Boxing Club Invites Youth to “Sweat in Our Gym” Rather Than “Bleed in the Streets”
Can you help reduce urban violence by teaching young people how to fight? Frank Porter, head of Milwaukee’s Ace Boxing ...
Artist Uses His Unique Eyesight to Create Realistic Paintings
Steve Kozar is a stickler for the details. “I'm a realist painter who does this very fussy realistic work. I ...
Wisconsin Life #402: “Guiding Lights & Gurus”
This collection of stories from people sharing their “Wisconsin Life” includes the story of Deneen Carmichael, a very busy small ...
Wisconsin 101: Pillow Sham Celebrates Service In CCC
Created in 1933, Rose Mary Drab created a pillow sham to honor her brother Edward’s service in the Civilian Conservation Corps ...
Polka Smugglers: How One Man Connected With Wisconsin’s Music
Polka always left writer Alex Bledsoe cold. That is until he discovered the musical connection between his old home in ...
Video Arcade Game Collector Aims For Museums
Bradley Czech is a child of the 80s. And if you walk down to the basement of his Green Bay ...
Carving A Career Out Of Mardi Gras Masks
Bryan Berenson credits his career to fate. At 21 years old, he was diagnosed with arthritis. “I was a diesel ...
UW-Whitewater Has A Very Successful Wheelchair Athletics Program
Laura Vacek was diagnosed with Ewing Sarcoma in her right femur when she was only seven years old. The sometimes ...
Two Rivers Man Writes Music Inspired By His Working Days
Bill Walkner has spent the last five decades of his life living in the city of Two Rivers. He's retired ...
Beekeeper Finds Russian Honeybees Uniquely Suited To Wisconsin
It is unusual to find Russian honey bees in the United States, but Sue Dompke found a way to turn ...
Mildred Harnack: Remembering The Wisconsin Woman Who Resisted Hitler
Mildred Fish Harnack was the only American woman executed by Hitler during World War II. Writer Meg Jones tell us ...
The Life And Legacy Of 3-Time Pulitzer Winner, Thornton Wilder
Few people win one Pulitzer Prize. Madison-born Thornton Wilder won three, including one for the seminal play, “Our Town.” Wilder ...
Wisconsin Life #401: “Up to the Challenge”
This collection of stories from people sharing their “Wisconsin Life” includes the story of Sue Dompke. After her husband died, ...
Frederick Jackson Turner And The History Of The American West
Perhaps no American historian stirs a more impassioned response than Frederick Jackson Turner. His ideas about the western frontier were ...
Writer Edna Ferber Got Her Start As Appleton Journalist
Best known now for the movies made from her books, Edna Ferber was one of the best-selling and most prolific ...