| from thE EDitor | A few years out of college, three friends and I took a road trip. We left work early on a Friday afternoon and departed Minneapolis for Bayfield, Wis., for a muchanticipated weekend of girl antics at one of our favorite places on earth: the shore of Lake Superior. I remember this as being a breathless, hopeful time of life, brimming with possibility. Young and idealistic, I woke up each morning with the feeling that today, anything could happen and very well might. Getting your career break, meeting the love of your life—fantastic things were just around the bend. Imagine that spirit, bottled in all four of us, barely contained in a car whizzing up I-35. Then picture me, waiting on a curb in downtown Minneapolis, as my BFF, Katie, drove up with our wheels. It was not her parents’ old station wagon, which she usually drove. It was a rented convertible. It was red. With floaty scarves and sunglasses, we’d be motoring in Thelma & Louise style, but with a better ending. The photos from that trip show us as happy as we’d ever been, arms thrown around each other sitting on the car, waist-deep in lupines in a roadside ditch, posing on gigantic slabs of rock on the shore. We were at that sweet intersection of adulthood and 6 JUNE/JULY <strong>2012</strong> www.crwmagazine.com childhood: old enough to get in a car and drive, girl enough to simply play. A road trip will do that for you. You could motor north (as we did), but why go that far? We have so much to celebrate and enjoy within an hour of our very doors here in the <strong>Coulee</strong> <strong>Region</strong>, and those destinations—along with the women behind them—are what we sought out in this issue of <strong>Coulee</strong> <strong>Region</strong> <strong>Women</strong>. Fill up the gas tank (just once) and enjoy an art tour through the Bluff Country, a day of exploration in Viroqua and Westby or a day pedaling the bike trails of Onalaska or Sparta. Meet women who have made Galesville a shopping destination, women who have made a family tradition of growing apples in Trempealeau, women who have established Winona in the art world and women who promote the area through tourism organizations. We invite you to spend your summer cruising the <strong>Coulee</strong> <strong>Region</strong> in your own style. Revisit that childlike sense of discovery and delight. Come to see your surroundings in a new light. Dip into that sense of possibility. You might find exactly what you’re hoping for just around the bend—and we promise you a happy ending right here in the <strong>Coulee</strong> <strong>Region</strong>! Issue 62, Volume 11, Number 2 JuNe/<strong>July</strong> <strong>2012</strong> PuBlisheR Diane raaum eDiToR Betty Christiansen PRoofReADing Leah Call DesigneRs renee Chrz, innovative graphics, LLC Lisa houghton Design mARkeTing ACCounT RePResenTATives Carol schank, Director sandy Clark Claire ristow-seib WeB mAsTeR mader Web Design LLC PhoTogRAPhy Janet mootz Photography megan mcCluskey, Atypik studio DisTRiBuTion Citywide marketing services, L.L.C. Joanne mihm <strong>Coulee</strong> <strong>Region</strong> <strong>Women</strong> is published six times per year by <strong>Coulee</strong> <strong>Region</strong> Communications, L.L.C. 816 2nd Avenue S., Suite 600, Onalaska, WI 54650. Subscriptions available for $17.95 per year (six issues). Send check to the address above. All unsolicited manuscripts must be accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope. <strong>Coulee</strong> <strong>Region</strong> <strong>Women</strong> assumes no responsibility for unsolicited materials. ©<strong>2012</strong> <strong>Coulee</strong> <strong>Region</strong> Communications, L.L.C. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced without written permission from the publisher. <strong>Coulee</strong> <strong>Region</strong> <strong>Women</strong> magazine does not necessarily endorse the claims or contents of advertising or editorial materials. Printed at Crescent Printing Company, Onalaska, WI. Printed in the U.S.A. for advertising information call 608-783-5395 www.crwmagazine.com info@crwmagazine.com We WAnT To heAR fRom you! send comments, suggestions, ideas or original recipes to: <strong>Coulee</strong> region <strong>Women</strong> Editor, 816 2nd Ave. s., suite 600, onalaska, Wi 54650. E-mail: editor@crwmagazine.com <strong>Coulee</strong> <strong>Region</strong> <strong>Women</strong> is on ! Be sure to sign up as a fan at www.crwmagazine.com to share your thoughts on our stories and learn more about upcoming events.
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