An Ode To Wisconsin Summer
You can tell it’s fall in Wisconsin when people start asking this question: “How was your summer?” We never ask ...
The Mayberry Guru Brings Barney Fife To Life
Growing up in Dorchester, Wisconsin, Ken Anderson remembers watching “The Andy Griffith Show” during its first season in 1960. “I ...
Mother, Business Owner And … Firefighter
Between running her own business in Middleton and raising two children, it may seem surprising that Deneen Carmichael finds time ...
Wisconsin Life #402: “Guiding Lights & Gurus”
This collection of stories from people sharing their “Wisconsin Life” includes the story of Deneen Carmichael, a very busy small ...
Wisconsin 101: Pillow Sham Celebrates Service In CCC
Created in 1933, Rose Mary Drab created a pillow sham to honor her brother Edward’s service in the Civilian Conservation Corps ...
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 ...
Video Arcade Game Collector Aims For Museums
Bradley Czech is a child of the 80s. And if you walk down to the basement of his Green Bay ...
Carving A Career Out Of Mardi Gras Masks
Bryan Berenson credits his career to fate. At 21 years old, he was diagnosed with arthritis. “I was a diesel ...
Two Rivers Man Writes Music Inspired By His Working Days
Bill Walkner has spent the last five decades of his life living in the city of Two Rivers. He's retired ...
Mildred Harnack: Remembering The Wisconsin Woman Who Resisted Hitler
Mildred Fish Harnack was the only American woman executed by Hitler during World War II. Writer Meg Jones tell us ...
The Life And Legacy Of 3-Time Pulitzer Winner, Thornton Wilder
Few people win one Pulitzer Prize. Madison-born Thornton Wilder won three, including one for the seminal play, “Our Town.” Wilder ...
Wisconsin Life #401: “Up to the Challenge”
This collection of stories from people sharing their “Wisconsin Life” includes the story of Sue Dompke. After her husband died, ...
Frederick Jackson Turner And The History Of The American West
Perhaps no American historian stirs a more impassioned response than Frederick Jackson Turner. His ideas about the western frontier were ...
Writer Edna Ferber Got Her Start As Appleton Journalist
Best known now for the movies made from her books, Edna Ferber was one of the best-selling and most prolific ...
Hamlin Garland, Wisconsin’s Son Of The Middle Border
A prolific writers of novels, short stories, and essays, Wisconsin-born writer Hamlin Garland broke with the romanticism of his time ...