by John O. "Jack" Holzhueter, Andy Kraushaar, Michael Lesy, Martha Glowacki | Oct 31, 2014 | Videos
Photographer, archivist, visual thinker, bricoleur: Paul Vanderbilt devoted his life to understanding the way images convey meaning. Learn more about this brilliant, complex man with our three panelists: Jack Holzhueter, who worked closely with Vanderbilt at Wisconsin...
by Robert H. Dott Jr. | Aug 27, 2014 | Magazine Article
At long last we have a biography of Increase A. Lapham, one of Wisconsin’s most important early residents. He was surveyor, botanist, geologist, antiquarian, meteorologist, limnologist, and all around good citizen. Thanks to Martha Bergland and Paul G. Hayes, we now...
by Laura Lane | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
A clock hangs in a great Northwoods lodge, but it has no hands. The sign below says, “Here there is no time.” This clock symbolizes Marnie Mamminga’s memories of spending every summer for over sixty years at her family’s cabin on Big Spider Lake, near Hayward,...
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 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...
