Month: June 2018

For June 27, 2018 Hi WN@TL Fans, Madison is about 850 miles from the closest salt water—the Inner Harbor at Baltimore—and about 1000 miles from the warm sea water of the Gulf of Mexico.  So …

For June 20, 2018 Hi WN@TL Fans, As I mentioned two weeks ago, the story of my hometown is driven in no small part by the changing tides of energy production.  Dixon was founded in 1828 as …

For June 13, 2018       Hi WN@TL Fans, I don’t know how many trees were in the Garden of Eden, but for me the two with names — the Tree of Knowledge of Good and …

For June 6, 2018 Hi WN@TL Fans, I grew up at 118 College Avenue in Dixon, Illinois, two blocks south of Commonwealth Edison’s coal-burning electric power plant on the Rock River.   A spur of the …