It’s two a.m., and the terrier can’t sleep. Raccoons and possums are prowling. The terrier wants to go outside, guard our farm, protect our crops.
I’d welcome her vigilance were we actually farmers, if we truly had any crops, but we aren’t and we don’t.
Calvin Young grew up on Mayflower Court between two “projects” near 7th and Walnut. From a young age, Young’s environment had an influence on him. Both of his parents were alcoholics and, eventually, it found him too.
From 1937 to 1946, Sidney Robertson Cowell, Alan Lomax, and the University of Wisconsin’s Helene Stratman-Thomas, with federal support from the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress, recorded nearly 2,000 traditional performances in more than twenty-five languages from musicians and singers in Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.
DN, Renegade, Nite, Skeeter, Stern Steerer, runner plank, tiller, light air, heavy air. Those words were not part of my regular vocabulary. Then I went ice boating.
Ice boating requires many levels of patience.
Many of us collect things, from baseball cards to comic books and dolls. Gary Brockman of Middleton collects buttons.
He fell in love with buttons while working in publishing in New York City.
Many of us collect things, from baseball cards to comic books and dolls. Gary Brockman of Middleton collects buttons.
He fell in love with buttons while working in publishing in New York City.
As a boy, Eric Lee had a deep love of art. In elementary school, he’d borrow friends’ Transformer toys and try copy the art he found on the toys’ boxes.
“Drawing, you know, like any kid,” Lee said.
On a gray winter morning, a steady parade of cars and trucks winds through Council Ground State Park, down a snowy boat ramp and onto the frozen surface of Lake Alexander near Merrill.
At sunrise on a June morning, Melinda Roberts is busy loading her car, finding a comfortable spot for her dog Dexter, hitching up her 1986 Uhaul camper and hitting the road.
In the Green Bay area and across Wisconsin Tina Sauerhammer isn’t a household name just yet, but don’t bet against it. She first competed for Miss Wisconsin in 2001 after winning the Miss Green Bay Pageant.
Philip Ashby is a television production artist by day and a taxi cab driver by night. In this animated story, he describes the special relationship that is shared between a taxi driver and his passengers as they share a ride through the city of Madison.
A member of the medical team that performed the first full face transplant, a man who organizes drag races on icy lakes and a taxi cab driver are a few of the Wisconsinites who share their stories in this episode.
The year my older son started kindergarten—our third in Wisconsin—I learned about St. Nick’s Day. Children set their shoes by the fireplace before bed on December 5th and wake the next morning to find their Keds and Converse filled with chocolate coins wrapped in gold foil, a small toy or two.
Game day at Lambeau Field in Green Bay has a party atmosphere. There is a sea of fans, a few bands playing the “Packers Polka” and tailgaters as far as the eye can see.