October 2020 • Volume 15 • No. 10

Read the October 2020 edition of Voice of the River Valley magazine in a convenient…

Welcome to October

There are some few precious things —love, justice, kindness, peace, understanding  And they save our…

Between the Lines

“A good half of the art of living is resilience.” — Alain de Botton In our current world it can be a challenge to navigate and stay positive, and building resilience will…

Shake Rag Alley Hosts NEA Big Read

Together with the Mineral Point Public Library and Mineral Point School District libraries, Shake Rag…

Parables and Ponderings

There are some few precious things that Death cannot destroy     Lies cannot corrupt Violence cannot defeat Suffering cannot overwhelm Money cannot buy There are,  and always have been, and always…

Building Bridges

By Jennifer Moore-Kerr When I first started thinking about this feature it was pre-pandemic time.…

Rountree Gallery Show ‘Connects Distances’

Artists from coast to coast are brought together by curator Mary Bergs in a dynamic…

Garden Blitz

In 2019, I wrote about three Japanese maples I planted the fall before the polar…

Tracking Your Past

While black sheep remain a popular Halloween costume, black sheep ancestor searches are popular at…

Where the Land Meets the Sky

I stood atop a hill, rolling countryside all around me, gorging on juicy, sweet edelweiss grapes,…