Author: brunetta
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BLACK GOLD, INDIGENOUS WATER
Superior is defined by water. The Wisconsin city juts out to the southwest corner of the biggest of the Great Lakes, and bays and rivers cut into its peninsula. Its name alone connects it to Lake Superior — it is known by the Ojibwe in the area as “gichi-gami ” which means “great sea.” For…
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Kilsa Dremsa flips through her scrapbooks: colorful toucans, whimsical waterfalls and lush green pastures. These aren’t vacation memories, however. They’re snapshots of Dremsa’s homeland of Brazil. Even though she’s lived in Wisconsin for 25 years, these photos transport her back. With each turn of the page, her adventures in her homeland and in her adopted…
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Back in the 1980s when Patty Witte was realizing her sexuality, it wasn’t a safe time to be out. But when she did come out a few years ago, at age 53, Witte, a retired physician born and raised in Madison, went looking for community in her hometown. She found it in the Lesbian Pop…
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Take a drive northward on Wisconsin’s Highway 13, and you will come upon something unusual. Phillips, a small city in the Northwoods, is home to the Wisconsin Concrete Park, a wonder of the rural Midwest. Its 237 concrete sculptures honoring Native Americans, animals, and local myths and legends, all sparkling with broken beer bottle embellishments,…
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“It’s not just the land that’s broken, but more importantly our relationship with the land.” — Robin Wall Kimmerer, “Braiding Sweetgrass” Qwantese Dourese Winters believes food is medicine. The Madison-based agriculturalist and food doula uses natural medicine and eats a healthy diet with lots of vegetables. But that doesn’t mean she’s not immune from craving processed foods…
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Under the golden hues of a Wisconsin sunset, Lake Monona stretches out, its serene waters an integral part of Madison’s identity. These beloved waters, cherished over thousands of years by the Ho-Chunk people, have stood the test of time. In many ways, they’ve been the same for hundreds of years. Now, a transformative endeavor is…
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PAST AND PRESENT
Wisconsin officially became a state 175 years ago, but its history runs much longer than that. Over the years, historians have worked to preserve what made Wisconsin what it is today. There are various historical locations that take you back in time — you go to Old World Wisconsin in Eagle, in the southeast part…
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MUSEUM MATCHMAKER
Nothing satisfies curiosity and highlights a place’s unique history quite like a good museum. Wisconsin is full of museums that blend the future and the past to tell a different story important to the state’s identity. Play and education come together to bring visitors through a different time, a different culture or a niche collection….
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ARTS FOR ALL
It’s a Saturday morning in November, and children in an art room at the Madison Youth Arts Center craft mirrors decorated with beans, pearls and glue. Some children in the group — who were part of a program called Little Picassos — finished their designs quickly and creatively. Others finished half of their designs as class…
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In October, Milwaukee Bucks superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo described his experience trying a brat for the first time in an interview with sports broadcaster Stephen Watson. “Does it taste the same?” the Greece-born Antetokounmpo said he wondered after confusing it with a hot dog. Antetokounmpo shared this momentous occasion on the social media platform X, formerly…