Winter 2006 - 2007 Issue
Volume 90, Number 2
Featured Story
A Thousand Little Libraries: Lutie Stearns, the Johnny Appleseed of Books
by Stuart Stotts
In the late 1800s, free libraries were gaining in popularity. However, due to poor roads, bad weather, and great distances, books still remained inaccessible for many rural Wisconsin families. With the help of James Stout and Frank Hutchins, librarian Lutie Eugenia Stearns pledged to solve this problem with a traveling library system. This article tells the story of Stearns’ struggles against distance, ignorance, and the weather as she spent almost twenty years transporting books to every corner of Wisconsin.
Table of Contents
Showdown in Chicago: Donald Peterson and New Politics Liberalism by Jeff Bloodworth
Eau Claire businessman Donald Peterson takes a stand at the 1968 Democratic National Convention and redefines liberalism in Wisconsin during the late ’60s and ‘70s.
A Thousand Little Libraries: Lutie Stearns, the Johnny Appleseed of Books by Stuart Stotts
Librarian Lutie Stearns fights to make books available to people from all walks of life, all across Wisconsin.
Bottoms Up: The Socialist Fight for the Workingman’s Saloon by Elizabeth Jozwiak
The Social Democratic Party of Milwaukee fights corruption, hypocrisy, and racism in defense of the workingman’s saloon.
Mary of the Angels Chapel: Artistic and Architectural Masterpiece by Charish Badzinski
A photographic tour of Lacrosse’s hundred-year-old Mary of the Angels Chapel.
Toy Stories
From firetrucks to Ninja Turtles, a look at toys over the decades.
Book Excerpt: Silver Screens: A Pictorial History of Milwaukee’s Movie Palaces by Larry Widen and Judi Anderson
In the 1920s, as “talkies” begin replacing silent films, Saxe Amusement Enterprises makes Milwaukee the home of several luxurious theaters, designed to make patrons feel as if they were watching a movie in an Italian garden, an Oriental palace, or even an ancient Egyptian temple.
|
