Mount Horeb: home to trollway, tool museum
Trolls rule in Mount Horeb, a peculiar, creative and vibrant Dane County village of 7,000. The scruffy, impish troll carvings – happy-crazed-creepy in expression, dwarfs […]
Offbeat
Spider Lake Lodge: one classy fishing camp
Go fish, but when the angling ends as sun sets, a remote log lodge could be your finest catch of the day in Northwoods Wisconsin. […]
Tommy Bartlett’s Exploratory, love of science
It’s mid afternoon on a weekday, and for a while I have dozens of games, lessons and challenges all to myself. My greeter is a […]
Tourists assist at Apostle Isle sled dog races
We know we are in the right place because tire tracks over fresh snow lead only one way, to the Echo Valley gravel pit, and […]
Finding Elvis: impersonators all hail The King
The guy in front of us is shaking his hips so hard that he almost loses his fringy belt of macramé. The gyrations remind me […]
Inside Madison’s Underground Kitchen
When I met Jonny and Ben Hunter three years ago, they were rebel caterers keen on cooking adventurously with locally grown food, but without the […]
Wisconsin Feargrounds: frightful fun
Tim Gavinski’s livelihood depends upon what happens during 14 days of frightening work this month. He has built a production that requires 152 paid actors […]
Mackinac Island: a study of high horsepower
Most people who visit Michigan’s Mackinac Island come for just a few hours, so they’re more likely to study fudge shops and fort history than […]
Cornucopia, Bayfield County, buffing it up?
Thanks to a “road closed” sign, my route into town changes abruptly. First it’s farmland, then woods, while navigating from roads of concrete to dirt […]
Fairfield, Iowa: Full of influences from India
I dunk a wedge of focaccia into the day’s soup – Bogota Potato, spiced with a mild curry – at Revelations Cafe and Bookstore, while […]
Stone Barn, Nelson: pizza on the farm
“Build it, and they will come,” I think, while climbing the hilly roads that dance with the creeks and curves of northwest Buffalo County. They […]
Tiny Stockholm big draw for summer tourists
The too-quick darkening of sky near twilight means a storm is approaching, but most of the dozen fishermen don’t seem to notice. A stocky guy […]