As I sat in the Royal Purple office waiting for world-renowned portrait artist Ben McCready to meet me for an interview, I began flipping the pages of my reporter’s notebook, trying to gather my tangle...

When Ben McCready takes his daily walk through the Whitewater community with his wife Anne at his side, he often goes unrecognized and sometimes even unseen by many UW-Whitewater students. What many students don’t know as they see the couple pass by is that Ben is a bit of a local celebrity.