dave wood

I was in high school when Heisman Trophy winner Alan Ameche was making big news on Big Ten gridirons. The University of Wisconsin sent films...

Gary Boelhower, a St. Scholastica theology professor, writes on a variety of topics, his first wife, his daughter's wedding, his gayness, his grandmother "ground down by the hard soil of two failed farms." His poetry is unfailingly concrete and he breathes life into the most mundane...

In 2003, I had the privilege to speak at a very fine writers' conference in Eau Claire. Writers from all over spoke, or listened, to other writers in some of the charming old mansions along Barstow Street. I was most impressed with a guy named David Benjamin, who grew up in Tomah,...

Up in Stearns County they still talk about a moonshine operation called, I believe, "Minnesota 101," which made hooch so good that it continued in operation years after Prohibition was repealed. It was also big -- so big that the operation took over defunct creameries and converted...

Forty years ago, my wife and I and toured the concentration camp at Dachau, just outside Augsburg, Germany. It was a very antiseptic experience. There was an exhibition hall, a museum that traced the history of anti-Semitism. We also saw the spic and span ovens that the brochure...

What if Harvard went broke? What would happen? Would the government bail it out? Would its assets be sold to pay back investors? Would China buy it? Think that's impossible? Most folks thought that General Motors was bankruptcy proof. That's what Mark C. Taylor points out in...