The Bend Sessions: West Bend's Free Community Lecture Series August – November 2026 BILL VOLKERT Cuba: Pearl of the Caribbean Bill Volkert spent 27 years as the naturalist and wildlife educator for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources at Horicon Marsh, where he led more than 3,700 education programs for over 220,000 visitors, including scientists
The Bend Sessions: West Bend's Free Community Lecture Series August – November 2026 MARK MEISNER & PAIGE GEARY The Rise of Kwik Trip: Marketing & Social Media Explosion, Mastering COVID Mark Meisner has led marketing and advertising for La Crosse-based Kwik Trip since 2016, overseeing brand strategy for more than 850 stores across the Kwik
The Bend Sessions: West Bend's Free Community Lecture Series August – November 2026 BILL VOLKERT Birds of the Northern Kettle Moraine Bill Volkert spent 27 years as the naturalist and wildlife educator for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources at Horicon Marsh, where he led more than 3,700 education programs for over 220,000 visitors, including
The Bend Sessions: West Bend's Free Community Lecture Series August – November 2026 CHRIS YOGERST Warner Bros. – Movie History / Merger with Paramount Chris Yogerst is an associate professor of communication at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and one of the country's foremost historians of Warner Bros. He is the author of several books on
The Bend Sessions: West Bend's Free Community Lecture Series August – November 2026 Anne E. Schwartz Monster: The True Story of the Jeffrey Dahmer Murders Anne E. Schwartz is a veteran Milwaukee journalist who, as a reporter for the Milwaukee Journal in 1991, broke the story of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer and was among the
The Bend Sessions: West Bend's Free Community Lecture Series August – November 2026 Lee C. Kluck Leave While the Party's Good: The Life and Legacy of Baseball Executive Harry Dalton — Brewers ALCS Championship GM Lee C. Kluck is a Wisconsin sports historian and frequent contributor to the Society for American Baseball Research. His first
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