Lake Geneva tradition leaps along with mailboat jumpers
Most U.S. Postal Service mail carriers wear uniforms with collared shirts and over-the-shoulder satchels.
But if you want a mail route in Lake Geneva, you may have to don a lifejacket.
Wisconsin’s Ryan Castelaz pushing boundaries of coffee with Milwaukee shop, new book
The culture of coffee can be seen everywhere – from the aisles of your local grocery store, to the wide variety of options on the menus at big box chains and small local shops.
The lindens: Discovering natural beauty in ordinary places
Sometimes, we can take the world’s beauty for granted. We don’t notice these natural works of wonder that are in front of us every single day. Until we do. For writer Catherine Jagoe, it took a global pandemic to open her eyes to the trees that surrounded her in Madison.
‘No matter where you are, you can find them’: The joys of bird watching
There's a certain point every spring in Wisconsin, when it seems like winter is finally gone for good. We put our heavy coats away for the season. Trees and flowers begin to bloom. And, as WPR's Bridgit Bowden tells us, we begin to hear songbirds welcoming warmer weather.
Witness to change: The evolution of Milwaukee’s Layton Park
Cities inevitably change through the decades. People move in and out. Businesses come and go. Often times, these shifts are most obvious in your own neighborhood.
Author and historian John Gurda has been reflecting on changes surrounding his childhood home in Milwaukee.
The Yiddish Tapes: Grandmother’s beautiful voice lives on
When I was a kid we always had shelves filled with blank cassettes. Sony, Memorex, TDK, we had them all. They sat in nice stacks, just laying in wait for when my grandma called for me to bring her a blank tape and the tape recorder.
Oldest Lionel Railroad Club chugs along in New Berlin
The oldest Lionel Railroad Club in the world is tucked inside a suburban commercial building in New Berlin, outside Milwaukee. The club started out in the founder’s basement and — 76 years later — features three multilevel layouts running 17 trains at a time.
Sijo — a form of Korean poetry — gains popularity in Wisconsin
Sijo is a traditional poetry form from Korea. Each line tells a different part of a story. Once there is a theme, line one represents the introduction of the poem. Line two is where the development, the rising action occurs.
Gleaning the sunflowers: How not to fail at gardening
Gardening season is upon us. For people blessed with a green thumb, this is their moment to shine…they’re putting in the work now to reap the rewards later. For others, the idea of planning a garden bed is daunting, especially if you have bad track record for keeping plants alive.
Preserving history of trauma and resiliency through UW-Oshkosh’s ‘Campus COVID Stories’
People filter into an auditorium at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh in mid-April. They talk as audio from campus community members begins to play in the background.
Then, the auditorium goes silent as lecturer Grace Lim takes the stage.
How to be beautiful: A lesson from mom
Many of us are grateful for everything our mothers taught us. For Jana Rose Schleis, she’s thankful that her mom — Betty Schleis of Two Creeks, Wisconsin — taught her how to be beautiful.
The Racine Belles and Kenosha Comets: In a league of their own
A major event in sports history took place in September 1943. Two teams played in the first championship series of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Both were from Wisconsin.
The league was founded that year to keep fans coming to ballparks while male players served in World War II.
The Wisconsin Muslim Project
In The Wisconsin Muslim Project special Angela Fitzgerald visits the Fox Valley Islamic Society in Neenah to learn about their community while sharing stories of Muslims around the state. Angela sits down with President Mamadou Coulibaly to learn how the Fox Valley community was formed and expanding into a new, larger mosque down the street.
Painting the landscape: Earth Day in the Heartland
Wisconsin senator Gaylord Nelson helped organize the first Earth Day in 1970, after growing concerns for the environment. Since then, it’s been a day to celebrate our natural resources while also drawing attention to increasing threats to them.
Muslim law professor teaches values of kindness and community
Asifa Quraishi-Landes is a law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Quraishi-Landes says she’s “always liked learning” and believes “education is something that gives people tools to be better.”
She’s known on campus for using untraditional ways of teaching in her lectures.