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COVER STORY // HALLOW-IAN
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.
It’s actually a lot of fun. As long as I don’t
have to repeat the length I did the first year
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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 we were 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 concerned that
we could raise it, as I knew folks in our area
love a challenge. 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
g o o v e r.
Thankfully
there wasn’t,
and we have
been work-
i n g w i t h
them ever
since.”
As Marty
points out,
r a i s -
ing the
m o n e y
l o c a l l y,
expense-
free, and
t h e n
b e i n g
able to
give it
all back
a g a i n
l o c a l l y,
really hits
h o m e
with so
m a n y
people.
“ W e
realized there were so many great fund rais-
ers and charitable 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 commit-
tee. 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 breaking 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
February, 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 attention.
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...help-
ing 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 probably 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 companies
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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NEWS & VIEWS // TAKE BACK THE NIGHT
BY LORI PALMERI
The official Take Back the Night web-
site reports that one in three women and
one in six men, worldwide, experience
some form of sexual violence; less than fifty
percent of victims report these crimes. “No
one should fear the night . . . or the day.
Shatter the Silence. Stop the Violence..”
(takebackthenight.org)
Officer Joe Nichols, of the Oshkosh
Police Department, reports 368 domestic
disturbance reports, so far in 2015, not
including sexual assault reports. While
men are more frequently reporting such
incidents, women still far outweigh reports
of domestic disturbances or sexual assault.
Think global, act local…
Details for the Fox Valley Take Back
the Night rally in Oshkosh include a col-
laboration between Christine Ann Domes-
tic Abuse Services, REACH Counseling
Services, University of Oshkosh Counsel-
ing Center, and CARE agencies to present
the 25th annual Take Back the Night rally
and march, held on Wednesday, October
7th beginning at 5:30 PM at the Alumni
Center, 625 Pearl Avenue, on the UW
Oshkosh campus. Opening ceremonies
included informational booths and activi-
ties to promote awareness of resources in
our community, and conclude with a sur-
vivor guest speaker.
Following the rally, the march begins
on Pearl Street, looping back to Reeve
Union via Division Street and Algoma
Boulevard, pausing for silence at the
Christine Ann shelter. Returning to Reeve
Union, the focus turns to the special art
exhibit, Never Silent, in Steinhilber Gal-
lery. Artist Michael Wartgow will be show-
cased, in addition to art by survivors and
their advocates.
In addition to an emergency shelter
and a 24-hour hotline, Christine Ann also
provides one-on-one advocacy, support
groups, legal advocacy, services for adult
females and males, children and teens, as
well as community outreach and preven-
tion education. Christine Ann Domestic
Abuse Services can be found on the web
at www.christineann.net and on Facebook.
Locally, the phone number is 920-235-
5998 and toll free, 1-800-261-5998.
A retrospective….
While the statistics of Domestic Vio-
lence and Sexual Assault are staggering,
a global movement since the 1970’s has
worked towards decreasing these numbers
through rallies and marches and public
awareness. Here in the U.S., women’s
movement activist Anne Pride coined the
phrase in 1977, at a Pittsburg Take Back
the Night march. Today the event in the
Fox Valley supports women and men who
have experienced domestic abuse or sexual
assault.
Historically, women faced the anxiety
of walking alone at night and that is why
Take Back the Night began. Early events
focused on unsafe
streets, cities and
c a m p u s e s a n d
then as a protest
to pornography
and the degrada-
tion of women and
sexuality. Today,
events highlight the
problem of violence
against women as
well as the broader
issues of sexual vio-
lence: sexual assault, rape, dating violence,
sexual abuse, domestic violence, stalking,
sexual harassment, child abuse, internet
harassment and other unhealthy relation-
ships. Take Back the Night fights to end
child prostitution and worldwide sexually
related crimes.
While researching her book, RAPE
ON THE PUBLIC AGENDA: FEMI-
NISM AND THE
POLITICS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT,
Northeastern Univ. Press, 2000, Min-
nesota State University Professor, Maria
Bevacqua, found the phrase may have been
used earlier.
She said, “…the idea of ‘taking back the
night’ goes back further. For example, in
the 1971 pamphlet ‘Stop Rape’ by Detroit
Women Against Rape, the authors suggest
that women ‘reinstate the evening walk,’
a kind of feminist patrol of the streets
enacted in resistance to women’s unwrit-
ten exclusion from the public sphere after
dark.” In addition, in 1975, in celebra-
tion of Women’s Equality Day (Aug. 26),
National Organization of Women (NOW)
called for members of its chapters across
the country to engage in protests and
actions in the streets at night. They viewed
this as a form of resistance to women’s
victimization. These symbolic reclaimings
of the streets and the night bear striking
resemblance to what has come to be called
“Take Back the Night.”
Some report the first TBTN event
took place in 1976, in Brussels, Belgium,
during The International Tribunal on
Crimes against Women that around 2000
women from over 40 countries claimed
the streets for a candlelight procession.
Later that year, Reclaim the Night was
organized in Rome, Italy after an especially
brutal rape had occurred… there had been
16,000 reported rapes. The movement
went to West Germany in 1977, where
women had to fear sexual assaults at any
moment, and were demanding “the right
to move freely in their communities at day
25th Annual Fox Valley
Take Back the Night
“Run, Susan, Run, can’t you feel it, the evening makes angry demands,
take back the night, to walk the streets when we choose,
take back the night, and make it safe for everyone to use…
….now out on the street there’s a service, with thousands of candles for light,
arm in arm, women are marching, with men, they sing take back the night”
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and night without harassment and sexual
assault.”
That same year Leeds in England joined
the movement. The town is famous for
“Jack the Ripper,” who at the end of the
19th Century killed at least five prostitutes
a night. In 1975 the “Yorkshire Ripper,”
Peter Sutcliff, appeared in Leeds, again
killing prostitutes. As a result, the police
encouraged women to stay inside at night
for their own safety and so the women of
Leeds started to take action.
Also in 1977, the movement hopped
across the pond, reaching the US, where
Anne Pride, NOW activist and publisher,
reportedly first introduced the slogan Take
Back the Night during an anti-violence
rally in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Activisim, Art, Politics coalesce…
Further, on November 4,1978 the
Women Against Violence Against Women
(WAWAV) national conference in San
Francisco, “Feminist Perspectives on Por-
nography” staged a Take Back the Night
March through the Broadway porn district
with over 3,000 women attending. The
conference led to the publication of Take
Back the Night (Laura Lederer, ed. 1980),
a book of readings by antipornography
feminists. Holly Near performed the song
“Fight Back.” That same year, Australia,
Canada and India joined extending the
global reach of the movement.
Visual and Performance artist, Suzanne
Lacy, along with Labowitz “shaped the
[then] emergent art of social engagement.”
Her description of the 1978 march is differ-
ent than some people might expect, involv-
ing performers and audience members,
“This project was part of a general
intention to integrate artists and activists
that characterized feminist performance art
in the 1970s. The first national ‘Perspec-
tives in Pornography’ conference was an
important opportunity to include women
visual artists in political organizing. Ari-
adne: A Social Art Network co-created by
Lacy and Labowitz curated a series of inter-
ventions with artists from around the state.
Events, performances, and exhibitions for
the conference were produced by Motion,
a San Francisco performance collective that
organized a panel of female eroticism and
art and created rituals to open and close the
conference
Lacy and Labowitz created their own
work, a mass public performance for 3000
women marchers who left the conference
and marched toward San Francisco’s por-
nography district…”
Men join the movement…
In the early decades of the movement to
end violence against women, controversy
over whether men should be allowed to
participate led to various restrictions on
how and when men could participate. By
the 1990’s, attitudes changed. According to
an archived listserv discussion group among
academics, said Linda Tessier…”discussion
of men and TBTN has changed shape so
many times…from my point of view the
women only marches were not remotely
about exclusion of anybody. The idea was
that women were going to TAKE BACK
the night…the marches were a response to
the carefully drilled messages with which
we grew up--a woman should never go out
at night without the protection of a man.
So the idea was that if women marched as
a group they could be out at night (in the
street, in fact) all by themselves…”
Since the 1970’s, Take Back The Night
events have been held by college and uni-
versity women’s centers, YWCA’s, rape
crisis centers, community centers, high
school student groups, battered women’s
shelters and other organizations dedicated
to helping women achieve safety and
empowerment. Events have been held
in England, Belgium, Australia, Canada,
Caribbean Islands, U.S. and likely other
corners of the globe.
Men support survivors at many events.
Most events involve candlelight vigils,
speak outs, marches and rallies in order to
raise awareness about sexual violence. Some
events involve only women, but as more
men voice their own stories of sexual abuse,
most events are coed efforts to raise aware-
ness and promote healing. All events strive
to bring awareness to the problem of sexual
violence and support those who have been
victimized.
In an interview with Fran X, an advo-
cate for Christine Ann, she emphasized the
services provided by Christine Ann do not
exclude men; they support anyone who has
experienced domestic violence or sexual
assault. As a matter of fact, you might
be surprised to learn the domestic abuse
shelter can provide safe off-site housing for
men, as well as women and children. How-
ever, the numbers of men reporting such
incidents are far outweighed by women
and therefore the current campus is unable
to fund an adult male on-site housing at
this time. She also shared that the TBTN
event has had over 300 participants in
recent years, friends and families included
supporting and raising awareness that it is
ok to get help, there is someone who will
listen and there are resources that were not
available in the 1970s.
Additionally, Fran explained how
Christine Ann was involved in recent
legislative efforts that lobbied to include
recent changes, allowing court documents
to be “blinded” to addresses and names of
victims.
One of the many resources includes
support for children’s programing where
Christine Ann goes into the schools in
Winnebago County and Green Lake ser-
vice area.
UWO’s Campus Awareness and Rela-
tionship Education program (CARE)
includes a call to action for the community:
“We use this night as part of our efforts
to raise awareness, to spotlight allies, sup-
port survivors and remember those lost to
violence. We will also encourage all who
join us to make ending domestic and sexual
violence a lifelong commitment.”
NEWS & VIEWS // TAKE BACK THE NIGHT
Details of the Event &
Schedule Follows:
Never Silent: Survivor Art Exhibition
Gail Floether Steinhilber Art Gallery (3rd Floor Reeve Memorial Union)
Opens Oct. 5, 2015 - Closes Oct. 10, 2015
2015 Fox Valley Take Back the Night Events:
Oct. 7, 2015 at 5:30 p.m., Fair and Activities @ Reeve Ballroom
We will have tables set up so you can learn more about healthy relationships,
sexual assault, domestic/dating violence, victim advocacy, restraining orders and
SANE exams. Stop by the resource tables from campus offices/organizations and
community agencies throughout the Fox Valley.
6 p.m., Rally & Survivor Speaker @ Alumni Center and Welcome Center
6:45 p.m., March from Alumni Center to Reeve, stopping at Christine Ann
7:15 p.m., Reception and Never Silent Exhibition
Gail Floether Steinhilber Art Gallery (3rd floor Reeve Memorial Union)
Art can be a powerful way of expressing what words don’t fully describe. The
TBTN Survivor Exhibition will be open for viewing from Oct. 5-10, 2015.
The evening concludes with inspiration to keep the community mission of ending
domestic and sexual violence at the forefront all year long. Please join us for the
opening reception of the Never Silent art exhibit.

10. L10 | SceneNewspaper.com | Greater Oshkosh | October 2015
NEWS & VIEWS // MARRIAGE EQUALITY
BY TYLER SJOSTROM
A few years back, Brad Schwei’s mom
pulled him out of bed at an ungodly hour
to let him know that she had a pretty good
idea who her son actually was. Moms
always know, and she knew. “It’s okay if
you’re gay,” she explained. “Just tell me.”
Brad laughs as he tells it now, but not
every guy -- and he was in his mid-20’s at
the time, mind you -- has the luxury of a
mother who will lovingly tug him out of
whatever closets we are still acknowledging
in 2015. His partner Adam Sturdy has a
similar tale of a previously conservative
father who just decided, ‘Well, I love this
kid. Let’s just get on with it already.’
Gay marriage, the loving commitment
turned political buzzword, has never been
more comfy in our neighborhoods. Two
of America’s foremost purveyors of family-
friendly whimsy are Ellen DeGeneres and
the erstwhile Doogie Howser, both of
whom are homosexual. When Michael
Sam shared cake with his boyfriend after
being drafted by the NFL’s St. Louis Rams
in 2014, the quiet sentiment among many
fans wasn’t that he was gay, but that they
just wished he was actually a little better at
playing football. And then when poor Kim
Davis, she of the selective marriage-license
issuing in Kentucky, decided to make her
position a pulpit, it was met with more
mockery than outrage (with the possible
exception of the 80’s rockers in Survivor).
It would seem that we’ve all gone a little
gay, haven’t we?
When Mike Cannon and Alton Sey-
mour met fifteen years ago, it wasn’t so
simple. Alton had been in the military
since he was 17. They met online, realized
they lived mere blocks from each other in
Appleton, and, as Alton glances toward
his beaming husband, “He just never left.”
They verbally poke and joust and finish
sentences just as any long-tenured couple
would.
For their part, Brad and Adam rep-
resent a comparable experience, even if
they’ve dealt with less upstream swim-
ming than Mike and Alton have. They’re
handsome, professional, and the faces of a
national advertising campaign for Jewelers
Mutual’s foray into the gay marriage sector.
If they’re at all uncomfortable with their
visible position in the Wisconsin equality
discussion, you certainly wouldn’t know it
from their outward and obvious affection
and respect for each other.
Two couples, two different stories.
Mike and Alton, fifteen years in, married
in their church in 2011, and finally recog-
nized this year by the state of Wisconsin.
Brad and Adam, a relatively young couple,
committed for nearly three years, and a
pretty clear portrait of the strides we’ve
made since the days when guys met and
fell in love on Gay.com. Taken together
and considering the two relationships side
by side, it’s pretty impossible to ignore the
mileposts on our long and arduous slog
toward universal marriage equality.
Mike and Alton live pretty quietly now,
but you’d better believe they remember the
initial backlash. Alton is a matter-of-fact
guy, and the matters of the facts are fresh
in his memory.
“My dad didn’t talk to Mike for five
years,” Alton said. “He was just old-school,
didn’t wanna hear it. In our neighborhood,
Mike and I would see kids go out of their
way to avoid our house, like, ‘Oh, those
guys are creepy.’ You just get used to laugh-
ing at it. Now they know to come to our
house for fundraisers or raffles or whatever.
It’s like they’re making up for lost time.”
And as for his old-school old man?
“Oh, he’s come around entirely,” Alton said
“he probably talks to Mike now more than
he talks to me.”
So what changed?
“It’s all different,” Mike explains. “We
weren’t dying to be accepted; we really
weren’t. When you’re gay, we say that you
make your own ‘family,’ if that makes
sense. You know the relatives and friends
and neighbors who accept you, and you
know who doesn’t.”
In 2001 when they met, there wasn’t a
roadmap. Certainly not for a couple who
was religious, where one of them
had a military background.
Alton is pretty succinct in the
telling: “These were in the days
of ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell.’ I intro-
duced Mike to my sergeants as
my brother. Yeah, it was tough,
but a lot of the guys I worked
with were older, more conser-
vative guys. It had to be kept
a secret out of fear that I’d be
booted.”
Mike, on the other hand,
came out when he was fourteen.
The positive side? His mother has been
enormously supportive, even living with
them as de facto grandmother to their two
dogs.
The negative? “My dad doesn’t talk to
me, still to this day, for being gay.” Win
some, lose some, I suppose.
You hear stories like this all the time,
where a person comes out gradually. First
to themselves, then to a select few trusted
individuals, and once they feel confident
that the world won’t swallow them whole
when the news breaks to everyone else. For
Brad and Adam, two men with exceptional
business acumen who just happen to be
gay, the need to preserve their integrity
while navigating the corporate landscape
was paramount.
“If anything, I think it just makes us
work that much harder,” Brad explains. “I
don’t want to say that we separate our work
life from our personal, because it isn’t that.
I think it’s more that we know that labels
exist, and that we try to let our work per-
formance speak for itself. So that the labels
don’t matter, I guess.”
Of course, when you’re the national
faces of Jewelers Mutual’s extension of
insurance services to gay couples, you’re
bound to be noticed. Brad and Adam also
both work for Kimberly-Clark, a company
they describe as “extremely supportive and
very welcoming.” They are openly together,
although they shrug it off as a non-issue.
“When I met him, I knew I wanted
him in my life,” Brad said. “It really has
nothing to do with our professional lives,
and it never has.”
Fifteen years ago, Mike and Alton’s
commitment to each other was recognized
by precisely no one, not by the courts
nor employers, and it cost them family
relationships in the process. Fifteen years
before that, an AIDS crisis was roundly
ignored by a president who didn’t dare
show any support for the LGBT commu-
nity of any kind. And now, in 2015, not
only are gay marriages valid in the eyes of
the law (and the president, for that matter),
the patronage of gay couples is also being
pursued by entities with real-world lever-
age. Chalk it up as only the latest example
of dollar-chasing cynicism if you’d like, but
I’d prefer to think of it as tangible proof of
real progress.
So where will we be fifteen years from
now? I’d argue we’ll hear a lot more sto-
ries like Brad and Adam’s, and hopefully
precious few like Mike and Alton’s. We’ll
probably know a lot more gay couples who
have children, something both of these
couples plan to pursue in the future, and
both through surrogacy. And maybe the
labels we’ve spent decades running from,
the ones that have long kept couples like
these on the margins, will continue to fall.
To quote at least one Dad who looked
at his gay son with love rather than scorn,
“let’s get on with it already.”
Read more from Tyler Sjostrom at
ThePastorsKid.net.
Everything’s Coming Up Rainbows:
Marriage Equality in 2015

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NEWS & VIEWS // RIGHT WING NUT
BY ROBERT MEYER
Judicial activism is the outgrowth of a
theory of law known as Legal Positivism.
It began to take hold after the Civil War
when the president of Harvard University,
Charles William Eliot, who was an ardent
Darwinist, appointed Christopher Colum-
bus Langdell as the first dean of Harvard
Law School. Under Langdell’s auspices
the theory of evolving rather than fixed
standards began to permeate legal theory,
displacing Natural Law as the benchmark.
The evolving standards concept became
pervasive in all aspects of intellectual cul-
ture, with change being tantamount to
progress. In law, it became the responsibil-
ity of judges to guide these changes. The
legal positivism theory, that all change
equals progress, encompassed what a secu-
lar philosopher, Mary Midgley dubbed as
the “Escalator Myth.”
By the early 20th century we saw this
doctrine migrate from the law schools to
application in the courts of law. The late
Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes once
quipped that,
“...we are under a Constitution, but the
Constitution is whatever the judges say it is.”
Who needs a Legislature when the
courts can do all that, huh? How different
from James Madison who reasoned:
“I entirely concur in the propriety of
resorting to the sense in which the Constitu-
tion was accepted and ratified by the nation.
In that sense alone it is the legitimate Con-
stitution.”
We should best heed the advice given
by Thomas Jefferson to a jurist in his era,
“On every question of construction, carry
ourselves back to a time when the Constitu-
tion was adopted, recollect the spirit mani-
fested in the debates, and instead of trying
what meaning can be squeezed out of the
text, or invented against it, conform to the
probable one in which it was passed.”
Frequently, left-leaning commentators
will suggest that SCOTUS and lower court
decisions favored by a majority of Origi-
nalist judges, in turn, constitute “conser-
vative judicial activism.” They obviously
don’t understand the activism concept.
While political ideology might provide a
motive for activism, it doesn’t guarantee
the decision is an exercise resulting in
activism. However, left-leaning jurists are
more prone to meddle in judicial activism
because of their judicial philosophy.
If one professes that the Constitution,
for example, is a “living, breathing” docu-
ment, then there are no parameters as to
the possible meaning of a particular clause,
because it’s up to the whim of the jurist to
guide that understanding. Cultural trends,
personal opinions and even foreign laws,
will be high priorities influencing that
decision.
If one believes that the role of the court
is to weigh in on the constitutionality of a
particular issue (the view of our constitu-
tional architects), then the role of the judge
is automatically diminished or limited. He
or she cannot legislate, or make decisions
on the basis of “what ought to be.” The
judge may decide that since the Constitu-
tion is silent on an issue, then the court
has no purview or jurisdiction in that area.
That would automatically make courts
less powerful and nix the temptation to
become modern philosopher-kings. That
sort of thinking is joined at the hip with
the Originalist judicial philosophy. In fact,
while all the justices on the conserva-
tive wing of the SCOTUS probably
had political or moral objectives to the
majority decision on same-sex mar-
riages, most argued that the issue was
best left to the legislatures.
Many years ago a prominent Chris-
tian theologian had lunch with the late
judge Robert Bork, who conceded that
judicial decisions are no longer based on
constitutionality. To paraphrase Justice
Antonin Scalia, a recent decision written
for the SCOTUS majority was a mystical
pontification of language hardly different
than one might find on a piece of paper in
the midst of a Chinese fortune cookie.
We get worthy advice from Washing-
ton’s Farewell Address:
“It is important, likewise, that the habits
of thinking in a free country should inspire
caution in those entrusted with its admin-
istration, to confine themselves within their
respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in
the exercise of the powers of one department to
encroach upon another. The spirit of encroach-
ment tends to consolidate the powers of all
the departments in one, and thus to create,
whatever the form of government, a real des-
potism…If, in the opinion of the people, the
distribution or modification of the constitu-
tional powers be in any particular wrong, let
it be corrected by an amendment in the way
which the Constitution designates. But let
there be no change by usurpation; for though
this, in one instance, may be the instrument
of good, it is the customary weapon by which
free governments are destroyed.”
Washington concedes that in the short
run ‘usurpations’ sometimes result in salu-
tary consequences, but in the long haul,
they pave the road to tyranny.
“Judicial activists,” bend the meaning
of the Constitution to bring about the
results they desire. In doing so, they act as
legislators, if not philosopher-kings, violat-
ing the separation of powers. This practice
results in the codification of abominable
jurisprudence.
Judicial activism is such a tempting
and dangerous practice, because it allows
unelected officials to do what cannot
ordinarily be accomplished legislatively,
thus removing civil policy entirely from the
democratic processes regarding the will of
the people and the rule of law.
RIGHT WING NUT
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12. L12 | SceneNewspaper.com | Greater Oshkosh | October 2015
The Grand 2015-2016 Season Begins
FINE ARTS // THE GRAND OPERA HOUSE
BY JOSEPH FERLO
DIRECTOR,THE HISTORIC GRAND
OPERA HOUSE
Late last month, The Grand Opera
House in Downtown Oshkosh opened
its new 2015-16 performance season. If
you’ve been a “regular”, no doubt you
noticed that this season is much larger than
it’s been these past few years. In fact, it’s
the largest schedule of touring events since
before the “roof crisis” of 2009 caused an
eighteen-month closure.
We’ve brought back a diverse series that
includes some favorites from past seasons-
artists you as a community have asked us to
bring for a return visit. We’re also pleased
to offer, as part of subscriber discounts, the
offerings of our three Arts Partners- the
Oshkosh Symphony Orchestra, Oshkosh
Community Players, and Hysterical Pro-
ductions. We are delighted to have them
call The Grand “home” and all-too-happy
to put the tremendous citizen-artists of our
region center-stage in our season.
There are other great collaborations- a
partnership with the Madison Ballet
to bring their outstanding production
of DRACULA to the Valley. Connect-
ing the University of Wisconsin Jazz
Ensemble with the outstanding Big Band
(Dorsey and Riddle are his usuals) singer
Bryan Anthony for “Celebrating Sinatra”.
Expanding a return visit by the pianist
Alpin Hong to connect him with our com-
munities in a multi-day residency.
And there’s more to come. We prom-
ised that there were more performances
yet to be added, and we just announced
the return of Emmy Award-winning Jeff
Daniels, who happens to be an outstand-
ing singer/songwriter/stage personality as
well, coming November 20 with the Ben
Daniels Band. And the popular SPIRITS
OF THE GRAND tours are back to make
Halloween weekend extra…interesting.
This season includes artists from Eng-
land, Ireland, Canada, all across the United
States, and just up the road. Whether it’s
nostalgia, comedy, theatre, folk, pop,
bluegrass, or dance that gets you excited
about the theatre, you’ll find it on this
schedule. So I hope you’ll plan to join us
early, and often. Tickets will move quickly
for this season and the subscriber will
guarantee him or her-
self the best seats in the
house. You need only
mix-and-match five or
more events to secure a
discount.
We’re looking for-
ward to a great year, and
I hope you’ll be a part
of that. See you at The
Grand!
www.grandoperahouse.org
Fasco

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14. R2 | SceneNewspaper.com | October 2015
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 impressively 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
inviting outdoor patio area that made you
feel as though you’re in your best friends
back yard. Back inside, a large stage sepa-
rates you from the brewery windows that
overlook a beautiful collection 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
beercation!
Founders All Day IPA
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our nation, as seen through the eyes of
one of the most popular and beloved
American artists, Norman Rockwell.
Norman
Rockwell:A Portrait of America
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Admission:
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General - $6, Senior/Student - $4
Child 5-10 - $2
Child 4 and under – FREE
Museum Hours:
Tues-Sat: 10:00am-4:00pm
Extended Thurs: 4:00pm-8:00pm
Sun: Noon-4:00pm
Free parking downtown after 6pm
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www.troutmuseum.org
111 West College Ave.
Appleton, WI 54911
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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
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Another favorite this time of year is Grandma’s Pumpkin Muffins!

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FINE ARTS // FOXY FINDS
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many more artisan offerings at The Plaid Squirrel
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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
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Indulge your Wisco state enthusiasm with these
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Bring in Autumn in style with this
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Elegant Tahitian pearl accent stretch bracelets by GELLNER
(Germany) in a variety of luxe metals. $149 each. These look
fabulous worn singly or layered. Find these and a wide range
of eclectic artisan pieces at Studio 247 Fine Jewelry in
Appleton. Newly opened, the store has something for everyone:
engagement, special occasion, estate, fashion, sterling silver,
luxurious gold, minerals and tasteful display items, custom,
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Willows Bend in
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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
Trick or Trite

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22. 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 passion 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
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trees, and perennials to create a sustainable
and permanent landscape for the chickens
to forage through.”
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, preda-
tor 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.”
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More on starting from scratch, predator
control, maintenance and winter protection
of your first flock.
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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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26. 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
Appleton, WI
Friday, October 9, 2015 7:30 PM
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events/melissa-etheridge
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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.

28. R16 | SceneNewspaper.com | October 2015
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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