STEVENS POINT — Here’s a calendar note: 2020 brings two anniversaries, both with deep and significant ties to Wisconsin.
Fifty years ago this April, the first Earth Day teach-in was held. It became an enduring national movement, and its founder and brain trust was then-U.S. Sen. Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin. The soft-spoken Nelson, from the little northern Wisconsin village of Clear Lake, was a towering figure in our nation’s political and environmental history. We enjoy the gifts he left us every day, even if we don’t realize it.
The enlightened awareness Nelson taught has been a staple of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters for 150 years, so the Academy is rightly celebrating. What a beautiful thing it is to look upon a history so rich as the Academy’s. Here’s a bit of it, from the Academy’s website:...
Ken Notes: Great read, I am fearful that we will never return to days of working together on our issues and solving problems for the benefit of our grandchildren...
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