Wisconsin People & Ideas
After writing Studying Wisconsin, a biography of Increase Lapham co-authored with Paul Hayes, Martha Bergland was looking for another Wisconsin scientist whose life and work deserved more attention.
The Haskell Free Library straddles the U. S. / Canadian border between Stanstead, Quebec and Derby Line, Vermont. The border is marked by a line of black tape on the floor of the reading room.
My dear friendyou are wrong to saythere are only stories.
Stories need bodies—larynx, tongue and teethhands to scratch them down
My father keeps samara seedssafe insidesmall matchboxes.
He holds his handout to me,a seed in his bark-like palm.
Sometimes the red symbolon a white backgroundis a swastika on a Sheboygan garage in 2017
Before I step through the doors of the cigar factory, I smell the aroma that has followed my sister, Rosario, home since she started working here.
A good death means finding peace at the end of one’s life, and it is part of the beauty of the full cycle of life, something to strive for, for ourselves and for those we love.
This solo exhibition by artist Emily Arthur examines connections between seemingly unrelated events, past and present, to make visible the land as a living matter that holds a story.
In much of the state, these rocks are hidden from view, covered by a deposit called “drift.” Understanding the nature and source of drift was one of the first strands of our landscape web that nineteenth century geologists needed to untangle.
Milwaukee muralist Aisha Valentín vividly remembers the first time she picked up a can of spray paint.
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Wisconsin Academy Offices
1922 University Avenue
Madison, Wisconsin 53726
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James Watrous Gallery
3rd Floor, Overture Center for the Arts
201 State Street
Madison, WI 53703
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