July 2009 Highlights
Villa Louis Remembers Abraham Lincoln
On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth, re-enactors and historians at Villa Louis in Prairie du Chien will look back on Lincoln's younger years as a captain in the Illinois militia during the Black Hawk War...
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Posted July 30, 2009
The Diary of a Civil War Nurse
Each summer the Society publishes an original historic diary online. Each day's journal entry is published on the same date as the original entry was written, and readers can have it automatically delivered each morning by RSS feed. This year...
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Posted July 27, 2009
Don't Miss the Red Power Roundup!
For two decades the proud owners of tractors, trucks and all manner of farm machinery descended from the International Harvester Company, its subsidiaries and offshoots have been gathering annually to show off their machines and share their knowledge of, and...
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Posted July 23, 2009
Laura Ingalls Wilder Days Spell Fun
One of the highlights of every season at Old World Wisconsin is the arrival of Laura Ingalls Wilder Days, when the outdoor museum of rural immigrant life celebrates the life and times of the beloved author of the Little House...
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Posted July 20, 2009
See This Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibit
Abraham Lincoln is coming to the Wisconsin Historical Museum. This traveling, learning-station exhibit is being displayed in 40 public libraries and historical societies over the next two years, but the Wisconsin Historical Museum is the only Wisconsin venue that will...
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Posted July 16, 2009
Let's Play Ball — 1860s Style!
The sights and sounds we associate with 19th-century Wisconsin history may run the gamut from the chug of steam locomotives and the metal-on-metal clanking of blacksmiths pounding on anvils to the steady gait of a team of horses' hooves clomping...
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Posted July 13, 2009
Don't Miss The Great Circus Festival and Parade!
All the razzle-dazzle excitement and colorful pageantry associated with the American circus will sweep through downtown Milwaukee now through July 12 as The Great Circus Festival and Parade returns to the city for the first time since 2003. Wisconsin Governor...
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Posted July 9, 2009
Library Renovation Gets Underway
Power tools and hard hats outnumbered notebooks and backpacks last week as the long-awaited renovation of the Society library's main reading room began in earnest. Outside the building, workers erected a second-story catwalk to transport rubble over the balcony and...
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Posted July 6, 2009
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln Looks Back
How different is life in the Obama White House compared to life in the Lincoln White House? Hear about it firsthand on Thursday, July 9, as Mary Todd Lincoln (as depicted by historical impressionist Jessica Michna) will come to the...
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Posted July 2, 2009
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