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Wisconsin In WWI: Bill Rice's Letter Home From Verdun
Image: One hundred years ago, Wisconsin went to war. We’re exploring stories of the Wisconsin men and women who served in World War I. Today, a letter from Bill Rice, read by Kristian Knutsen, a first...
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The Poster For The Otis Redding Show That Never Was
Image: Gig posters are an indispensable visual pairing for live music. This month marks the 50th anniversary of the plane crash that killed Otis Redding on his way to a Madison gig. Kristian Knutsen...
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Aldo Leopold's Lost Radio Talks: Winter Bird Feeding
Image: Conservationist Aldo Leopold gave a series of talks in the 1930s on WHA. Unfortunately, we don’t have the recordings but we do have the transcripts. UW professor emeritus Stan Temple shares one...
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Wisconsin Life Holiday Special
Image: It’s winter, it’s the holidays, it’s a Wisconsin Life holiday special. Join us as we celebrate the season of food, traditions, and of course, the cold with stories from around the state. We’ve...
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Hands Down: There's A Price For Grabbing Onto Life
Image: We’ve all been there – dry, chapped hands. Winter and skin are not the best of friends. But the season of bloody fingers made Mike Paulus think of his grandfather and all that his grandfather’s...
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Far Away From Home
Image: Tina Bohling grew up challenged by both whites and Latinos about her identity. Her household identified as Chicano but she wasn’t raised knowing Spanish. She explores that tension in the poem...
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Wisconsin Life #512: "Engines of Change"
Image: Host Angela Fitzgerald tours the Milwaukee Fire Historical Society & Fire Museum and views a 1927 firetruck and a Cadillac ambulance. Profiles include a Milwaukee basketball player who’s...
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Boy And Dog
Image: Losing teeth is a major childhood milestone…. For kids and their parents. Patti See tells us about her son’s teeth and what they remind her of.Location: Lake HallieProducers: Patti SeeStory...
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Joy On A Winter's Day
Image: When it’s cold and white and dark outside, it can be hard to remember all that’s good. Former poet laureate and Eau Claire’s first writer in residence Max Garland reminds us today of the joy...
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Wisconsin Life #513: "Heart & Soul"
Image: Host Angela Fitzgerald visits the Oneida Nation Arts Program’s “Music from our Culture Camp,” which gives Oneida community children the opportunity to learn about music from the ancient past and...
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Taking Stock
Image: Soup is good anytime but especially in the winter. Helene Phelps tells us how soup both keeps us warm and brings us together.Location: BruleProducers: Helene PhelpsStory Type: AudioTags:...
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See Me
Image: Most of us make assumptions about other people based on how someone looks, sounds, where they are from, and all other sorts of criteria. Jan Larson has struggled against these assumptions her...
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Wisconsin In WWI: Charles Whittlesey's Lost Battalion
Image: Charles Whittlesey was born this week in 1884. When the U.S. entered the First World War, Whittlesey went, too. As part of our ongoing look at Wisconsin in the first World War, journalist Meg...
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Frozen Assets
Image: The ice trade was big business in 19th century Wisconsin. It was an industry that depended on the cold weather you might be cursing right now… historian John Gurda tells us about this important...
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Homegrown Cookware
Image: Cookware today is mostly mass produced overseas and cheap. But it wasn’t always this way. Pots and pans used to be locally made and made to last. Sara Dahmen discovered her passion for old...
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Winter Stockholm Syndrome
Image: It wouldn’t be winter without a lament from our resident winter hater Christi Clancy.Location: MadisonProducers: Christi ClancyStory Type: AudioTags: winterTopic: Culture & HistoryWisconsin...
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Barb Carey Introduces Women To Ice Fishing
Image: If you go out to a frozen lake at this time of year, chances are good you’ll see a guy out there ice fishing. But ice fishing isn’t just for men. Barb Carey has been ice fishing her whole life...
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More Women Are Finding Challenge Through Ice Fishing
Image: If you go out to a frozen lake at this time of year, chances are good you’ll see a guy out there ice fishing. But ice fishing isn’t just for men. Barb Carey has been ice fishing her whole life...
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A Little Slice of New England
Image: It’s been called a town that time forgot. Norman Gilliland tells us about the unique charms of Cooksville.Location: CooksvilleProducers: Norman GillilandStory Type: ArticleTags: New...
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De Pere Church And Bar Make For Unlikely Neighbors
Image: A De Pere church and bar share space in a single building. These two unlikely neighbors have learned to celebrate their similarities.Location: De PereProducers: Trevor KellerStory Type:...
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