David McGlynn has no trouble remembering the exact date that his journey to swimming the English Channel began — even if he didn’t realize it at the time.
It was March 16, 2021.
McGlynn, a writing teacher at Lawrence University in Appleton since 2006 and a Madison resident since 2018, had tasked himself with painting the two-story entryway of his home. It was a year into the pandemic. House projects were all the rage…