Episodes

  • Tank Mired in the McNaughton Muck

    Tank Mired in the McNaughton Muck
    Jul 3 2024
    Whenever talk turns to military tanks in the Northwoods, one story still echoes through the forest: the time a mighty tank was swallowed by the infamous McNaughton Swamp, some 65 years ago.
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    4 mins
  • The Pelican Lake Giant

    The Pelican Lake Giant
    Jun 5 2024
    “Massive Human Bones and Indian Relics Unearthed near Pelican Lake” read a Rhinelander New North newspaper headline on July 28th , 1908. The sensationalist commentary that followed was all the “proof” the unidentified writer needed to confirm that giant people once lived and were buried in the vicinity of Pelican Lake, Wisconsin.
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    3 mins
  • Northern Wisconsin: A Handbook for the Home Seeker

    Northern Wisconsin: A Handbook for the Home Seeker
    May 1 2024
    In the fall of 1895, a team from the University of Wisconsin school of agriculture, including Dean William A. Henry, Madison photographer Harvey J. Perkins, and others, traveled to every county north of a line drawn from Green Bay to Hudson. They compiled information and photographs from cutover lands, and already existing farms, in an attempt to showcase the potential of the area.All this work was put into a 200 page booklet titled “Northern Wisconsin: A Handbook for the Home Seeker”.
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    5 mins
  • Remembering Richard Roesler

    Remembering Richard Roesler
    Apr 4 2024
    Fifty-one years ago, the United States left Vietnam on March 29th, 1973, after 8 years of fighting. The conflict left a lasting impact on our country, including the Northwoods, where it forever changed the lives of the service members involved and their families. This is one of those stories.
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    6 mins
  • One of the oldest frame buildings in Rhinelander: The Martin Flat

    One of the oldest frame buildings in Rhinelander: The Martin Flat
    Mar 6 2024
    Kids corner Pizza in Rhinelander is located in one of the oldest frame buildings in downtown Rhinelander. Kerry Bloedorn – Northwoods Historian, shares the history of that building, The Martin Flat, on this installment of A Northwoods Moment in History on WXPR
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    3 mins
  • The First Snowmobile Race in Wisconsin

    The First Snowmobile Race in Wisconsin
    Feb 7 2024
    In 1926, Three Lakes Wisconsin held a winter sports carnival on a big hill at what is now Camp Luther, and on the ice of Range Line Lake below. A number of winter sporting events were organized, including toboggan races, hockey games, and Wisconsin’s first ever snowmobile race.
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    2 mins
  • Booze Operation Busted Up in St. Germain in 1930

    Booze Operation Busted Up in St. Germain in 1930
    Jan 3 2024
    Prohibition began in 1920, banning all sales of alcoholic beverages, as defined by the Volstead Act. The quiet Northwood’s of Wisconsin became a haven for big city black market liquor production and smuggling.
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    3 mins
  • Pelican Laker at the Battle of the Bulge

    Pelican Laker at the Battle of the Bulge
    Dec 7 2023
    In the weeks leading up to Christmas 1944, Americans were tuned into newspaper headlines about a German offensive in the Ardenne forest of Belgium between Germany and France. One young soldier from Pelican Lake, would earn a bronze star in what became known as the Battle of the Bulge.
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    4 mins