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Modern telecommunication systems provide the means to contact friends, relatives, and businesses whenever and wherever we want, but historically this is a

5:43 Early spring, before the trees fully leaf out, is an ideal time for spotting tree-dwelling porcupines who often move into the upper canopy of trees to eat and rest during the daytime. They commonly venture to the outermost or highest branch tips to break off newly budding twigs to eat. Trembling aspen and young hemlock bark are favorite foods for porcupines, but they will consume bark from a wide range of tree types and supplement their diet with fruits and ground dwelling plants and shrubs. While slow moving and lumbering on the ground, porcupines are adept climbers, alternately using t...

3:36 Buses are often ignored in the history of transportation because they have an image problem.  While they are the cheapest form of public transportation, they are also the slowest.  They are not as glamorous or romanticized as passenger rail or airlines and are often associated with underprivileged groups.  Yet buses were essential to the development of the tourist industry in the Northwoods. Early roads and vehicle limitations in the first decades of the twentieth century made bus travel to the Northwoods an impossibility.  After the First World War, however, things began to change.�...

As we move from winter toward spring, (a little sooner than I would have liked) I am getting excited to start biking around the Northwoods. I spend quite a

His canvas is a tree or a massive wood slab. Nathan Nuszkiewicz working on a sculpture in 2020. Credit Potlicker Chainsaw Sculptures On Monday, he was outside his Rhinelander home and shop, working on a woodcarving to go on a roof peak at a customer’s home. “It’s going to be a whole scene, where we’ve got the trees and the sky and the clouds and the sunset in the middle, and then, through that, there’s going to be an actual six- to six-and-a-half foot eagle flying out over the trees,” he explained. Nathan’s wife and business partner, Erica, watched nearby.