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 ...
Woman Turns Fruit And Vegetables Into Art
Fruit and vegetable carving is a tradition that goes back centuries in Thailand. Monsiri Baird learned to carve as a ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Beauty Of A Winter’s Frost
Frost is one of the blessings and curses of winter – beautiful but also potentially dangerous. Writer Marnie Dresser has ...
Literacy In Wisconsin: Liberian Refugee Miss Elizabeth Finds New Life In Milwaukee
Miss Elizabeth came to Milwaukee from Liberia in 2007. She knew no English. She’d never really even gone to school. ...
Calvin Young’s Path To A Future In Milwaukee
Calvin Young grew up on Mayflower Court between two “projects” near 7th and Walnut. From a young age, Young’s environment ...
Wonder And Terror On The First Day Of School
The first time I experienced wonder was on my first day in kindergarten. That crisp, September morning, my mom took ...
Lessons Learned From Best Friends
I sat behind Karen in Miss Rhinehart’s second grade class: Sabaska, See. She asked if she could borrow a comb; ...
Making Violins The Old Way In Northern Wisconsin
Brian Derber is a full-time violin maker from Presque Isle who runs the only violin-making school of its kind in ...
Winter Tale
You’re probably looking forward to spring. The birdsong. The trees leafing out and the tulips pressing through the mud. The ...
UW Student Discovers His Love Of Dance, Culture Through Bhangra Dance
Harmanjot Singh and his fellow 12 member competitive dance troupe members are introducing Wisconsin to the traditional North Indian dance ...
Electa Quinney
Schools are important social institutions but they only came into existence in early Wisconsin once a critical mass of parents ...
Group Of Monona Students Head To The Antarctic Research Station
Watch as three students at Monona Grove High School and their teacher, Juan Botilla, travel to Chile in an attempt ...
School Counselor And Radio Host Champions Hmong Women’s Issues
Katie Thao endured a dramatic childhood escape to Laos and later took part in a traditional Hmong arranged marriage. Years ...