Tradition

“I’m a fourth-generation circus performer.”

I’m a fourth-generation circus performer. My mother is originally from Hungary and my father is originally from Bulgaria. My great-grandfather and great-grandmother started circus arts in Budapest. He did slack wire, balancing on a thin wire suspended in air and juggled side-by-side with my great-grandmother. Photos by Hedi Lamarr Rudd  In 1963, both my grandmas …

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Sofia Zsilak Petrov | Baraboo, WI

Master Cheesemaker at the Last Limburger Cheese Factory in the U.S.

If you see a large sculpture of a mouse holding a slice of cheese, you know you are in Wisconsin. Across the country, we are known as Cheeseheads, but how much do you actually know about the “dairy” in America’s Dairyland? Back in 1841 Anne Picket used milk from her neighbors’ cows and established one …

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Jamie Fahrney | Monroe, WI

“I have a lot of passion for the dairy industry in Wisconsin.”

If you see a large sculpture of a mouse holding a slice of cheese, you know you are in Wisconsin. Across the country, we are known as Cheeseheads, but how much do you actually know about the “dairy” in America’s Dairyland? Back in 1841 Anne Picket used milk from her neighbors’ cows and established one …

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Lacy Duren | Madison, WI