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 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...
by Shelby Anderson | Apr 29, 2016 | Magazine Article
In 2009, a team of doctors and scientists at the Medical College of Wisconsin shook up the medical community by successfully sequencing a young Wisconsin boy’s DNA in order to identify and treat an unknown, life-threatening disease. That boy’s name is Nic Volker and...
