summer/fall 2026
A view inside the USS Cobia, a World War II-era submarine housed at the Wisconsin Maritime Museum in Manitowoc.
Contents
The Booyah Invention: A History of the Chicken Booyah Phenomenon
by Monette Bebow-Reinhard
An Excerpt from Somebody Should Tell the Story: The Dennis Rasmussen Story and Community Connections
by Tom Anderson
Wild and Free: The Essential Role of Native Wisconsin Wildflowers
by Kayla Siegfried
Marching to War: The Story of the Twenty-First Wisconsin Voluntary Infantry Regiment
by Daniel M. Janes, PhD
Two Stories from The Wrong Shadow: Fox River Hauntings
by Bill Gillard
An Interview with Bill Gillard, author of The Wrong Shadow
Thirty Seasons of Green Bay’s Terror on the Fox
by Heidi Sherman (with assistance from Maisie Kribs and Brianna Skorr)
Landmarks: The USS Cobia
by Albert Iwin
From the Editor
Autumn has always been my favorite season—brilliant colors, fallen leaves, chill air, harvest festivals, encroaching darkness, scary movies, pumpkin ale, Jane Eyre, Over the Garden Wall, and Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes—and we’re thrilled to present a spooky season-inspired issue of Voyageur for your enjoyment. This fall, Terror on the Fox is celebrating its thirtieth season of offering our community a month of nightly frights, and this issue features an essay on one of the country’s best haunted experiences. We are also including two short stories by and an interview with Bill Gillard, local author of The Wrong Shadow: Fox River Hauntings. Be prepared to be scared! Finally, we are excited to announce our next Author Talk Series event on Sunday, October 25 at the Mulva Cultural Center in De Pere. At 1 p.m., Lynda Drews will give a talk about her forthcoming book, Disposable Wives: Murder and Menace in Green Bay’s Rural Belgian Settlement. We hope that many of you can join us! Lynda’s newest book is a historical true crime story and a perfect read for the fall season. We will feature an excerpt from Disposable Wives in our next issue.
I will leave you with one of my favorite autumn poems, “October” by Robert Frost. We hope that you enjoy this issue of Voyageur.
Eric J. Morgan
Editor-in-Chief, Voyageur: Northeast Wisconsin’s Historical Review
Associate Professor, Democracy and Justice Studies and History, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay