Book cover of Ginseng Roots: A Memoir (2025), written and illustrated by Craig Thompson (all images courtesy Pantheon Graphic Library, an imprint of Penguin Random House) That Midwestern soil is, ...

“My mom’s up in heaven saying, ‘This is a bad idea, getting into this truck with this man.’” This thought crossed Randi Pokladnik’s mind as she climbed into a “rickety-rackety pickup” with a stranger.

CAMPBELL COUNTY, Tenn — Deep in the woods of Appalachia, the trees grow tall and plants dig their roots deep into the soil. Communities thrive from the work of all their members. Traditions are passed ...

There's a different type of season in Indiana that began Sept. 1 and runs through the end of the year. Participants don't have to carry a firearm, muzzleloader or bow and arrow; instead, all that's ...

In 2011, cartoonist Craig Thompson fell on his moneymaker – by which I mean his drawing hand. The author of the award-winning (and often banned) graphic memoir Blankets was in China, riding a bamboo ...

Craig Thompson’s new book revisits his upbringing on a farm in rural Wisconsin, and the farmers — both American-born and not — who made up his community. By Sam Thielman When you purchase an ...

It’s an endangered herb, routinely yanked from Pennsylvania’s forest floors due to a soaring demand in Asia, but the impact of ginseng production on the plant’s wild populations has been something of ...

WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) - Ginseng is not just a root, not to people in central Wisconsin, at least. It is a story of the people and places it grows, tying the individuals raised with it with an eternal ...