What do you do on a cold Saturday morning with two active little boys and a cabin full of sleeping adults? If you're lucky enough to be wandering around Shawano, you take them to the Twig's Museum and Gift Shop. I've written before about this sweet little step back in time, a free museum full [...]
On summer days, I try to forget about the giant prehistoric creatures that inhabit Lake Winnebago and its tributaries as I frolick about with determined naivete. When you share the water with a bunch of sturgeon, it's unsettling to think about them slinking below and around you, possibly sucking up an appendage they've mistaken for [...]
Turns out we were a smidge too late for the Sunflower Festival at Bergsbaken Farms this year, but we had one of those summer-perfect, Wisconsin-classic, is-this-a-great-state-or-what days anyway. We started our Saturday with the Cheesehead 5K (which was so fun it deserves its own post). Then we hit the Appleton Farmer's Market, headed Up North [...]
With creativity, artistry and contagious pride, Shawano County has become the barn quilt capital of Wisconsin. On bright red, weathered gray and crisp white barns all over the county, 297 quilts stitch the history of a community devoted to faith, family and farming. Launched in the summer of 2010, the Barn Quilt Project has developed [...]