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In this 80-page, full-color book of photographs and photo essays, Catherine Lange explores the natural beauty and strong community in the Chequamegon Bay area in northwestern Wisconsin. Lange interviewed 16 people about why they live and work in the Chequamegon Bay area and created a photographic environmental portrait of each person in his or her favorite place in nature. She also created a landscape photo, forming her own bond to each location. Her photo essays incorporate additional photographs that show aspects of each person's home and work life as well as stories that each person shared. Lange writes, ""I climbed an 80-foot-high silo, overcame my fear of the water by boating to Manitou Island and to Bark Bay, and experienced the transformation--the magic--that happens when a person shares a moment, a story, a place special to them, and perhaps begins, or deepens, a friendship with you."" The project, which resulted in an exhibit at the Washburn Cultural Center in Washburn, Wisc., in November 2014, was supported in part by a grant from the Chequamegon Bay Arts Council and the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin. Subjects range from an eight-year-old, home-schooled boy to an 83-year-old dairy farmer; from newly arrived residents and people whose families have lived in the area since the early 1900s to individuals whose ancestral roots as First People extend hundreds of years. Their livelihoods include education, art, insurance, sea kayaking adventure tours, tribal leadership, social work, massage therapy, farming, realty, music, biology, and more. The photographs show striking images from Sioux Beach, Roman's Point, Washburn's beach at the coal dock, Frog Bay Tribal National Park, Blue Vista Farm, Siskiwit Falls, Big Bay State Park, Corrigan's Lookout, Manitou Island, Tetzner's Dairy Farm, Moquah Barrens, Kakagon Sloughs, Raspberry River, Cornucopia Beach, Long Lake, and Red Cliff Reservation's shore.

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""Let yourself enjoy this book. Revel in the professional and artistic creativity of Lange's work, and in the warm and sincere words of the people she chose to be in this portfolio. Fishers, fruit and dairy farmers, tourist guides, national park workers, college faculty and administrators, musicians, realtors, artists, and more are found within. Join these voices as they celebrate this precious place they call home."" -Howard Paap, Author of Red Cliff, Wisconsin: A History of an Ojibwe Community-Vol. 1, The Earliest Years: The Origin to 1854 ""What I believe you will discover through the images and words that Catherine has collected is that people find their souls in this place, and they do so because this special bay in this special lake inspires people to make superior connections-with themselves, with each other, and with the cold, clear water that sustains us all."" -Alan Brew, Professor of English at Northland College

Let yourself enjoy this book. Revel in the professional and artistic creativity of Lange's work, and in the warm and sincere words of the people she chose to be in this portfolio. Fishers, fruit and dairy farmers, tourist guides, national park workers, college faculty and administrators, musicians, realtors, artists, and more are found within. Join these voices as they celebrate this precious place they call home. -Howard Paap, Author of Red Cliff, Wisconsin: A History of an Ojibwe Community-Vol. 1, The Earliest Years: The Origin to 1854 What I believe you will discover through the images and words that Catherine has collected is that people find their souls in this place, and they do so because this special bay in this special lake inspires people to make superior connections-with themselves, with each other, and with the cold, clear water that sustains us all. -Alan Brew, Professor of English at Northland College

"""Let yourself enjoy this book. Revel in the professional and artistic creativity of Lange's work, and in the warm and sincere words of the people she chose to be in this portfolio. Fishers, fruit and dairy farmers, tourist guides, national park workers, college faculty and administrators, musicians, realtors, artists, and more are found within. Join these voices as they celebrate this precious place they call home."" -Howard Paap, Author of Red Cliff, Wisconsin: A History of an Ojibwe Community-Vol. 1, The Earliest Years: The Origin to 1854 ""What I believe you will discover through the images and words that Catherine has collected is that people find their souls in this place, and they do so because this special bay in this special lake inspires people to make superior connections-with themselves, with each other, and with the cold, clear water that sustains us all."" -Alan Brew, Professor of English at Northland College"

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Catherine Lange earned her B.A. in visual arts from DePaul University in Chicago and completed graduate study in photography at the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology Institute of Design. She has worked in communications, publishing, and graphic arts in Chicago and New York. In 2011 she moved to Washburn, Wisc., and served on the board of the Chequamegon Bay Arts Council and edits their quarterly journal, Artifacts. In 2016 she was appointed by the Governor of Wisconsin as a board member of the Wisconsin Arts Board. In addition to being an active photographer, editor, and graphic designer, she is also a Tai Chi instructor, currently at Northland College in Ashland, Wisc. After a stint in the military, time spent working as a telephone lineman and repairman, and thirty years of teaching anthropology on a few midwestern campuses, HOWARD PAAP resides, with Marlene, his wife of over fifty years, in the Red Cliff and Bayfield regions of northern Wisconsin-where he writes, works in Bayfield's used bookstore, studies the Ojibwe language, hugs his grandchildren, and each morning watches the sun rise over Madeline Island. JULIE BUCKLES was founding editor for the Bad River tribal newspaper, News from the Sloughs, where she first met Mike Wiggins, who is now chairman of the Band River Band of Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians. She went on to report for the Ashland Daily Press and Bayfield County Journal and has taught at Northland College for the last decade. She is public relations and media specialist at Northland College and is the author of Paddling to Winter, an award-winning memoir about her honeymoon expedition from Lake Superior to the Canadian north.

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