by Jeri McCormick | Oct 15, 2015 | Magazine Article
I felt as if I knew him. I felt as if he knew me. —Young soldier, upon hearing about FDR’s death We all listen to Franklin’s fireside chats,straight from the White House to Our House,though we have no fireplace to sit beside.My mother, wrapped in a chenille...
by Elizabeth Wyckoff | Oct 15, 2015 | Magazine Article
Few contemporary writers are able to capture the essence of small-town Wisconsin as meticulously or as relentlessly as Michael Perry. His bestselling memoirs—Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time; Truck: A Love Story; and Visiting Tom: A Man, A...
by Erica Kanesaka Kalnay | Oct 15, 2015 | Magazine Article
When the children drew pictures of our school, it always looked as if they were drawing a jail. They would start with a big rectangle, and then fill it with countless little squares until the windows started to overlap. Then they would draw a bigger rectangle around...
by Zachary Carlson | Jul 20, 2015 | Magazine Article
Like many Wisconsinites, I’ve spent plenty of summer nights listening to family and friends reminisce and tell stories as our campfire turned to embers. On some nights, the stories move between genres as the tellers take their turns: horror turns to comedy, or a...
by Nikki Kallio | Jul 20, 2015 | Magazine Article
He paced down the inner corridor, heading to the place he thought she might be, rolling a piece of sea glass in his hand. Odd, maybe, that he still panicked when she went missing, because she could never really be lost. At least they hadn’t left their human instincts...
