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If These Woods Could TalkWhat We Breathed with Chris and Bill
🌳🌲If these woods could talk, they might try in vain to warn you about chasing the mosquito truck on your bike🌲💨🦟 This conversation was recorded this summer…
If These Woods Could TalkThe Donnerstag Family of Woodboro Chapter 6: After the Thunder
🌳🌲If These Woods Could Talk, they mightmake a big scene and then just sort of…fade away🌲🎆 In Chapter 6, I sit down again with Doug and Kate to discuss the end…
If These Woods Could TalkThe Donnerstag Family of Woodboro Chapter 5: The Notorious Donnerstag Gang
🌳🌲If These Woods Could Talk, they might have a hard time readjusting to the outside🌲🛣️ Chapter 5 brings us to 1908, with Hugo fresh out of the pen. He returns…
If These Woods Could TalkThe Donnerstag Family of Woodboro Chapter 4: Suicide at Manson
🌳🌲If These Woods Could Talk, they might threaten your life day after day🌲😠 After last week’s interlude, Chapter 4 of the Donnerstag Saga picks back up where…
If These Woods Could TalkThe Donnerstag Family of Woodboro Chapter 3: Seeking Sadie Slack (& other frustrations)
🌳🌲If These Woods Could Talk, they might keep their secrets all the same🌲🤫 In Chapter 3 of the story we take a slight departure from the main plotline and do a…
If These Woods Could TalkThe Donnerstag Family of Woodboro Chapter 2: Thursdays at Tomahawk
🌳🌲If These Woods Could Talk, they might tell you about grudges and blood in the streets🌲🔫 We’re back again with Anita, Dan, and Lily. Chapter 2 picks up in…
If These Woods Could TalkThe Donnerstag Family of Woodboro Chapter 1: The Staga Begins
🌳🌲If These Woods Could Talk, they might tell you about the 1880s influx of European immigrants who hacked and sawed their way ever northward, creating the…
If These Woods Could TalkITWCT: Introducing the Donnerstag Family of Woodboro
If These Woods Could Talk is bringing the true story of a criminal family that you've probably never heard of before. Episode 1 coming Wednesday, August 19…
If These Woods Could Talk25 Years of the Northwoods Land Trust with John, John, Bob, and Ron
🌳🌲If these woods could talk, they might advocate for their own conservation and protection in perpetuity🌲🌱 Fortunately, they have today’s speakers to do the…
If These Woods Could TalkHunting the Hodag with Mark Miazga
🌳🌲If these woods could talk, they might tell you stories from other places, too, because they’re actually more well-traveled than you might expect…🗺️🌳 Mark…
If These Woods Could TalkStewart "Jumbo" Lester with Greg and Bill
🌳🌲If these woods could talk, they might need to tell you a few stories before they can properly tell you the story they wanted to tell you in the first place🐦🌳…
If These Woods Could TalkThe Oneida County Rest Room for Women with Cindy Goll
🌳🌲If these woods could talk, they might tell you the difference between a RESTROOM and a REST ROOM🚺💆♀️ Cindy Goll from the GFWC Rhinelander Woman’s Club came…
If These Woods Could TalkBringing One Home with Tom Pelissero
🌳🌲If these woods could talk, they might ride the pine and keep on cheering.🌲🏀We’re extending our range a bit for today’s storyteller. We spoke with Thomas L…
If These Woods Could TalkThe People Who Make Stuff Happen with Mark Miazga
🌳🌲If these woods could talk, they might tell you a whole bunch of stories–and like, at the drop of a hat, too, and just go and go because they love it and…
If These Woods Could TalkMOOving On with Bruce Brewster
You are listening to If These Woods Could Talk, produced by the Rhinelander District Library. 🌳🌲If these woods could talk, they might ask, "...what's a cow…
If These Woods Could TalkRhinelander Area Food Pantry part 2: The Garden
🌲🌳If these woods could talk, they might tell you to eat more kale.🌳 The Rhinelander Area Food Pantry was ahead of its time with the addition of its own garden…
If These Woods Could TalkRhinelander Area Food Pantry Celebrates 20 Years (part 1)
The Rhinelander Area Food Pantry was a concept in 2004, and in early 2005 it became a reality. As they prepare to celebrate their 20th Birthday in style…
If These Woods Could TalkMy Hat! with Bob Martini
🌲🌳If these woods could talk, they might tell you about a damp engineer and a missing hat. 🌳🎩 reached out and asked if I had or could direct them to information…
If These Woods Could TalkBeer, Cheese, and Movies with Bill Rebane
🌲🌳If these woods could talk, they might tell you about a spider so big, it made Jaws look like a goldfish.🕷️🌲 I went up to the Superior shore to talk with…
If These Woods Could TalkShootin' It with Frederick Fisher
🌲🌳If these woods could talk, they might have more to say about Rhinelander history than Frederick Fisher. Though that’s not certain.🎣🌲 He's an almost-lifelong…
If These Woods Could TalkThe New History of the Old Three Lakes Theater
🌲🌳If these woods could talk, they might whisper among themselves, and then hiss and throw popcorn at you if you’re too loud🍿🌲More than 70 years ago, Three…
If These Woods Could TalkDid the Rhinelander District Library Ever Forgive Me for Oprah?
🌲🌳 If these woods could talk, they might get a little big for their birches and cancel their plans with you to go be famous instead. Just joking, Jackie. In…
If These Woods Could TalkAl Lis on the Krueger's 500, Telegraphy, and That SOO Caboose
🌲🌳If These Woods Could Talk, they might offer you $500 to carry a sack of coins a mile. I suppose they’ve said stranger things… In this episode, Al Lis shares…
If These Woods Could Talk"You Can't Save 'Em All, But You Can Be Kind" with Darlene Machtan
If these woods could talk, they might share all the dirt on every teacher who ever graced Rhinelander area schools. Instead, today we have Darlene Machtan, a…
If These Woods Could TalkForest Home Cemetery with Bill Vancos
🌲🌳If these woods could talk, they might whisper disconcerting nothings in the dark cemetery at night. In advance of a historical tour at Forest Home Cemetery…
If These Woods Could TalkI Should Buy a Boat with Bud Roberts
If these woods could talk, they might tell you about a rowboat with Rhinelander written all over it. When he was a teen in the forties, Glynn “Bud” Roberts’…
If These Woods Could TalkA Harrison History with Grant Voermans
🌲🌳If these woods could talk, they might tell you that there is no illegal moonshine operation here, and to beat it, and stop asking questions if you know…
If These Woods Could TalkThe T.V. Show with Bob Keith
🌲🌳If these woods could talk, they might read you a Western novel written by a small, bookish fella from Rhinelander. Theodore Victor Olsen, or “T.V.” as he was…
If These Woods Could TalkNo Lies: Paul Haftarski's Road to Rhinelander
If these woods could talk, they might tell you about an exceedingly bright young man in Poland who graduated high school just in time for Nazi occupation; who…
If These Woods Could TalkWhere's Shorty?: A Concise History of the Rhinelander Brewing Company
If these woods could talk, they might invite you out for a cold product of old Rhinelander. I recently got to sit down with George-Anna Karl, general manager…
If These Woods Could TalkA Haunting in Rhinelander
I have perhaps never put myself in greater peril than when I visited the Michlig home to hear a ghost story that purportedly occurred within that very house…
If These Woods Could TalkAnnelise Ryan: Beth in the Northwoods
If these woods could talk, they might tell you tales of antediluvian beasts and yet-unnamed nightmares that call the Northwoods home. Or you could read…
If These Woods Could TalkRecollections with Betty Preu
Today’s recording comes to us courtesy of Oneida County 4H-er, Claire Ably. Claire tells us: "This is my great-grandmother, Betty Preu, who lived from…
If These Woods Could TalkThat's What Vig Ced with Bob Vig (Part 2)
Welcome to the second half of our Ced Vig feature. This was recorded in the RDL meeting room in December, as a kickoff event for the Rhinelander District…
If These Woods Could TalkThe American Birkebeiner with Mitch Mode
This conversation with Mitch Mode was recorded on Tuesday February 20, a day before the start of the American Birkebeiner ski event, traditionally held between…
If These Woods Could TalkThat's What Vig Ced with Bob Vig (Part 1)
In early December 2023, the Rhinelander District Library Foundation kicked off its annual Ced Vig Holiday Book Fund with an appearance of the namesake’s son…
If These Woods Could TalkButch Mattek: Pour Some Sugar Camp On Me
This was the first episode recorded for If These Woods Could Talk. Born in Sugar Camp, Butch Mattek has made a career for himself in music, touring regionally…
If These Woods Could TalkWisconsin Valley Football History with Coach Scandin
In this episode of If These Woods Could Talk, we hear from Jeff Scandin, who spent most of his career as a teacher and football coach in Rhinelander. He…
If These Woods Could TalkConserving the Hardest-Working River in America
In this edition of If These Woods Could Talk, Bob Martini shares first-hand knowledge of Wisconsin’s history at the forefront of water conservation policy. Bob…
If These Woods Could TalkFive Years in Rhinelander with Mike Haney
In this edition of If These Woods Could Talk, we hear from Mike Haney. Mike lives in Texas these days, but he spent a few formative years in Rhinelander. I…