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11 FEBRUARY: I walked
down and watched farmer
Hornung haul cut wood
from the meadow to the road
past the Triangle . . . . He is a
good, earthy fellow, simple-
minded and honest, far better
than many other villagers,
who live under a veneer of
transparently thin culture and
conduct themselves tacitly as
overlords of lMan and beast. I
could not help thinking how
small he looked, how symbolic
was his smallness in the field,
symbolic of man against all
earth, against nature ...
-From The Only Place We
Live. Woodcut by Frank
Utpatel. Words by August
Derleth. For more woodcut
reproductions and a review of
The Only Place We Live, turn
to "Bookmarks/Wisconsin,"
page 30.
(Woodcut reproduced with
permission.)
Al
WISCONSIN
ACADEMY
REVIEW
Volume 23, Number 1
December, 1976
CONTENTS
2 THE CALIFORNIA-WISCONSIN AXIS IN AMERICAN
    ASTRONOMY
        Donald E. Osterbrock
 9 AN IRISH ADOPTION
        Robert A. McCabe
13 JOHN MUIR-HIS TIME PIECES AND OTHER
    INGENIOUS DEVICES
        Joseph G. Baier
18 POEMS BY JOHN BENNETT
20 THE NORTH COUNTRY AS PORTRAYED THROUGH
    ITS LITERATURE
        Gladys Jackson
25 I, PHYLLIS GREY
        Marjorie M. Bitker
28 SENDING AND RECEIVING
    "So You Want to Lead a Meeting"
        Arthur Hove
30 BOOKMARKS/WISCONSIN
        Hayward Allen
37 INSIDE THE ACADEMY
        Elizabeth F. McCoy
December, 1976/Wisconsin Academy Review/i