“Wisconsin Life’s” featured collection for February 2025 features stories that show how love always finds a way.
Peshtigo pair ‘proud to be part of this rotting world’
Mary Ellen Kozak grew up with mushrooms. Despite being raised in Detroit, she would often return to her family’s farm ...
Preserving collections and saving cats: Inside Redner’s Rescued Cat Figurine Mewseum
Cats are special companions to many people, including Shawn and Hilary Redner. The couple love cats so much they created ...
An awkward first date and a second chance: Falling in love with The Lakatos
Though Steve and Emily Lakatos of Green Bay, Wisconsin met in their 30s, they both found out that it’s near ...
Love Finds a Way with Zoom Wedding
Even in a global pandemic, love finds away. With the help of his parents, Kiran Vedula planned a romantic proposal ...
Valders Couple Raise Coopworth Long Wool Sheep, Run 1920s Woolen Mill
Nestled in a valley by Valders is the Hidden Valley Farm & Woolen Mill. Five hundred and fifty head of ...
LEGOs Are Building Blocks of West Bend Couple’s Relationship
Eric and Emily Krans are unofficial LEGO Master Builders. They create amazing structures from small, colorful plastic bricks. Turns out, ...
Milwaukee’s First Love Letter
Valentine’s Day was not, you’d guess, a high point in the lives of Milwaukee’s pioneers. If their photographs are any ...
Wedded Weavers
Wence Martinez grew up in a Mexican town famous for its weaving. When he ran across a drawing by Milwaukee ...
Act II: Love and Marriage
Valentine’s Day can elicit groans but it also inspires reflections on the meaning of love. Writer John Hildebrand considers marriage ...