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Wisconsin Life #503: “The Great Outdoors”

Wisconsin Life host Angela Fitzgerald straps on her hiking shoes and explores the vast Northern Highland-American Legion State Forest in ...

Wisconsin Life #502: “Center Stage”

Wisconsin Life host Angela Fitzgerald takes center stage at American Players Theatre in this episode.  Fitzgerald explores behind-the-scenes at the ...

Grosman Family Plants A Legacy Forest

In the spring of 1970, John and Kate Grosman planted a few rows of red pine in honor of their ...

Milwaukee Teacher Still Lecturing at 90

If you choose a job you love, some people believe you’ll never work a day in your life. Ed Drexler ...

Wisconsin 101: Fromm’s Fashionable Furs From Wausau

In the early decades of the 20th century, it was fashionable to use fox fur on everything from scarfs, capes, and ...

Keeper Of The Light: A Modern Lighthouse Keeper

Wisconsin has a long history of lighthouses. The duties of their keepers have changed dramatically over the decades but the people ...

Harvesting History

Fall is harvest time in Wisconsin. It’s a time of year that reminds historian John Gurda of his own family ...

In The Heartland

There are certain markers of the changing season. The first crocus in the spring; the first fall apple. Poet Catherine ...

Aldo Leopold’s Lost Radio Talks

Just weeks after his appointment in 1933 as chair of game management at the University of Wisconsin, Aldo Leopold gave ...

When The Russians Invaded Wisconsin

The launch of Sputnik by the Soviets in 1957 ushered in the Space Age and ramped up fears in the ...

Troupe Of Actors Perform Shakespeare In Wisconsin’s State Parks

Hannah Klapperich-Mueller has always had a love for three things; Wisconsin State Parks, Shakespeare and teaching. As a Milwaukeean native ...

Wisconsin in WWI: Goodbye America, Hello… Horses?

One hundred years ago, Wisconsin went to war. In partnership with the Wisconsin Veterans Museum, we’re exploring stories of Wisconsin ...

Niagara Man Gets Hooked On Fish Carving

If everyone has a hidden talent, Niagara’s Roger Newhouse discovered his at 55 years old while attending a wood carving ...

Summer Camp Memories: The River That Wasn’t There

At thirteen, I set off for camp in northern Wisconsin to run rapids on churning rivers. Our counselor, Phil, asked ...