Black Point Estate tours begin with Lake Geneva boat ride
How many mansions circle the shoreline of Geneva Lake, near the Illinois border? It all depends upon your definition of “mansion,” of course, but the […]
Museums
New Greenbush museum boosts Wade House visibility
Our family farm was three miles north of Greenbush, population 162, and much of what I grew up with there – a three-room schoolhouse, general […]
West Bend’s new museum all about Wisconsin art, inside and out
What single destination stands for all that is good, beautiful and unique in Wisconsin? Madison’s Capitol Square on a summer Saturday? The State Fair in […]
Wisconsin’s rich circus history: a vanishing act?
I wonder if anybody still dreams about running away with the circus or knows just what that would involve. Consider the consequences of such high-stakes […]
New Karpeles manuscript museum at Rock Island, Ill.
Is “fool” or “numskull” the best way to describe a poor card player? After learning a lesson, he never “tasted a drop” or “drank a […]
Tour Wisconsin Canoe Heritage Museum, Spooner
“The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and […]
Hemingway haunts: Michigan to Florida, Cuba to Spain
Sixty years ago, “The Old Man and the Sea” was published in Life magazine, and author Ernest Hemingway won a Pulitzer Prize for the work […]
Cutting into the mustard at Middleton museum
Shortly after our host delivered a platter of shaved corned beef and rye bread, he returned with a word of advice: If you need mayo, […]
Springfield: politics through Abe’s eyes
The face of Lincoln shows up everywhere in Illinois – brass busts on office desks to bigger-than-life memorials in city parks – but there’s just […]
Glass as art: Movement began 50 years ago
Before Dale Chihuly – the celebrated architect of big, bulbous, vivid and swirly glass sculptures – there was Harvey Littleton. Before Littleton, glass was for […]
Art, history, cultural museums will expand
When something is of value, you take care of it, but this becomes more challenging during tough economic times. Here are five historic and cultural […]
College museums: majors in birds to geology
Freethinkers buck conventional thinking and make their way through the world in unusual ways. This is the way I peg James Newman Clark. The Meridean […]