Latest entry in a series of profiles of persevering small towns in the Badger State — and the value of civil society.
By Mark Lisheron
Rather than the Black Bear Capital of Wisconsin, Louis Carl says Glidden ought to be thought of as the Nickname Capital of Wisconsin. The familiarity and ubiquity of those names — Skip, Oz, Goat, Flash, Spud, Boog, Crooked Neck and Fence Post, among many others — is the expression of a tight-knit community, he says.
Pam Borman, the epitome of community volunteer, has a simple threshold for belonging in the Town of Jacobs. “As long as you’re not a lazy whiner,” she says, “you are welcome here.”
