"[The author] takes us into the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee to tell the story of eight families on the edge. Arleen is a single mother trying to raise her two sons on the 20 dollars a month she has left after paying for their rundown apartment. Scott is a gentle nurse consumed by a heroin addiction. Lamar, a man with no legs and a neighborhood full of boys to look after, tries to work his way out of debt. Vanetta participates in a botched stickup...

"'Generations of men and women have stood on these beaches, listened to water rushing over these basalt rocks, and picked wild blueberries here well before I sailed into the Bayfield harbor. The families of those men and women are still here, tethered to a place where they can slip behind their ancestor's eyes and take in essentially the same view'--From the introduction. In 2007, Mary Dougherty and her family moved from St. Paul to the tiny Bayfield...

The first program reviews the Chippewa off-reservation spear fishing rights issues, describes traditional Chippewa spear fishing methods, and tells how Native and non-Native Americans have learned to work together to effectively manage Wisconsin's walleye population. The second program examines Wisconsin's Bad River Reservation of today and the efforts of the people to unite ancestral teachings and sacred customs with progressive attitudes in order...

"Wisconsin is one of the most important states in the United States for contemporary poetry composition, and this collection has included a sample of its poet laureates' most representative writings. Sixty poems are not a lot. However, this group of poems embraces diverse subjects, including daily trivia and life events, local customs and geographic changes, psychological nuances and philosophical musings. They explore the growth of the young, the...

A collection of poems by Milwaukee area poets.

This collection is comprised of over 1,000 socialist and other related pamphlets which discuss various political theories/histories on socialism, communism, anarchism, democratic socialism, and socialist movements and causes around the world. This is a collection of socialist pamphlets from the late 1800s to the early 2000s. The pamphlets discuss various political theories/histories such as socialism, communism, anarchism, democratic socialism, and...