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August 6, 2008

 
Upcoming Events

Book Launch to Celebrate Dells Tourism
Aug 7 :: H.H. Bennett Studio, in conjunction with the University of Wisconsin Press and representatives of the...

Magnificent Motor Car Exhibition
Aug 9 :: More than 100 automobiles from the 1890-1940 period will be shown and judged. The event includes a special...

2008 Central Region Convention
Aug 9 :: You can view the agenda and print out a registration form for this convention at the Event Location URL...

Ongoing
Events
That's the Ticket! A Parade of Presidential Elections
Chris Farley Remembered
Museum Collections Online
Nearly 4,000 artifacts from the Wisconsin Historical Museum have now been pictured and described on our Web site. Check out paintings, dolls, quilts, moccasins, samplers, and children's clothing through the link above. And don't forget the Wis. Decorative Arts Database, showing 200 objects of all sorts from local historical societies around the state,

New Pictures Online
Every day we add more historical images to our online collection, Wisconsin Historical Images. Not just Wisconsin, but the whole country. Not only candid snapshots, but work by major photographers. And not only photographs, but also posters, engravings, lithographs, maps and more. See the last 30 days' worth of additions by clicking above.

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On Mosquitoes
As you've surely noticed, this summer's floods spawned a record crop of mosquitoes. Few of God's creatures are quite as annoying, or in quite the same way. Beseiged by them while exploring the northwoods in 1820, Henry Schoolcraft reflected that, "It certainly requires a different species of philosophy to withstand, undisturbed, the attacks of this ravenous insect, from that which...

The latest issue of the Wisconsin Magazine of History. Wisconsin Magazine of History
The Summer 2008 issue features articles on the history of the original Paul Bunyan tales, the photography of Dr. Edward A. Bass, and observations on the illustrated log book from 1903 that documents the canoeing adventure of four young friends on the Wisconsin, Mississippi, Rock, and Yahara Rivers.
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