News/Press
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Need a Little Help from my Friends
The big news is that “Trout Friends and Other Riff-Raff” is now available with its full original title. The first publisher wanted to shorten it up, but I alway thought it lost something…
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When I Met Jimmy Carter, Excerpt
In “Trout Friends and Other Riff-raff” there is a story titled “Jimmy”. About my encounter with President Jimmy Carter. This story and many more will be available in audiobook, or back in print…
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The Ink Drinker from Ship the Kids on Ahead
AMONG the many things that you can do to pass the long winter nights is sit and speculate about what happened to your childhood friends. Whenever I do this I wonder what ever…
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Uncovering humor at Mazo Beach
The Eagle Kim Lamoreaux MAZOMANIE — To many local folks, there’s barely anything funny about the years of controversy surrounding the Mazomanie Beach, a nude beach along a stretch of pristine Wisconsin River…
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Doug Moe: Mazo beach headed for stage
Madison.com Doug Moe The Stokes family Thanksgiving dinner in 2012, in a house on a hill outside Mazomanie, included a spirited discussion of the nude Mazo Beach on the Wisconsin River. The nude…
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Doug Moe: Former columnist Stokes still wants to write, even as 80 approaches
Wisconsin State Journal Doug Moe The house sits on a hill outside Mazomanie, with a lot of glass and what the owner, who built it, calls the best view in Dane County. The…
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My heroes have always been columnists
Lake County News Reports There was this Milwaukee Journalist named Bill Stokes back in Wisconsin. He was my hero, my role model. I read him even before I became a columnist myself. And,…
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IT’S A WISCONSIN THING
Chicago Tribune Bill Stokes There’s a big party in Wisconsin this year. A roll-out-the-barrel, slice-the-cheese, strike-up-the-polka-band wing-ding that promises to roust every last badger out of state burrows and into the streets to…
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PEOPLE WHO BECOME PRISONERS OF FEARS
Florida Sun-Sentinel Bill Stokes Our friend Louise (not her real name) has disappeared. She did not run away. She is in her home, behind drawn drapes, and none of us has seen her…
