February 2012
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paigemarie14 asked: Where was the Colonail Theater in Manitowoc?
Feb 3rd
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Feb 2nd
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Watch: News film clip of fair housing march,... →
This eerie silent news clip captures the tense and edgy atmosphere as civil rights marchers made their way through the Milwaukee’s south side in late August 1967. From the opening scene featuring lines of heavily-armed police officers to a clip of a marcher praying with a rosary, footage like this was recorded and broadcast by WTMJ-TV for weeks on the evening news. via: The March on...
Feb 1st
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January 2012
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Jan 27th
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Listen: "Little Brown Bulls" as sung by Robert... →
This folk ballad describes a contest in a northwoods Wisconsin logging camp between a pair of “big spotted steers” and two “little brown bulls” to determine which team could haul or “skid” the most timber in a single day. The Wisconsin Folksong Collection includes a dozen recordings of this song as sung by former lumberjacks; each singer places the event in a...
Jan 26th
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“It is said that there are only two seasons in Wisconsin: winter and road...”
– via: Peter S. Felknor, “Tornadoes in Wisconsin: Two Case Histories,” Wisconsin Magazine of History vol. 70, no. 4 (1990)
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December 2011
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“Every Christmas eve, as the clock struck twelve, bands of music and singers...”
– Lewis Noble and Edwin Bottomley describe the annual caroling tradition in Rochester, Wisconsin, a settlement founded by British immigrants to Racine County in 1842. The caroling group started out around 11:00 on Sunday evening in John Noble’s sleigh and probably toured the farms of the...
Dec 22nd
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Recording: Miss Fogarty's Christmas Cake, as sung... →
There was caraway seed in abundance Should’ve built up a fine stomach ache. Twould have killed a man twice, after eating one slice Of Miss Fogarty’s Christmas cake. via: Wisconsin Folksong Collection, 1937-1946 by way of University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
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