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Mackenzie Martin

Mackenzie Martin

Mackenzie Martin is the Morning Edition Host and Features Editor at WXPR Public Radio in Rhinelander. When she’s not listening to podcasts and contemplating life’s meaning, she likes to cook elaborate meals and spend time with the wild turkeys that always seem to be in her backyard.

Latest Contributed Stories

Wayne Valliere of the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa etching a birchbark canoe in 2015. (Courtesy of Wayne Valliere/Native Arts & Cultures Foundation)

December 7, 2021

Birch Bark Canoes Take Time, As Does Learning We’re Stronger Together

Mackenzie Martin of WXPR in Rhinelander, Wisconsin brings us the following story as part of their "We Live Up Here" series. This story originally aired in 2020. == Birch bark ...
The Rhinelander Masonic Temple is located at 23 E. Davenport St., Rhinelander, Wisc. (Mackenzie Martin/WXPR)

March 10, 2020

Not So Mysterious: Past And Present Masonic Temples Build Community

There are several Masonic Lodges of Freemasons in the Northwoods, but the network has always had an air of mystery. But what is the role of a Masonic temple in ...
Naturalist John Bates spent years traveling around Wisconsin hunting down old-growth forest to find "the best of the best." Then he self-published a book about everything he had learned. He is pictured here in the Germain Hemlocks State Natural Area in Harshaw. (Mackenzie Martin/WXPR)

November 1, 2019

Naturalist John Bates Can Guide You To The Best Old-Growth Forest In Wisconsin

WXPR reporter Mackenzie Martin heads to an old-growth forest with naturalist John Bates to answer this Curious North question: Are there any old-growth sections or oldest trees known in the ...
Original movie poster for "Bog."

October 31, 2018

Bog: Wisconsin’s Forgotten, Yet Beloved Horror Film

It's prime time scary movie season. And if you’re the type of person who loves the campy, horror B-movies of yesteryear, you're in luck. WXPR’s Mackenzie Martin tells us all ...

February 21, 2018

A Dress Made of Bullets

Lac du Flambeau’s Melissa Doud was recently nominated for a Native American music award for the song “Bullet Dress”. A song based on her experience a veteran.  Melissa Doud and ...

October 18, 2017

Northwoods Bookbinder Brings Books Back To Life

When a book has been loved to death, sometimes it needs to be brought to someone who can bring it back to life. Florian Bieschke’s bookbindery, Atelier, is situated in ...

February 3, 2017

Rhinelander’s Nordic Skiing Tradition

Rhinelander today has a fairly well known cross country ski program in its schools. But it wasn't always this way. Rhinelander High School Nordic Coach Charil Reis loved skiing but ...
 
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