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Liz Dohms

Liz Dohms-Harter

Liz Dohms-Harter is a digital content producer for Wisconsin Public Radio. She grew up on “Mister Roger’s Neighborhood” and Braunschweiger sandwiches. A native Wisconsinite, she’s terrible at skiing, walking on ice and cutting dairy out of her diet.

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View of Rib Mountain's quartzite quarry on a trail that leads up and around the quarry and back down the mountain. (Liz Dohms-Harter/WPR)

June 22, 2022

One tough rock: Central Wisconsin’s Rib Mountain survived volcanoes, erosion and glaciers

There's a rumor that Rib Mountain in central Wisconsin is an extinct volcano. Well, it's not. It never was. And although it does have ties to ancient volcanoes, the star ...
In the shape of a square root symbol, Pepin County was carved out of Dunn County to the north, which originally was part of a much larger Chippewa County. (Liz Dohms-Harter/WPR)

April 23, 2021

It ‘Looks Like A Square Root Symbol’: How Pepin County Got Its Shape

Dunn County in western Wisconsin once had access to the Mississippi River. Its early boundary held for four years until its southernmost portion got swept up in politics and emerged ...
Leonard Schmitt, independent Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, holds a copy of The McCarthy Record and points to an empty chair with a sign showing the seat reserved for his opponent, Joseph R. McCarthy, to debate the issues with him. (Courtesy of the Wisconsin Historical Society)

January 15, 2021

Who Was Leonard Schmitt, The Man Who Ran Against Joseph McCarthy?

In 1952, Leonard Schmitt ran against controversial Senator Joseph McCarthy on the Republican ticket in Wisconsin...and lost. We recently received a WHYsconsin question from a listener who wanted to know ...
The Man Mound is east of Baraboo in Man Mound County Park. This is the only effigy mound of a human that's remained nearly in tact, and was likely built more than 1,000 years ago. (Courtesy of Ethan Brodsky)

September 2, 2020

‘A Sculpted Land’: Wisconsin’s Effigy Mounds Connected People To Spirits, Humanity

At one point in time, thousands of effigy mounds could be found in what is now called Wisconsin. These ancient burial sites are still significant to members of the state’s ...
The Viking Cafe is Holmen High School's cafeteria, where food grown and raised by students is often served. (Liz Dohms/WPR)

January 17, 2020

No Rubber-Roni Here: Holmen’s Student-Grown Cafeteria Food Defies School Lunch Stereotypes

The only time Holmen High School junior Gracie Kromke is exposed to the stereotypical bad lunch — rubber-roni, slapping food on plates — is when she hears stories about them. ...
 
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