Anne Strainchamps
Anne Strainchamps is the host of TTBOOK. She co-founded the show, along with Steve Paulson and Jim Fleming, and has been a featured interviewer on the program for more than a decade.
Latest Contributed Stories
October 30, 2019
Flash Fiction: The Rusted Bell
With Halloween this week, we thought it’d be the perfect time to revisit one of our favorite ghost stories on Wisconsin Life. “The Rusted Bell” was written by Darlene Rickert ...
June 21, 2012
Blessing of the Fleet
We head to Bayfield, where fishing boats, sailboats, tugs and even kayaks assembled in the city harbor recently for the annual Blessing of the Fleet. For more than fifty years, ...
April 27, 2012
Foraging For Watercress In Wisconsin’s Driftless Region
Carpets of watercress cover many Wisconsin streams and springs in the spring. The tender green leaves are a bright and nutritious taste of the season if you know how and ...
March 7, 2012
Judging Cheese
It’s been an intense three days of cheese tasting for judges at the World Championship Cheese Contest. The event — held in Madison this year — attracted more than 25-hundred ...
January 18, 2012
Food Pantry
With the holiday giving season over, donations to area food pantries are dropping off - making life harder for folks who are already struggling. That weekly bag of free groceries ...
August 5, 2011
Ragweed
If you suffer from hay fever, you may be feeling the first sniffles right about now. It’s time for ragweed to come into bloom. Today, Anne Strainchamps and science historian ...
May 20, 2011
Wildflower Walk
Some of the earliest flowers that bloom in the spring are the hardest to find. Their life cycle is short and sweet - like spring itself. Today, naturalist Kathy Miner ...
April 6, 2011
August Derleth on Spring
As winter fades, we’re all on the lookout for those first signs of Spring. More than 40 years ago, Wisconsin writer August Derleth described the slow change of seasons near ...
March 14, 2011
Pi Day
People who like math and also enjoy eating pie are celebrating today, because it’s Pi Day — a holiday commemorating the mathematical constant symbolized by the Greek letter “pi”. The ...
March 11, 2011
Patick Rothfuss: Magical Wisconsin
Steven’s Point writer Patrick Rothfuss hit a literary grand slam this week. His new novel debuted at number one on the New York Times bestseller list. It’s called The Wise ...
November 24, 2010