November 26, 2015
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 ...
June 5, 2015
Althea René Miller moved to Wisconsin from Southern Los Angeles on a whim as an 18-year-old. The University of Wisconsin—Madison is what brought her here, but it is her dedication ...
May 28, 2015
E. Arti Wulandari’s Wisconsin Life started in Fall of 2006, when she began graduate study at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. While originally from Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Wulandari had already spent some ...
May 22, 2015
If you ask Ellie from Madison to talk about her life, she’s going to tell you a story about her dog: “I rescued my dog from the shelter and her ...
February 20, 2015
The Music Room at Oakhill Correctional Institution is a pretty remarkable space. Here, within the walls of a small classroom, you will find a piano, a variety of guitars, a ...
February 12, 2015
Bob and Alan have been ice fishing for as long as they can remember. It’s what you do in winter in Wisconsin. Like many others around the state, they brave ...
December 10, 2014
For many of us, Christmas trees come to mind for only a short part of the winter holiday season. For Bill and Judy Summers of Middleton, Wisconsin, it means spending ...
December 2, 2014
Folklore Village in Dodgeville hosted the 2014 Southern Wisconsin Singing in November at Plum Grove Church. More than 120 people come from around the Midwest for a full day of ...
December 2, 2014
Madison Sacred Harp Singers gather twice a month on Sunday afternoons to sing together.
December 2, 2014
The tradition of shape note singing, also known as Sacred Harp singing, does not come from Wisconsin. It originated in the early American South and remains more widely practiced today ...
November 26, 2014
More than 60% of the country's cranberry crop is harvested in Wisconsin. That's a lot of cranberries. Good thing Nodji VanWychen never gets tired of them! For over 100 years, ...