When Bob Becker retired, he began working full time as a writer. His columns appear in several newspapers in northwestern Wisconsin, and he has published many in collections such as Ja, Ja Those Were the Days, Hunting Stories and Fishing Stories. Grandpa's Stories started out as tales he told his grandchildren many years ago. Today Bob lives in Spooner, Wisconsin.

Don Hall lives in Star Prairie, Wisconsin just a few miles north of New Richmond. His pottery is well known and respected throughout the upper Midwest for its simple lines, gracefulness and functionality. The coffee cup he is holding, however, is not his work. While he makes a lot of cups, he also collects them from potters he meets while exhibiting.

Pete Lund of Eagle River, Wisconsin is half of Pinery Road. He and his wife Dot write and perform folk music, mainly songs based on localities and events in northern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Their newest tape, God's Country , includes their ballad, New Richmond Cyclone.