Enumeration: A Cycling Itinerary For Southwest Wisconsin
There are many ways to bike Wisconsin. Kitt Healy enumerates an itinerary for biking the southwestern part of our state.
One.
Get on the road before the sun has truly committed to rising.
A Walk In The Milwaukee Woods
A beautiful spring day can feel like the last day of school when you’re a kid – an unbelievable release into the world we didn’t even realize how much we longed for.
The Allure Of Forgotten Spaces
There’s something about forgotten spaces that have always interested Alicia Holliday. On a class trip at Beloit College, she discovered one of the strangest places she’s explored yet.
I’ve always been fascinated by forgotten spaces.
Sauk City’s Plastics Recycling Pioneer
Elise Moser first heard the name Milly Zantow at a conference and was surprised to learn that the driving force behind plastic recycling was from her new town – Sauk City.
Changing The Story Of Black Motherhood
For many years, Sagashus Levingston felt like she was faking motherhood. The women she knew looked nothing like the mothers in books and on TV, and she felt like she was constantly failing to live up to what other people thought she should be.
Jim Lovell’s Wisconsin Roots
Growing up in the 1960s meant idolizing United States astronauts. In elementary school, we made scrapbooks of the Mercury 7 in their silver spacesuits. We cheered John Glenn’s dangerous orbit around the Earth.
Wisconsin Spring Means Crocuses In Snow
Sometime around Easter, the cherry trees lining both sides of my mother’s street in Maryland create a gauzy cathedral, easing her from winter into summer. When I was little, I would waltz down that aisle, happy that the short ineffectual winter was over.
Carl Zeidler’s Ultimate Sacrifice
Carl Zeidler didn’t have to go to war. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor he was the mayor of Milwaukee, the nation’s 12th largest cityBut Zeidler felt a sense of duty and volunteered for the Navy Reserve.
In Flanders Fields: WWI Veteran Recalls Poetry Of War
John Pavlik was born in Crystal Falls, Michigan, in 1901. He enlisted on April 3rd, 1917, at the age of 16 in Milwaukee. Pavlik joined the 125th Ambulance Company attached to the 32nd Infantry Division.
Wisconsin 101: Wisconsin Company Helps Pioneer Workplace Safety
Employers Mutual was the first workers compensation insurance company in the United States. The Wausau company set new standards for workplace safety that became national models.
The company was founded in Wausau in 1911 shortly after the nation’s first workers compensation law was passed in Wisconsin.
From Criminal Defense Lawyer To Chocolatier
Vata Edari always loved chocolate. And reading about it and experimenting with chocolate became a refuge for her from her work as a successful criminal defense attorney.
Law wasn’t the career she saw for herself growing up.
Art Stevenson: Wisconsin’s Bluegrass Icon
We might not have mountains here, but mountain music has been taking off in Wisconsin. Art Stevenson has been playing bluegrass in the Midwest for 25 years and for most fans, Stevenson is bluegrass in Wisconsin.
What Stays And What Remains: The Mystery Of The Wedding Dress
A school field trip led Rosalind Vang to a strange place – a house filled with mannequins. She tells us about the house and what caught her eye.
Nothing really happens in the small town of Beloit.
Let The Chips Fall
When the snow is mostly gone and the days start to feel longer, there’s one part of winter that tends to stubbornly hang on. Mike Paulus tells us about his – and our – battle with our icy foe.
Standing For The Flag
The flag out front was the first thing most people noticed and remembered. Abigail Kempf tells us about her grandparents and what the flag meant to them and to her.
My great grandparents lived in a little yellow house in Osseo.