by James P. Leary | Dec 15, 2014 | Magazine Article
America’s Upper Midwest is a distinctive region where for centuries many indigenous and immigrant peoples have maintained, merged, and modified their folk traditions. As the prominent American folklorist Richard M. Dorson observed in 1947: “Particularly in the Lake...
by Carl Corey | Sep 26, 2014 | Magazine Article
Over a two-year period and in multiple installments, I walked the 480-mile Yellowstone Trail through Wisconsin. Established in 1913 as a cross-country tourist route for automobiles—the first of its kind in the United States—the Yellowstone Trail at one time connected...
by Lewis Koch | Aug 26, 2014 | Magazine Article
Curator, photographer, librarian, archivist, Monuments Man, teacher, philosopher, flaneur, iconographer—Paul Vanderbilt was all these things. No matter what his specific role in life and work, primarily, and most distinctively, he was a proselytizer for “the notion of...
by Lois Bielefeld | May 15, 2014 | Magazine Article
I admit it—I’m nosy. I’ve always been fascinated by people’s habits and personal spaces, and what they reveal. There are things we all do: eat and sleep, for example. But the various rituals surrounding these activities and how we define the spaces for partaking in...
by Mike Rebholz | Feb 27, 2014 | Magazine Article
Beginning as a contemplation of the architectural form of the ice shanty, Ten Weeks: Ice Fishing in Wisconsin became much more than that over the ten-week duration of the ice fishing season where I live. I found beauty and community, and I fell for both the day I...
