Wild about rodeo: kids to pros compete
It all comes down to what you can accomplish in seconds – less than 10 seconds – and success is a matter of instinct and […]
Midwest
Play ball! Old World Wisconsin goes retro
A fevered pitch is: (a) What Francisco Cordero hurls, when he does his job well in the ninth inning. (b) One way to describe the […]
Tour de France puts Trek, tours on the map
The three-week Tour de France has begun, and that makes Trek Bicycle Corp. an especially appropriate place to visit. It costs nothing to tour the […]
Fountain Prairie owners are farmers, activists
It is John and Dorothy Priske’s 35th wedding anniversary, and they choose to spend a part of the day with me, driving around their farm […]
Summerfest at 40: My, how you’ve grown
Young man, when I was your age, gasoline stations didn’t stay open all night – not even when you were driving around Milwaukee. We learned […]
True grit: Wisconsin rodeos, cowboys
It all comes down to what you can accomplish in seconds – less than 10 seconds – and success is a matter of instinct and […]
Tour one of state’s biggest dairy farms
This family began farming with 17 cows in 1969 and today works about 4,000 acres to feed their herd of 3,000. Until recently, this was […]
Between river, bluffs: pretty Red Wing, Minn.
What surprised us the most, before the uphill hiking began, was the size of the packs that people half our age had strapped onto their […]
People’s choice: 22 Wonders of Wisconsin
Almost 3,500 of you have voted to designate 22 Wonders of Wisconsin. This first-time people’s choice poll has resulted in a fine mix of classic, […]
Indy leads list of best children’s museums
Glassworks have the pull of a magnet at The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. We’re not talking about kitchen stemware. This showpiece is a tower that […]
Leopold Legacy Center near landmark shack
We are surrounded by wood: a cherry hardwood floor, a red maple ceiling, white oak doors, a black locust deck. But most of the panels, […]
Woodwind Spa: remote, sacred, reasonable
We are hugging the Wisconsin River, off of Hwy. 8, and are looking for a dirt road. It leads to a gray stucco building, but […]