Page 92 – Wisconsin Life

Among the dozens of craft breweries around Wisconsin, women run the show in only three of them. Jamie Baertsch has been brewmaster at Wisconsin Dells Brewing since 2005. She discovered her passion while studying biology in college.

Musician Sets Family Story To Music
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Musician Sets Family Story To Music

The Arts

Musician Sets Family Story To Music

William Henry Gleiss was an engineer on the Milwaukee Road who died in a tragic train crash in 1918. In a story not unlike that of folk hero Casey Jones, Gleiss’ passenger train collided with a freight train at Sprague, Wisconsin.

Jeremy Lade Raises Awareness Of Wheelchair Athletics
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Jeremy Lade Raises Awareness Of Wheelchair Athletics

Sports

Jeremy Lade Raises Awareness Of Wheelchair Athletics

After a car accident at age eight, Jeremy “Opie” Lade began using a wheelchair. A lifelong sports fan, Lade discovered adaptive sports at a camp held at the University of Wisconsin- Whitewater.

Central Wisconsin Center Staff Uses Mosaic Art Project To Inspire Its Developmentally Challenged Clients
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Central Wisconsin Center Staff Uses Mosaic Art Project To Inspire Its Developmentally Challenged Clients

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Central Wisconsin Center Staff Uses Mosaic Art Project To Inspire Its Developmentally Challenged Clients

Central Wisconsin Center staff uses mosaic art project to inspire its developmentally challenged clients.

Humans Teach Cranes To Be Cranes In Baraboo
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Humans Teach Cranes To Be Cranes In Baraboo

Science & Nature

Humans Teach Cranes To Be Cranes In Baraboo

The International Crane Foundation, based in Baraboo, works around the world to save cranes. Producer Breann Schossow spent a day in at its headquarters learning about its conservation work with whooping cranes.

Offerings Of Food Makes New Place Feel Like Home
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Offerings Of Food Makes New Place Feel Like Home

Culture & History

Offerings Of Food Makes New Place Feel Like Home

I’m a Midwesterner. I should’ve known when I saw the tureen of soup on the porch of my new house in Milwaukee that it was an offering of kindness. But we’d recently moved back to Wisconsin, I’d just had my second child, and things weren’t going well.

Broadway Shines Bright Due To A Middleton Company
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Broadway Shines Bright Due To A Middleton Company

The Arts

Broadway Shines Bright Due To A Middleton Company

From the world’s tallest building in Dubai, to Main Street Disney in Orlando, to the lights on Broadway in New York City a Middleton, Wisconsin company is lighting the way. Fred Foster’s journey doesn’t resemble the career path of a typical CEO, let alone someone who become one of the 10 most powerful people in the entertainment technology industry.

Sculptors Create Works Of Art Out Of Packed Snow
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Sculptors Create Works Of Art Out Of Packed Snow

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Sculptors Create Works Of Art Out Of Packed Snow

When Eau Claire winters are at their bleakest, professional artists Jason Anhorn and Steve Bateman set out to brighten the barren landscape. For eight weeks in January and February, the two artists carve blocks of compacted snow into larger-than-life sculptures in the city’s Boyd Park.

Professional Forager Teaches People To Find Nutrition In Nature
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Professional Forager Teaches People To Find Nutrition In Nature

Science & Nature

Professional Forager Teaches People To Find Nutrition In Nature

Sam Thayer says the woods have a lot more to offer than just shade. He is a forager, and delights in showing others how much delicious food is growing naturally all around them.

Small Town Theater Is A Family Affair
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Small Town Theater Is A Family Affair

Wisconsin Originals

Small Town Theater Is A Family Affair

It’s a Sunday night in Stanley, WI, (population 3,600) and the Stanley Theater is hopping. Groups of kids and families park on main street and walk in to catch the only show in town.

Social Justice Mentor Finds Empowerment Through Words
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Social Justice Mentor Finds Empowerment Through Words

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Social Justice Mentor Finds Empowerment Through Words

As Althea René Miller launches into a spoken work poem, you get the sense she’s heading someplace remarkable. And her work as a graduate student specializing in multi-cultural education seems to also be putting her on a path to do some great things.

Wisconsin Life #309: “Foragers & Starvin’ Carvists”
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Wisconsin Life #309: “Foragers & Starvin’ Carvists”

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Wisconsin Life #309: “Foragers & Starvin’ Carvists”

The “Starvin’ Carvists”, a small town theater owner and a man who finds his meals growing in the wild are just some of the stories on tap in this episode. This collection of stories from people sharing their “Wisconsin Life” includes the story of Cecilia Eslinger, who wasn’t even much of a movie buff when she bought a one-screen theater in the small town of Stanley in Chippewa County.

Holiday Foods Trigger Family Memory At Thanksgiving
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Holiday Foods Trigger Family Memory At Thanksgiving

Food & Travel

Holiday Foods Trigger Family Memory At Thanksgiving

It can be a mindless routine or an act of utter desperation, but we all do it. Sooner or later, the products and offshoots of our lives catch up with us and we are confronted with the need to do some housekeeping.

Hunting Season: Nine Days In November
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Hunting Season: Nine Days In November

Culture & History

Hunting Season: Nine Days In November

The sound of ice cracking in the cedar swamp signaled it is deer moving and they are coming fast. Through a screen of hemlocks I see a flash of one deer, no two.

Photographer Captures Beauty Of North Woods Landscape
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Photographer Captures Beauty Of North Woods Landscape

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Photographer Captures Beauty Of North Woods Landscape

Jeff Rennicke traveled the globe as a nature writer for magazines like Backpacker, Sierra and National Geographic. But it was the natural beauty of Wisconsin that brought him back home for good.