What would Will Dilg do?

What would Will Dilg do?

Editor’s note: This guest column is the second in a series by the Prairie Woods and Cass County chapters of the Izaak Walton League, exploring the history and future of American conservation. In the early 1900s, Will Dilg was a Chicago liquor salesman who lived for his vacations on the Mississippi River below Winona. When Prohibition cost him his livelihood, he lost everything – except his family and his connection to the water. Dilg moved his w…