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Marquette, the Rancher and Dick Contino
Published in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Friday, January 10, 2014. http://www.jsonline.com/news/opinion/marquette-the-rancher-and-dick-contino-b99180466z1-239523371.html Spend enough time around universities and the beginnings of semesters bring visitors that demand to be let in. And so, with Marquette University’s spring semester beginning on … Continue reading
The Peril Above Genoa
Genoa is a village on the Mississippi River in Vernon County, Wisconsin. The following essay on the environmental risks posed by the oil trains travelling along the shoreline of the Upper Mississippi states of Wisconsin and Minnesota was published in … Continue reading
Posted in Clean Water, Environment, Karl Garson, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Nature, Published, Wetlands, Wisconsin
Tagged Bakken Formation, Burlington Northern Santa Fe, Canadian Pacific, Deepwater Horizon, Genoa Wisconsin, Karl Garson, oil spills, oil trains, Tar Sands, Upper Mississippi
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The Peril Above Genoa
Genoa is a village on the Mississippi River in Vernon County, Wisconsin. The following essay on the environmental risks posed by the oil trains travelling along the shoreline of the Upper Mississippi states of Wisconsin and Minnesota was published in … Continue reading
Posted in Clean Water, Environment, Karl Garson, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Nature, Published, Wetlands, Wisconsin
Tagged Bakken Formation, Burlington Northern Santa Fe, Canadian Pacific, Deepwater Horizon, Genoa Wisconsin, Karl Garson, oil spills, oil trains, Tar Sands, Upper Mississippi
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The Groundhog Poet, Frederick Wadleigh West
Frederick Wadleigh West, the Groundhog Poet With Groundhog Day upon us once again it seems appropriate to offer a few words about Frederick Wadleigh West, the Groundhog Poet. West was born on February 2, 1867 in Darien, Connecticut. His father, … Continue reading
Posted in humor, Karl Garson, Nature, Published, Uncategorized
Tagged Darien Connecticut, Groundhog Day, Karl Garson, Marmota Monax, nature, outdoors, poetry
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Stop the Tears for Newtown
Published in The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel in the on-line edition on January 8, 2013 and in the print edition on Wednesday, January 9, 2013. A link to the on-line essay is provided at the end of the text. The horror … Continue reading
Graduates Special? We Never Were.
Published in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel on Friday, July 27, 2012 http://www.jsonline.com/news/opinion/graduates-special-we-never-were-7468g3f-163923646.html One summer afternoon in the ‘80’s my friend Jim said, “Our high school years were the last good years of our lives.” Jim and I were fending off desert … Continue reading
Trees and the Light of the Winter Solstice
Published in the Wisconsin State Journal on Thursday, December 22, 2011 In Wisconsin one of the wondrous realizations the winter solstice season allows is our ability to see the structure of deciduous trees. There is no better place to understand … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Karl Garson, Nature, Wisconsin
Tagged Christmas, Karl Garson, Vietnam War, Winter Solstice
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The Winter Solstice is the Reason for the Season
Published in the Wisconsin State Journal on Saturday, December 10, 2011 Christ in Christmas fits within Christian systems of belief, not those held by two thirds of the world’s population that doesn’t believe the Jesus story. Nevertheless, during the time … Continue reading
Posted in Karl Garson, Nature, Published, Social Justice
Tagged Christmas, Karl Garson, Vietnam War, Winter Solstice
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Karl Garson / Postcards from America 