Steve talks with David Allen and Susan Campbell about how the book was written and why the 20 year delay.

During the entire 1990s, the potential removal of PCBs from the Fox River hung in the balance. The book is Paper Valley : The fight for the Fox River Cleanup. Steve talks with the authors David Allen and Susan Campbell who were in the middle of the fight and who dedicated a decade of their professional lives to help all of us.

It's the early 1900s. While lumber barons and railroad companies exploited Wisconsin resources and citizens; socialists and progressives fought back. One individual who fueled the imagination of the public was John Deitz. Listen to Steve interview local Northwest Wisconsin historian, Tamera Schutz about this David v. Goliath story.

Steve follows up to listener questions and comments from the previous podcast.

In August 1970 a powerful fertilizer bomb was detonated on the UW Madison Campus. The only perpetrator not apprehended was Leo Burt. Where is he? Steve talks with former federal prosecutor John Vaudreuil about the outstanding warrant for the arrest of Leo Burt.

Steve talks about America's biggest and deadliest river flood in history and the resulting impact on U.S. history.

Steve talks about a former US Navy communication facility in Northern Wisconsin and the UP of Michigan with Prof. Steven Walton from Michigan Tech University. How the Navy almost turned the entire northwest quarter of the State of Wisconsin into an electrical grid in order to communicate through saltwater with its subs.

Steve continues his interview with Margo Kirchner and discusses the response by the Wisconsin legal system to Sherman Booth's role in aiding Joshua Glover.

Steve sits down with Margo Kirchner, executive director of the Wisconsin Justice Initiative to discuss Joshua Glover's escape from slavery and the role of Wisconsin citizens in assisting that escape

A collage of things that got cut from the final episode of 2023 (PFAS, Lake Michigan Shipwreck, 14th Amendment and the town of Soldiers Grove) plus a brief look forward to upcoming 2024 episodes!