by Tom Pamperin | Nov 21, 2022 | Magazine Article
When fire began to fall from the sky and the stars started going out one by one, Burnhardt’s car was in the shop for new brake pads, or maybe the muffler—he’d been through a lot of cars and it was hard to keep track sometimes—so he was stuck at home. He wanted to make...
by Meg Muthupandiyan | Nov 21, 2022 | Magazine Article
The story of a farm—or a restored prairie for that matter—is told by 1000 voices. When I offered to conduct an oral history project on the Friends of the Field Station of UW–Milwaukee at Waukesha, I had no idea the project would be such an instructive delight in how...
by Ron Kuka | Nov 21, 2022 | Magazine Article
One morning in 1978, the novelist David Rhodes rolled his wheelchair to the door of his farmhouse in rural Wisconsin to find his neighbor, Dick Woolever, waiting to make him an offer. “God woke me up in the night and told me how to make an elevator for you,” he said....
by Leo Aguilar | Nov 21, 2022 | Magazine Article
Once a week, from late spring to early fall, Vollrath Park on the northeast side of Sheboygan transforms from a serene lakeside park to a bustling mall of hungry people and colorful food trucks. From specialty sandwiches, burgers, and pizza to Mexican, Thai, and...
by Erika Monroe-Kane | Nov 21, 2022 | Magazine Article
Every election, my parents would joke about how their votes would cancel each other’s out. They agreed to disagree and there were some topics my parents did not debate. However, when my siblings and I became teens, no topic was off the table and our political debates...
