Alma Man Collects And Displays Armor And Old Weaponry In His Museum
When Gary Schlosstein was ten years old, he bought a Civil War musket on a family trip to Winona, Minn. ...
A Wisconsin Bar on a Minnesota Road
The Wabegon Bar in Superior is firmly in Wisconsin. But you can only get there from Minnesota. Rich Kremer went ...
Catching Up With Miss Hmong Wisconsin
This weekend, Milwaukee’s Hmong community will host a New Year Celebration. Pang Xiong came to Wausau from Thailand with her ...
A History of Midwest Vines
Before California was the center of the American wine universe, the Midwest loomed large. Wisconsin had vineyards and wineries before ...
Wisconsin’s First Bicycle Ambassador
On bike paths, city streets, and even on ice, bicycles seem ubiquitous in Wisconsin. The first bicycling boom hit the ...
Lac Du Flambeau Youth Compete In Traditional Ojibwe Winter Games
Dallas Hart, an 8th Grader at Lac du Flambeau Public School, joins his classmates for the annual Ojibwe Winter Games, a ...
Food Will Win The War
When most people think of food rationing, they think of WWII. But Americans were first urged to conserve during the ...
La Follette Against the War
Wisconsin Senator Bob La Follette was one of the leading opponents of U.S. entry into WWI. Historian Nancy Unger tells ...
Fallen Soldier Is Honored When Friends And Family Reunite In Sheboygan
The wind blew strong and warm over the Sheboygan County Veterans Museum, tussling the grey hair of the men gathered ...
A Nurse on the Front Lines
Helen Bulovsky was a young Madison nurse who went to France in 1918. Working at evacuation hospitals, she served as ...
Anti-German Hysteria
U.S. entry into WWI in 1917 fueled a wave of anti-German sentiment across Wisconsin and across the nation. The fervor ...
Day of the Dead in Milwaukee
“All Hallows’ Eve,” or Halloween, was originally a religious celebration. The following days, Nov. 1st and 2nd, Día de los Muertos, ...
Man Turns Heads Cruising The Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal In His Amphicar
Russ Cihlar’s pet project is part car, part boat… 50-50 surf and turf. He discovered his first Amphicar as a ...
Dresses Designed By Holocaust Victim With Family Ties To Milwaukee Are Finally Brought To Life
In 1939, Paul Strnad sent a desperate letter to his cousin in Milwaukee in hopes the relative could help them ...
Cranberry Love
Each fall, the nation’s biggest cranberry crop is harvested from Wisconsin marshes. And floods of travelers turn up to celebrate ...