I just spent three exhilarating days at the Shaw Nature Reserve near St. Louis, Missouri, the place where everyone who made the West into a European-culture dominated landscape started out. Distracted neither by steamboats nor wagon trains, I saw a lot of bugs and spiders...
At the height of his scientific career, UW entomologist Jeffrey Lockwood walked away to teach in the humanities and write. Today, Lockwood has published a small shelf of books and teaches in UW’s philosophy department. What might have been a suicidal career move has panned out.