Travel & Visitors Guide - March 29, 2009
Hart's book opens window on Door County
Some might say nobody knows a place like a native, but in a location like Door County, "local" might be harder to define. Certainly, someone like Virginia native and Minnesota resident John Fraser Hart fits the bill. After all, he's spent countless days in Door County over the past 50 years.
Tags: John Fraser Hart, Door County, My Kind of County, University of Minnesota, University of Chicago Press, The Center for American Places

Travel & Visitors Guide - Sept. 22, 2008
Two new books explore Wisconsin's natural places
"The Vanishing Present: Wisconsin's Changing Lands, Waters and Wildlife" is published in hardcover this month. Photographer Eddee Daniel's lavish paperback "Urban Wilderness: Exploring a Metropolitan Watershed" -- about the Menomonee River -- arrives at the same time
Tags: Eddee Daniel, The Vanishing Present, University of Chicago Press, Menomonee River, Urban Wilderness, Thomas P. Rooney, Donald M. Waller