I was born in Chicago. My family moved back up to the Bad River Reservation where my father is from when I was four months old. After a few years, we moved into the border town of Ashland, which is just to the west of the reservation. Photos by Stanley Schrock I went to the
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I live and work in Waaswaaganing, which is the name of Lac du Flambeau in Ojibwemowin, the Ojibwe language. Photos by Arnold Jack I have lived in Lac du Flambeau my whole life and work at Lakeland Union High School for a new program called Voyager. My childhood was pretty troubled. I grew up in
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I came to Sheboygan in July of 1981, I was part of the first generation of Hmong people living here. This is my story of leaving Laos. Photos by Whitney Morales Hmong people, we were recruited by the CIA to help fight the war. In the village where I lived, Hmong people were recruited to
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Jeanine: I like to think my life has really come full circle. My mom’s family has been in Augusta for generations and now we’re back in Augusta. Photos by Andi Stempniak Jeanine: In April 2013 I had taken a break from teaching to work on my Masters so I could become a Director of Special
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I have always enjoyed making things with my own hands and sharing them for other people to enjoy, and beer is no exception. Photos by Hedi Lamarr Rudd I grew up in a beer-loving family, so beer has always been a passion of mine. But before we started the Wisconsin Hop Exchange Co-op, I mostly worked
I’m a transplant to Green Bay, but I grew up in Chicago, a city boy at heart. Even from a very young age, I loved to tell stories. Photos by Colleen BIes When I went to see a movie, the thing I looked forward to most was going home, seeing my cousins, and telling them
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I was born in Sheboygan, the youngest of five. We lived on a farm just north of town where my folks grew pumpkins and a bit of everything else. Photos by Whitney Morales When I was in fifth grade, my dad bought his own funeral home in Omro, so I went to middle school and
“We just figured it out and continued to learn.” Read More »
My childhood was really centered around making art. I don’t know where I got my interest from, but I remember enjoying drawing as early as elementary school. My best friend and I used to have these drawing battles to see who the better artist was. Ramón would draw a ninja and I would draw Scooby-Doo,
“I knew that I wanted to become an art teacher.” Read More »
Those were the days. We’d go down South 17th Street in Sheboygan and I’d go by three of my buddy’s houses and we’d pull our four wagons to the pier. Photos courtesy of Dan Welsch I had a blue wagon with white PVC rod holders, rod sticking up, landing nets, my boombox, my dip net
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I grew up in southern Wisconsin the first 18 years of my life. I was always drawn to the mountains, so I moved out to Colorado where I was married to a man and the mountains for 20 years. Photos by Jeremy Oswald I’d been an elementary and special education teacher in Steamboat Springs. And
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I was born and raised in Northern Wisconsin, up in the Snowbelt of Lake Superior. In the early 1900s, that area was heavily mined for iron. There was about a thirty-mile iron range that played a huge role in feeding the Industrial Revolution. The highest-grade iron ore in the world was here. Photos by Rebecca
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I have customers who come into Speed Queen Bar-B-Q to this very day that come through our door and they’ll be like, ‘I remember when your mom was pregnant with you and she couldn’t even barely walk.’ I remember when I was little, putting on a chef’s coat and having a little pad and writing
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