Sean PavoneThis is the latest installment of It’s Still a Big World, our series on underrated destinations.“Where that white tower is just to the left.that’s where they found the canoes,” said Ho-Chunk Elder, Janice Rice, pointing in the distance across Lake Mendota. Rice was giving me a First Nations Cultural Landscape Tour in Madison, Wisconsin. Two ancient canoes were recently found on the bottom of Lake Mendota—one was 1,200 years old and the other 3,000 years old—and they belonged to her
The Champaign native (graduate of Central), daughter of a lawyer, Helm is often the first person people see when they enter the courthouse, and she always tries keep it light,