Anne Emerson grew up on Milwaukee’s East Side and graduated from UW—Madison. In 1969,
she took a short leave from her writing job at the University of Chicago Press to help open
Edgewood Orchard Galleries in the beautiful stone fruit barn on family land on Peninsula
Players Road. Once here, she never left! Anne and her husband Minnow raised their two
children here and are fortunate to have five grandchildren living nearby. Emerson feels the
connection of all the arts--visual, performing and literary, and over the years with others helped
start three nonprofits—Friends of Gibraltar Schools artist-in-residence program, the Door
Community Auditorium, and Write On, Door County. She was awarded the Wisconsin
Governor’s Award in Support of the Arts for her community service.
