Solving Problems With Philosophy in Green Bay
Every month during the school year the Philosophers’ Cafe is open. UW Green Bay philosophy professor Chris Martin heads the group which meets every month during the school year at a coffee house or bar.
Making Violins The Old Way In Northern Wisconsin
Brian Derber is a full-time violin maker from Presque Isle who runs the only violin-making school of its kind in Wisconsin. Derber has got a thick gray beard running down to his chest and a teacher’s knack for making challenging ideas simple.
Stormy Kromer, An Iconic Wisconsin-Born Cap
In 1903, a cantankerous railroad engineer and semi-pro baseball player named George “Stormy” Kromer began the Kromer Cap Co., in Kaukauna, Wis.
It was a company born of a practical need.
Winter Tale
You’re probably looking forward to spring. The birdsong. The trees leafing out and the tulips pressing through the mud. The green music of it all. I get it.
But I’ll miss winter in the upper Midwest.
Boat Found And Sent On Its Way
Jeffrey Hinueber always liked “Paddle-to-the-Sea,” the book by Holling C. Holling about an Indian boy who releases a miniature, hand carved canoe on Lake Nipigon, with dreams that it would travel across Lake Superior to the Atlantic Ocean.
April Is Not The Cruelest Month for Motorcyclists
Contrary to what T.S. Elliot once wrote, April is not the cruelest month, at least not for Wisconsin motorcyclists like me. Unless I’m especially rabid from a winter of withdrawal, I wait for April to take the bike off the trickle charger, coerce my daughter’s boyfriend into helping me squeeze and scrape it out the basement door, and roll my machine out to gleam in the first sunshine it’s seen in five months.
Veterans Tell Their Stories
Pressed for time, doctors often have little time to spend getting to know their patients. An innovative program at the VA hospital in Madison lets veterans share their stories with their doctors.
Moving to Madison
After growing up in St. Louis, I wanted to settle down somewhere smaller. I liked Midwestern college towns, so I narrowed the choices to Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Madison, Wisconsin. I hadn’t been to either one, and this was the 1980s, before you could find out about a city by Googling it.
Warriors Boxing
Mark Antonio Daniels, Jr., has competed in amateur boxing competitions, including the Golden Gloves, since he was eleven years old. An enrolled member of the Forest County Potawatomi, he lives in Crandon outside of the Forest County Potawatomi Reservation.
The Sounds Behind the Games
Video games like Call of Duty have become entertainment juggernauts, attracting millions of fans around the world. They come for the challenge, for the thrill, and for the storytelling.
Mark Kilborn is the audio director for Raven Software in Middleton, Wis.,
Artist Creates Portraits Of Beloved Horses And Dogs
Classically-trained artist Marie Fritz Perry is an animal lover and competitive horsewoman. She’s combined interests as an artist specializing in animal portraits and won recognition as a top hunting dog portraitist from “Gun Dog” magazine.
Playing To Win At Pond Hockey Championship In Eagle River
Eagle River claims it’s the Hockey Capital of Wisconsin. Every year, more than 300 teams descend on the town to compete in the Pond Hockey Championship. Emily Bright caught up with members of a local team in the over 60 division known as the Eagle River Frozen 7.
Roller Derby: The Toughest Women on Four Wheels
Flat-track roller derby has become a phenomenon in recent years. Invented in the 1920s, it has evolved into a predominately female sport drawing women from a variety of backgrounds. For women on Madison’s Mad Wreckin’ Dolls, roller derby is more than just a rough and tumble sport.
Rounding the Bases on Snowshoes
Long after the snow melts, the snowshoes stay out and in use in Lake Tomahawk. For more than fifty years, snowshoe baseball has attracted crowds to weekly games. Breann Schossow went to see the sawdust fly in the Snowshoe Baseball Capital of the World.
Bowling and Beer at One of Milwaukee’s Oldest Taverns
Tucked inside the basement of a neighborhood bar in southwest Milwaukee, you’ll find the oldest bowling alley in the country. The Holler House has been welcoming customers for over 100 years and hasn’t changed much in that time.