A departure and a return
The following is the Editor's Letter that appeared in the August 2011 issue of the print magazine.
It was no accident that Silent Sports, this magazine, took root in central Wisconsin 28 years ago last month. Sure, founding editor Greg Marr happened to live and work in Waupaca. But he also played on the canoe friendly Crystal and Waupaca rivers, the Chain O’ Lakes got him into rowing a scull, the myriad hilly rural roads lured him out onto his bike, and the Iola Winter Sports Club and other nearby Nordic ski trail systems got him ready (or at least willing) to tackle the American Birkebeiner year after year.