August 2007 Highlights
Meet the Mascots at the Museum!
"Got mascots?" On Saturday, September 8, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., visitors to the Wisconsin Historical Museum can meet and mingle with several well-known mascots from regional sports teams. They can also participate in baseball scoring classes, baseball arts...
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Posted August 31, 2007
All New Edition of Third Down and a War to Go
Third Down and a War to Go, the Wisconsin Historical Society Press's award-winning and popular title, is back in a fully revised paperback edition. This all new edition follows the story of the legendary 1942 Wisconsin Badgers whose host of...
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Posted August 29, 2007
Old World Wisconsin and Lee's Final Retreat
It is April of 1865, and Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights for its life. Pushed out of Petersburg, they march and fight their way into central Virginia. The battle of Sailor's Creek sees 8,000 Confederates, including the...
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Posted August 27, 2007
Genealogy Workshops Coming This Fall
Wisconsin Historical Society staff will offer five Saturday morning workshops for genealogists in coming months. Each workshop runs from 9 a.m. to noon in room 126 of Memorial Library (the main library on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus), directly across...
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Posted August 24, 2007
Political Maverick William Proxmire
From 1957 to 1988, Democratic Senator William Proxmire represented Wisconsin in Congress, chairing the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, and the Joint Economic Committee, and serving as subcommittee Chairman on the Senate Appropriations Committee. Proxmire's papers, more than...
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Posted August 22, 2007
Pickles, Preserves and Produce on Parade
Spoiled as we are today, when we can pop a frozen entrée into a microwave oven and have a hot lunch ready three minutes later, it is easy to lose sight of how vital a skill food preservation was for...
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Posted August 20, 2007
Odd Wisconsin: A Blog Becomes a Book
Odd Wisconsin, the Society's popular blog and weekly feature in the Wednesday Wisconsin State Journal, is now a new book from Wisconsin Historical Society Press! Odd Wisconsin: Amusing, Perplexing and Unlikely Stories from Wisconsin's Past by Erika Janik unearths the...
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Posted August 17, 2007
Mississippi Steamboat Memories
Water has played an important part in Wisconsin's history for thousands of years. People have used waterways to travel, move goods and to keep connected with the rest of the world. The only state to sit between two Great Lakes...
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Posted August 15, 2007
All Aboard for Railroad Day at Stonefield
In a celebration of all things railroad related, Stonefield in Cassville will roll out its best railroading exhibits and displays for a day dedicated to riding the rails during Railroad Day on Saturday, August 18. Staff from several southwestern Wisconsin...
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Posted August 13, 2007
Eighty-eight Years with the Pack
On August 11, 1919, Earl "Curly" Lambeau and George Calhoun gathered a group of young athletes together and made football history. For it was in a back room of the old Green Bay Press-Gazette building on Cherry Street that the...
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Posted August 10, 2007
Authenticating Sports Memorabilia: How it's Done
Is it real? What is it worth? For the casual hobbyist or serious collector of any major sports memorabilia, these questions are inevitably asked, and the answers are not always easy to discern. What a thrill it would be to...
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Posted August 8, 2007
Don't Miss the Magnificent Motor Car Exhibition!
More than 100 classic automobiles dating from 1890 to 1940 will be featured for the first time throughout the grounds of Circus World from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, August 11, during the Magnificent Motor Car Exhibition. Members...
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Posted August 6, 2007
Wisconsin's Fair-est Season
The Wisconsin State Fair is once again upon us, running from August 2 through August 12 at State Fair Park in West Allis. From prize-winning cows to cream puff-eating contests, from Alice in Dairyland to marching bands, from gravity-defying rides...
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Posted August 3, 2007
Local History Regional Conventions Coming Up
It is a 45-year tradition that's still going strong. The first Local History Regional Convention was held in 1962 in Waukesha County (pictured at right). Recently a new slate of regional conventions for 2007 was announced that continues the tradition....
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Posted August 1, 2007
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