July 2007 Highlights
World Series Exhibit Promoted by Pro Baseball
How can a small-market team like the Green Bay Packers or Milwaukee Brewers draw so many fans? The answer may be that they aren't so "small market," despite the size of their home-field cities. Fans from around the state (and...
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Posted July 30, 2007
Laura Ingalls Wilder Day at Old World Wisconsin
The day-to-day chores, crafts, games and other activities found in Laura Ingalls Wilder's classic children's book, "Farmer Boy," will provide the framework for a day dedicated to the beloved children's author at Old World Wisconsin on Saturday, August 4. Laura...
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Posted July 27, 2007
Attendance Up at Wisconsin's Historic Sites
Midway through the Historical Society's historic sites season, it is apparent that the demand to experience Wisconsin history is on the rise. Total attendance is up 11.5 percent across the entire statewide network of 10 historic sites compared to the...
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Posted July 25, 2007
New Book Celebrates Wisconsin's Swiss Settlers
Wisconsin's Swiss have given us far more than Swiss cheese (along with many other delicious cheese varieties) — they have left a legacy of traditions, foods and culture in the state, particularly in Green and Buffalo counties. The rich history...
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Posted July 23, 2007
Hoops & Bustles: A Look at Victorian Fashion
Besides being defined by the constricting corset, Victorian fashion also seemed to be full of lumps, bumps and bulges that distorted the female figure into something not quite human. Most prominent of these disfigurements were those caused by hoops and...
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Posted July 20, 2007
Heirloom Gardens Showcase Botanical History
Historians preserve and interpret history in many traditional forms, from books and manuscripts to historic houses and historical exhibits. The Wisconsin Historical Society's historic sites explore the world of "living history," a form of historical interpretation that we generally associate...
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Posted July 18, 2007
New Museum Exhibit Recalls World Series Past
The World Series comes to Wisconsin every 25 years. Milwaukee Brewers fans are hopeful that history will confirm this statement, and with the Brewers leading the Central Division of the National League, their hopes may be realized. It was 50...
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Posted July 16, 2007
Tattoos in Wisconsin History
Humans have marked their bodies with eye-catching tattoos for centuries. Signifying everything from social status and religious beliefs to declarations of love, personal adornment and more, tattoos have had a rich cultural history in civilizations around the world for more...
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Posted July 13, 2007
Fill 'er Up at Wisconsin's Historic Gas Stations
Since their unremarkable beginnings as cheap shacks and curbside pumps at the dawn of the automobile age, gas stations have taken many forms and worn many guises — castles, cottages and teepees, Art Deco and Streamline Moderne, clad with wood,...
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Posted July 11, 2007
Old World Wisconsin, Villa Louis Tell War Stories
War has touched the lives of many generations of Wisconsin citizens throughout the state's history, and on Saturday and Sunday, July 14-15, two Wisconsin historic sites will reenact wartime scenarios drawn from two historic conflicts more than a century apart....
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Posted July 9, 2007
Unique Milwaukee Photo Archive Acquired
Joseph Brown (1851-1928) was a commercial photographer in Milwaukee whose work had all but vanished from sight until the Wisconsin Historical Society acquired and digitized it earlier this year. For several decades Brown and his sons took hundreds of pictures...
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Posted July 5, 2007
Ring in the Fourth of July — 19th-Century Style
Independence Day marked an occasion for festive, community-wide celebrations and colorful, small-town parades in many a rural, 19th-century Wisconsin village, and today you can still relive the tenor of those times at Old World Wisconsin and Madeline Island Museum. Old...
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Posted July 2, 2007
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