Bruce and Jana met in the summer of 1969, in Madison, Wisconsin. Two weeks later, they knew they'd be together forever. They were wed November 28, 1971.

Bruce had traveled from Berkley, California to Madison to spend the summer with his girlfriend, Emmy Bell. Jana had been a student at UW, gone home for the summer, but returned to Madison to live and work. Each of them took training as Draft Counselors in the protest against the Vietnam War. The organizer of the project, Charlie Taylor, threw a party for the Counselors, where Jana overheard Bruce (with Emmy) telling others about his experiences at the Woodstock Music Festival the year before. Bruce, Emmy, and Jana met . Jana knew immediately that she felt comfortable and "herself" with both of them.

Just few adventures at Lake Mendota, restaurant-hopping, and laughing times later, Bruce and Jana were one.

A couple of years later, their friend Steven MacNeil asked, "When are you two going to get married already?" Most of the people in their "subculture" did not believe in the institution of marriage - authority and cultural customs were being questioned at every turn, and legalizing love seemed unnecessary, authoritarian, antiquated, and possibly immoral. Yet Jana knew that their parents would be happier, and easier to be with, if they formalized their union. Bruce did not agree to doing so for awhile. Then one day, driving from their farm house in Mazomanie in to Madison, he looked over and out of the blue said, "Okay, let's get married."

[to be continued. . . ]