Start Date: 7/22/2012
End Date: 7/22/2012
Event Times: 10 am–12:30 pm (museum opens at 11 am)
Contact Info
E-mail: oww@
wisconsinhistory.org Phone: For recorded information call 262-594-6300; during operating hours call 262-594-6301.
Fax: 262-594-6342
Morning Heirloom Garden Stroll
Enjoy a special before-hours garden visit with our own historical gardener, Marcia Carmichael, author of "Putting Down Roots: Gardening Insights from Wisconsin's Early Settlers." Learn about immigrants from Poland and southern Germany, their gardening styles and traditions, and meet some of their favorite plants as we stroll through our Kruza and Schottler gardens. The tour will conclude at Caldwell Farmers' Club Hall with refreshments featuring flavors from the homelands of the gardens visited. Each Garden Stroll ticket includes one half-price museum admission ticket valid during the 2012 season. Copies of
Putting Down Roots will be available for purchase and signing after the tour. Another
Heirloom Garden Stroll event will take place on August 23.
Add'l Contact Info: Call 262-594-6301
Ticket Info: $15 (fee includes the garden tour, private reception, museum admission and an all-day tram transportation pass). Reservations close at noon on July 20.
Registration Deadline: 7/20/2012
Location Description: Old World Wisconsin documents the settlement of 19th- and early 20th-century Wisconsin. It comprises an 1870s crossroads village and 10 ethnic farmsteads located on 576 acres of wooded hills in the Southern Unit of Kettle Moraine State Forest.
Venue: Old World Wisconsin
Address: W372 S9727 Hwy 67
PO Box 69
City: Eagle
Accessibility Info: Reasonable accommodations will be made for individuals requiring wheelchairs for mobility. Trams are equipped to transport visitors using wheelchairs during regular museum operating hours. Call ahead to make arrangements at 262-594-6301.
Event Location URL:
http://www.oldworldwisconsin.org
