WXPR A Northwoods Moment In History

By: WXPR Public Radio
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  • We turn back the clock with local historians to find out what life in the Northwoods used to be like. This is part of an initiative by WXPR to tell the history and culture of northern Wisconsin.
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Episodes
  • The Enterprise Forest Radiation Project

    The Enterprise Forest Radiation Project
    Aug 7 2024
    Few people know that the Northwoods was once exposed to intense radiation for scientific research amid fears of nuclear war. Fifty-one years ago, a site near Rhinelander, Wisconsin, was developed to study radiation’s effects on northern forest ecosystems, known as the Enterprise Radiation Forest Project.
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    3 mins
  • Tank Mired in the McNaughton Muck

    Tank Mired in the McNaughton Muck
    Jul 3 2024
    Whenever talk turns to military tanks in the Northwoods, one story still echoes through the forest: the time a mighty tank was swallowed by the infamous McNaughton Swamp, some 65 years ago.
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    4 mins
  • The Pelican Lake Giant

    The Pelican Lake Giant
    Jun 5 2024
    “Massive Human Bones and Indian Relics Unearthed near Pelican Lake” read a Rhinelander New North newspaper headline on July 28th , 1908. The sensationalist commentary that followed was all the “proof” the unidentified writer needed to confirm that giant people once lived and were buried in the vicinity of Pelican Lake, Wisconsin.
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    3 mins
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