Audio Work
A podcast about our place in the natural world. I am the managing editor.
A podcast about Minnesota arts, history, and culture. I am the managing editor and executive producer.
A show where curiosity and the natural world collide. Besides serving as executive producer and editor, I also produced the story “Pants on Fire.”
Two Barrels. Four bodies. And a cold case that’s changing how murders will be investigated forever. I served as executive producer of season one.
A podcast that celebrates what makes Wisconsin unique through the diverse stories of its people, places, history and culture. I was the co-founder and executive producer.
Selected Writing (not books)
“The Base of Cooking Local: Wisconsin-Made Cookware,” Edible Milwaukee (Winter 2016/17)
“Sacred Ground: Picnic Point,” On Wisconsin (Summer 2016) “Victory Gardens in Wartime Wisconsin and Today,” Edible Milwaukee (Spring 2015)
“Free Love in Victorian Wisconsin: The Radical Life of Juliet Severance,”Wisconsin Magazine of History (Autumn 2014)
“Wisconsin’s Goddesses and Queens,”Edible Milwaukee (Fall 2014)
“A Gentleman and a Scholar,”On Wisconsin (Fall 2012)
“Scandinavians’ Strange Holiday Lutefisk Tradition,” Smithsonian (8 December 2011)
“The Salamanders that Refuse to Grow Up,” Smithsonian (29 August 2011)
“Alice in Dairyland,” Wisconsin Life (June 2011)
“Giving Them What They Want: The Reinhardts and Medical Quackery in Wisconsin,” with Matthew Jensen, Wisconsin Magazine of History (Spring 2011)
“The Old Ball Game: Vintage Base Ball,” MyMidwest (March/April 2009) –
- Winner of the 2009 North American Travel Writers Association Gold for Historical Travel
“Dear Mrs. Hazard,” On Wisconsin (Spring 2007)
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