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Cranberries

It’s hard to imagine Thanksgiving without cranberries. Unless you’re like Nodji vanWychen — born and raised on a cranberry marsh. Nodji’s a 3rd generation cranberry grower. She and her family still own and run the marsh where she grew up, in Warrens, Wisconsin.

Beets

If you think politics are polarizing, try beets. A fall and winter food staple, beets are a major Wisconsin crop yet they don’t inspire a lot of love. UW-Madison plant scientist Irwin Goldman, professor of horticulture at the UW-Madison, is the nation’s leading expert on beets and today, he’ll try to rehabilitate the image of this humble root.

The haunting — and history — of UW- Madison’s Science Hall

If you ask around, you’ll likely hear that ghosts are lurking on University of Wisconsin- Madison’s historic campus. From things like the very real graves atop Bascom Hill, to generations of student lore, many have reported that the history here, sometimes goes bump in the night.

Superior

With the Wisconsin Book Festival beginning this week, we have an essay from writer Anthony Bukoski. His short stories about immigrant life in the working class neighborhoods of Superior have earned him a national reputation.