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Interviewed by friend Becky Olafsen • Originally published in the Fall 2015 Inspire(d) Becky and her husband, Peter, frequently share the pew with Marvin Wicks…

The engine starts slowly. Chug, chug, chug. Pop! Chug, chug, chug – speeding up – it spills steam from it’s pipe as the wheels start to turn aaannnd…motion!

Come along on a Driftless Daytrip to Elkader and Clayton County Iowa!

Rainy day? Too humid to be outside? Check out this primer on a handful of Driftless Region Museums!

The whole changing from caterpillars to butterflies is some crazy, super science! Seriously...do you know what goes into it? Like, whoa.

Potlucks are pretty rad, right? We're sharing a few main course ideas today: marinated grilled shrimp, sausage/arugula pasta, and Aryn's pesto recipe!

There’s always been a buzz around bees. Okay…it’s a bad pun. But, really, bees are pretty darn amazing.

Sum of Your Biz: Brett Reese of Rebound Enterprises! Reese says: "Do nothing alone. Don’t work in a vacuum. Together, we can always achieve so much more."

Is it Gnome or Nisse? Not a question you ask on a regular basis...unless you're Scandinavian. Or you live in Decorah. Or you're visiting for Nordic Fest.

Inspire(d) probituary interview with Norma Wangsness

You know what’s super magical? Fireflies! A field or dark forest flooded with those little flickering light-up bums is some seriously super science.

One of the true signs of summer in the Midwest is Fair Season – and the 2015 Winneshiek County Fair is, literally, right around the…