by Jason Smith | Apr 21, 2017 | Magazine Article
America’s most-famous cross-country ski race now has its own museum. Located in Hayward, the Tony Wise Museum of the American Birkebeiner transports visitors back to the origins of the American Birkebeiner through state-of-the-art exhibits, hands-on activities, a...
by Nivedita Sharma | Apr 21, 2017 | Magazine Article
On March 22, 2017, the Washington DC-based National Trust for Historical Preservation granted “National Treasure” status to an iconic Milwaukee landmark: The Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory. While the National Treasure designation doesn’t provide funds or...
by Bruce Dethlefsen | Apr 20, 2017 | Videos
In this Academy Evening talk, Bruce Dethlefsen discusses his evolution as a poet and shares his wisdom for emerging writers. Dethlefsen, a former Wisconsin Poet Laureate, is the author of Small Talk (Little Eagle Press, 2014) and retired director of Montello Public...
by Karla Huston | Feb 27, 2017 | Magazine Article
I’d never encountered Jon Loomis’ poetry before. But I was delighted to make the acquaintance of both poet and poetry at the Foot of the Lake reading series in the Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts in Fond du Lac. Winner of the 1997 FIELD prize in poetry, Loomis...
by Barbara Sanford | Feb 17, 2017 | Magazine Article
Amid parts and pieces of miniature circus wagons and a menagerie of partially completed zebras and giraffes, Bill Mattison sits hunched over his brightly lit workbench in his basement workshop wearing a pair of jeweler’s magnifying glasses. Using an ultra-fine...
