by Brickyard Creek | Aug 16, 2022 | BYC Library, Reflection
Sense of Place – The Good Oak By: Jeff Rennicke, Executive Director, Friends of Apostle Islands National Lakeshore Photo: Jeff Rennicke Trees measure time in concentric rings – not hours or days. In this classic essay about time and human history, Aldo Leopold...
by Brickyard Creek | Aug 12, 2022 | BYC Library, Reflection
Sense of Place – Postcard of the Senses By: Jeff Rennicke, Executive Director, Friends of Apostle Islands National Lakeshore Photo: Jeff Rennicke Nature is more than a feast for the eyes. It can fill all of your senses, if you let it. Yet we become so reliant on...
by Brickyard Creek | Aug 8, 2022 | BYC Library, Reflection
Sense of Place – The Living Earth By: Jeff Rennicke, Executive Director, Friends of Apostle Islands National Lakeshore Photo: Jeff Rennicke It is a feeling you get deep in the forest, a sound you hear when the wind blows at night. The earth is alive. Many...
by Brickyard Creek | Aug 4, 2022 | BYC Library, Reflection
Sense of Place – The Sounds of Silence By: Jeff Rennicke, Executive Director, Friends of Apostle Islands National Lakeshore Photo: Jeff Rennicke Did you know? I SAID “DID YOU KNOW!” Urban noise levels have been doubling every decade. Road and air traffic tripled...
by Brickyard Creek | Jul 28, 2022 | BYC Library, Reflection
Sense of Place – Rekindling Curiosity By: Jeff Rennicke, Executive Director, Friends of Apostle Islands National Lakeshore Photo: Jeff Rennicke Every day you walk the same path, the same trail, the same stretch of shoreline. Slowly, you begin to take it for...
by Brickyard Creek | Jul 20, 2022 | BYC Library, Reflection
Sense of Place – The Perfect Travel Itinerary By: Jeff Rennicke, Executive Director, Friends of Apostle Islands National Lakeshore Photo: Jeff Rennicke Anyone who has lived here a while and bragged about the beauty of this place to out-of-town, sometimes...