Anna Marie Lux, a longtime columnist for The (Janesville) Gazette, has resigned from the newspaper to pursue an independent writing project, she announced in a column last week.
Lux began writing human-interest columns for The Gazette in the early 1990s. She remained with the newspaper for 30 years, and by her count, wrote nearly 3,000 columns during that time.
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In her final column, Lux reflected on an early-career memory involving a farmer planting acorns from a 250-year-old oak tree that had fallen in a storm. When asked why, the farmer said he was “planting hope.”
Lux noted her favorite columns over three decades at The Gazette often shared a similar desire to make the world better. She enjoyed telling “stories from the heart meant to inform, inspire or nuture new understanding.”
