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Wisconsin Life #410: “Go Big”
Image: Meet a high-school pep band whose sound is larger than life, a museum’s artist in residence, the artistic director at a theater company for people with disabilities, a woman who’s giving...
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Yoga Brings Sense Of Calm In A New City
Image: People do yoga for many reasons. For Ellery Lawry, yoga provided the grounding she needed in a new town.
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Pay It Forward
Image: There’s tremendous power in giving. When writer Crystal Chan was the beneficiary of kindness in an unlikely place – Chicago traffic – she found a way to repay that kindness by giving to someone...
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Franklin Van Valkenburgh's Pearl Harbor
Image: The Pearl Harbor attack caught America by surprise and led to our entry into the Second World War. Meg Jones tells us about the Milwaukee-born captain of the USS Arizona.
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Career Change Leads To Passion For Carpentry
Image: Construction trades are extraordinarily male - less than 2 percent of carpenters are women. But Madison College is hoping to change that. Three of their four instructors are women. Allie Berenyi...
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Wisconsin 101: Yerkes Telescope And The Birthplace Of Astrophysics
Image: The 40-inch refracting telescope at Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, contains the world’s largest refracting lenses. Built in 1895, the telescope and observatory are owned by the...
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One Man's Love Affair With Ice Boating And Lake Mendota
Image: Don Sanford feels a deep connection to water, from sailing to ice boating. He tells us about the long history of ice boating on Madison's Lake Mendota and the pull he feels to the water's edge.
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Memory And Voicemails
Image: I listened to the voice recording wishing I had been more persuasive.“You know, Mom,” I crooned over the phone days earlier, “if his bride bought a plane ticket and invited him to join her, he’d...
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Bah Humbug! Christmases Past In Milwaukee
Image: It seems like the back to school sales are barely over when the Christmas trees start to appear. The commercial drive of the holidays may seem like a modern problem but historian John Gurda...
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Finding Her Authentic Self
Image: Recognizing who you are and deciding to take steps to live that life takes a lot of reflection and time. There’s no one way. Natalie Miller tells us how she found herself and made a life...
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A New Year's Baby
Image: Every new year comes with a New Year’s baby. It’s a big job to be a newly birthed minor celebrity. Mike Paulus shares his story.
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Cliff The DJ Brings His Passion To Local Radio
Image: Two years ago, a neighborhood center in Madison landed a hard-to-come-by license to its own low-power FM radio frequency. Now the fledgling station is becoming a proving ground for aspiring DJs...
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The Astronomy Behind The Fabled Star Of Bethlehem
Image: One of the most fabled stars in human history, the Star of Bethlehem, is also one of the biggest mysteries. What was the Star of Bethlehem? Meg Jones tells us the story of a Wisconsin man who...
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Every Drop Counts For Family Living Off The Grid
Image: Carol Dunbar and her family live off the grid in northern Wisconsin. It has its challenges, but those challenges have provided important lessons, too, about the preciousness of certain resources.
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Casting: There Are No Small Parts
Image: Casting is the first and perhaps most important part of a production. It’s not – as you might imagine – without its hurt feelings and anger. But Jane Jeffries reminds us of the importance of...
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Grosman Family Plants A Legacy Forest
Image: John and Kate Grosman created their own unique variation of a “family tree".
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Milwaukee Teacher Still Lecturing at 90
Image: Ed Drexler has taught genetics at Pius XI High School in Milwaukee since 1950. Now 90 years old, he looks back at a life dedicated to teaching others.
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Winter On The Edge Of The World
Image: Wisconsin winters are known for being cold and harsh. But John Gurda reminds us of the 19th century settlers who toughed it out on the edge of the world.
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Paramount Records, Wisconsin's Home For The Blues
Image: To sell phonographic cabinets, a furniture business decided to start a record label. It became one of the leading producers of blues records in the 1920s and made pioneering recordings of some...
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