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J#A'.Iirsf^^*^^ L S' VOLUME 38 NUMBER 3 SPRING, 1955 %'.-ak WRi|| -M'^M llfiill- iftj#a'.iirSf^^*^^ l s'"^v • ^-, • ''V 11 'M ^"l j .£(W W".'* R 1 £ ?i' • ^&J| ' '« V "• -V* i? X<» T"t ^.: •.<!n.,^. •'•-•1>*3 Here it is: springtime in miniature, picturing beauty and stillness. Sequestered, with bird song and quiet flow of the Mullet, here is peace in ISature^s little spot. Mirroring the trees crowding its bank, the placid stream flows a leisurely way through Old Wade House State Park, a unit of the hill and vale and forest of the lovely Kettle Moraine landscape. A more extensive view ON THE COVER would picture in the foreground, left, massive Wade House, brooding over a bygone day; to the right, the restored blacksmith shop, sheltering its own bulky treasures. Great elms—fresh green—shading the stage­ coach inn, wild flowering crabapple wearing a blush of pink, native shrubs showing their own blossom splendor, all silently at work to give someone a moment of beauty and surcease from toil. The WISCONSIN MAGAZINE OF HISTORY is published by the Stale Historical Soricty of Wis­ consin, 816 State Street, Madison 6, Wisconsin. Distributed to members as part of their dues (Annual Membership, $4.00; Contributing, $10; Business and Professional, $25: Life, $100; Sustaining, $100 or more annually; Patron, $1,000 or more annually.) \ early subscription, $4.00; single numbers, $1.00. As of July 1, 1954, introductory offer for NKVV members only, Annual dues $1.00, Magazine subscription $3.00. Communications should be addressed to the editor. The Society does not assume responsibility for statements made by contributors. Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Madison, Wisconsin, under the act ol August 24, 1912. Copyright 1955 by the State Historical Society of Wist-onsin. Paid for in part by the Maria L. and Simeon Mills Editorial Fund and by the George B. Burrows Fund. PERMISSION—Wisconsin newspapers may reprint any article appearing in tbi^ U-'hrniiun Magazine of History provided the story carries the following credit line: Reprinted from the State Historical Society's Wisconsin Magazine of History for I Insert the season and year which appear on the Magazine^. PHOTO CREDITS—Viking Ship supplied by Frederick T. Chapman, from woodcuts he did for volume by Einar Haugen (translator). Voyages to Vinland, the First American Saga (Chicago, 1941) ; Syttende Mai Dinner by C. A. Thompson of Capital Times: Jane and Ellen Lloyd-Jones by Mary Lloyd-Jones, Spring Green; New-York Historical .Society Building by Director R. W. G. Vail of Society; (Juns from Waldo E. Rosebusli (!ollec.tion in .State Historical Museum; Carolinians at Hall of History Party by North ("arolina Department of Archives and History; Spring and Casino by Waukesha Daily Freeman and the Waukesha County Historical Society; Eisenhower Museum by Director H. W. Rohrer, Abilene; and Beaded Bandoleer and Dreamer Society Drum from Mumm Collection in State Historical Museum. C=- -^ A «-^ ^^ VOLUME 3! ^ f / \ j /^ NUMBER 3 PUBLISHED BY THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN . SPRING, 1955 Editor: CLIFFORD L. LORD Managing Editor: LILLIAN KRUEGER CONTENTS A Southerner's Defense of Lyman Draper Lucius BRYAN DABNEY 131 Norway and America: the Ties That Bind EINAR HAUGEN 139 The Importance of Local History in the School Program RALPH ADAMS BROWN 145 The Unitarian Hillside Home School FLORENCE FIFER BOHRER 151 Side Views of History DAVID H. STEVENS 157 Silurian Spring Restored at Waukesha VERN SNOW 169 FEATURES: Meet the Authors 130 Pandora's Box 168 Smoke Rings 135 Sincerely Yours 172 The Collector 161 Readers' Choice 177 Circuit Rider 165 Accessions 189 LUCIUS BRYAN DABNEY was born in Savan­ Dabney, Jr. is the sixth generation in active nah, Georgia, but has resided in Warren practice. Mr. Dabney started collecting County, Mississippi, since 1898. He is a Southern and Southwestern Americana in member of the Mississippi Bar and also 1924 and, at his residence, "Belmont," has of the Bar of the United States Supreme amassed one of the largest private collec­ Court. He is the senior member of the law tions ever to be formed of manuscripts, firm of Dabney & Dabney of Vicksburg, autographs, books, and related subjects. He which firm has continued in unbroken line holds memberships in the State His­ from its founding by Benjamin King Dab­ torical Society of Wisconsin, the Wisconsin ney in King and Queen County, Virginia, Postal History Society, and The Manu­ in 1793. The junior member, Lucius B. script Society. EINAR HAUGEN has been head of the Uni­ in 1942, and Fulbright Research Scholar versity of Wisconsin Department of Scandi­ in Norway, 1951-52. His two-volume work, navian Studies since 1931 and Thompson entitled The Norwegian Language in Amer­ Professor of Scandinavian Languages since ica: A Study in Bilingual Behavior, was 1938. He has lectured at Oslo, Minnesota, published by the University of Pennsyl­ Michigan, and Georgetown universities, was vania Press in 1953. His paper in this issue Cultural Officer at the American Embassy was read before the Madison Rotary Club, in Oslo in 1945-46, a Guggenheim Fellow May 19, 1954. Though Vermont-born, RALPH ADAMS in professional and historical organizations BROWN has resided in New Hampshire for are the National Council for the Social more than thirty years. He has degrees Studies, the Mississippi Valley, American, from New Hampshire and Columbia uni­ New Hampshire, and New York Historical versities, receiving his Ph.D. in 1950. Pres­ Associations. Dr. Brown was formerly the ently he is professor of American history assistant editor and acting editor of Social and chairman of the social studies depart­ Education. He is the co-author of How To ment at the State Teachers College at Cort­ Use Local History, issued by the National land, New York. Among his memberships Council for the Social Studies. A student at the Unitarian Hillside Home served for eight years. She was president School, FLORENCE FIFER BOHRER of Bloom- of the Illinois Welfare Association, the ington, Illinois, was graduated in 1895. As Illinois League of Women Voters, and also a young girl she followed her own inclina­ served as a member of the national League tions and enjoyed the freedom at Hillside. board, and as director of the American When she was a student there, her father, Unitarian Association. Her time is now Joseph Wilson Fifer, was governor of Il­ given to the Advisory Committee for the linois. Mrs. Bohrer was the first woman Illinois State Library and the Citizens Com­ elected to the Illinois senate where she mittee for the University of Illinois. A native of Wisconsin, DAVID H. STEVENS served as captain of the Military Intelli­ received a Ph.D. degree at the University gence Division, U.S. Army, Washington, of Chicago, 1914, and an LL.D. at Law­ D.C, 1918-19 and as a member of the Edu­ rence College, 1931. At the University of cational Mission to Japan, U.S. Army, 1946. Chicago he served in various capacities: He is presently a trustee of Lawrence Col­ as dean of the College of Arts, Literature, lege and is a former curator of the State and Science, as assistant to the president, Historical Society. As author he has pro­ and associate dean of faculties. He was duced College Composition, Milton Papers, director of the Division for the Humani­ and numerous other volumes. His articles ties, Rockefeller Foundation, 1932-50. He appear in modern language journals. 130 Dabney adds further to the stature of Lyman Draper, whom he designates as "a real benefactor of mankind." This address was delivered by this distin­ guished Mississippian before the Wom­ en's Auxiliary of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin at the Annual Meet­ ing at Madison, June 25, 1954. Lyman C. Draper A Southerner's Defense of Lyman Draper by Lucius Bryan Dabney Be assured it is a heartfelt honor to meet here graphically speaking this is true, politically with you and partake of the ceremonies inci­ speaking to me there is no North, South, East dent to the Draper Centennial; and I also or West, but only the dominant thought that hasten to assure you that no event connected we are each citizens of our respective states, with my thirty years of collecting Southern without sectional distinctions, bound together and Southwestern Americana has given me in a federal union upon the cornerstone of more pleasure than the complimentary expres­ which is inscribed ''esto perpetua/^ and may sions accompanying the Award of Merit; and this inscription remain unaltered to the last the further fact that this cordial commenda­ recorded syllable of time. What is to the in­ tion of my efforts coincides with this momen­ terest of a citizen of the Badger state applies tous occasion gives me additional grounds for with equal force to a citizen of the Magnolia satisfaction. It could not, however, add to the state 1,000 miles south, and which is bound feelings of affection and sentiment I have al­ to your State in a common destiny not only by ways entertained for the traditions of your the fraternal bonds of the union, but also by beautiful State, but it will serve as an inspira­ a ribbon of silver sheen stretching in its tion for future efforts. tortuous course from Itasca to the Balize. If you will pardon the personal note, I should Nothing commonplace has brought us to­ so much like to say that I am pleased to see gether. Our presence is called here to com­ such a representative gathering in this audi­ memorate the memory of one who has long ence of the splendid women of Wisconsin, as since passed on to his reward, but whose per­ I am ever conscious of the fact that I am severance and zeal under many trying condi­ blessed with a "collector's wife" in every sense tions has done more than any other to advance of the word, Mrs.
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