Dear Papa, I’m writing to you on birch bark
When WPR producer Steve Gotcher's daughter, Erika, was a little girl, she started a tradition of sending him letters on ...
Camp Memories And White Privilege
At camp, we often learn to swim, paddle a canoe, make candles, and perfect our s’more technique. Elaine Maly learned ...
How Writing Letters Made One Woman a Writer
When was the last time you wrote a letter? Patti See’s mother made her write letters to her older sisters ...
Life On Shore For A Ship Captain’s Family
Ann Lewis grew up the daughter of a Great Lakes ship captain. Ships came in, ships went out – and ...
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 ...
Family Letters Reveal Story Of Farm Life In Wisconsin Over 20th Century
In the mid-1990s, Sara DeLuca received gift of letters from her aunt Margaret. The letters, written by the women in ...
A Chaplain on the Front Lines
Not everyone who went to war was a soldier or nurse. Chaplin Walter Beaudette (1884-1962) was a Roman Catholic chaplain with the ...
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 ...