Guest, Author at Milwaukee Independent

The Muslim Mind: Cultural Misperceptions

Posted by Guest | Sep 8, 2016

This essay is part of a series that explores the Muslim community in Milwaukee. The Milwaukee Independent previously published an extensive interview with Janan Najeeb. It was an effort to help our readers better understand the people of Islamic faith who live in the city, and address questions that were not the usual fear-based reactions to news events. As a result of the positive impact and popularity of Najeeb’s profile, the Milwaukee Independent invited her to offer a continuing editorial voice about our Muslim neighbors and their shared stories from the community. Fielding calls from interested teachers, perplexed employers,...

Dennis Biddle: In and out of baseball by 19

Posted by Guest | Jul 5, 2016 |

Playing as a pitcher, Biddle said he earned the wordy nickname “The Man Who Beat the Man Who Beat the Man” for a victory his first season over Lefty McKinnis, one of the few pitchers who ever defeated the legendary Satchel Paige. The record for wins at the age of 17 in the major leagues is five, set by Bob Feller in 1936. In 1953, Dennis Biddle, pitching in the Negro leagues, equaled that number. Then he turned 18 and won ten more, giving him 15 wins in his rookie season. Injury derailed Biddle’s baseball career when he was...

Kathleen Baert: Mr. Roboto goes to Washington

Posted by Guest | Jun 30, 2016 |

Editor’s Note: A team from Marquette University traveled to Washington DC as part of an expo hosted by the Congressional Robotics Caucus. The event marked the five-year anniversary of the National Robotics Initiative, a multi-agency effort among the National Science Foundation (NSF), NASA, the National Institutes for Health (NIH), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Department of Defense (DOD), and the Department of Energy (DOE) to accelerate the development and use of robots that work beside or cooperatively with people and solve problems in areas of national priority. This essay describes that journey of technology and possibilities. I...

Beulah Brinton of Bay View

Posted by Guest | Jun 5, 2016 |

A pioneer of Bay View, Beulah Brinton left her mark on the community with her compassion and humanitarianism and was the 1987 inductee into the Halls of History Museum at Forest Home Cemetery. She had a free spirit and strong notions about duties to her fellow men, and she carried them out. She was determined and dauntless. It seems that everyone who knew her, admired and loved her for it. I did. She was my great-grandmother. When I was nine, Beulah Brinton came to live with us. My mother, father, brother, and I occupied the old homestead that she...

“Behold the Woman” featured at BVGN

Posted by Guest | Jun 3, 2016 |

My project for Bay View Gallery Night (BVGN) “Behold the Woman” takes its titled from Beulah Brinton’s second published book (1886), a sequel to her first “Man is Love” (1872). Beulah Brinton was a well known poet and essayist in Wisconsin, and started the first library in Bay View. The themes of her work were often metaphysical. They uniquely documented the shifting human consciousness after the devastation from the Civil War and into the industrial revolution. As I like to say, Beulah Brinton was born in 1836 and had a vision of human rights a generation before Eleanor Roosevelt,...

Map: Runway Dog Exercise Area

Posted by Guest | Apr 16, 2016 |

Dog Friendly MKE REVIEW: Runway Dog Exercise Area (Galoshes Required) Runway Dog Exercise Park Address: 1214 E. Rawson Ave. Oak Creek, WI 53154 April 12 was my first visit to Runway Dog Exercise Park.Humboldt Park is a mere five minutes from my house. So Runway DEP is about a 15-20 minute drive from my abode in the Bay View Area. But it was worth the trip, even if the experience was not balanced. My experience was merely my own, and no fault of the Park’s. I failed to understand the full gravity of the warning my fiancé gave when she said, “wear your...