makes this an easy, comfortable layering piece. Works
double time as a tunic over leggings or skinny jeans. $47 in women’s
sizes S-M-L. Found at The Revival in Menasha and Waupaca where
you are sure to be delighted by their chic, unique, affordable fashion,
home décor, and art.
Indulge your Wisco state enthusiasm with these
eye-catching tile coasters in a variety of fun patterns
and colors. Found at Market Boutique on Main,
Oshkosh, and made by the shop’s owner/artist Connie
Day. $2.95 each or $10 for a set of four. Market
Boutique on Main specializes in unique handmade
jewelry, soaps, candles, t-shirts, hair accessories,
scarves, kids clothing, baby gifts, blankets, home décor
and more. The store
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Bring in Autumn in style with this
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Elegant Tahitian pearl accent stretch bracelets by GELLNER
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ENTERTAINMENT // DOBIE MAXWELL
BY DOBIE MAXWELL
If March comes in like a lion and goes
out like a lamb, October is the opposite.
For those of us living anywhere north of
the Mason-Dixon line this is the month
when the first tangible evidence appears
that Old Man Winter is indeed on the way
back to extinguish our summer fun yet
again.
Daylight shrinks and darkness
increases. Leaves fall off trees and green
grass fades to brown. It seemed like an
endless baseball season in April, but now
it comes down to the last few games and
the last two teams. That tradition has been
a big part of the American experience for
generations.
And then there’s Halloween. That was
also an American tradition long before
I ever showed up, but now like America
itself it has gotten completely out of hand.
When I was a kid, every kid in every
neighborhood would put on some cheesy
cheapo half-baked usually discount store
bought “costume,” and then hope to load
up on as much free candy as possible in the
allotted time slot.
That time slot was only a couple of
hours on a single day, and that was it.
The day or night may have been different
depending on what city or suburb one
happened to live in, but other than that
it was a self-contained activity that came
and went without incident every year.
Everybody heard about the apples with the
razor blades in them, but nobody I know
had ever actually gotten one.
Even if I had, there was nothing to
worry about because I wouldn’t have eaten
it anyway. What kid in the history of
Halloween ever went trick or treating for
produce? Ick. Poo. Yuck-o. If there wasn’t
enough raw sugar to rot out each and every
one of our molars we would not consider
it.
Halloween was surely not for health
nuts in my neighborhood. The only nuts
anybody had any time for at all were in our
Snickers bar. Apples were absolutely out
of the question and the only thing close
to a vegetable that was part of the deal
was candy corn – and we didn’t even like
that. This was the one day a year when the
inmates were running the asylum and it
was intoxicating.
After an entire annoying childhood of
being mercilessly reminded to “eat your
vegetables,” and dealing with cruel and
unusual punishments like “no dessert for
you,” nobody was about to put a stop to
a one-day organized orgy of epic edible
proportions – condoned by all our parents
no less. There would be plenty of time for
liver and salads later. Apples would fall into
that category too.
Four out of five dentists may have rec-
ommended Trident for their patients, but
this was the day that fifth guy got to let his
hair down and work his magic. No Trident
today, thank you. I will be too busy trying
to see how many Smarties I can eat while I
have two Tootsie Pops in my mouth.
We got our candy, and that was it for
another year. Mission accomplished. It
didn’t matter that 99.999% of the “cos-
tumes” had ripped, fallen off or were com-
pletely hidden within the first five minutes
of trick or treating by a winter coat because
it was 35 degrees. Dracula was a much
more likely candidate to get frostbite than
to bite anyone’s neck. No harm, no foul. It
was no big deal.
And then, without notice, out of
nowhere...somewhere between whenever
my last year of trick or treating was and
the advent of adulthood, the whole game
changed. Halloween somehow became a
national holiday for adults, and gigantic
megastores opened everywhere that sold
only costumes.
Not only that, every Goodwill and
Salvation Army started hawking complete
costume sections, and it hasn’t stopped. It
happens earlier and earlier every year, and
pretty soon every holiday will overlap. The
Easter Bunny will be dressing up as the
Tooth Fairy,
and Santa’s
sleigh will be
lit by a jack-
o - l a n t e r n
s h o u l d
Ru d o l p h’s
c r i m s o n
schnozz ever
need a year
off, or he
asks for a
raise.
T h i s
disturbs me
to the core
as a regular
haunter of
thrift stores
wherever I go hoping to score an original
copy of The Declaration of Independence
for a quarter and sell it on “Pawn Stars,” for
three million bucks because Chum Lee has
access to the check book. This is cramping
my style.
I’m supposed to be the one doing the
haunting. How am I supposed to be able
to come across a highly valued resalable
bauble or trinket when the first five aisles
of every thrift store I find from the 4th
of July through October are nothing but
witch’s hats and devil’s pitch forks? What
gives?
When did Halloween erupt into such
an enormous event where seemingly func-
tional adults put painstaking effort and
energy into a costume they’ll wear for a
few hours, just one time, and never again?
It kind of reminds me of a bridal gown
actually, but that’s another rant for another
time.
It just seems like such a waste to me
for so many people to go so off the deep
end with costume creation on Halloween
in recent history. How much do they
hate who they are in real life that they’ve
decided to go all out to create a new image
so different that hopefully their friends and
family are not even able to identify them?
And even if they happen to succeed, it’s all
over around midnight.
When I was a kid, I only remember a
handful of adults dressing up. I can’t say
for sure what the exact total was, but it was
under ten. Now that I think about it, it
was probably under five. The only adults
I can ever recall getting into costume for
trick or treat lived in the scary house down
at the corner of the dead end street in the
neighborhood where nobody went any
other time of the year.
For all anybody knew they could have
dressed like tarantulas and werewolves
every other day of the year too. Those were
the kind of people that when the baseball
went into their yard we just left it there.
Nobody had the guts to risk our lives over
a stray baseball. We’d rather use an apple.
I know I sound like my grandpa, but
times they are a changin’ and I’m not sure
I like it. Gramps led a respectable and pro-
ductive life, but never once did I see him
dress up for Halloween – and I saw him
a lot as a child. I was raised by my grand-
parents, and as often is the case, the Hal-
loween costumes of children have a high
amount of influence from their parental
figures. Mine sure did.
It wasn’t fun having to go trick or
treating in back to back years as Ben
Turpin and Rutherford B. Hayes in the
70’s when all my friends got to be cool
people like The Six Million Dollar Man or
Charlie’s Angels. But at least it was all over
in a couple of hours every year. Now it’s
totally out of control, and candy isn’t even
involved. I’m on the wrong planet and I
want to go home.
Dobie Maxwell is a stand up comedian and
writer from Milwaukee. To see him on stage
at his next hell-gig and read more of his
musings, visit dobiemaxwell.com
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OUTDOORS // ROB ZIMMER
BY ROB ZIMMER
Part one of a two part series
Whether you’re interested in growing
your own backyard chickens for eggs,
meat, or both, there is no better time than
now to get started.
Kylea Dowland of Forest Junction
began this year after learning more about
the topic at NWTC where she is currently
enrolled studying sustainable agriculture
and horticulture.
“When I grow up, I want to be a farmer.
I eventually want to buy farmland and start
a little homestead,” Kylea said. “I’m study-
ing sustainable agriculture and horticulture
at NWTC, and this past semester I took an
organic poultry class. Chickens are prob-
ably the easiest livestock animal to start
with on a farm. You just have to take a leap
and get them; you learn as you go.”
Benefits of backyard chickens.
There are many great benefits to raising
chickens at home in the backyard. Grow-
ing chickens and having them around the
yard and garden goes far beyond just the
obvious benefit of fresh eggs and poultry.
Maintaining a flock of the birds helps
homeowners to be more sustainable and
“go green” in many other ways as well.
Chickens are excellent pest control,
consuming large numbers of slugs, beetles,
grubs and other harmful insect pests.
Chicken manure, or droppings, is one
of the best sources of natural fertilizer for
growing your own food and other garden
plants.
Chickens act as your own living com-
post pile, turning your kitchen scraps and
waste into a valuable garden amendment.
Many families find that the responsi-
bilities of raising chickens are an excellent
way to help teach children and youngsters
the ins and outs of taking care of not only
animals, but themselves as well.
In our society, many families and
children have gradually lost sight of our
connection to our food sources. Raising
chickens in the backyard is a great way
to help reconnect our youngsters back to
the roots of food production and where
healthy foods come from.
Dowland’s dream is to take her pas-
sion for backyard chickens to
a whole new level, raising her
flock sustainably, organically
and naturally.
“I’m interested in raising
laying hens,” Dowland said.
“My dream is to have a poul-
try farm. I want to raise them
on pasture, and incorporate
a permaculture design with
different shrubs, berries, fruit
trees, and perennials to create
a sustainable and permanent
landscape for the chickens to
forage through.”
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Getting started
There are many great sources to help
you get started raising backyard chickens
at home.
The first is to check legal requirements
or regulations in your specific community.
If unsure, contact your local city hall, town
hall or village hall to determine if any limits
exist on raising chickens.
Decide whether your birds will be free
range throughout your property, or kept in
a coop or pen.
“Advice for people to get started? Just
get the birds,” Dowland said.
Do some general research, but don’t
spend too much time pouring over articles
and websites. The best way to learn is to
simply obtain the birds and begin your
adventure. Once they are at home, the
chickens basically take care of themselves,
as long as you provide their basic needs of
food, water and shelter.
“You can’t know everything and under-
stand everything until you experience it for
yourself at home,” Dowland said. “Chick-
ens are really easy to take care of. You don’t
have to babysit them.”
There are many sources of birds online
and locally. Online swap and sale websites
such as Craigslist offer a great choice, as do
local retailers such as Tractor Supply Com-
pany and Purely Poultry in Fremont. Visit
purelypoultry.com
“We started out with three roosters from
a friend,” Dowland said. “This was my trial
run to see if I could keep them alive. This
was my first experience with farm animals.
I let them live in the barn and free range
through the yard. They slept on top of a
wood pile at night, knowing exactly when
to return to the barn at 6 pm. And they
went out again in the morning to eat bugs,
all on their own.
The flock soon began to grow.
“My uncle gave me one hen to add to
my three roosters. Eventually we found out
she was laying eggs, then sitting on them.
We decided to let her incubate and hatch.
She hatched six babies and taught them
how to search for bugs in the garden.”
As Dowland quickly discovered,
predator control was an issue, especially
with free ranging birds, even within urban
limits.
“My biggest problem was with preda-
tors,” she said. “Having a secure coop at
night will solve some of your problems,
such as owls or raccoons. It’s helpful to
have shrubs or brush and shaded areas for
the birds to take cover in. You also have
to think about how you will protect your
birds from stray dogs or cats.”
COMING NEXT MONTH...
More on starting from scratch, predator
control, maintenance and winter protection
of your first flock.
OUTDOORS // ROB ZIMMER
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ENTERTAINMENT // POSTCARD FROM MILWAUKEE
What Becomes a Power Pop Legend Most?
BY BLAINE SCHULTZ
As a description, “Power Pop” ranges
from a ‘thumbnail illustration,’ to ‘useless.’
Most listeners can name bands that fall
into said genre, but damned if anyone can
really define it. A genre that began with
the Beatles, it was coined as a term over a
decade after the British Invasion held sway.
Yet some artists who got lumped into the
melting pot were made up of much more
than lazy rock critic jargon.
Tommy Keene, Marshall Crenshaw, the
Cowsills, the dBs and the Bangles all made
wonderful pop music, but to straightjacket
them with the power pop albatross would
be selling them short.
Tommy Keene released his first solo
album in 1982, flirted with major labels
and even retirement, but is still at it. At
times, Keene’s best work picks up Big Star’s
torch before Alex Chilton made a wide
left turn. An early Keene EP included a
killer version of Alex Chilton’s “Hey! Little
Child,” as if to say, “If you don’t want it,
I’ll take it!”
A few years ago he played an off-night
gig at Milwaukee’s Mad Planet to less than
20 fans. But you would not have known
that from the energy Keene projected from
the cramped stage. It was all systems firing
and a real treat to those in attendance.
Under his own name and collabora-
tions with Robert Pollard of Guided by
Voices (Keene also toured as guitarist for
Paul Westerberg), Keene has recorded well
over a dozen albums. Laugh in the Dark
continues with his melodic hit-and-run
style of songwriting coupled with slashing
and brawny guitars. Then again, “All Gone
Away” suggests introspective album cuts
that can only come from time experiment-
ing in the studio.
But Keene relies on his stock in trade:
crunching, melodic rock and roll. “Dear
Heloise,” and “Last of the Twilight Girls,”
are radio hits in an alternative universe.
Detroit-native Marshall Crenshaw
absorbed that city’s myriad influences,
from the MC5 to soul, to jazz, before
making his name portraying John Lennon
in Beatlemania (and later Buddy Holly in
film). His 1982 debut album snapped,
crackled and was brimming with great
songs that still hold up to this day – last
year’s Milwaukee gig at Shank Hall with
the Bottle Rockets as his backing band
featured a healthy dose of those songs.
Crenshaw adapted to the changing
tides of the record industry by taking
matters into his own hands. He offered his
fans a subscription of vinyl EP’s. #392:
The EP Collection assembles some of the
highlights. Often working with co-writers,
Crenshaw’s best songs here grow on the
listener and just seem to go deeper.
A slow driving lament like “Red Wine,”
offers up details like a finely tuned short
story. Likewise, “I Don’t See You
Laughing Now,” offers up a series
of observations on a power broker’s
tumble to the bottom.
Unafraid to make music for
grown-ups, Crenshaw thrives on
challenging himself and trusting
his listeners to follow. Case in
point is his cover of
Burt Bacharach and
Hal David’s “Close
to You”, where
Crenshaw illumi-
nates the slow, thick
arrangement of a
song often brushed
off as mawkish.
This collection
finds Crenshaw
navigating the vaga-
ries of the modern
music business,
determined to keep on evolving. You can’t
ask for any more from an artist.
The Continental Drifters may go
down as the great lost American band.
Originally formed as an ad hoc band play-
ing in a Los Angles club called Raji’s for
door money, the original lineup centered
around Dream Syndicate bassist Mark
Walton, Ray Gancheau, Gary Eaton
and Carlo Nuccio (from whose long ago
band New Orleans group the name was
revived. Not exactly household names but
musicians who could write and play well
enough to build a word of mouth weekly
following. Eventually heavyweights like
Jackson Browne wanted to sit in.
The first disc of Drifted: In the Begin-
ning and Beyond collects the band’s LA
daze. Fresh from
qui t t i n g R EM,
former dB Peter
Holsapple originally
joined to play key-
boards only. But the
key element was the
addition of Susan
Cowsill and Bangle
Vicki Peterson. It is
Peterson’s “Who We
Are, Where We Live”
that kicks off the col-
lection. Nothing less
than a tour
de force,
Pe t e r s o n
conjures a
lyric and
sonic wake.
To see a
later version of the band play this live was
as powerful as an experience gets.
The band recorded a 7” single, and in
2003 a German label released their debut
LP. The next chapter found the band relo-
cating to New Orleans. Following the Los
Angeles riots sparked by the police beating
of Rodney King, Nuccio returned to New
Orleans, followed by Ganchea. The rest of
the band, save Eaton, also eventually made
the trip to NOLA.
The second disc collects eighteen
covers, and if this was all The Drifters
ever released, it would be a treasure.
Radio broadcasts, tribute albums and live
performances reveal a sympathetic group
of musicians paying reverence, balanced
with a devil may
care attitude. On
the live cut of
the Beach Boy’s
“Farmer’s Daugh-
ter,” Peterson asks
Cowsill, “Are you
ready?” and her
reply is, “No. But I’ll do it anyway.”
This was a band that willfully chose
to ignore genres. They covered soul (“You
Don’t Miss Your Water”), bubble gum
(“Tighter and Tighter”) and invited me to
sing Neil Young’s “Cinnamon Girl” with
them when my band opened for them at a
Milwaukee gig.
The final eight cuts on the collection
are Fairport Convention-related tunes.
Deep, heartfelt, and steeped in British
Folk -- these Sandy Denny and Richard
Thompson-penned tunes offer but a single
indication of where this band might have
drifted.
The Continental Drifters – In the
Beginning and Beyond (Omnivore
Recordings)
Marshall Crenshaw – #392: The EP
Collection (Red River)
Tommy Keene – Laugh in the Dark
(Second Motion Records)

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ENTERTAINMENT // CONCERT WATCH
BY JANE SPIETZ
Grammy winning singer-songwriter-
activist Melissa Etheridge is a multifaceted
artist who is as passionate about the causes
she believes in as she is about her music.
She has been a champion for social justice,
gay rights, medical marijuana and the fight
against cancer.
Etheridge’s music is powerful, engaging
rock ‘n’roll with captivating lyrics that cover
the raw emotions associated with love and
heartbreak. She won an Academy Award in
2007 for Best Original Song for “I Need to
Wake Up” from the film An Inconvenient
Truth. Her 12th collection of original
material, This is M.E., is a collaboration
with numerous talented artists. Etheridge
surprised her wife, Linda Wallem, at their
2014 wedding by performing “Who Are
you Waiting For,” a beautiful cut from the
album.
I recently spoke with Etheridge who
was in Nova Scotia on the solo leg of her
current tour.
Jane Spietz: How much are your lyrics a
reflection of your own life?
Melissa Etheridge: Very much so. I’ve
always believed that the singer-songwriter
was one who took their experience in life,
their views, or their lens and then crafted
and presented them in an art form. I cer-
tainly have artistic license. Often I would
say I’m drinking whiskey when the reality
was I was drinking apple juice. When you
write what you know, it’s the most power-
ful.
JS: You were one of the first artists to
come out as gay. How and when did you
realize what your
sexual orienta-
tion was?
ME: Ver y
early on. I grew
up in the ‘60s
and ‘70s so it
wasn’t talked
about, and if it
ever was, it was
sneered at and
was a very scary
thing. When
I first heard of
homosexuality, it was an awful thing. Once
I got into junior high, I realized that my
friends were having crushes on boys. I just
wanted to be with my friends and maybe
there was something different with me.
When I got to high school, I realized that
my physiology and my whole emotional
world was about women, and I realized,
uh-oh, I’m one of those ‘things.’ It’s an
awful feeling for an adolescent to have to
go through that time anyway, but then to
realize you’re somehow wrong – it’s very
difficult. But I was able to go through it.
JS: What was your reaction when the
Supreme Court ruled that gay marriage is
now legal in all 50 states?
ME: I have always deeply believed in
my country. I believe in what our forefa-
thers built – the Land of the Free. I believe
in what freedom is and the right to be who
you are. I just believed that my country
was the place where this could be worked
through and happen. When I saw it go to
the Supreme Court, I was very confident
they would rule in our favor. Our highest
court said we, the majority of us, believe
this is a right, and this is a human right.
If you got a problem with it, it’s your
problem. You can’t take the right away
from another person because you have a
problem with it.
JS: You have stated that you were grate-
ful for your diagnosis of breast cancer.
ME: I was on a journey of success
and living life very fully, with a very high
stress job and not really taking care of my
body. When this cancer knocked me out, it
shown a huge light on what health is, and
how much I have a responsibility to my
own health. The key to it all is inflamma-
tion, and about lowering the inflammation
in my body. I realized it’s about diet and
about what I eat. Now my whole focus is
eating foods that are close to the ground.
Whole vegetables, fruits and grains that
are as close from farm to table as I can
get. And exercise, like yoga and walking.
Keeping stress levels low. Stress is a killer.
Next week I’ll be eleven years cancer-free!
They have been very healthy years. I’m very
grateful for my cancer diagnosis. It turned
my life around.
JS: You covered Janis Joplin’s hit “Piece
Fox Cities Performing Arts Center
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ENTERTAINMENT // CONCERT WATCH
of my Heart” at the 2005 Grammy Awards
sporting a bald head from chemotherapy.
How did it feel to represent such a powerful
woman singing an incredibly moving song
while you were going thru an extremely
challenging time in your life?
ME: When the opportunity came my
way, it was a very personal moment for
me. I didn’t realize the social impact that
it would have. In that moment, I wanted
to stand up and say, ‘I’m beating this, and
it is not going to get me down. I’m going
to show you that a woman can be tough!’
Janis was singing and representing women
in a time back in a time where it was very
different. This was a perfect chance and
opportunity for me. It was one of my
favorite things I’ve ever done.
JS: You are an advocate of cannabis use
and an entrepreneur with your own line of
cannabis products.
ME: When I went through my cancer
treatment, I was in California, a medicinal
state, so I was able to get medicinal can-
nabis. This plant can do what five medica-
tions can do without the harmful side
effects. It’s so not about getting high at all.
It’s a medicine to relieve nausea, depres-
sion, pain, to stimulate appetite. It kept
me out of the hospital. I felt I needed to
become an advocate for this. I met a lot of
people in the business and ended up seeing
that it’s a business in desperate need of help
and organization because they’ve been out-
laws for so long. I started to become more
involved with it as a business. I believe it’s
the next big business because people are
seeing all of the benefits from it. The main
thing is the social stigma that we have to
get over and the ridiculous laws that are
placed on a harmless plant. The cannabis
infused wine I’m making is a wonderful
meeting place for people to relax with a
glass of wine at the end of the day.
JS: Melissa, we look forward to your
performances in Appleton and Milwaukee,
Wisconsin in October.
ME: You’re going to hear the songs you
know and love, some deep album tracks,
and a couple of new tracks. I hope that
everyone who comes to my show leaves
feeling a little bit better.

SPORTS // PACKERS @ PLAY
BY RICK BERG
They don’t call it Dream Drive for
nothing – that block-long corridor across
the Lambeau Field parking lot from the
Packers locker room to Oneida Street,
where the players ride kids’ bikes on their
way to and from practice during train-
ing camp each summer. It is the stuff of
dreams, especially for undrafted players
like Don Barclay. Don’s dream began to
take shape on May 7, 2012, when the
Green Bay Packers signed him to a con-
tract as an undrafted free agent out of West
Virginia University.
Like all Packers rookies, he took part in
the team’s decades-long tradition of riding
kids’ bikes to practice during training
camp. Like all Packers undrafted rookies,
he knew the numbers were stacked against
him, competing not only against veterans
who had already earned their stripes, but
also against drafted rookies, who at least
had the advantage that the team had a
vested interest in their success.
Here’s the thing though: Don Barclay’s
story is a lot like a lot of other Packer
hopefuls who start off with a dream to
play professional football despite being
undrafted out of college. Two differences
from most other players:
1. Don made it, earning a spot on
the Packers’ 53-man roster after his
rookie training camp in 2012.
2. Every day in training camp since his
rookie year four years ago, he’s ridden
the bicycle of Kaden Appleton – a
young man who has come to think
of Don as his big brother, and whose
family has come to think of Don and
his wife, Brea, and son, Cooper, as
part of their extended family.
That unique relationship started during
Don’s rookie year, when Kaden began to
understand that Don and his teammates
got all their training camp meals at St.
Norbert College, where players are housed
during training camp. The food there is
good, of course, but it’s hardly home cook-
ing. Kaden felt bad for Don, so he asked
his mom, Lori Appleton, if he could invite
Don home for dinner. Lori, who can best
be described as a “training camp mom,”
quickly agreed. Todd and Lori Appleton’s
three daughters and Kaden’s older sisters
– Sydney, Aubrey and Kennedy
– had already established a family
tradition of riding with players to
practice during training camp.
But the relationship with Don
and his family has evolved into
something special. Since then,
Don and Kaden have gone hunt-
ing together and Don attends
Kaden’s hockey and football
games. The Appleton’s and their
daughters babysit Cooper during
training camp and during games
so Brea can watch Don play.
And the Appleton’s, as a family,
traveled more than 700 miles to
Morgantown, West Virginia, for Don and
Brea’s wedding in March 2014.
“Don is like a son to us,” says Lori,
whose daughters are only a few years
younger than Don and his wife.
All you need to know about the
depth of the relation-
ship between Don
and Kaden is to listen
to Kaden talk about
his most memorable
moment with Don.
That occurred in the
summer of 2014,
when Don tore his
anterior cruciate
ligament (ACL) in
the first few days
of training camp.
Don, originally a
backup offensive
lineman in his
2012 rookie year,
had filled in with
critical success
throughout the
2013 season when
starter Bryan Bulaga had torn his ACL
during the 2013 training camp. Now Don
was going to miss all of 2014. Kaden was,
if anything, more devastated than Don. It’s
still one of Kaden’s most emotional memo-
ries. His “big brother” was going to miss a
critical year in his NFL dream.
They made up for it. They went shoot-
ing and hunting together. Don attended
Kaden’s games. And when the 2015 season
d a w n e d ,
Don was back in action at training camp.
When Bryan Bulaga went down again with
injury in the 2015 season opener, Don was
back at right tackle for the Packers.
It’s not by chance that the Barclay’s and
Appleton’s have become so close.
“Their family is just like ours,” says
Lori, who says her family has also formed
a strong bond with Don’s parents, Don Sr.
and Dana. “They just have a very strong
sense of family values.”
Don agrees.
“I grew up in a family that was always
doing things together, especially outdoors.
Those are the memories I’ve always had
of growing up. I think that’s why we all
(the Appleton’s and Barclay’s) feel so good
together. We feel comfortable together. We
appreciate the same things.”
That’s also why Don considers himself
lucky to have signed on with the Packers,
in a community much like the one where
he grew up in Cranberry Township, Penn-
sylvania, with hunting, fishing and tailgat-
ing so much a part of the local culture.
The Appleton’s and the Packers “have
always been there for us,” Don says.
A field of dreams? That’s not just Lam-
beau Field for Don Barclay. It’s the whole
experience that began that day in 2012 when
he chose Green Bay as his future home.
Rick Berg is a crusty old business writer and
editor based in Green Bay. His wife, Sherry,
who actually knows how to talk about
“feelings,” participated in the interview and
contributed greatly to this story.
Don Barclay is Living the Dream
And so is Kaden Appleton — the young man whose bike Donhas ridden at Packers training camp for four years
Don Barclay, his wife, Brea, and son, Cooper, often attend Kaden Appleton’s football and hockey
games. (Photo by Lori Appleton)
Sydney and Aubrey Appleton
and their sister Kennedy (not
pictured) often babysit Don’s
son, Cooper. (Photo by Lori
Appleton)

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ENTERTAINMENT // LIVE FROM JAPAN
BY JAMES PAGE
Developer: Atlus
ESRB: Mature
Release Date: 08/18/2015
System: PlayStation Vita
RATING:
Graphics: 3.0 out of 4.0
Game Play: 3.0 out of 4.0
Personal: 1.0 out of 2.0
Total Score: 7.0 out of 10.0Player’s Page:
Dungeon Travelers 2: The Royal Library
& the Monster Seal
In a time long ago mankind was
plagued by hoards of evil monsters which
brought death and destruction to every-
thing in their path. The monsters marched
under the banner of the evil Demon God
and carried out her vile will for genera-
tions. The forces of mankind waged a fruit-
less battle against the Demon God’s evil
legions for countless generations, but they
were unable to gain any ground and fought
a defensive battle.
The monsters had many devastating
powers, but they had a special ability which
was too much for mankind to overcome.
Despite the strength and skill of mankind’s
best warriors the monsters could not be
killed; although they could be defeated, the
monsters would eventually re-spawn and
continue the fight.
Over time, mankind developed specific
classes of warriors to battle the monsters;
fearsome knights, powerful magicians,
crafty thieves, and mysterious maids would
all battle against the endless forces of the
Demon God. Each new class was able to
bring new powers in the fight against the
monsters, but none were able to turn the
tide of the war. That is until the royal
alchemist developed a new power, and
taught it to a special class of warriors. The
new warriors were called Libras, and they
had the power to seal monsters into special
books and permanently remove them from
the battle.
With the new class of warrior, mankind
was able to slowly turn the tide against the
Demon God and her monsters until the
day she too was eventually sealed away, and
peace was brought to the world.
Mankind enjoyed many years of peace
and prosperity, but all good things must
come to an end. An evil wind is blowing
and with it new monster are appearing and
wreaking havoc. In addition to the normal
monsters which were a petty annoyance,
new mutations are appearing and posing
a great risk to everyone. It is now up to a
young group of adventurers to stem this
vile uprising before it leads to a level of evil
mankind has not seen ages.
Dungeon Travelers 2 is an interest-
ing role-playing game from Atlus which
places the player in command of a group
of adventures tasked with investigating
mysterious monster outbreaks. The adven-
turers will travel to different locations via
a world map to unravel the cause of each
monster outbreak and put an end to the
ferocious monsters.
At its core, the game focuses on turn
based combat and dungeon exploration,
but from an outward glance the game can
be subject to some severe scrutiny and
criticism. Some of the criticism is valid,
but if one focuses too much on the quick
negative glances it will prevent one from
playing a surprisingly fun game.
The basic format of Dungeon Travelers
2 bears a resemblance to several titles of
Atlus’s Etrian Odyssey series, but the capa-
bilities of the PlayStation Vita allow for a
graphically superior experience.
The player will form a party of unique
adventurers discovered throughout the
course of the game. Each adventurer has
a specific class and abilities, but they can
eventually switch classes to suit the needs
of the player. The player will take their
adventurers to various themed dungeons
which are explored from a first person per-
spective, and are full of random monster
encounters. Each battle is a turn based first
person experience in which the player and
enemies trade back and forth blows until
one side is defeated. All defeated monsters
are collected by a passive Libra character
and can be turned into ‘sealbooks’ which
can give characters special stat boosts and
passive abilities.
The criticism against Dungeon Travel-
ers 2 comes up when looking at the game’s
subject matter and presentation. Dungeon
Travelers 2 is considered a fan service
game and focuses its marketing primarily
towards a single audience; in this case it is a
male audience. Fan service games often use
sexuality and innuendo as a plot device and
art style. In the case of Dungeon Travelers
2, all the playable characters and monsters
are women, sexual tension is prevalent
between the main characters, and the
player is often “rewarded” with suggestive
images.
Fan service games have become more
prevalent in the United States over the
past handful of years, and as a result it is
even more important that cautious parents
brush up on the type of games their kids
may want to purchase. The flashy outward
appearance of many fan service games is
sometime meant to cover up the shortcom-
ings of the games, yet many are well built
games with a decent storyline.
DungeonTravelers 2: The Royal Library
& the Monster Seal, despite the fan service
nature of the game; offers a solid game play
experience. Although, the mechanics may
be a bit repetitive, the variety of enemies
and dungeon design manage to maintain
interest in the game. If one can look past
the painfully obvious marketing ploys of
the game they will be rewarded with a fun
game which will consume much of one’s
day.
To learn more about the potentially
questionable content of any game, please
visit the official website of the Entertain-
ment Software Rating Board at www.esrb.
org before making any purchase.
Remember, like all games if you play
them just to have fun there will never be
a bad game.
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