Posts tagged snow

Christmas Lights:

December is here and the countdown to the holidays has begun. Festive decorations and strings of lights are going up all over. Today, writer Dean Bakopoulos tells us about the holiday decorating advice he once gave a friend.

Dean Bakopoulos is a novelist and creative writing professor at Grinnell College. His most recent novel is called My American Unhappiness.

Farewell Winter:

Don’t let this weekend’s snow flurries fool you. Winter is finally beginning to release its grip on Wisconsin. Today, producer Teresa Shipley says goodbye to winter with a visit to one of the season’s last candlelight ski and snowshoe events.

Early Wisconsin Settlers:

Those of us who live in the upper Midwest often take a perverse pride in our ability to withstand sub-zero temperatures and epic snowfalls.  Historian Erika Janik says that Wisconsin’s winters have been something to talk about since settlers first started coming here.

Commentator Erika Janik is a historian and author of Odd Wisconsin and A Short History of Wisconsin.

Photo courtesy of the Wisconsin Historical Society. (Image ID: WHI 68451)