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Wisconsin 101: The Sterling Safety Bicycle And Wisconsin’s 1890s Bicycling Craze
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Wisconsin 101: The Sterling Safety Bicycle And Wisconsin’s 1890s Bicycling Craze

Wisconsin 101: The Sterling Safety Bicycle And Wisconsin’s 1890s Bicycling Craze

Wisconsin went crazy for bicycling in the late 19th century. Hailed as “the most independent, healthful, rapid, and convenient mode of travel” in the 1890s, Wisconsinites not only rode bikes, they made them.

Mattison’s Miniature Circus: A Lifelong Passion For The Big Top
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Mattison’s Miniature Circus: A Lifelong Passion For The Big Top

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Mattison’s Miniature Circus: A Lifelong Passion For The Big Top

Bill Mattison fell in love with the circus as a kid in the 1930s, watching the circus train pass by his grandparents’ home in La Crosse. “It was magic,” Mattison recalls.

SAAF #10: Second Best Dad
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SAAF #10: Second Best Dad

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SAAF #10: Second Best Dad

It’s Father’s Day and Rose’s present leaves her Dad wondering.

WWI Veteran Recalls His Enlistment, Training, and Pranks
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WWI Veteran Recalls His Enlistment, Training, and Pranks

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WWI Veteran Recalls His Enlistment, Training, and Pranks

One hundred years ago, Wisconsin went to war. In partnership with the Wisconsin Veterans Museum, we’re exploring stories from Wisconsin men and women who served. Today, John Haddock, a Milwaukee native, tells us about his enlistment and training.

Finding Meaning In Late Life With Art
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Finding Meaning In Late Life With Art

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Finding Meaning In Late Life With Art

TimeSlips Creative Storytelling is a program based on the therapeutic power of stories. The idea is to use photos and other prompts with people with memory loss and ask them to imagine what’s going on – they don’t have to remember anything but just make something up.

Dispatches from The Wild: On Writing, Trail Work, And Falling in Love with The Challenge
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Dispatches from The Wild: On Writing, Trail Work, And Falling in Love with The Challenge

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Dispatches from The Wild: On Writing, Trail Work, And Falling in Love with The Challenge

Nature and writing have a long history. Rebekah Morrisson is following in that tradition building worlds with her words and trails with her physical labor. I’m a trail worker. When I tell people that, they don’t always know what to imagine.

Storytelling Helps One Woman Deal With Trauma
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Storytelling Helps One Woman Deal With Trauma

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Storytelling Helps One Woman Deal With Trauma

Isabella came to St. John’s on the Lake in Milwaukee after she injured her leg in a gardening accident. It was a tough transition, says Angie Crimmings, one of the caregivers at St.

Breaking Through Language Barriers With Story
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Breaking Through Language Barriers With Story

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Breaking Through Language Barriers With Story

Carlos Rodriguez is a TimeSlips facilitator at St. Ann’s Center for Intergenerational Care in Milwaukee. Rodriguez is also a student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. As part of his classes, he’s required to do a service learning project.

Lodi Program Brings Kids And Seniors Together
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Lodi Program Brings Kids And Seniors Together

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Lodi Program Brings Kids And Seniors Together

For several years now, kids and seniors in Lodi have played games, painted, sung songs, and read stories together as part of an intergenerational program at the Good Samaritan Center. Patty Morter runs the program at Good Sam with Lodi elementary’s Beth Sokol.

How To Win The East Hill Neighborhood Thrift Sale
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How To Win The East Hill Neighborhood Thrift Sale

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How To Win The East Hill Neighborhood Thrift Sale

You know how some people can go to a thrift store or a garage sale and find the most amazing things? With garage sale and flea market season upon us, Katie Venit has a few tips for tackling the East Hill Neighborhood Thrift Sale in Eau Claire.

The Welcome Oak
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The Welcome Oak

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The Welcome Oak

Many of us have an affinity for certain trees. For Robert Root, it’s an oak that welcomed him to a section of the Ice Age Trail near his home. Only after the oak had fallen did I realize how much it had cheered me whenever I saw it.

SAAF #9: Mother’s Day
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SAAF #9: Mother’s Day

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SAAF #9: Mother’s Day

Rose gets ready for Mother’s Day.

Encounter With A Mother Bear
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Encounter With A Mother Bear

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Encounter With A Mother Bear

No one wants to have an encounter with a bear – well most of us anyway. But a run in with a bear and her cubs gave Carol Dunbar a different view of mothering.

Wisconsin 101: Lifesaving Medal For The Rescue Of The Tanner
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Wisconsin 101: Lifesaving Medal For The Rescue Of The Tanner

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Wisconsin 101: Lifesaving Medal For The Rescue Of The Tanner

Wisconsin has more than 800 miles of Great Lakes shoreline. Since the early 19th century, Wisconsin’s maritime communities have routinely faced storms that destroyed communities and took lives. This lifesaving medal was awarded to one of the volunteers involved in saving the sailors aboard the barque, a three-masted ship, Tanner in 1875.

River Water: One Man’s Lifelong Connection To The River
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River Water: One Man’s Lifelong Connection To The River

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River Water: One Man’s Lifelong Connection To The River

There’s something about particular landscapes that can really get into your soul. For Ed Erdmann, it’s the Mississippi. He’s spent his life crisscrossing its shores, and finds himself returning to it again and again.