Milwaukee’s Cyclorama Masters
Depending on your age, it’s hard to think of a time before YouTube, cell phones, the Internet or even computers. ...
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 ...
Bob Dylan’s Ode To Wisconsin
Have you ever noticed that people rarely sing the lyrics to our state song, “On Wisconsin”? The tune is rousing, ...
Wisconsin in WWI: Mingling With The French
In every war there’s a lot that happens behind the front lines. Sometimes it’s training or mission related but sometimes ...
Crossing Stoughton Road
Some roads are easier to cross than others. One day, while crossing the busy, multilane Stoughton Road in Madison, Araceli ...
Americans At Work: Discovering What It Means To Be An American
After nearly a century, Oscar Mayer closed its doors in Madison. Nick Butler worked there for a time after college. ...
Wisconsin 101: Fromm’s Fashionable Furs From Wausau
In the early decades of the 20th century, it was fashionable to use fox fur on everything from scarfs, capes, and ...
Keeper Of The Light: A Modern Lighthouse Keeper
Wisconsin has a long history of lighthouses. The duties of their keepers have changed dramatically over the decades but the people ...
Closing Time: Childhood Memories And The Pool Table
Selling the family house is hard. So many memories tied to a specific place and time. For Ken Szymanski, it ...
Harvesting History
Fall is harvest time in Wisconsin. It’s a time of year that reminds historian John Gurda of his own family ...
In The Heartland
There are certain markers of the changing season. The first crocus in the spring; the first fall apple. Poet Catherine ...
Aldo Leopold’s Lost Radio Talks
Just weeks after his appointment in 1933 as chair of game management at the University of Wisconsin, Aldo Leopold gave ...
Back To School
It was September and the Education building’s large auditorium wasn’t air conditioned on one of the end of summer’s sultry ...
When The Russians Invaded Wisconsin
The launch of Sputnik by the Soviets in 1957 ushered in the Space Age and ramped up fears in the ...
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Photographer
Photographer Pedro Guerrero was born 100 years ago this month. At age 22, he became the favored photographer for the ...