Episodes

  • Sylvania Wilderness: From Private Preserve to Public Treasure

    Sylvania Wilderness: From Private Preserve to Public Treasure
    Mar 4 2026
    The Sylvania Wilderness area is tucked into the south-western edge of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, near Watersmeet, just north of the Wisconsin line.
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    5 mins
  • Couderay, the Cold Heart of Wisconsin

    Couderay, the Cold Heart of Wisconsin
    Feb 4 2026
    After a few mild years, this winter of 2025/2026 has reminded the Northwoods who’s boss; mother nature.
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    4 mins
  • Plowing, Shoveling, and Persistence: Northwoods Snow-plowing in the Early 1900s

    Plowing, Shoveling, and Persistence: Northwoods Snow-plowing in the Early 1900s
    Jan 7 2026
    Long before flashing lights, diesel engines, and steel blades scraping asphalt, winter travel in the Northwoods of Wisconsin was a slower, tougher proposition
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    6 mins
  • From an Upstairs Reading Room to a Carnegie Landmark: The Story of Rhinelander’s Public Library

    From an Upstairs Reading Room to a Carnegie Landmark: The Story of Rhinelander’s Public Library
    Dec 3 2025
    Local libraries have always been more than buildings with books, they’re the beating heart of a community. They preserve our stories, protect our history, and give every generation a place to learn, gather, and grow.
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    6 mins
  • The killing of a Vilas County Sheriff, and the 12 Apostles of Rhinelander

    The killing of a Vilas County Sheriff, and the 12 Apostles of Rhinelander
    Nov 5 2025
    The Northwoods of Wisconsin, with its rough logging boom towns and frontier justice, saw its own share of gun smoke and violence in the early 1900s.
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    5 mins
  • History of the Wolf River Apple

    History of the Wolf River Apple
    Oct 1 2025
    In Wisconsin’s story, where tall pines once fed the logging booms, the rivers also carried life from forest to farm. Flowing from its headwaters in Forest County, the Wolf River connects the Northwood’s to central Wisconsin, and gave rise to more than timber, it gave us the Wolf River Apple, a variety that looms larger than the rest, quite literally.
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    3 mins
  • The "Spymaster of Los Angeles" and his northern Wisconsin beginnings

    The "Spymaster of Los Angeles" and his northern Wisconsin beginnings
    Sep 10 2025
    From the iron hills of Hurley, Wisconsin, came a man who waged war not with weapons, but with secrets. Leon Lawrence Lewis, born in Hurley in 1888 to German Jewish immigrants, would one day be called the “spymaster of Los Angeles.”
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    3 mins
  • Rhinelander’s Wartime Map Paper

    Rhinelander’s Wartime Map Paper
    Aug 13 2025
    Rhinelander Paper Company, quietly played a vital role in getting our troops the tools they needed to fight and win
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    3 mins