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 …
If it wasn’t for the railroad I would never have been born. Trains brought my parents together. Photos by Laura Merchant On my dad’s side, my grandfather was the last family member born in Germany. He was born in 1885, two years after the establishment of the city of Spooner. As a young man, he …
My name is Dylan Jennings, or Bizhikiins—Young Buffalo, as we translate from Ojibwemowin, our language. Photos by Megan Monday “My parents were really young when they had me, just out of high school. They met down by Waaswaaganing, or the Lac du Flambeau Reservation, near Minocqua. They stuck together to raise me and to take …
“I dedicate my life to educating others about Native people.” Read More »
I was born in 1950 in Rice Lake, Wisconsin. I lived literally between two lakes, a woods, and a swamp. We were on the edge of the city limits, and quite a few of our near neighbors were on small farms. Photos by Megan Monday “In my family, we have some Welsh and some Scottish …
I am from Upstate New York and there’s a shop out there called Rolf’s Pork Store. When I was a kid, my uncle would go to Rolf’s to get landjaeger, a semi-dried sausage snack, to bring to our family camp. Photos by Hedi Lamarr Rudd taken at the Muskellounge and Sporting Club I have these …
When I was in middle school, I did a project on Elizabeth Blackwell. I read her biography; she was the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States. I thought to myself, ‘Maybe I’ll do that someday.’ Then in eighth grade science class, we had to dissect a frog and I decided …
“I was interested in studying the history of my people.” Read More »
My family’s been logging with horses since they came to the United States in the 1800s. As far back as I can trace my family we have been working with horses. Photos courtesy of Taylor Johnson Some of my family are what people call Travellers. They were Scottish, Irish, and Welsh traveling people who went …
“I want to keep our family tradition of horse logging going.” Read More »
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 …
Master Cheesemaker at the Last Limburger Cheese Factory in the U.S. Read More »
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 …
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 …
“I have a lot of passion for the dairy industry in Wisconsin.” Read More »
I grew up working on farms my whole life, milking cows, and harvesting our own animals. I’ve always loved cooking, just never thought about it as a career path. Photos courtesy of Heather Oppor I thought I might be a mortician or forensic scientist coming out of high school, or I thought perhaps I would …
I am the eighth of 12 children. Six boys and six girls. We divide into three groups of four and I am the youngest of the middle group. Photos by Gary Porter My dad was a railroad worker and my mom was home with us. At the time, the regularity and frequency of railroad work …
