Michael Edmonds

Michael Edmonds recently retired after a long career at the Wisconsin Historical Society. He is a 1976 graduate of Harvard University and has taught part time at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 1986. For more than a decade he wrote the weekly column “Odd Wisconsin” which was syndicated in 100 newspapers around the state. His work has won national awards from the American Folklore Society, the American Library Association and the American Association for State and Local History.