by William Stobb | Aug 1, 2016 | Magazine Article
What’s your favorite poem? Can you recite it by heart? To celebrate poetry and “heart,” Wisconsin Poet Laureate Kim Blaeser invites the memorization and recitation of poems for an online Poetry Recitation Challenge. Those who participate will have their video...
by Richard Boudreau | Aug 1, 2016 | Magazine Article
Even though he is Wisconsin’s most productive writer of short stories, you might not know about Milwaukee-born author Jack Ritchie. A writer of hard-boiled crime fiction, Richie wrote nearly five hundred stories over his thirty-five-year career. His writing features...
by Elliott Puckette | Aug 1, 2016 | Magazine Article
On April 23 at 7:00 am a small group of people met at the top of a hill in rural southwest Wisconsin. For the next 24 hours, they took turns speaking the words of one of the most prolific and influential writers in human history. All the world’s a stage,And all the...
by Myles Dannhausen Jr., Len Villano | Aug 1, 2016 | Magazine Article
As we age, we often envy the excitement of the little boy who discovers a chipmunk burrow or the girl enraptured by a family of ducks on a pond. Sometimes, we wish we could go back in time and again experience that special joy of discovery. For Door County naturalist...
by Jane Elder | Aug 1, 2016 | Magazine Article
I grew up in Linden, a bedroom community just outside of Flint, Michigan. In our community, as in much of the state, we lived with the accepted conclusion that “What’s good for GM, is good for the country.” Yet as the auto industry changed over the decades due to...
by Bob Krumenaker | May 20, 2016 | Magazine Article
Wisconsin’s northernmost edge, consisting of the spectacular mainland sea caves at the tip of the Bayfield Peninsula and the matrix of beautiful and historic islands stretching 25 miles into Lake Superior, was forever protected when Congress established the Apostle...
