School daze

Today for the third year running I journeyed to the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater to speak at the the fall conference of the Kettle Moraine Press Association. That's a group for journalistically inclined high school students, hordes of whom converged on the small campus to hear presentations by the likes of me. I talked in one session about food writing, and in another about feature writing.

On the whole the talks were fine, but the kids seemed more unruly than in previous years. Things never reached this point, happily.

On a completely unrelated note, check out my writeup on the Daily Page of David Maraniss' appearance at the Wisconsin Book Festival yesterday.