Archives: 2016

Community through Stories

With the prevalence of social media, we find ourselves in a place where anyone can share anything. Are we desensitized to sharing, to telling, to real community? Looking at a screen and reading about your acquaintance’s (for the most part meaningless) anecdote of the day, sometimes it feels like it. Fighting against this apathy toward READ MORE

Learning the Land: More Than Meets the Eye

As the adage goes, things are not always what they seem. While High Cliff State Park is a lovely place to boat, hike and camp, it holds within it fascinating insights into the forces that govern our planet. High Cliff is named for the protruding cliff of the Niagara Escarpment. Made of dolostone, a type READ MORE

Learning the Land: A Frozen Force

Have you ever wondered why the Fox Valley area is so flat, or why Lake Winnebago exists, or why the region has a large paper industry? Well, imagine masses of ice towering far above the tallest buildings and trees, slowly crawling across the land, scouring the earth beneath and leaving behind silt and clay in READ MORE

Curling Up with Coffee and a Good Book

Hello again! The first bookstore in our series is called Shellattés, and if you were to visit it, it might look like just a coffee shop. But do not fret! Just take a few steps past the coffee shop section (where you can place your order, chat with the baristas and sit down, if you READ MORE

Learning the Land: A new blog series

Take a look around next time you’re out for a drive. Would you believe that what you’re seeing used to be a tropical sea? Or covered in ice sheets over 100 feet thick? That hill over there may be the remnants of an ancient volcano. The rocks beneath the road could be nearly 3 billion READ MORE

Intern Intro: Jordan

Jordon is FCM’s first ever sales intern. She has been with us for a month already, but here is a proper introduction… Name: Jordan Konkol Age: 21 Hometown: Hatley, WI School attending: UW Oshkosh Tell us about your background: I will be a senior at UW Oshkosh this fall and hope to graduate in May READ MORE

Intern Intro: Alex

Meet Alex, an editorial intern joining us for the summer.  Name: Alex Shahbazi Age: 20 Hometown: Marquette, MI School attending: Lawrence University, class of 2017 Tell us about your background: As the combination of a physics major and creative writing minor would suggest, I have a diverse set of interests as a result of my diverse background. READ MORE

Drawing You In, One Show at a Time

Standing proudly along the Fox River, perhaps you’ve noticed the gray, rectangular building on South Lawe Street with a sweeping white bird holding a pencil in its beak painted on its street side face. This building is called The Draw, and it’s a new event venue, gallery, collaboration place, and studio space in the Appleton READ MORE

A Summer of Stories

A few years ago, I was in the throes of the college-choosing process. Near one college I considered, there was a smallish bookstore, and almost every time my mom and I were visiting the school we would swing by. Usually I would enter looking for one specific book, but the shelves would inevitably pull me READ MORE