It's amazing the things you learn paddling around a public swimming pool. There I was bobbing along Sunday afternoon, when my Mom leaned across a lane marker and casually mentioned that she and her sister had been among the first children to receive Albert Sabin's live oral polio vaccine. Our conversation developed from her initial [...]
We own a quiet chunk of heaven in Wisconsin's Northwoods and, when we go tramping through it, I like to imagine what life might have been like there before we came along. Thanks to a thoroughly researched paper Molly recently wrote for her University of Wisconsin Botany Class, we now have a pretty good idea. [...]
In a quiet corner of a busy nursing home, a young girl pulls a bow across a century old instrument and earnestly offers the twin gifts of music and memories. Her audience, an 87-year old birthday boy, grins widely and follows the notes back to a bustling house on Broad Street in Menasha where the [...]
Before he ever picked up a football, went to school, married my mother, or built a business, my dad was a brother. He shared a large room at the back of my grandparent's green slate house on 20 Row with his older brother George and his younger sister Martha. Together, he and George were known [...]
There’s really just one street corner in all of Hofa Park, Wisconsin but, with a tavern on one side and a church on the other it has everything you need. As a bonus for those who find their thirst quenched, soul cleansed, and a little time still on their hands, Hofa Park boasts a state-of-the-art [...]