September 2005 Odd Wisconsin
The continuing struggle among Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft to corner the search market is just one among many occuring as the Web continues to grow. We read last night, for example, that SanDisk is about to release SD memory cards in 1GB, 2GB, and 4GB sizes to drive Samsung's mini...
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Posted in Curiosities on September 29, 2005
No, not the debate over the origin of the universe -- the debate over the origin of ugliness. You may recall that earlier this year, thanks to the quick thinking and generosity of Society supporters, we were able to acquire on eBay a unique album of photographs showing Frank Lloyd...
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Posted in Curiosities on September 25, 2005
"Yes, I am fond of history," comments the hero's sister in Jane Austen's 1803 novel, Northanger Abbey. "I wish I were too," replies heroine Catherine Morland. "I read it a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of...
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Posted in Curiosities on September 21, 2005
Years ago, Society archivists housed historic images about popular subjects in albums. Several of these albums contain pictures of the Civil War, and in recent weeks staff have been publishing them on the Web for the first time. They include many images made durng the war itself, or immediately after...
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Posted in on September 17, 2005
Last night the president outlined the federal government's plan for coping with the greatest natural disaster in U.S. history: "state and local leaders will have the primary role of planning for their own future," he said, rejecting large-scale federal activism such as the Tennessee Valley Authority or the Marshall Plan....
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Posted in Curiosities on September 16, 2005
On Sept. 14, 1918, 200 people surrounded the Clark Co. home of Mrs. Caroline Krueger and her sons, who refused to serve in the First World War. "They said that if the war was in this country they would be among the first to volunteer," reported a neighbor. "They declared...
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Posted in Curiosities on September 13, 2005
We're told that 23 of the Green Bay Packers have less than two years of NFL experience, which helps explain the 14 penalties they committed yesterday in Detroit. They're merely kids who make Brett Favre's football history seem positively antediluvian. But Wisconsin football history dates back at least to 1894,...
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Posted in Odd Lives on September 11, 2005
The Gulf Cost residents displaced by hurricane Katrina this week are the latest in a long tradition of people who came to Wisconsin to start new lives. With a few exceptions, we are a community of immigrants transplanted here under dire circumstances. The earliest immigrants recorded in Wisconsin historical texts...
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Posted in Odd Lives on September 8, 2005
Well, 35 years ago photographer Chuck Patch and his friend Steven Kimbrough embarked on a gustatorial odyssey: to eat breakfast and take a photograph in every Rennebohm’s in the Madison area. Their pictures bring back the ambiance, evoke the smells, detail the formica tabletops and the plastic trays, and preserve...
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Posted in Curiosities on September 6, 2005
No, not in New Orleans but here in Wisconsin. In Port Washington during draft riots in 1862, at Bay View during a labor demonstration in 1886, in Milwaukee during an epidemic in 1895, in Oshkosh during a strike in 1898, and in Madison during Vietnam War protests. For more on...
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Posted in Curiosities on September 2, 2005
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