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 …
I started playing lacrosse three or four years ago. I am fifteen now. One of my friends asked me, ‘Would you like to come play lacrosse?’ Photo courtesy of Shawn Beaver It was just a pick-up game at a community center. I started with the modern version of the game, but then I picked up …
My mom and dad are both from Somalia, and they came to the United States with their families when they were really young. They were fleeing the civil war in Somalia. Photos by Kara Counard “For the first 14 years of my life, I lived in Minnesota. In Minneapolis there’s a huge Somali population, but …
“When I came back to America, I became more confident in who I was.” Read More »
My parents were both immigrants from Mexico. When my mother was working, her brother Hector was our babysitter. He was always a jokester, he was like one of the kids. Photo courtesy of Juan Jimenez He taught us to love films and music. Big band swing, salsa, merengue, anything you can dance to, he really …
