by Casey Thayer | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
If you stroll down Jefferson Street in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, you might pass by the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum without even noticing it. Aside from a small awning printed with the museum’s name, a few large wood blocks mounted to the outer wall,...
by Jason Smith | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
It might surprise some of the readers of this magazine to learn that I have spent the night in jail. No, this wasn’t a field trip to look for ghosts on Alcatraz Island. Nor was my overnight stay part of one of those reality shows where someone is placed in an...
by Laura Damon-Moore, Maria Tran | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
September 16th is Mildred Fish-Harnack Day, the first of many Wisconsin Public Schools observation days throughout the school year. While most of these days are named for familiar people, events, or holidays—Christopher Columbus Day, Veteran’s Day, Arbor...
by Allison Slavick | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
No one expected the water to be warm enough to swim in, and they hadn’t brought suits or towels. She’d not been in a pool for years, not once since Ben died, and even longer since she’d gone swimming in a lake. Such a fragrant lake, she thought....
by Erin Aagesen | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
One Wisconsin nurse will never forget a patient she treated several years ago. When the patient woke up from surgery for a hysterectomy, she asked the nurse when she could start trying to get pregnant. The patient—who had no apparent literacy problems—had signed...
