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You are all 365. { dubuque365 / 365ink } Where’s Wando? 401 Locust Street, Dubuque, IA, 52001 We’ve hidden Wando somewhere in this issue of 365ink. Can dubuque365.com | 563-588-4365 you find the master of movies buried within these pages? All contents © 2010, Community, Incorporated. All rights reserved. 2 {april 29 - may 12 } 365ink www.Dubuque365.com { bryce’s inkubator } there is only one thing that can improve the taste of morels. and that’s bacon. For whatever reason, I’ve got a bee in my bon- have an hour in the day to go have a little fun net this year about going morel hunting. I in the sun and hunt and gather my meal like have not gone in years, though once upon a a real man. Jimmy Berg posted photos of his time I was quite adept at the sport. We have a find to Facebook, further twisting the knife. I farm in Stitzer, Wisconsin. It’s a tiny town you suppose I could go find somewhere to buy go to when you forget your turn to Lancaster some for $20 a pound. But I really wanted to or Fennimore. Not really. It’s more like the find them myself. But by the time I get this town you go to if you purposely turn off of the paper put to bed, I’m sure all the spots I’d extremely obvious road to Lancaster. It’s got have gone to have been hunted ten times over 100 acres to go mushroom hunting. And over. I need some fresh acreage stat. back in the day we used to fill bread sacks with the things. But it’s 40 minutes away and not Much like the captains on Deadliest Catch, an easy side trip to make after work. So more people are often happy to tell you all about recently I would hunt on local friends’ land the secrets they use to find the mushroom or at FDR Park. About a week back we MADE motherload. They’ll say what kinds of tree to the time to go, and naturally, didn’t find jack look for, what side of the hill to search on, to squat. But we did have a nice walk through the look for moss on the ground, blah, blah blah, woods in FDR Park. It was clearly too dry. But I but no one EVER gives up their honey pot. hadn’t been down in those woods in 10 years If you’ve hit pay dirt on the hunt, you won’t so it was nice to get back to some old stomp- even tell your mother where you found ing grounds. The mountain bikers still use the them, because you can bet your bottom dol- area like crazy and there are criss-crossing trails lar you’re going back in two days to pick it all over the sides of the hills which make hiking again. So you can freeze 20 pounds for the very easy and fun. Christy was pretty sure as rest of the year, while I sit here writing about the sun was setting that we were lost and sure the mushrooms I can’t go get. I hope you like to die out there, but I knew where the creek your festival posters! They cost me a plate full and the sun were, so it was no big deal. Sure of buttery crusted fungus love. enough we came out of the woods right by the car, living to hunt another day. Only I don’t know if I’m ever going to get another day. I lamented my lack of success on a Facebook post and I think got more responses to that off hand comment than I ever did before. You see, when it comes to Morels, everyone’s got a theory. Joey Z. told me I shouldn’t be hunting with a plastic bag, but with a mesh or burlap sack so the spores from the Mush- rooms could still fall to the ground and make So all I have right now is a very nice set of, more mushrooms. Good to know. Jeff Coble I guess you’d call them, petrified morels pointed me to an online forum where people that nature photographer Roger Dorneden across the country gather to talk about where brought me last week because I had written the shrooms are and when. There was indeed about him in the paper. They taunt me from an Iowa forum. And they were pretty much in the cluttered corner of my desk. I can’t eat concensus. We needed rain. Everything they them, I can just look at them and finish this were finding was drying up. edition of the paper. Hopefully, I can make up a fake excuse like a doctor appointment So I waited patiently for rain along with every- on Wednesday afternoon, the day after the one else. It teased us on Thursday and Friday. paper is done, but one day before it hits the Then, of course, it got just crazy wet over the street, and get on the hunt. With any luck weekend, but it didn’t really get that warm and grace of God, I’ll be cozied up to a new afterwords. Nonetheless, the mushrooms episode of Deadliest Catch with a steak and must have been dying to pop, because peo- a pile of morels by the time your are reading ple are online reporting finds by the bushel. this. But just in case, keep in mind I will work And here I still sit because I’m so busy I don’t for shrooms. www.Dubuque365.com 365ink { april 29 - may 12 } 3 { community } farmers market? i’ll take nine loaves of cinnamon bread from the nuns and half a cow. Community Briefs interested in registering for Farmers’ Market scheduled for Saturday, May 1 at the Farley can pick up information including the 2010 Speedway in Farley, Iowa. A different kind Vendor Handbook at the Dubuque Main of car show, qualifying Torque Fest hot rods Street office, 1069 Main Street. For more will be allowed to make exhibition laps on information, contact market coordinator the dirt track. Vintage hot rods from around Laura Bertjens at (563) 588-4400. the country, as well as pre-1975 motorcycles and choppers will be on display. Featured cars on display in the ballroom will include The Roswell Rod, The Asphalt Angel, Hiro- hata Mercury, and Blue Danube. Dennis One Particular Harbour is a fundraiser for Gage of Speed Channel’s “My Classic Car” Camp Albrecht Acres. The event will feature and his video crew will be on hand taping a silent auction, raffle items, food, drinks (of Spring Farmers’ Market Opens an upcoming episode, as well as journal- course) and live music by A Pirate Over 50 and Saturday, May 1 ists from Ol Skool Rodz, Car Kulture Deluxe, Steve Cavanaugh, with the Cedar Island Band City Hall, Downtown Dubuque and DicE Magazine. The event will also fea- headlining. Founded in 2006, the Dubuque With the continuing popularity of Winter ture live music from five different bands, an Phlockers are a group of individuals that not Farmers’ Market, some might overlook the exhibit of “kustom kulture” artwork, and a only enjoy listening to Jimmy Buffett music, fact that the spring and summer version, model-building contest for kids. For more but also a not-for-profit organization dedi- which has simply been know as “Farmers’ info, see the April 15 issue of 365ink or visit cated to performing charity fundraising and Market” for 165 years, is set to open the first www.vintagetorquefest.com. community service work in and around the Saturday of May. That happens to be May 1 Dubuque area (and having fun while doing so). this year. Open every Saturday, from 7 a.m. One Particular Harbour In 2009, the group donated $8,000 dollars to to noon, Farmers’ Market runs from the first Grand River Center Make-A-Wish of Iowa. Tickets for One Particu- Saturday of May through the last Saturday of Saturday, May, 1 lar Harbour 2010 are $10 in advance, $15 at the October.