Emily M. Stone is a naturalist by birth, training, profession and passion. Her childhood spent as a “mud and water daughter” in northeast Iowa led to a degree in outdoor education from Northland College and a Field Naturalist Masters from the University of Vermont. As the naturalist/education director at the Cable Natural History Museum in Cable, Wisconsin, Emily writes a weekly “Natural Connections” column published in more than a dozen local and regional newspapers. She has also earned multiple Excellence in Craft awards from the Outdoor Writers Association of America. Emily’s second book, Natural Connections: Dreaming of an Elfin Skimmer, is on sale now at cablemuseum.org. She loves gardening, cross country skiing, mountain biking, and paddling in the Boundary Waters.
“I come here today with tears in my heart,” began Isanti Dak’ota Hok’api as he led the Indigenous opening ceremony at Gustavus Adolphus College’s 55th...
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