Frank Beaman, Editor

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Vol 1 No 1   SUMMER 2007

The Founding of this Newspaper;  Alley Stage;  Gundry House Open for tours; a lead miner’s day; profile of the band “Point Five;”  “Life in the Diggins’”;  Woodlanders at Shake Rag Alley; Railroad Depot marks 150 years.

Vol 1 No 2   WINTER 2007-008

The Boyer School; Walker House Owners announce plans; Author Dean Bakopoulos; meet artist Bruce Howdle; Dan Mack’s Advice; Living with Sustainability; Junk Food and Local Fare; and a Celtic Christmas.

Vol 1 No 3   SUMMER 2008

Farm Life Exhibit; Miller Williams Poetry;  meet Artist Tom Kelly;  a Visit from Actor Wilfred Brimley; Actress Julia Dailey;  a view of Mineral Point in 1859;  “49ers Schooner;” and “Sinipee, Atlantis on the Mississippi.

Vol 1 No 4    AUTUMN  2008

Facelift at City Hall;  Iowa County Fair;  “News in Bits and Bites;”  How to Trace Your House; “the 1930s at Orchard Lawn;”  Eating Local;   Weaver Leslie Bohlin; Cornish Cuisine;  and “Whither Main Street U.S.A.?”

Vol 1 No 5   WINTER 2008 -009

Mineral Point’s Centennial in 1927;  Woodcarver John Sharp;  Art of Lavern Kammerude;  Pasty Recipe;  Truth and Technology;  a Big Top Chatauqua;  Beekeeper  Mark Ranum; and “Hoover, Hype and History”

Vol 1 No 6   MAY 2009

Opera House Rehab begins;  our  Water Tower;  the City Band; Presidents as Writers;  Railroad Depot; Katie Green’s “Gold Rush;” a Sutcliffe Story; Rick Terrien on Local Economy, and an Essay on Baseball

Vol 1 No 7  DEC. to APRIL 2010

The Innovative Kitchen and a 3-Year Food Hub?;  Mineral Point in 1921;  “Land Girls in Penzance;”  Pointer Show Cattle;  Journalism Drops the Ball;  our Prize  Cattle;  “What We Eat;” and “Grandma’s Advice”

Vol 1 No 8   MAY – JUNE 2010

The Opera House Unveilling;  “A History of Mirages;”  Local Tornados!;   Post-Presidential Perks;  “TJ’s First Draft;”  Trees;  Earth Day;  Typesetting Oddities; Iowa County Coyotes; and a “Happy Planet Index” for 2010

VOL 2 NO 1  NOV 2013

The Times Resuscitated;  AMP Boosts Local Arts;  Walker House Philosophy;  Launching the Lind Pavillion;  Driftless Film Festival;  Innovation Kitchen a National Model; and “Shopkeepers, Open your Doors.”

VOL 2 NO 2   DEC 2013

Livery Building Saved!;  The Pendarvis Birch Tree;  the Library’s Card Catalog;  History asks “Where were you?”; Testing he Courage of the Press;  Edgar Whan’s Advice to Graduates; and the Times of MP hibernates.

VOL 2 NO 3   MAY 2014

Arts Mineral Point Celebrates Good Deeds;  Free Clinic Auction;  Opera House Reorganization;  New Business Places;  Misusing “incredible”; Vernacular Buildings; Avoiding Cliches; Technology and Human Connection.

VOL 2 NO 4  JUNE 2014

Mineral Points Troubled Infrastructure; High Street Water Main & Breakdowns;  History of our Mining Valley;  Thanks to Cummins;  Street-Corner Courtesy;  “What’s Enough?”; and Answering a Local Critic.

VOL 2 NO 5  JULY 2014

Art on the Streets;  July 4th: Why we Need Parades;  Words on War;  Street Repairs Elsewhere;  Zinc Mining Roaster Piles;  Reversing the Brain Drain; Garden Tour; Historic Re-Muddling; and Notes on Needless Timidity.

VOL 2 NO 6  AUGUST 2014

“First Annual Paint Out;”  a Street Repair Study;  Arts Tourism;  Iowa County Fair;  Ben Franklin as Printer;  “Surfer Girl”;  Opera House Management;  Orchard Lawn at 75; and notes on Changing Weather.

VOL 2 NO 7   SEPT 2014

Public Events and Local Dollars;  CornishFestival;  We Practice “Commonomics”;  Discussion Panels plan Pointer Growth;  1930’s School Days;  CleanUp at the Quonset Hut; and the Impact of TV on our Culture.

VOL 2 NO 8   OCT 2014

Arts Incubator at the Cannery; 21st Fall Art Tour;  Farm Life;  First State Election; Turkey Vultures;  Buckskin Brown’s Prank;  Creative Newcomers;  Where is Stillness & Silence? and “Bubblewrapping our Kids”

VOL 2 NO 9  NOV 2014

Driftless Film Fest;  Holiday Madness;  History of the Lead Region;  the Lead Plant;  City Hall Centennial;  Local Economic Development;  a 66% Pointers Vote; Winter Paint the Point; and a 1914 Christmas Truce.

VOL 2 NO 10    DEC 2014

Film Group Formed;  History of the Lead Region;  Arts Incubator Expands;  City Hall Centennial;  Local Economic Development;  1914 Battlefield Christmas Truce; and Mineral Point Pulls 66% at the Polls.

VOL 4 NO 1   MAY 2015

Overnight Lodgers Boost Local Economy;  AMP’s Dynamic First Year;  Earth Day Revisited; Battling “InfoTainment;” Our Vivid Vernacular Heritage; the Muni Band on the Rails; and a Look at “Kids Today!”

VOL 4 NO 2    JUNE 2015

School Funding Cut Again;  “FDR’s Four Freedoms, and a few Footnotes;  Eudaimonia at the Walker House;  “Forward, Our State’s Slogan;  Max Ferneke’s Works; and “Confessions of a Pointer Snowbird.”

VOL 4 NO 3    JULY 2015

“The Spirit of ‘76”;  a new “Miner’s Pub”;  the Dan Walker Budget;  “Heritage Song”;  Doing Historic Preservation Right;  Woodlanders Weekend; a “Wild Pointer Party” in 1832;  and the Risk of “Sounding Off.”

VOL 4 NO 4    AUGUST 2015

A New Dog Park;  Second Try for “Paint the Point”;  Battle Tank in Soldiers Park;  “A World Without Work?”;  Wisconsin Writers at Shake Rag Alley;  Young Filmakers Contest; Old Phrases Meet their Waterloo.

VOL 4 NO 5   SEPT  2015

Volunteers Form Pointer Pantry;  Feds Praise Innovation Kitchen;  Cornishmen in the Mines;  Linden Learning Library;  Pedro Guerrero;  Odd Inventions;  Politics becomes ShowBiz;  and “Go Deep, Not Wide”

VOL 4  NO 6    OCT  2015

Lind Pavillion Opens;  Dissecting the Federal Budget;  Under the Capitol Dome;  In Praise of 1976 “Network”;  Notes on Baseball;  Weaving now at the Incubator;  Loving Your Hometown; and the Cursed Call-Center.

VOL 4 NO 7    DEC 2015

Candlelight Shopping & Other Christmas Diversions;  High Street’s “Staying Power”;  Cornish Combat;  Dealing with Fearful News;  Literature’s Greatest First Page; and Bringing a Beatles Band to Town.

VOL 5 NO 1   JAN 2016

Wisc. Assembly Clobbers Historic Preservation;  Big Numbers on Gallery Night;  UW-Platteville Squeezes its Faculty;  Cornish Heritage Park;  What Year-End Polls Say;  and Ellis Island as 1924 Detention Center.

VOL 5   NO 2   FEB 2016

Father Valentine: the Backstory;  Presidential Aging;  Eating Well – Carrot or Twinkie?;   History of Lotteries; Papa Bush and Corrosive Politics; Chicken Little and the 24/7 News Cycle;  and Tearing Up High Street.

VOL 5 NO 3    MARCH 2016

Winter “Paint the Point”; The Wide World of Winter;  Lincoln’s Op-Ed Piece;  Opera House History;  Bob and Ray;  Exploring Soldiers Memorial Park;  Al Felly: a Great Sports Photo; and Packaging Two Kinds of Truth.

VOL 5 NO 4    APRIL 2016

A Pointer Preservation Party;  Cornish Historic Marker;  Pentagon Dollars and Sense;  More Cutbacks at UW-Platteville;  Earth Day in Local Schools;  Two Political Revolutions;  “Poster Boy for the Great Depression.”

VOL 5 NO 5     MAY 2016

A Model for Heritage Tourism;  State Tax Credits for Building Rehab;  Joseph Gundry’s Trees;  Get Kids Outdoors!;  Shake Rag’s Name;  Herbert Hoover;  the Politics Pendulum; and Working to Find Optimism.

VOL 5 NO 6     JUNE 2016

A Surge in the Housing Market;  “50 Open Doors”;  Local Students in Peru;  Day Trip: Sinsinaway;  James Joyce Fans & Bloomsday;  Singers Join Plein Air Artists;  Vintage Tourist Camps;  Lessons from Rip Van Winkle.

VOL 5 NO 7    SEPT  2016

Community Foundation Launched;  “Pirates of Penzance”;  London’s Garden Bridge;  Folly at Lands’ End?;  Filmmaker Michael Moore;  Finding Good Food;  Fiction that Sounds Like Fact;  Campaign of Craziness

VOL 5 NO 8     NOV 2016

Driftless FilmFest;  Bards Unveil Cornish Marker;  Flooding at Shake Rag Alley;  History of Retailing;  Teddy Roosevelt’s Toughness;  A Pointer Pageant; Dumb and Dumber;  and “Is Everything a Big Hit?”

VOL 5  NO 9    DEC  2016

“Okay, the People have Spoken”;  Holiday Stories;  a Victorian Christmas;  Gov. Scott Walker’s Turf;   Two Congressional Giants;  a Black Friday Frenzy Photo;  New Year’s Eve; and We Get the Politics We Deserve.