Wisconsin Life # 907: Madison Art Cart
Angela Fitzgerald catches up with the Art Cart, a program bringing arts and crafts to Dane County parks hosted by Madison School & Community Recreation and the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art.
Landjaeger: Childhood Love Of Sausage Snack Inspires Book
Jesse Brookstein takes snacking seriously.
The New York native has fond memories of his uncle sharing unique, flattened meat snacks with the whole family during the Upstate summer vacations of his childhood.
Looking back to move forward: A hunt to remember
For many Wisconsin families, hunting is an annual tradition rooted in customs and love. But what happens when those traditions are disrupted, when members of that deer camp are no longer with us?
Madison artist brings painted, wooden flock to east side neighborhood
There’s a street on Madison’s east side that’s dotted with large-than-life birds.
A sandhill crane, a red-winged black bird, a pink flamingo. No two are alike — except for a couple of cardinals.
Wisconsin Life # 906: Native Wellness Garden
Angela Fitzgerald is off to Milwaukee to uncover the practices and processes behind the Native Wellness Garden. This urban garden is run by the Gerald L. Ignace Indian Health Center, and practices sustainable agriculture in a growing space supporting First Nation communities.
Madison’s Ricardo Gonzalez and the Cuban Salsa Band
(This story is an excerpt from the podcast, “WPR Reports: Uprooted.”)
Ricardo Gonzalez was 12 years old the day the Cuban Revolution prevailed and Fidel Castro took power.
Gonzalez grew up in Camagüey, Cuba.
Organic farmer grows crops and care
When it comes to organic farming Robert Pierce has the answers. “I believe that if you eat healthy foods, you get a healthy mind.” Pierce learned about food at an early age from his grandmother on Madison’s Southside.
Preserving the unique German heritage built into the Lutze housebarn
It’s designated as one of Wisconsin’s ten most endangered buildings, and the fact that is still standing is amazing in and of itself. At 110 feet long and 30 feet wide, the Lutze Housebarn sits on the National Registry of Historic Buildings.
Carson Gulley was more than the maker of fudge bottom pie at UW-Madison
Carson Gulley was a Black culinary, radio and TV pioneer in the mid-1900s. Now, his legacy lives on at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, after it named a dining venue after him.
Wisconsin Life # 905: Hmong Wausau Festival
At the Hmong Wausau Festival Angela Fitzgerald catches up with the chairman of the festival Yee Leng Xiong to find out all there is to do, and eat, at the festival.
Refugee in La Crosse dreams of returning to Cuba
(This story is an excerpt from the podcast, “WPR Reports: Uprooted.”)
A group of musicians are jamming in their living room in La Crosse, playing the popular song “Guantanamera.” One of the musicians playing is a Cuban exile who arrived in Wisconsin following the Mariel Boatlift in 1980, Marcos Calderón.
Local Wisconsin group is helping spread the Gospel of Bees
If you ever stroll past Redeemer Lutheran Church in downtown Milwaukee, you can’t help but feel an atmosphere swarming with activity. But it’s not the congregation inside that’s drawing attention. It’s what’s congregating above, on the roof, that’s making a buzz.
Eau Claire runner journeys across every street in the city
A little over a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, Alex Rongstad had an idea for a project. Could he run every street in the city of Eau Claire before the end of the year?
Turning back time on a century farm to heal the land
On a bend in the Buffalo River, Heather Mishefske and Chad Rykal envisioned a new kind of farm. This land had been in agricultural rotation for decades, soybeans and corn. Restoring this century farm means making the land sustainable for another 100 years.
Wisconsin Life # 904: Diamond Dreams
It’s time to take the field in Appleton as Angela Fitzgerald joins the Miracle League of the Fox Valley, a program offering kids with disabilities the opportunity to play baseball. We talk with a player and his dad to find out why the program is so special.