August 2008 Odd Wisconsin
To most of us, Labor Day is just the last long weekend of summer. But we have this long weekend only because more than a century ago working men and women insisted on public recognition of their contributions to American life. The direct inspiration for Labor Day occurred in New York City on Tuesday, September 6, 1882, when 10,000 workers...
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Posted in on August 31, 2008
Thomas G. Anderson (1779-1875) was a fur-trader in northwestern Wisconsin in the opening years of the 19th century. He spent the winter of 1811-1812 sixty miles from his nearest neighbor, and when the spring thaw came about March 20th, he headed south to Prairie du Chien. From there he turned up the Wisconsin River for Green Bay with his flotilla...
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Posted in Animals on August 21, 2008
"...she had been carried off her feet by the strength of the young giant when his great arms were about her in the distant African forest, and again today, in the Wisconsin woods..." So wrote Edgar Rice Burroughs in one of the most famous pulp novels in American history, Tarzan of the Apes, first published in New York by A.C....
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Posted in Curiosities on August 14, 2008
"Mrs. Murphy came over to our house first thing in the morning, and she says to my father, 'Hitch up the horses and take me to town. I seen my son Mike in a dream,' she says, 'standing at the foot of my bed when I wake up in the night, and he screams to me I should help him.'"...
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Posted in Bizarre Events on August 7, 2008
Did You Know?
The Wisconsin Historical Museum is currently featuring Odd Wisconsin objects in the latest exhibit: Odd Wisconsin. And don't miss the Odd Wisconsin book by author Erika Janik published by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press.
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