Make your holiday shopping season historic at the Society’s Friends and Family Sale! Shoppers will receive up to 40% off more than 100 Wisconsin Historical Society Press books by well-known Wisconsin authors as well as on gifts, historic images, gift memberships, and much more at this special sale only available on-site at Society Headquarters. Don’t […]
Cave After Dark Underground Cocktail Lounge
Cave of the Mounds welcomes Mambo Blue, a Latin jazz quintet performing salsa repertoire of jazz standards (and maybe a few holiday tunes) featuring Vince Jesse (guitar), Paul Muench (piano), John Mesoloras (bass), Roberto Rengel (percussion), and Jim Huwe (drums). Mambo Blue will be performing inside the cave while guests sample holiday cocktails along the […]
Winter Open House
Stop by DAIS anytime between noon and 6pm for a Giving Tree, hot cocoa, cookie decorating and entertainment. If you’d like to contribute to the Giving Tree, we are accepting Gift Cards to Target or Walmart in $25 increments and invite you to write your name on an ornament to hang on our tree in […]
Thanksgiving Special: Annual Fireside Chat with Will Williams
On today’s Thanksgiving edition, Allen hosts his annual fireside chat with Will Williams, Vietnam veteran and activist with Veterans for Peace. They discuss the origins of Thanksgiving and what it means to be grateful year-round.
Rebroadcast: The Miracle of the Grocery Store with Michael Ruhlman
Today’s episode is a rebroadcast from December 25, 2017. To celebrate food festivities and the holiday season, Monday host Patty Peltekos speaks with food writer Michael Ruhlman. He’s the author of Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America, which explores the miraculous nature of the modern grocery store.
Days’ed and Confused
Eli Radke looks at all those weird national days you keep seeing pop up in your newsfeed, and how they get there.
