Randolph Woman’s Passion Propelled Her To Restore Hot Rods
Drive down Cemetery Road in Columbia County near Randolph and you’ll see some old hot rod muscle cars. Judging by the name of the road, you might think this is where old cars come to die.
Mixed Martial Arts Part of American Dream for Young Guatemalan Immigrant
Felipe Martinez Donis tells the story of how he came to the United States. In 2005, Donis’ father had taken on a lot of debt to plant crops. A hurricane struck Guatemala destroying the crops and leaving the family with nothing.
Germantown Illustrator Helps Kids Discover Their Super Powers
Germantown illustrator Bryan Dyer doesn’t have a superpower, but he’s always loved stories about people who do. “Superheroes in particular were my thing growing up,” Dyer says. “For the longest time, I was going to be a comic book artist.”
Young Women Learn Building Trades In Week-Long Camp Run by Madison Carpenter
When Sandy Thistle was growing up, there was one thing for sure she knew she wanted to do. Not hate her job. “What I saw were a whole lot of adults around me who hated their jobs.
Woodworker Uses Frank Lloyd Wright’s 100-Year-Old Designs To Build Furniture
Nicole Atkinson was already building shelves and furniture when she was just a teenager. She went on to study mechanical design and began her career at a furniture company in Oshkosh.
Chetek Barber Makes Lasting Impact
For the last 60 years, the people of Chetek have depended on two things. Good fishing and Harry Bossany. During that time, Bossany owned and operated Bossany’s Barbershop, located just off of Knapp Street in downtown Chetek.
Friendship, Rainbows & Bronies: My Little Pony Convention Comes To Milwaukee
Matthew McConnell and Dan Asta recently became buddies. The two met just a few months ago at BronyCon in Baltimore, the biggest My Little Pony convention in the world.
After striking up a friendship there, McConnell and Asta decided to head to Milwaukee for the sixth annual Ponyville Ciderfest.
From Trophy Bucks To Black Bears: Taxidermist Preserves Wisconsin’s Animals
Wisconsin’s deer hunting season is underway. After the meat has been packed in the freezer, taxidermists are there to preserve that trophy buck or other animals hunters want to preserve. Often, that means mounting the heads of the harvest.
Minocqua Thrift Shop Known As ‘Macy’s Of The North’
Winona Carufel of Lac du Flambeau navigates her cart through the St. Matthias Thrift Shop with a stuffed white horse sticking out of her brown paper grocery bag. Carufel has four daughters under age 8, and she’s filling the bag with surprises for them.
Wisconsin Life # 709: Rise and Climb
Wisconsin Life host Angela Fitzgerald heads to the pristine vistas of Mirror Lake State Park where she hits the trails with Girls Who Hike Wisconsin. The local chapter of the national organization helps provide women a chance to get together and get outdoors.
Alphabet Soup: Why Wisconsin’s County Highways Are Lettered, Not Numbered
If you’ve taken a drive on one of Wisconsin’s iconic scenic roads, chances are you’ve noticed a bit of alphabet soup. Signs with names like BB, CV, and N flank Wisconsin’s county roads, and Shelly from Marshall wanted to know why. She asked: "Why are Wisconsin's county roads labeled with letters instead of numbers?"
La Crosse Crochet Prodigy Has An International Following Of Craft Enthusiasts
It started with five-year-old Jonah Larson catching the glint of something shiny in a bag of leftover crafts—a crochet hook. “So here is my first ever crochet project I want to show.
Antigo Woman Helps Injured Birds Recuperate In A Safe Haven
When you arrive at the Raptor Education Group Inc. (REGI) in Antigo, you might hear the cry of an eagle, the clicking of a frightened owl’s beak or the cackle of the geese.
Medford Man Displays His Collection Of Chainsaws In Unique Way
“In northern Wisconsin, either you sheared Christmas trees or you peeled ‘popple’ for a summer job,” say Gordy Lekies, remembering his youth. Using his trusty chainsaw, he peeled ‘popple’ for ten or eleven cents per stick.
How Did Wisconsin Get Its Name? It’s Complicated.
It turns out "How Wisconsin got its name" is a somewhat tricky question to answer. But what we do know, is that it came from the Algonquian language family — spoken by tribes in Wisconsin like the Menominee, Ojibwe, Potawatomi and Mohican.