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Short Story Night: A book club for the Fox Valley’s busiest readers

A room with a small stage in Lion's Tail Brewing in Neenah is packed on a Monday in mid-March.  Folks ...

PEEF the bear: Home for Christmas

Parents will go to great lengths to make sure their kids have the perfect Christmas. Parents like Jan Larson of ...

Forgiveness explored in Milwaukee writer Deshawn McKinney’s new poetry book

Finding forgiveness is deeply personal. Sometimes, it’s easy to forgive someone who’s wronged you and move on. Other times, the ...

Madison-based author puts Black history in perspective

Joyce Salter Johnson has loved history her entire life. But as a descendant of people who were enslaved, the Madison ...

A Mother’s Voice: A Lifetime Of Reading With The Kids

A mother’s voice can wrap us in warm blankets. It can guide gently or yank us back from the cliff. ...

Steven Salmon: The Tapping Author

Every author has their own way of writing — they get in the zone, channel their creativity, and then (hopefully!) ...

Wisconsin 101: Door County Bookmobile

Bookmobiles have long dotted Wisconsin’s roadways and parking lots. The state has a long history of bringing books and movies ...

Northwoods Bookbinder Brings Books Back To Life

When a book has been loved to death, sometimes it needs to be brought to someone who can bring it ...

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 ...

The Wisconsin Idea In A Grandfather’s Life

Education gave Jeff Snowbarger’s farm boy grandfather the world. It also taught him how to navigate through despair. My grandfather was ...

A Day On The Bookmobile

In Ozaukee and Sheboygan Counties, a bookmobile, one of seven in Wisconsin, makes stops in small towns and rural areas loaded with ...

Controversy And Acceptance At A Mount Horeb School

A few months ago, a school in Mount Horeb made national news with the selection of a book about a ...

Increase Lapham, Wisconsin’s First Scientist

On an early summer evening in 1836, the steamship New York docked on the Milwaukee lakefront and a young naturalist ...

A Lifetime Of Reading And Loving Aldo Leopold

Many people have been inspired by the works of Aldo Leopold. Ron Weber first picked up the Sand County Almanac ...

Literacy In Wisconsin: Ruth Is Improving Her Reading To Earn A GED

Bonnie began volunteering as a literacy tutor after seeing a notice in the newspaper. She was soon paired up with ...