
In 1975, Patricia Wisniewski was killed in rural Marinette by a single shot. With newly released police documents, we’ll explore this unsolved crime and look at the prime suspects. Was the killer her husband? A stray bullet from a hunter? Or was this revenge from the Milwaukee Mafia for someone turning on them? Join…

What did the most ordinary Victorians read? Not the Brontes or Dickens: “penny dreadfuls”: cheap illustrated novels, often historical romance, horror, or both. A brief introduction to the penny dreadful phenomenon and its most enduring titles (Sweeney Todd; Varney the Vampyre), this talk will feature real examples from the 1840s-90s, which attendees can handle,…