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Climate Strike; Madison, WI 2019; © 2020 Jason Houge, All Rights Reserved; VoTP_118

Voice of The People is a look at more than a decade of protests, marches and actions in the U.S. from 2009-current. I was raised by a predominantly Republican and Catholic family. Growing up, the children in my family were often not allowed to be present during political conversations or news broadcasts. We never discussed or were told about the historic protests, rallies, and marches that helped shaped our home country, the United States. In short, we were not permitted to be informed until we were of voting age at which point we stumbled out into the world largely uneducated about our government or theRead More →

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Chiclone; Algoma, WI 2011; © 2022 Jason Houge, All Rights Reserved; Algoma_065

Algoma is a city of about 3,000 people on Wisconsin’s shore of Lake Michigan. The area was first inhabited and named by Algonquin speaking people. The city is located on a natural harbor about 25 miles east of the city of Green Bay. Historically, Algoma played a key role in the origin of the Christmas Tree tradition now observed in the United States. In Fred Neuschel’s book about the early Christmas tree shipping industry, Lives and Legends of the Christmas Tree Ships, the description of Algoma is that of a town that relied heavily on the resources and transportation routes Lake Michigan provided. The lakeRead More →

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Chabad Lubavitch Sukkot Celebration in Crown Heights; Brooklyn, NY 2009; © 2009 Jason Houge, All Rights Reserved; LChaim_0009

Chabad-Lubavitch Sukkot in Crown Heights, New York L’Chaim To Life A toast made by the Lubavitch Jews during Sukkot. Sukkot is an annual jubilee that celebrates harvests and the 40 years that were spent wandering the desert with Moses, living in temporary shelters known as Sukkahs. Every year at this time families build their own sukkahs to eat and drink in and to entertain their guests within. This work was produced during a workshop in 2009.Read More →