Wisconsin People & Ideas
New explainer website harnesses Wisconsin expertise on issues of local import.
Waupaca has its own Academy Talks, thanks to the Winchester Academy.
Even though he is Wisconsin’s most productive writer of short stories, you might not know about Milwaukee-born author Jack Ritchie.
Why is it that, with so many archaic words and obscure references, Shakespeare’s plays are still being performed today?
The life and times of a true "nature boy," Roy Lukes.
Wisconsin’s northernmost edge, consisting of the spectacular mainland sea caves at the tip of the Bayfield Peninsula and the matrix of beautiful and historic islands stretching 25 miles into Lake Superior, was forever protected when Congress established the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore in 1970.
In 2009, a team of doctors and scientists at the Medical College of Wisconsin shook up the medical community by successfully sequencing a young Wisconsin boy’s DNA in order to identify and treat an unknown, life-threatening disease.
“You said I should write more love poems / and I said, I’m sorry, but I’ve been thinking about / sloths.” This is the opening gambit for and no spiders were harmed, Madison poet Steve Tomasko’s debut chapbook.
“Door County is such an amazingly beautiful place, and, for all the faults, there’s a kindness and a caring in the people scraping out a life there. ... It’s much more than fish boils, cherries, and goats.”
How poetry is changing Wisconsin and the world for the better.
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Madison, Wisconsin 53726
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201 State Street
Madison, WI 53703
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