Month: April 2020

One of the Max Kade Institute’s most requested outreach presentations is Mark Louden’s “Who Are the Amish?”. Mark had several talks scheduled for this spring that, unfortunately, we had to cancel or postpone.   THE …

The weather is slowly getting warmer, and if the low supply of seeds in (online) gardening stores is any indication, many of us are planning some gardening. What better time to take a look at nineteenth …

Many of us are baking at home right now. So we will start our new “series” by sharing a few recipes from a nineteenth-century German-American cookbook: the “Practical Cook Book,” published in Milwaukee in 1904. …