April 2005 Highlights
The Folding Bowie Knife That's Bigger Than You
You can read the story behind this 6 1/2-foot-long, 34-pound folding knife, but you have to come to the Wisconsin Historical Museum to see it in person and learn even more about this remarkable artifact and the Congressman from Wisconsin...
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Posted April 26, 2005
Genealogy — Unearthing Your Family's Roots
While unseasonably warm April weather sent many people out to the garden to poke around among emerging seedlings, others were investigating roots of a different kind. The Milwaukee County Genealogical Society held its 14th biennial workshop on Saturday, April 23,...
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Posted April 25, 2005
Screening The Maltese Falcon
The Maltese Falcon, the 1941 film noir masterpiece directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor, will be shown free on a first-come, first-serve basis at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, April 24, in the 300-seat auditorium of the...
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Posted April 21, 2005
Campaign for Villa Louis Restoration Complete
The Wisconsin Historical Society has cleared the final hurdle in its 10-year-long campaign to complete a top-to-bottom restoration of the Villa Louis, the Society's historic Victorian house museum in Prairie du Chien. The important milestone means the decade-long restoration can...
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Posted April 19, 2005
Unpublished Letters of John Muir Go Online
More than 100 pages of original letters by John Muir, America's most celebrated environmentalist, went online this week on the Wisconsin Historical Society's Web site. Muir, whose work led to the first national parks, the preservation of California's redwoods, and...
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Posted April 17, 2005
Eyewitness to History: Lincoln's Assassination
One hundred and forty years ago a handful of terrorists almost toppled the U.S. government. On the night of April 14, 1865, simultaneous attacks were planned on the president, vice president, secretary of war and secretary of state in Washington,...
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Posted April 14, 2005
Tax Credits Spur Capital Investment
Tax credits administered by the Wisconsin Historical Society for the rehabilitation of historic buildings have saved Wisconsin taxpayers $169.5 million in the past five years while helping to spur capital investments totaling more than $678 million, according to the Society's...
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Posted April 14, 2005
The Greatest Good: A Forest Service Centennial Film
On Tuesday, April 12, the Wisconsin Historical Society will co-host a screening of an important and compelling new documentary produced by the U.S. Forest Service. The Greatest Good "is a story of America’s land, the public land we all own...
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Posted April 11, 2005
Aztlanahuac: Mesoamerica in North America
Many Mesoamerican place names in the United States, such as Aztec, Anahuac, Tula and others, have traditionally been attributed to the romanticism of 19th century United States archaeologists. A recent research effort challenging that view is the topic of an...
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Posted April 8, 2005
Museum Folklore Exhibit: Handmade Objects
In a technological age where many of the world’s treasure appear virtually at our fingertips, there is something special about seeing actual handmade objects directly in front of you. Person to Person: Communicating Identity Through Wisconsin Folk Objects provides an...
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Posted April 7, 2005
1850s Hölzlhuber Paintings Go Online
Forty-two watercolors by Franz Hölzhuber, a visiting Austrian painter who arrived in Milwaukee in 1856, were recently added to Wisconsin Historical Images. They included many views of Milwaukee, Madison, Stevens Point and other Wisconsin communities in the 1850s, as well...
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Posted April 5, 2005
It Happens Every Spring: Baseball's Opening Day
This week, America celebrates a rite of spring with the opening of the 2005 Major League Baseball season, and the kids in your neighborhood have probably already dug their gloves, bats and balls out of winter closets. Wisconsin's own team,...
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Posted April 1, 2005
Mysterious Blue-Colored Ox Skeleton Found
April Fools! But if you'd like to see some newspaper articles about Babe the Blue Ox and Paul Bunyan from as far back as 1921, take a look at our Local History and Biography Articles online. And for you archaeology...
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Posted April 1, 2005
"Indian Mounds of Wisconsin" book wins Steinberg Prize
Indian Mounds of Wisconsin, authored by Robert A. Birmingham and Leslie E. Eisenberg, has won the Elizabeth A. Steinberg Prize. The annual prize is awarded by the University of Wisconsin Press to honor top-quality books with Wisconsin connections (see below...
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Posted April 1, 2005
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