Sherry Ackerman’s Life In Art
Sherry Ackerman always loved art but hid her interest and her work until retirement. Now she sells her paintings and ...
A Death In The Family Leads Man To A New Career
Death is something we all experience. But what we don't experience much anymore is the actual dead body of our ...
Life Lessons In An Early Memory
We each have a unique story but there are themes that reach across all human experience. Writer Debra Monroe shares ...
A Day On The Bookmobile
In Ozaukee and Sheboygan Counties, a bookmobile, one of seven in Wisconsin, makes stops in small towns and rural areas loaded with ...
The Monster Knife Of John F. Potter
On April 5, 1860, as tensions over slavery grew, Wisconsin Congressman John F. Potter was challenged to a duel by ...
The Legend Of The Hodag
Practical jokes and hoaxes are par for the course on April Fool’s Day. More than a century ago, an elaborate ...
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 ...
Cooking Up A Batch Of Bray And Family Memories
March weather can be unpredictable in Wisconsin, tossing blue skies and warm sun with snow and bitter winds. To keep ...
Swan Creek Sewing Circle, More Than A Century Of Friendship And Sewing
For more than a century, the women of the Swan Creek Sewing Circle have gathered on the first Wednesday of ...
Mud Season, The Unloveliest Of Wisconsin Months
This weekend marks the first day of spring – at least astronomically. Writer Catherine Jagoe tells us why this time ...
Luck Of The Irish: Milwaukee’s First Major Immigrant Group
While we tend to associate Germans with Milwaukee, the Irish were the city’s first major immigrant group. Historian John Gurda ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sol Levitan, Wisconsin’s Unlikely Politician
Bob LaFollette, Joe McCarthy and Scott Walker are among Wisconsin’s most famous politicians, but a century ago, Sol Levitan might ...
The Dips And Swings Of Wisconsin Winter Weather
Winter is full of its ups and downs, both in our moods and in the temperatures. Helene Phelps reminds us ...