by Jason Smith | Apr 21, 2017 | Magazine Article
Taking its name from a storied intersection in downtown Eau Claire, a new literary magazine called Barstow & Grand promises to be the perfect complement to the city’s burgeoning arts and culture scene. Even though Eau Claire has “very blue-collar roots,” it still...
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 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...
by Myles Dannhausen Jr. | Feb 7, 2017 | Magazine Article
Iowa residents are known to drive for hours to buy it. In Illinois, a friend isn’t a friend if they return from a weekend Up North without a six-pack of it. And bars from Minnesota to New York have been busted for illegally selling it to die-hard beer fans. Back in...
by Marc Seals | Nov 4, 2016 | Magazine Article
A bit more than ten years ago, I packed up my belongings and moved from Florida to the beautiful hills of Baraboo to take a job as a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Baraboo/Sauk County. In my decade as a Cheesehead (which I consider a term of...
