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My Neighbor, The Mayor

In many college neighborhoods, it’s pretty common to find a beautiful, historic home surrounded by massive apartment complexes and dilapidated ...

You Can’t Go Home

Returning to your hometown after a long absence can be disappointing. But if you look hard enough, it’s possible to ...

Offerings Of Food Makes New Place Feel Like Home

I’m a Midwesterner. I should’ve known when I saw the tureen of soup on the porch of my new house ...

Ghosts of Memory in Oshkosh

Oshkosh is a Wisconsin town trapped in time – at least for me. I was born there, and proudly sported ...

Woman Recalls The House That Defines Her Sense Of Home

Ann Peters’ architect father designed and built her childhood home north of Fond du Lac. Everything about that house came ...

Vernon County Man Lives “Off The Grid” In A Sod House

Harvey Baumgartner’s decision to live in a sod home sans electricity and indoor plumbing was a conscious choice, based on ...

Self in the City

The ways we find and define a home depend on many different variables. Shauna Singh Baldwin has lived and worked ...

Trilliums

Trilliums are the jewels of the forest floor. For Gail Folkins, spotting trilliums in Wisconsin reminded her of growing up ...

Superior

With the Wisconsin Book Festival beginning this week, we have an essay from writer Anthony Bukoski. His short stories about ...

Hometowns

Familiarity breeds contempt, or so the saying goes. Many of us felt that way about our hometowns as we longed ...