The Yiddish Tapes: Grandmother’s beautiful voice lives on
When I was a kid we always had shelves filled with blank cassettes. Sony, Memorex, TDK, we had them all. ...
Oldest Lionel Railroad Club chugs along in New Berlin
The oldest Lionel Railroad Club in the world is tucked inside a suburban commercial building in New Berlin, outside Milwaukee. ...
Preserving history of trauma and resiliency through UW-Oshkosh’s ‘Campus COVID Stories’
People filter into an auditorium at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh in mid-April. They talk as audio from campus community members ...
How to be beautiful: A lesson from mom
Many of us are grateful for everything our mothers taught us. For Jana Rose Schleis, she’s thankful that her mom ...
The Racine Belles and Kenosha Comets: In a league of their own
A major event in sports history took place in September 1943. Two teams played in the first championship series of ...
Muslim law professor teaches values of kindness and community
Asifa Quraishi-Landes is a law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Quraishi-Landes says she’s “always liked learning” and believes “education ...
Somali refugee fosters community in Barron
Isaak Mohamed is a man of action. As the Somali district liaison for the Barron Area Schools, it’s Mohamed’s job ...
Madison writer and cardiologist celebrates the Good Samaritans in his life
We’re living in a time when things feel so ... polarized. Us vs. them. I’m right, you’re wrong. But writer ...
Short Story Night: A book club for the Fox Valley’s busiest readers
A room with a small stage in Lion's Tail Brewing in Neenah is packed on a Monday in mid-March. Folks ...
‘Representation matters’: Educators collaborate to teach histories, cultures, sovereignty of First Nations in Wisconsin
Wisconsin is one of 12 states that requires Native American content to be taught in schools. That prompted listener Maria ...
The Kaszubs of Jones Island: Remembering Milwaukee’s Polish immigrant community
There’s a peninsula just off Lake Michigan in Milwaukee that has lived many lives. Today, Jones Island is home to ...
“We just want to be part of the American dream”: Cuban exile talks troubled past and hopeful future
(This story is an excerpt from the podcast, “WPR Reports: Uprooted.”) Osvaldo Durruthy was sitting in a Wisconsin prison in ...
Cold-Smoking Sausage Tradition Continues in Marathon County
"Does anyone want coffee or a bloody mary?" It's one of the first questions asked on a blustery January morning. ...
Why is Mount Horeb the ‘troll capital of the world’?
Trolls are everywhere you look in the Dane County Village of Mount Horeb: troll cartoons on the street signs, troll footprints on the ...
Wisconsin’s first African-American mayor
In politics she paved a path, a very lonely path. Frances Huntley-Cooper did something no other African-American in Wisconsin had ...