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Send us Fan Mail Historically known concepts about the benefits ofbeing in contact with nature gain strength when spaces like the Conservancy for Healing and Heritage are created. Susan Rabe the Executive Director and CEO of this organizationinvites us to receive the benefits that for ourwell-being can bring visiting a wonderful place like this. Conceptos conocidos históricamente sobre los benefic...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Rhythm Cafe MKE, where we're connecting you up with a front-row seat to performances by your favorite Milwaukee musicians. Rhythm Cafe MKE is Milwaukee PBS' brand new digital first music series showcasing the city's most talented artists. And we're doing it from one of the city's great venues, Anodyne Coffee Roasting Co., in the heart of the Wal...

Send us Fan Mail "We have modern-day heroes, like Patricia Lynch, who went beyond anybody's ideals, and resurrected something that nobody really thought would be successful." In our new episode of "The Women Founders: Milwaukee Soldiers Home," we say thank you to the women today who continue to be torchbearers for veterans and their caretakers.   The producers of the digit...

Send us Fan Mail By 1864, the group of women who were caring for returning Civil War veterans in temporary storefronts along Water Street quickly realized that they needed more space. But a new permanent home required money. Lots of it. So in the summer of 1865, they would throw a fair — a fair we're still talking about more than 150 years later. That's on the next episode of our digital...

Send us Fan Mail In 1862, a group of young women formed the West Side Soldiers' Aid Society to help care for Civil War veterans returning home from battle. They quickly became what historians called the city's most important group and arguably most responsible for today's Milwaukee Soldiers Home. More than a century later, a group of modern-day women resurrected the West Side Soldie...

Send us Fan Mail During the early stages of the Civil War, groups of women throughout Milwaukee began to organize in service of soldiers returning home from battle. They were not content to merely dip their toes in philanthropy, donating a few dollars to the cause. Instead, these Milwaukee women, who were once described as the "greatest auxiliary force of the army," planned and executed...

Send us Fan Mail Our new 6-part digital series highlights the incredible work of a group of women who founded what we now call Milwaukee Soldiers Home.    The producers of the digital series, The Women Founders: Milwaukee Soldiers Home, would like to thank the Civil War Museum in Kenosha as well as the Wisconsin Club in Milwaukee for allowing us to film part of this series at their locations. We w...

Send us Fan Mail ArtWorks for Milwaukee is a local non-profit organization with the goal of providing transferable job skills to Milwaukee's youth. Through intensive paid art internships, these teens develop confidence as well as professionalism, creativity, and communication skills.  Over the past year, The Arts Page has followed Artworks’environmental arts program. Their goal on this projec...

Send us Fan Mail ArtWorks for Milwaukee is a local non-profit organization with the goal of providing transferable job skills to Milwaukee's youth. Through intensive paid art internships, these teens develop confidence as well as professionalism, creativity, and communication skills.  Over the past year, The Arts Page has followed Artworks’environmental arts program. Their goal on this projec...

Send us Fan Mail ¿Qué ideas se pueden aprender de nuestras activistas latinas de Wisconsin? Únase a Adelante para obtener una muestra de sus experiencias, basadas en el libro: Somos Latinas: Voices of WI Latina Activists Parte 1. What insights can be learned from our elder Latina activists from Wisconsin? Join Adelante to get a sampling of their experiences, based on the book: Somos Latinas: Voice...

Send us Fan Mail In our final crónica of this inter-season, Lexi and crew learn about manoomin, the sacred wild rice that has sustained generations of native tribes in Wisconsin and other states in the Great Lakes region.  Find more programs at https://www.milwaukeepbs.org/stream

Send us Fan Mail In her second crónica, Lexi and the guys visit a family-owned Thai/Laotian restaurant to discuss the significance of rice in Hmong culture.    thailand, refugees, vietnam war, milwaukee pbs, storytellers, singha thai, thai food, laotian food, west allis    Find more programs at https://www.milwaukeepbs.org/stream

Send us Fan Mail In Lexi's first crónica, she introduces listeners to Marquette professor Michael Schläppi, the man on a mission to make rice a commercial cash crop in Wisconsin.    #Milwaukee #Mequon #MequonNaturePreserve #Rice #RedStoneRice #MichaelSchläppi #Marquette #research #Wisconsinagriculture #agriculture  #farming #cashcrops  Find more programs at https://www.milwaukeepbs.org/stream

Send us Fan Mail Milwaukee's Riverwest neighborhood is weird. A very specific kind of weird. A community-orientated weird. That's the focus of this episode. It's a celebration of the neighborhood's weirdness and the glorious intrigue that comes with it. We explore what makes the Riverwest Arby's the best in all the land, a mysterious talkline poster that started popping up...

Send us Fan Mail Let's explore the music of everyday life in Riverwest, where within earshot you can hear everything from punk to opera — which underscores the incredible diversity of the neighborhood. We go beyond the music scene and into the soundscape by considering the bells of St. Casimir. The church's vibrating-boom of bronze is omnipresent, which proved to be a haunting sound 100...

Send us Fan Mail Over the next three episodes, we’re going to explore the Riverwest neighborhood. Look, you’re not going to hear a definitive history or anything like that. But you can expect some quirky stories that celebrate what makes this place great. In this episode, we'll learn about Holton Street, the man it's named after and how it all relates to a small town in Kansas. We'l...

Send us Fan Mail In Lexi's first crónica, she introduces listeners to Marquette professor Michael Schläppi, the man on a mission to make rice a commercial cash crop in Wisconsin.    #Milwaukee #Mequon #MequonNaturePreserve #Rice #RedStoneRice #MichaelSchläppi #Marquette #research #Wisconsinagriculture #agriculture  #farming #cashcrops  Find more programs at https://www.milwaukeepbs.org/stream

Send us Fan Mail After being told that the historic heart of Latinx MKE is 5th and National, our hosts find the most “Latin” space there now is the drag show, “Divas de La Noche,” at Hamburger Mary’s. Mariano Avila, Scottie Meyers and Lexi Mack interview the manager and one of MKE’s OG Divas on this intimate insight into the city’s Queer, Latinx community. Find more programs at https://www.milwauk...

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Send us Fan Mail And we're back! We're going to take you along with us as we uncover a few short stories to hold you over until season 2 of the podcast. We’re calling these in-between episodes “Las Crónicas." The Chronicles. Based on formats borrowed from Latin American chronicles, we explore Milwaukee's history and culture through physical spaces in the city. So get ready to h...

Send us Fan Mail When the Taliban took over Afghanistan, Maryam Durani, a woman's rights advocate fled to Milwaukee where she's already making a difference. Kate Avila, a teacher for 15 years, was forced to leave her profession to homeschool her children when the pandemic hit and is now part of "The Great Resignation" in America. Both women are finding meaning in "home&quo...

Send us Fan Mail Pandemic life has changed our relationship to home. For starters, the mental health “burden” means a combined 90 million years of people’s healthy life expectancy evaporated in 2020. But that isolation also gave our colleague, Chris Hays, motivation for making a bomb mole for host Mariano Avila, and to discuss his “historic timing,” as he’s moved around the country searching for h...

Send us Fan Mail Defining “home” through a pandemic lens is complicated, especially when you’re in a new city, like host, producer Mariano Avila who just moved to Milwaukee. But whether you’re an immigrant who learned to make the US home through PBS kids shows, or eating lasagna in Cher’s mansion, like our general manager Bohdan Zachary, or parsing out the difference between being Native American...

Send us Fan Mail The mayor’s alternative version of the Black History Month recognition goes up for a final vote, but not before an intense debate featuring a “stick to sports” argument, some awkward anecdotes and a surprisingly relevant migratory bird resolution that passed just a month before. As we wrap up this trilogy on the battle for Black history in Brookfield, our hosts get personal as the...

Send us Fan Mail The battle for Black history in Brookfield continues with part II of the story. The resolution written by the students enters City Hall and things don’t go according to plan. What ensues is an intense debate about the “appropriate” way to honor Black History Month. We hear rousing speeches from the high schoolers, a “timeless” comment from a council member and plot twist from the...