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TO THE WATER 7 Wonderful WI Water Destinations

Get Out & Do What You Like to do JULY 2018 Kathleen Madigan Plans three-day Wisconsin Tour in September

George Thorogood Still a no-holds-barred rock ‘n roller

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Get out and do what you like to do, because you can Here we are in July. For all of us here of opportunity to choose your favorite Family Fun Edition in Wisconsin (and all over the United things to do. July 2018, Vol. 2, Issue 7 States) this month kicks off with a big, We start off with details of a PUBLISHERS bright, star-spangled, firework-filled summertime youth program offered by NORMA JEAN FOCHS celebration of our independence. Of the WI Maritime Museum. PATRICK BOYLE course our departure from British rule Then on to the most polka-filled seems a very distant historical thing fund-raising event ever held to benefit a Contributors to celebrate so most likely the holiday great cause. We have the details of West David Brierley equates more with get-togethers and Bend’s Germanfest coming in August to Peter Lindblad summer fun for most of us. I submit that benefit Habitat for Humanity. ART independence from Britain was just the In this issue, Contributor Peter Graphic Designers predecessor to the real independence Lindblad does his thing and brings KELLY ANDERSON to which we should attribute a grand us all of the entertaining details of his NICOLE MACMARTIN celebration of living in America. conversation with Comedian Kathleen ADVERTISING In case you haven’t taken time to Madigan who will embark on three NORMA JEAN FOCHS think about it lately, let me remind you, consecutive days of Wisconsin dates [email protected] we are lucky. I would say blessed but if on her September tour. He also shares PATRICK BOYLE you are not inclined to use that term his conversation with long-time rocker [email protected] then go ahead and stick with lucky. We George Thorogood who will be in ADMINISTRATIVE live in a generally safe place where most Oshkosh at Waterfest later this summer. CONTACT SPECIALIST people have plenty, where citizens are Supper Club Guy - David Brierley Audrey Fochs willing to help one another and most takes us to the long-lived and much Out & About Wisconsin is published monthly by Foxx Interactive (strangers even) will offer a smile and storied summertime WI Dells Services. All rights reserved. No duplication of any editorial or many times a kind word. For the most destination for an experience like no photography is allowed without written permission from Foxx Interactive Services. Copyright 2018. part we all can say what we want, do other at Ishnala Supper Club what we want, go where we want and see This month’s To the Water theme what we want. Undoubtedly lucky. story offers up seven wonderful Printable PDF version of this issue available at: Sometimes, as people who have so Wisconsin water destinations to put on https://outandaboutwisconsin.com/digital-magazine/ much freedom and choice, we take it your list. for granted. We forget how lucky we are As always, our calendar has more to use our freedoms as we choose, to than 100 listings of things going on in our taste and preference. Even taking July for all tastes. We include live links For those of you who are part the conditions in poor and war-torn for easy-access to all the details. of a group that is planning an upcoming event, we want parts of the world out of the picture, So appreciate being an American and to hear from you. we are lucky. We live in a world where get out and about Wisconsin to do what Make sure to send information Saudi Arabian women have just been you like to do in July! O&A about that event to editor@ granted the freedom to drive. Yet outandaboutwisconsin.com, and we’ll get it listed on our calendar. Not sure we are free and independent. If that what to include? Check out this month’s doesn’t give you a reason to celebrate calendar, where we explain exactly Independence Day and take every Norma Jean Fochs what kind of information we need. Just remember, if your event is in August, advantage to get out to do what you like Norma Jean Fochs we need to know about it in the to do then you are just not trying. PUBLISHER beginning of July. [email protected] We have another issue chock-full

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Habitat for Humanity of Washington and Dodge Counties Host 33rd Annual West Bend GERMANfest!

The excitement is building as Habitat many travel from all over the country affordable homes in partnership with for Humanity of Washington and to hear the wonderful line-up of the community and those in need. Dodge Counties prepares for the 33rd music and enjoy the comradery of Along with building homes for those Annual West Bend GERMANfest! the West Bend community. This in need, HFH also offers other services From it’s humble beginnings in 1986 long-standing event has transformed including a home repairs program. By as a four hour program, on a single in recent years into a fundraiser for supporting West Bend GERMANfest, stage in a downtown West Bend Habitat for Humanity of Washington you are supporting our friends and street, GERMANfest has grown into a and Dodge Counties. neighbors in need in. four-day event, with multiple musical Habitat for Humanity of Washington GERMANfest will continue with acts and much more. West Bend and Dodge Counties WI, Inc. (HFH) long standing traditions like the Friday GERMANfest can host up to 10,000 is an ecumenical Christian housing night Fish Fry, polka dancing, and a attendees through-out the weekend, ministry building simple, quality, sheepshead tournament. New activities

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include a Kinderzone, that offers games on Friday. Pommersche Tanzdeel, The Union, Delta Defense, Schrieber and crafts for children and families, Music Connection, Box on, and Gary’s Foods, Commerce State Bank, West yoga and beer hosted by Blue Luna Ridgeland Dutchman will be playing Bend Mutual Insurance, Beechwood Yoga, a Stein holding contest, raffles and on Saturday. The famous River City Beverage Distributor, and numerous more! There is something for everyone Blaskapelle, Box On, and Steve Meisner other individuals and organizations in the family to enjoy at West Bend will perform on Sunday. that give their time, talents, goods, and GERMANfest! West Bend GERMANfest would donations to allow for families in our Musical acts for 2018 include, like to thank our sponsors: First Weber community an opportunity at safe, Chasin’ Mason & The Cheap Shots - West Bend, First Weber Foundation, affordable housing. O&A Thursday Night. The Cedar Singers, Thrivent Financial-Andrew Find more information at: www.westbend germanfest.com Carol & The Keynotes, Barefoot Becky, Mortenson, Modern Woodman Julie Lee, and Good Time Dutchman Financial, West Bend Educators Credit

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Kathleen Madigan Just ‘noodling’ around

By Peter Lindblad Madigan. “Who knew Germans could to type out your whole hour word for be that much fun? You guys must have word, and then they’d submit it to the Wisconsin is a state that just gets been the fun Germans who left before legal department,” said Madigan. “I’m Kathleen Madigan, as both a bawdy, things got weird. Yeah, I mean it’s very not even sure that the kids at Netflix wisecracking comic and a human Midwest-y to me. I mean, we’re doing have ever watched my special, and being with certain needs and desires. lake vacations and hunting and fishing I’m fine with that. They don’t need That whole thing about “everything and all that kind of stuff that people to watch it. They’re just like, ‘Okay in moderation” goes right out the on the coast would think, do people grandma, send us your movie and then window when she’s there, however. still do that? Yes, they do … every we’ll post it.’ And I’m like, ‘Great. This “It’s one of my favorite states, just weekend.” is wonderful.’ They never call. There’s an all-around, five-star state,” said Beloved for her down-to-earth, a lot of trust involved. It’s like look, Madigan. “I filmed a special there and sassy persona and sharp wit, the ‘You just trust me. This special will Lewis Black came up for the week just critically acclaimed Madigan has be funny.’ And they say, ‘Okay, great. to have fun and then he opened the appeared on “The Tonight Show” 25 Don’t call us either. You just trust us, shows up, and we said by the end of the times. She’s also been a regular on we’ll just post it.’ ‘Okay, great.’” week that we should go to a hospital for “Conan” and “Letterman,” having also And Madigan is absolutely IVs … it’s just right up my alley, beer joined Jerry Seinfeld on his Netflix hilarious, whether she’s regaling and brats and all the bad things that I show “Comedians in Cars Getting audiences with observations and like.” Coffee.” Madigan’s most recent stand- stories from her Catholic upbringing A native of St. Louis, who wrote up special “Bothering Jesus” is her fifth or talking about “noodling” – a and produced for Black’s TV show overall, and her third for Netflix, where practice in Missouri and other “Root of All Evil,” Madigan feels right she seems to have found a home. Southern states where people try to at home in the Badger state among “I hope so, because I love them,” catch catfish with their bare hands, what she calls “my tribe.” She revisits said Madigan. “They’re millennials, sometimes sticking them into holes Wisconsin in September, when she and I finally found a group I should without knowing what is in them. performs at Madison’s Barrymore have been born with, because they’re “You can start doing the videos Theatre Sept. 20, the Pabst Theater smaller, but they don’t like to work and go down the YouTube wormhole in Milwaukee a day later and the Fox too hard and neither do I. They’re a of noodling videos,” said Madigan. Cities Performing Arts Center in lot more like, ‘Don’t worry about it’ “It’s endless – the dark web of fishing Appleton Sept. 22. than the networks, who are always so (laughs).” Madigan may need paramedics on uptight.” Madigan finds she cannot look scene to get through what promises to Madigan appreciates Netflix’s away. And yet, at the same time, she’s be a wild three-day adventure. hands-off approach. scared by what she sees. “I think you guys are a little “Even if it was HBO or Showtime “‘To me, the most horrifying thing more heavy German up there,” said or Comedy Central, like you’d have – and I don’t even talk about it in my

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act – but the most horrifying part of I’ll always do it, if they scream it out.” Catholic school and I went to a public it is that’s also where cottonmouths A product of Catholic school and school, and I’m like, ‘Wow! This is make their nests and breed, so the church, Madigan draws a lot of kind of a free-for-all,’” said Madigan. you’re scooting along right next to material from that experience. It’s “Like nobody really knows who I am cottonmouths,” said Madigan. “That something that’ll always be a part of or cares.” would terrify me a lot more than a her. The structure and discipline of giant catfish.” “Like the first thing I thought of Catholic school was gone. The fans eat it up. They love that when they said that they might arm “They tell you that God can be part of the act … almost too much. teachers with guns, I thought, ‘Oh everywhere so even if your parents “Like I hardly ever get heckled, per my God, that’s the last thing the nuns weren’t around, you were still behaving se, but if I don’t do that noodling joke needed is ammo,’” said Madigan. “It because the invisible person can see … it’s the only joke that when I say, just immediately goes to the head, you you,” said Madigan, with a laugh. “It’s ‘Okay, I’m getting ready to get out of know (laughs). And then my brothers this constant barrage of, ‘Behave!’” here,’ if I haven’t done it, people will and sisters all have kids and they’re Madigan finds the differences yell it out,” said Madigan. “It’s very all in Catholic schools, so even stuff I between Catholicism and Evangelical strange. I’ve never had that. Like Ron forgot about comes back up through Christianity fascinating, describing White, ‘cause he has that whole thing them.” the Catholic church as “… a well- about, ‘They call me Tater Salad,’ about After moving from St. Louis with oiled corporation that has a structure being arrested and all that stuff … her family to the Ozarks, Madigan’s and a hierarchy and a job. That’s the if he doesn’t do that, people will lose childhood changed. She started way it was presented, like a company their minds. But I’ve never had a thing going to public school. It was a whole almost. Like, if you have a problem, where people were like, ‘Oh no, lady. different world. you go to human resources. You don’t You’re not leaving without doing this “When we moved from St. Louis just go bust into the CEO’s office and thing.’ (laughs) And it’s very flattering. down to the Ozarks, and there wasn’t a say that somebody ate your lunch out

10 www.DoWhatYouLikeToDo.com Kathleen Madigan of the refrigerator.” the size of a shoebox that we have to go “Who knew Germans Unafraid to tackle sensitive and find?” asked Madigan. “You know, subjects, Madigan is completely everybody’s obsessed with where did could be that much fun? candid when addressing the 2014 Amelia Earhart go and that’s just one racial unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, lady. This is 229 or 238 people and the You guys must have been in her act. To Madigan, it didn’t come crew.” the fun Germans ... as a surprise, and she doesn’t find it Madigan’s dad was a lawyer. difficult to talk about. That’s because Naturally, she thinks about the doing lake vacations she’s from there, and she knows litigation and settlements stemming Ferguson’s troubled history. from the incident. and hunting and fishing “It was on the news every night for a “So, I’m always thinking of these summer,” said Madigan. “And literally, things,” said Madigan. “Like, ‘Don’t and all that kind of stuff we could have told you that was going take their first offer! You just got that people on the coast to happen. Seriously, I can’t believe it bought out.’ But it’s like, what is a took that long. The thing just burst.” human life worth? I don’t know, but would think, do people Perhaps nothing has captured probably not their first offer. Once you her imagination more than the accept it, there’s no going back from still do that? disappearance of Malaysia Airlines before.” Flight 370, which also took place in Within her family, Madigan Yes, they do 2014. Madigan’s obsession with the explains that her role is that of “the story has crept into her act, and for fun aunt” in dealing with her siblings’ … every weekend.” good reason. children and getting into “I think that’s the biggest mystery mischief. that probably will happen in my “I’m what you hope to lifetime,” said Madigan. “I mean, we grow up to be – fun, finally lost an airplane? That’s an acceptable have some money, time,” said statement in 1492 regarding a boat, Madigan, who explains that but in 2014 … you know, all the people her sisters are fine with it. who have a fear of flying, and God “Somebody’s got to be the knows, there’s a lot of them because good-time Charlie. They there are millions of tapes about how can’t be, because they’re to get over your fear of flying and their actual parents.” DVDs and meditation videos. I’m sure Never one to take it never occurred to them that you herself very seriously, better be afraid of going missing. Never Madigan is refreshingly occurred to them. There’s a whole blasé about how her other thing you can think about now. career in comedy started Like people get on a flight and say, ‘Oh and how her popularity my God, what if we crash? What if we has grown. It all began go into the water? What if we crash on with an open mic land? What’s better? What if an engine night. goes out?’ There are all these what-ifs, “I was working but nobody went, ‘You know, what if in a restaurant, and we just never come back?’” we couldn’t drink Random thoughts like that still at our restaurant, occur to Madigan. so we’d go over to “Why isn’t the whole plane a black the comedy club box? Why is it a box on the plane that’s just to have a beer

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after work,” said Madigan. “And then “We always joke, too, like things will decide, ‘Can I write in the way they think there was a bartender named Mike and go sideways in a show,” said Madigan. and their cadence or not?’ Because for me and somebody said, ‘You guys are “Like sometimes Ron will have super some people I just wouldn’t be able to do funny. You should do that.’ On open drunk people that end up getting that, but for those two, it’s pretty easy.” mic night, you’re used to seeing a lot themselves kicked out or fighting with Revisiting the Pabst Theater, where of unfunny people, so you go, ‘Yeah I one another. I always say, ‘Well, your fans “Bothering Jesus” was filmed, will also could probably do that.’ I don’t see any reflect your act, Ron. What do you think be a gas for Madigan. She loves the difference between that and bartending about that?’ (laughs) Or sometimes we’ll place and those likely to attend her really. You’re still standing there talking have really angry people that’ll scream shows are her kind of people. to strangers. It’s the same thing.” out political stuff at Lewis Black, and “That’s one of the coolest old Madigan kept at it, honing her I’m like, ‘Well, fans reflect your act, Lew. theaters, too,” said Madigan. “Because craft. It was sort of like going to boot You got them all fired up.’ There you go. people probably don’t pay attention, camp for comedians. There’s your reward for that.” because when they go in, the lights are “Yeah, I mean you have to go do Writing for both White and Black, dark, but when people are coming in, that a lot, that’s for sure, before you can as she’s done in the career, comes easy it’s semi-dark at least. But, the seats actually get paid when you figure out to Madigan. up in the balcony, say Pabst in gold what you’re doing,” said Madigan. “Oh, it’s fine. It’s easy, because I can in the back of the original seats, so Along the way, Madigan found completely hear [Black’s] voice in my it’s pretty cool to see beer enshrined out her audiences were a lot like her – head,” said Madigan. “He’s just well- in gold. So, I’ve definitely found my laidback, unpretentious and not given defined. Ron, too, for that matter. So, if people (laughs) … wrong beer, but to fits of rage. somebody’s well-defined, then you can nonetheless, pretty cool.” O&A

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Ishnala Supper Club An evening in supper club heaven.

When you think of the Wisconsin layered cliffs. glamour and attract attention. Dells, two ideas come to mind. While the ideas are quite There is at least one outlier, One, is a touristy summertime different, one most certainly however. A holdout from long ago destination swarming with far too stems from the other. People that, instead of trying to stand out many people with excited children, are drawn to these breathtaking from its natural surroundings, all clamoring to visit the multitude views, so entrepreneurs decided actually blends in and tries not to of resorts, water parks, gift shops, to capitalize on it and built the detract from the landscape. The and mini-golf courses. The other infrastructure to do so. Many of building itself is so stubbornly is the original tourist destination, these resorts and waterparks are engrained with nature that it has the actual dells themselves: scenic exactly what you’d expect - huge, allowed trees to actually grow waters surrounded by beautiful, modern, and brightly colored to through it. Even the name of this

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sanctuary evokes a feeling of peace and the significance of nature. activity before (or after) you and tranquility: Ishnala. There are even teepees located indulge in cocktails and dinner. The word “Ishnala” is a throughout the property. The main sidewalk leading to Winnebago Native American After driving up the winding the building is stone, another nod word that translates to “by itself road through a dense forest, you to the natural surroundings. It alone,” which you’ll understand arrive in a large parking lot. The is flanked by colorful lights and once you’re there. The supper lot itself is segmented into several tiki torches, providing an idyllic club is located off of Ishnala Road sections, giving the impression summer vibe. inside Mirror Lake State Park in that it was built in the natural At the beginning of this walk Lake Delton. You can’t miss the space of a clearing rather than in a is a small building that resembles entrance, which is marked by a manmade bulldozed space carved a log cabin. This is the gift shop, large, carved wood sign. in the woods. where you can purchase Ishnala Once you make the turn onto As you walk up the path apparel, glasses (everything from the driveway, there is a more towards the restaurant, you pass shot to beer), salt and pepper rustic ISHNALA sign suspended by a dirt path with a sign marked grinders, and other novelties. between two totem poles. The “beach.” There are actually several There is also a patio area off to Native American elements add hiking trails here, offering a bit one side with classic 1960s chairs to the historic feel of this place of entertainment and physical and tables. The whole area is

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landscaped nicely with ferns growing among woodchip flowerbeds. Once you reach the main building, you’ll notice that it is a few steps below the level of the parking lot and sidewalk, because Ishnala is built into the side of a steep hill overlooking Mirror Lake. The building itself is comprised of logs stained a dark brown with matching brown roof and trim. The overall effect is that the building is barely noticeable through the surrounding trees. Once you step inside, the scene becomes complete. Like the exterior, the interior appears to be comprised of virtually all natural elements. Flagstone flooring, rustic log walls, and the original fireplace dating back to the 1800s are just a few of the details that make this place truly unique. Ishnala does not accept reservations and, as we’ve learned, waiting can be part of the supper club experience. This place is incredibly popular and seating is somewhat limited, so either come very early (they open at 4:00 PM on weekdays and 2:30 bar/3:30 seating on weekends) or be prepared to spend some quality time with your dining companions. When you check in at the host station, you’ll receive a remote buzzer that will notify you when your table is ready. While you wait, grab a cocktail and check out your surroundings. The bartenders are top-notch here; a combination of professional, friendly, and cheerful, and very good at making drinks. The cocktails are incredible. The old fashioneds may have even overtaken the top position on my list of the best (but further testing is required to be certain, of course). The Bloody Mary served at Ishnala is also tasty, and visually impressive as well. The skewer of pickles, olives, pepperoni, and cheese cubes is topped with a large shrimp,

16 www.DoWhatYouLikeToDo.com Supper Clubs How Ishnala and these snacks span the actually be a little disappointed came to be... length of the glass. If you’re when the buzzer goes off. A history, dating back to 1826, overly famished and can’t wait That disappointment won’t from the supper club’s website. to eat for fear that you might last long, however. Once the In the language of the Winnebago Indian, expire, order up a bloody for hostess takes you to your table, Ishnala means “by itself alone,” symbolized by emergency rations. you can resume gazing out at the point of rock extending into the peaceful All of the drinks, and the spectacular view. Plus, now water of Mirror Lake. Long before the arrival even the coffee, are served in you can prepare for the next of the first settlers, Ishnala was a ceremonial different custom glasses with breathtaking part of the Ishnala ground for the Winnebago Indians. the Ishnala logo printed on the experience: the food. Pioneer settlers purchased Ishnala from the side. The old fashioned glasses Ishnala offers most of Winnebago tribe in 1826, and a log cabin are even specific to the drink, the usual supper club fare, trading post was constructed. In 1909, the stating “Ishnala Old Fashioned,” including cheese curds for an Coleman family purchased the cabin and in case you happen to forget appetizer, prime rib and various built their dream home. The original stone what you’re drinking (which can other steaks, as well as shrimp, fireplace, log walls and staircase still remain happen after a few). lobster, and fish. They also as part of the restaurant’s architecture. In Once you have your cocktail, offer combinations of steak and 1953, the Hoffman Brothers purchased the take a look around. The seafood, so you can get your fix land and built Ishnala as it is today. entire side of the restaurant no matter what. The Hoffman Brothers took great care in facing the lake is covered in From personal experience, I building their restaurant into nature and not large windows, angled out to can tell you that the prime rib over it. The dining room floor is composed of provide spectacular views. The is classic supper club melt-in- seventy-six tons of flagstone from a nearby bar actually juts out from the your-mouth good, and the huge quarry. Every seat at Ishnala provides a restaurant and is surrounded butterflied shrimp do not fail to breathtaking view of beautiful Mirror Lake on three sides by these same impress. and its surrounding bluffs. large windows. This provides an I know we always talk about unspoiled view of the beautiful desserts, but this is another Mirror Lake from virtually area in which Ishnala does not anywhere in the supper club. disappoint. Their offerings are There are also two outdoor rich, but not overwhelming. A decks along the side of the piece of cake is large enough supper club facing the lake. to share between three people These areas are a level below - but small enough to savor for the main restaurant, and yourself without feeling like you are separated by their own just consumed a mountain. bar which is located directly Naturally, after-dinner beneath the main bar. The views drinks are available at the bar, and atmospheres from these and while I can’t speak from decks are incredible, and they experience, I would imagine make for an amazing place to you can’t go wrong with any of pass the time. In fact, you may them.

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Once you’ve paid your bill and club experience straight out of certainly the most unique supper made your way outside, you can the 1950s or ‘60s; the feeling of club I’ve been to, and I daresay the visit the gift shop, or stop and relax hanging out with your friends on most perfect one I’ve experienced. on the patio to enjoy the warm a warm summer night. Do yourself a favor and experience evening air, surrounded by that If you get the chance - whether supper club heaven. cozy atmosphere Ishnala creates. you’re in the Wisconsin Dells for a If you haven’t already, don’t The whole place evokes a family vacation, camping nearby, forget to join our Supper Club combination of feelings. The or you live in the area, add Ishnala VIP group; you’ll be entered in feeling of being in nature, like to your list. Even if you have our monthly drawing for a $50 when you’re camping and relaxing to drive an hour or more to get gift card to an area supper club, around the campfire; the feeling there, I can say that it is, without and there will be more Supper of nostalgia and having a supper a doubt, worth the trip. It is Club fun to come! O&A

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Interview with Robert J. Prosser, who has owned Ishnala for 26 years. Three cool O&AW: How did you come to O&AW: Do you run any dinner specials? features: own Ishnala? RP: Our daily feature is a 24 oz. ribeye RP: I worked for the Hoffman with twin lobster tails. 1. Spectacular views brothers, who bought Ishnala in 1953. from every seat in I started as a busboy at the Wausau, O&AW: What do patrons comment on most the house Wisconsin, Hoffman house in 1973. about the restaurant, besides the food? 2. The restaurant is RP: I worked at eight Hoffman houses The gorgeous view overlooking truly “one with nature” in the Midwest and was able to buy mirror lake, and the fact that the Ishnala and the Hoffman house in service is top notch. 3. A history dating Rockford, Illinois. back to 1826 O&AW: Any interesting stories readers O&AW: Everyone has a different definition would like to hear? of a supper club. What is yours? RP: The movie Public Enemies was shot RP: Supper club basically means on location at Ishnala. The restaurant [the restaurant is] open for supper was also featured on the cover of only, and serves a cheese spread, old Wisconsin Supper Clubs book [by Ron fashioneds, steaks, and prime rib. Faiola] , and we were voted the number one supper club on Travel Wisconsin. O&AW: What are your more popular menu items? O&AW: Any final thoughts to add? RP: Our most popular item is a RP: The Prosser family is very 7 oz filet. appreciative and honored to carry on a great tradition for 65 years.

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Live Music Weekly George Thorogood

George Thorogood & The Destroyers Still bad to the bone

By Peter Lindblad uptight or afraid of anything, and Don’t disturb him.’” I felt very calm and at peace, not On Aug. 2, George Thorogood At the tender age of 15, George just because I was in my parents’ and the Destroyers will bring their Thorogood had his first paying gig, house or that it was my sister’s raucous rock ‘n roll circus to the as he was rewarded the princely sum party, but it was what I was doing,” Oshkosh Waterfest Concert Series of $20. He didn’t have any butterflies said Thorogood. at Leach Amphitheater, having in his stomach. In fact, he wasn’t Dreaming big, Thorogood already played Summerfest in nervous at all. wanted something similar to Milwaukee in June. He’s come Of course, the blues-rock icon the first-class accommodations a long way since that initial wasn’t playing Madison Square provided to rock stars. He took performance, which he admits Garden or opening for The Rolling matters into his own hands. wasn’t exactly the stuff of legend. Stones – something Thorogood “I even had my bedroom “What I remember was, I wasn’t and his band, the Destroyers, designed like a dressing room,” that good at it,” said Thorogood. would experience in 1981. It was said Thorogood, with a laugh. “I “I couldn’t play guitar yet, and I his twin sister’s birthday party, but mean, I locked the door. I put a wasn’t much of a singer, but my the circumstances hardly mattered sign ‘Do not disturb artists’ … attitude was there … and a couple to Thorogood. like my sister’s room is right next of days later, my parents were “It was the first time in my life door. ‘Oh, don’t go in there. Elvis talking like they knew. Because where I was probably ever not Presley’s in there with his band. they were there. They saw me do it.

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They knew what I was going to end up doing for a living, and so did I; it was a forgone conclusion in our household after that, and it would have happened to me anywhere. It just happened to be in my house at my sister’s [party].” Wisconsin has always been good to the band, according to the affable Thorogood. Although he played some sketchy places in the early days, none of them were in Wisconsin, he said. When asked for his favorite memories of shows in the state, he couldn’t pick just one. Thorogood has loved them all, even though he and his band are banned in Madison. It seems they were a bad influence on the wild crowds that pillaged and plundered the city’s infamous Halloween celebrations back in the day. “We played there on a Halloween a couple of times … you know Madison on Halloween got on ‘60 Minutes’ as the most outrageous Halloween party – more than New Orleans, more than New York City, more than San Francisco,” said Thorogood. “It’s a phenomenon. So, the founding fathers and the people who work for the city commerce and all that came through and said, ‘Look, we like George’s band, but they’re not playing in this town anymore.’ And we said, ‘Why?’ And they said, ‘That’s like throwing kerosene on a bonfire.’ As much as we love Madison, they said, “Nope, not you guys.” (laughs) Known for blowing the roof off of just about every joint they’ve ever played, George Thorogood and The Destroyers have carved out their own special place in rock history, putting out 16 revered studio albums, including six that went Gold and two Platinum records for labels such as Rounder Records, EMI and Capitol. Rugged, gritty smash hits such as “Who Do You Love,” “I Drink Alone,” “One

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Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer” Experience. They had just released school, and you’re playing at a and “Move it on Over” – along their second record. That was pool party or somebody’s party or with the ubiquitous, powerhouse something. I was ruined after that. a high school dance, or something anthem “Bad to the Bone” – have Forget it. Forget about anything like that, your attitude is much become staples on classic-rock else but to do this for a living.” different,” explained Thorogood. radio, all of them featuring Next came Cream with Eric “I woke up in the morning when Thorogood’s nasty guitar licks. Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger I’d do those gigs and to me I was Being lumped in with some of Baker. Two weeks later, he saw the on ‘The Ed Sullivan Show’ and I the greats continues to amaze Mothers of Invention. Soon, he was Mick Jagger, Brian Jones and Thorogood. would also see The Doors. Keith Richards all rolled into one. “I’m going over to the gym one “And all these people, most So, when you’re doing it at that day and I turn on the radio and I of them were just starting out time, the thrill just outweighs hear ‘One Bourbon, One Scotch and they weren’t as established,” anything else. Then, when I got and One Beer’ on a classic-rock said Thorogood. “So, they were started later seriously with a band radio station,” said Thorogood. “So, [playing] small venues, the price where I played guitar and put I figure, okay … I’ll stop and listen wasn’t that heavy, and we’d sit out a record, there were a lot of to the rest of the song and I wanted right up in the front. Some of terrible places that I’d rather not to listen to what the DJ had to say these people walked through mention. You wouldn’t believe me after the song. Take a guess what the door and we got as close as anyway if I told you!” this cat said. He says, ‘Well, that was possible. I saw Jeff Beck play in The money wasn’t good a block of Clapton, Thorogood and Philadelphia and Rod Stewart was either. And record labels weren’t Hendrix,’ and I was like, ‘What?! playing rhythm guitar on ‘Beck’s interested in them. Shopping What did he just say?!’ (laughs) Bolero’ … and I was right there around for a record deal, the band So, I started thinking, ‘You better in the front row. Between ’67 and eventually caught the attention of start taking your job a little more ’69, I got to see The Who twice. Rounder Records, more known seriously, pal.’” Twice!” for documenting field recordings Having turned 68 this year, Then, Thorogood took in as at the time. Thorogood had called Thorogood has long taken a many shows of the blues masters as them over and over again, before business-like approach to his he could, the first being B.B. King. finally breaking through. profession, while having a whole Taking cues from such blues “It was almost out of pity, lot of fun along the way. As a heroes as Elmore James and saying this poor guy … he needs youth born in Wilmington, Robert Johnson, Thorogood a record deal and he can’t get one, Delaware, he witnessed many started out as a solo acoustic he’s getting older,” said Thorogood. of the greats live and in concert, performer in his early 20s, “And they reluctantly shrugged although it was watching The before forming the Delaware their shoulders and said, ‘All right, Beatles on “The Ed Sullivan Destroyers with high school we’ll give this a try.’ The other Show” and The Rolling Stones friend and drummer Jeff Simon. thing about it was, they’re nice on “Shindig!” that set him on the Barnstorming their way through people. That helps. And they liked path to rock stardom. New England and the Delaware our dedication and what we were “The first act I saw … well, Valley in Simon’s van, the three- doing … they said, ‘Yes sir, we a national act I should say, was piece made a lot of noise, going know what you’re doing and what Chuck Berry of all people,” said to Boston and supporting such you want to do. We’re just not the Thorogood. “I started at the top musical giants as Muddy Waters right label for you.’ And I said, ‘But and I stayed there. And when I and Howlin’ Wolf. The venues there’s nobody else! You’re the only was still in school on a weeknight, weren’t always top-notch. ones who said maybe.’ (laughs) I got to see the Jimi Hendrix “When you’re doing it in high After our first record came out and

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they looked at the sales, they said, well with a band, but I had so easy thing to do for a four-piece ‘How about another record?’ That much [of] an investment in band that’s relatively unknown turned it around quick.” this thing,” said Thorogood. to those people. So, I was really Recorded in 1976, but released “And there was a bottom line up for the challenge so to speak. I in 1977, their debut George to it in that when we played enjoyed that.” Thorogood and the Destroyers clubs, people went crazy over Sharing stages with bands made a big splash, with hits us. The loved ‘One Bourbon, like Heart and the J. Geils Band like “Madison Blues” and “One One Scotch, One Beer.’ They sharpened their chops. These Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer.” started bringing tape recorders days, Thorogood and company Thorogood wasn’t especially and taping it … people were are still flying the flag for happy with it, however. always coming up to the band straightforward, no-holds-barred “I was very disappointed in and saying, ‘When are you rock ‘n roll, with a lineup of that first record. First of all, it was going to put out a record? How Thorogood, Simon, bassist Bill long overdue, and we had been come you’re playing here? How Blough, rhythm guitarist Jim in the studio two, three times come you don’t have any records Suhler and saxophone player recording a lot of that material, out?’ And I was like, ‘Good Buddy Leach. and the guy who claimed to be question. Are you the president However, Thorogood did make the producer really didn’t know of a record label? Are you the his one and only solo record in what we were about or what to president of Capricorn? Is your 2017, a highly acclaimed acoustic- do with us,” said Thorogood. name Clive Davis?’” based LP called Party of One. It “So, the songs were good. The Momentous occasions such as was an experience he doesn’t want performances were fair, and the a rollicking “Saturday Night Live” to repeat. production was not so good. performance, Live Aid, their 1981 “Making the record was very, And what everybody got so “50/50” tour that saw them play very hard for me,” said Thorogood. excited about, I felt very bitter, all 50 states in 50 days and that ’81 “No drum, no bass, no overdubs … disappointed. I said, ‘No, this tour with the Stones would give I got about halfway through and I should have been done two years them a massive following. said, ‘This is impossible. Taj Mahal ago.’ It’s way overdue.” “One of the Rolling Stones can have this.’ He’s more equipped Reading about other acts came out to see us play our for it than I am. So, it was just a like Tom Petty, The Cars, John set every day we played,” said grind to find the right material, Cougar Mellencamp and Bruce Thorogood. “And if that’s not let alone to be able to execute that Springsteen in magazines such as a compliment, nothing is. And material. It took me a couple of Rolling Stone didn’t help. then people like Bill Wyman and years to get it done – you know, “It went on for a while, and it Ronnie Wood would say, ‘George, pieces here and there. I had to do it was starting to get to me,” said we dig you. You’re bad.’ ‘Okay, around touring, and other things Thorogood. “You did not want I’m bad. Okay, I got to write that that I was involved in. So, there to hang around with me in those down.’ So, if there was anything will be no Party of Two.” days. I was not pleasant company, I got it was that I got massive Getting on the road and believe me. I did not want to hang encouragement from those cranking out hard-nosed, electrified out with me.” people.” blues-rock is more his speed. The world would come to They also knew they had to come “Once I got done with that appreciate Thorogood’s music, but out and win those crowds over. acoustic guitar, I picked up the it took time and perseverance. “Of course, we had to knock electric and I said, ‘C’mon boys, “There were moments when those audiences out,” said let’s boogie,’” said Thorogood. I just thought maybe I should Thorogood. “There were about They don’t plan on stopping play solo and I’m not doing so 80,000 people out there. It’s not an anytime soon. O&A

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You don’t have to be a geologist to forth (some of the most fun as well). there is a lot for you to like in Wisconsin. recognize or appreciate the result Bordered on three sides by two Great We will explore 7 unique aqua- of centuries of glacial effects. As Lakes and the Mississippi River, and inspired opportunities available to all so Wisconsinites we are fortunate to live in an peppered with more than 15,000 inland pick your favorites or make it a checklist, area with some of the most beautiful and lakes; Wisconsin and water seem to be just be sure to get out an explore the interesting creations ice and water ever put synonymous. So if you are a fan of H2O fluid facet of Wisconsin. O&A

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1. The Apostle Islands

The Apostle Islands in far northern via the Madeline Island Ferry line. comfort of a larger vessel. Sheltered Wisconsin are known for their wild The ferry carries visitors and vehicles from the wind and weather of the big beauty. A twenty-two island archipelago, back and forth on regular intervals lake, the channels between the islands the islands extend north from the Bayfield throughout the day during the months are perfect for sailing and boating, peninsula into the pristine waters of when the channel between Madeline and a host of local marinas offer easy Lake Superior. The iconic red sandstone Island and Bayfield is not completely access to the big lake. shoreline has been shaped by ice, wind, blocked by ice. The Apostle Islands have long and waves, leaving behind stunning sea Many visitors to the area explore been home to a thriving fishery. stacks, caves, and fine sand beaches that more of the islands by boat as well. Commercial fisherman, sustainably continually draw visitors from across the The Apostle Islands have long been a harvesting whitefish, trout, and several country and around the world. favorite destination of sea kayakers, other species, fish year-round and sell All but one of the islands, as well and many local guiding services offer their catch from shops in Bayfield and as a 12 mile stretch of the mainland tours of the islands and mainland other small towns along the south shoreline, are contained within the sea caves ranging from a few hours shore of Lake Superior. Many local Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, in length to several days. During restaurants offer the same local fish on one of just 4 national park properties the summer season, Apostle Islands their menu as well. in the state. Madeline Island—the Cruises also runs several tours a day only island that is currently inhabited in the islands, giving visitors close For more information about Bayfield and and not contained within the park—is up views of sea caves, lighthouses, the Apostle Islands go to bayfield.org. accessible from Bayfield, Wisconsin shipwrecks, and more from the

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2. Door County

Named one of the top-ten vacation coast and combines natural beauty active or just enjoy the sights. Choose destinations in North America by and outdoor recreation with acclaimed from sailing, golfing, fishing, biking, Money magazine, Door County offers performing arts, renowned galleries swimming, camping, hiking, horseback visitors scenic seaside experiences in and shops, scrumptious local cuisine riding, parasailing, sea kayaking, climb the heart of the Midwest. Each of the and pampering accommodations. to the top of a lighthouse and snorkel 19 communities located across the With 300 miles of shoreline or SCUBA dive among 19th century peninsula offer a number of lodging, and plenty of green space, outdoor shipwrecks. restaurants, and activities that make recreation opportunities abound Painters, potters and performers visitors come back year after year. in Door County on both land and abound in the peninsula’s quaint Surrounded by water, this bucolic sea. Five state parks, eleven historic waterfront villages and on Washington 70-mile long peninsula juts into Lake lighthouses and more than 50 beaches Island. Door County is well known for Michigan along Wisconsin’s eastern and parks provide the option to be its nearly 100 galleries, museums and

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performing arts troupes and venues. Sample a number of culinary delights and wineries located throughout Door County. The Door County Wine Trail boasts 8 wineries each offering several award-winning wines. No visit to Door County would be complete without sampling a traditional Door County Fish Boil. This Scandinavian tradition dates back to the county’s lumbering and fishing heydays and mixes locally caught whitefish steaks, onions and potatoes in a large kettle. The meal is cooked outdoors over an open wood fire and is highlighted by a fiery “boil over” which sends flames soaring into the air and signals that dinner is ready. Save room for cherry pie and all the cherry goodies found throughout the peninsula. Ranked the fourth largest producer of cherries in the country there is no shortage of cherry products from donuts, jam, cheese, and anything in between! Be sure to enjoy the tranquility offered by less energetic pursuits. Stroll along miles of scenic shoreline. Pick a pail of delicious cherries in July or a basket of crunchy apples in September. Or take in one of the colorful weekend festivals that are held in the peninsula’s quaint waterfront villages and on Washington Island throughout the year. Leave the stress behind and relax in the simple tranquility that Door County offers. A great weekend getaway or a perfect week long stay. Whatever the season, Door County has a number of activities for all.

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3. Great River Road

By ANASTASIA PENCHI (Courtesy of La Crosse County Convention and Visitors Bureau) There are many sites you shouldn’t miss in Western Wisconsin. We have tree-filled coulees and deeply-carved, lush river valleys that are home to numerous types of birds and wildlife. We are home to artisans with the talent to create tasty varieties of craft beer and cheeses. We have a river system that is crucial to the commodities trade and was made famous by the works of Mark Twain. Plenty of these sites are along Wisconsin’s Great River Road, which is a 250-mile stretch of Highway 35 running adjacent to the Mississippi River from Kieler, Wis., in the south, to Prescott in northern Wisconsin. For a “Can’t Miss” experience, start your tour at one of these locations:

Beauty in God’s Country You don’t have to be Catholic to visit the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, but you can always convert if you want to. The Shrine started as a 70-acre donation from the Robert and Lucille Swing family of La Crosse and took $29 million to finish in 2008. It now encompasses about 100 acres and comes complete with a restaurant and gift shop. Those familiar with the loveliness of the hilly woodlands and meandering trout streams of La Crosse County can attest to the spiritual musings that come when you visit a place like this. And don’t worry about accessibility — they have a fleet of golf carts and will zip visitors around without delay. Go take the Rosary Walk and become inspired. Show how little or how much Spanish you retained in school by attending Spanish Mass at the Shrine Church. There is even a traditional Latin Mass for those who remember that era.

Drink local beer Potosi likes to call itself “Beer’s Hometown,” and who are we to say otherwise? Founded in 1852,

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the Potosi Brewing Company became the fifth largest brewery in Wisconsin, and eventually distributed beer across the nation. The brewery survived prohibition, but closed in 1972. A non-profit reopened it in 2008 after a $7.5 million restoration. Nowadays it’s also home to the National Brewery Museum, which is a spot worthy of a visit from Frank Fritz and Mike Wolfe from the “American Pickers” television show. Advertising signs, beer bottle collections and other brewery-related collectibles can be seen there. Who can complain about drinking beer when you are also supporting the local economy?

In Wisconsin, it’s all about the cheese Nelson Cheese Factory no longer makes its own cheese, but it did for more than 100 years. Now this business sells a variety of cheeses made in Wisconsin, as well as cheese that’s made in other parts of the world. Is fresh Mozzarella your weakness? Or maybe it’s Apple Smoked Cheddar? Perhaps you just want to sit outside in the sunshine while you drink some wine and snack on a cheese and sausage plate? It’s possible to go there just to take home some German style sausages and tapenade from the deli. And I’m sure the kids won’t mind eating ice cream while you order gift boxes for family members living down south. You know Wisconsin cheese is what they really want from Midwesterners during the holidays.

The Liquid Staircase Are you familiar with the way commodities are transported up and down the Mississippi River? Learn more about water navigation by watching towboats move giant barges filled with coal and other goods through Lock and Dam 6 near Trempealeau. This is one of 29 locks located on the Mississippi River between Minneapolis and St. Louis. The locks are a sort of staircase for boats that want to head north or south. As a double bonus for all you transportation geeks out there, there is also an adjacent railroad so you can watch transportation via rail at the same time. All aboard for a trip to Trempealeau!

For more information about Wisconsin’s Great River Road go to www.wigrr.com

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4. Horicon marsh Horicon Marsh is a 33,000 acre wetland located in Dodge County, WI. This wetland gem has been designated as a wetland of international importance and a globally important bird area. You will not find another treasure like this in the United States and it is right in your own backyard! The southern 1/3 of the marsh is a State Wildlife Area where you can hike, kayak, canoe, wildlife watch, hunt, trap, fish and more! The Horicon Marsh Education and Visitor Center located on Highway 28 between the cities of Horicon and Mayville is your gateway to 5 miles of hiking trails and a great adventure. Be sure to save time to visit the Explorium located at the education center for a unique opportunity to travel through time and immerse yourself into the new exhibits. Walk through a glacier, smell a wooly mammoth or take a ride on an airboat simulator! You can kayak or canoe the 6.5 mile water trail through the wildlife area. Enjoy a peaceful paddle through woodlands and wetlands. Listen to the serenade of marsh wrens, red-winged blackbirds and swamp sparrows. Experience the thrill of seeing a flock of majestic white pelicans lifting off the water and soaring above you! Visit www.horiconmarsh.org for more information. The northern 2/3 of the marsh is a National Wildlife Refuge. The refuge offers over 6 miles of designated hiking trails including a floating boardwalk, a visitor center with a nature play themed trail and a three mile paved auto tour. No boating is allowed on the refuge. Visit www.fws.gov/refuge/horicon/ for a full description of uses. Marsh Haven Nature Center is a volunteer and privately run nature center on the north end of the marsh off of Highway 49. View their exhibits or take in a program. Find out more at www.marshhaven.org. If you are looking for a way to get on the water you

Out and About WI JULY 2018 35 Horicon marsh Photo Credit Jack Bartholmai Water Destinations can rent canoes or kayaks at Horicon Marsh Boat Tours in Horicon, WI. They also offered guided pontoon boat rides May-October. Visit www. horiconmarsh.com for pricing and special tours. Over 300 species of birds have been seen throughout the years at Horicon Marsh. It is a bird watchers paradise with spring and fall migration encouraging people to flock to the marsh as well as birds. Come in May for the songbird migration and in the fall for the waterfowl migration. You will not be disappointed! Summer is a great opportunity to view the resident, nesting species of the marsh and watching for newly hatched young. In winter, search for otter slides and possible snowy owls! Horicon Marsh is not just for the birds; other watchable wildlife include muskrat, otter, fox, deer, frogs, painted and snapping turtles, garter snakes, damselflies, dragonflies and butterflies including the declining Monarch. In the fall, a variety of hunting opportunities exist. The state wildlife area is open to waterfowl, upland game and deer hunting. Horicon has a long tradition of hunting and trapping. Duck hunters come from near and far as they did back in the day to harvest the waterfowl migrating through the marsh. Plenty of upland opportunities exist as well for pheasant hunting and deer hunting. Horicon Marsh offers unique opportunities for everyone. The beauty of the marsh is that every time you visit, you will see something different. At over 50 square miles, there is no way to see and experience the entire marsh in one day. Come back! Revel in the vastness and the changing of the seasons. Listen to the morning songs of the warbler migration in spring, kayak in the summer for a chance to see the marsh from a different angle, find an overlook at sunset during the fall and marvel at the geese and cranes coming back into the marsh at night. In winter, absorb the peace and solitude of a snowshoe hike through a fresh snow. Any season, Horicon Marsh is a wetland that has something for you!

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5. Superior-Douglas County

Superior and Douglas County, located in Superior is a source of economic vitality, recreation, the northwestern corner of Wisconsin, is an and home to a wide variety of wildlife. area that is full of opportunities for outdoor The greatest of the Great Lakes, Lake recreation. Douglas County is home to two Superior is the world’s largest freshwater lake Wisconsin State Parks - Amnicon Falls State by surface area. Lake Superior is so vast that Park and Pattison State Park. Pattison State it contains 10 percent of all the Earth’s fresh Park is home to Big Manitou Falls, which at 165 surface water and as much water as all other feet is the highest waterfall in Wisconsin. The Great Lakes Combined. park encompasses more than 1,400 acres with However, Lake Superior is much more than trails such as the Beaver Slide Nature Trail, a a whole lot of water – it is a place to enjoy the two-mile trail through Pattison Park’s boreal outdoors. Enjoy swimming, boating, kayaking, forest. Amnicon Falls State Park features a fishing, and hiking from the 16 public beaches that series of delightful waterfalls and rapids along call Douglas County home. Enjoy scouring the the Amnicon River. You can view them from beaches for sea glass or watch migrating birds at a covered foot bridge or a quarter mile looping our historic Wisconsin Point, part of the world’s trail that gives you viewing access to the three largest freshwater sandbar. Experience a south main falls; Upper, Lower and Snake Pit. shore sunrise as you fish at the mouth of the mighty Brule River. Watch as thousand-foot iron-ore and Forests and Parks grain boats make their way to port in the Superior Our area offers countless outdoor Bay through the Superior Entryway. Come and see experiences with the Douglas County Forest the beauty, power and vastness of Lake Superior that (278,000 acres), the largest in Wisconsin. has inspired countless songwriters, poets, artists, Coupled with an additional 54,400 acres – writers and photographers. including the Superior Municipal Forest (4,400 acres), Brule River State Forest and Pattison Fishing and Amnicon Falls State Parks – visitors and Whether you enjoy fishing inland lakes for pan residents can explore and play in 330,000+ acres fish, fly fishing on a bubbling river, or chartering a of forests, rivers, lakes, and streams. With more deeper water fishing adventure on Lake Superior, than 30 beautiful city and county parks and Superior and surrounding Douglas County are an recreation areas, there are ample opportunities angler’s dream come true. The Douglas County to explore and enjoy the outdoors. Forest is home to more than 40 lakes and 150 miles of rivers and streams. Species range from warm Lake Superior water fish such as muskellunge to coldwater species When it comes to lakes, fewer freshwater lakes such as trout and salmon. The most commonly are as beautiful and moving as Lake Superior. As pursued fish in Douglas County include bluegills, one of Douglas County’s finest features, Lake crappies, perch, largemouth bass, smallmouth bass,

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Plan your trip: There are plenty of ways to experience Superior and Douglas County. From fishing, hunting, and hiking to ATVing and snowmobiling, there are year-round adventures waiting for all types of outdoor enthusiasts. The best place to start planning your Northwest Wisconsin adventure is to check out our website, TravelSuperior. Org or to contact us via phone or email! If you are interested in receiving a Superior- Douglas County Travel and Activities Guide, you may call (715)392-2773 or toll free (800) 942-5313. You may also email us at [email protected]. Little Manitou Falls, Pattison State Park. Courtesy of Travel Superior.

walleye, northern pike, muskellunge, brook something for everyone. Trips down highlight the area’s natural beauty. trout, and brown trout. the river can take anywhere from The City of the Superior features Douglas County is also home to the 46 minutes to more than four hours two paved hiking and biking trails Bois Brule River, a world-renowned depending on where you launch. The the Osaugie Trail which spans five trout stream. The Brule is often referred Brule River Canoe Rental in Brule, miles along the Superior Bay, and the to as the “River of Presidents” because Wis. offers canoe and kayak rentals, Millennium Trail a 1.6 mile out and back five United States Presidents have along with shuttle service. trail that meanders through the Superior visited and fished the river – Ulysses Have your own canoe, kayak or boat? Municipal Forest. The Municipal Forest S. Grant, Grover Cleveland, Calvin The City of Superior has four boat launch also features the Pokegama Trail, an Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, and Dwight facilities located along the Superior obstacle-ridden six mile mountain bike Eisenhower. The river is also a Mecca for Bay and St. Louis River. Take a paddle trail perfect for intermediate riders. anglers hoping to land steelhead trout, through Pokegama Bay, enjoy sports Douglas County is also home to over 40 Chinook Salmon, Coho Salmon, and boating along the Gordon Flowage, or miles of the North Country Scenic Trail, Brown Trout. Fly fishing is a popular take a trip up and down the St. Croix, a trail that stretches 4,600 miles from pastime, with many public-access areas and don’t forget your life jacket! North Dakota to New York and is the for parking along the Brule. largest hiking patch in the United States. Trails The trail passes in the footsteps of native Boating From paved beginner trails to people and fur traders as is crosses the Whether you’re looking for a single-track mountain bike trails historic Brule-St. Croix Portage. quite float down a river, or grave to beautiful footpath hiking trails, the excitement of kayaking through Superior-Douglas County has plenty For more information go to class II rapids, the Brule River offers more miles of trails to explore that www.superiorchamber.org

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6. The Milwaukee RiverWalk

Want a great, easy way to explore best restaurants, brewpubs, shops, development and several national the city on foot? The Milwaukee and nightlife. awards later, today’s RiverWalk RiverWalk winds through the heart In the early 1990s a dedicated winds more than 20 blocks from of the city, tying together three committee of downtown its’ northernmost to southernmost distinct riverfront neighborhoods — visionaries dreamed big. The newly points and is unified by permanent the Historic Third Ward, Downtown, formed Milwaukee RiverWalk and changing art exhibitions that and Beerline B – and bringing you District teamed up with the create a unique, urban, outdoor to the doorstep of some of the city’s City of Milwaukee, and years of gallery. A leisurely stroll provides

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plenty of opportunities to discover up Milwaukee souvenirs and any House, and Mader’s, where famous Milwaukee. type of food from tacos to seafood German dishes have satisfied hungry The RiverWalk is also home to Wisconsin cheese. Along the patrons for more than 100 years. to an outdoor art gallery called lakefront in the Third Ward sits the RiverSculpture! that includes both Henry W. Maier Festival Park, home Beerline B RiverWalk permanent pieces and temporary to Summerfest, the world’s largest The Beerline B section makes installations that change periodically. music festival, as well as many of up the northern most portion Ranging from small, whimsical Milwaukee’s ethnic festivals. of the RiverWalk. This area is a sculptures such as Gertie, the world’s former industrial corridor along the most celebrated duck, to sizable and Downtown RiverWalk Milwaukee River that was once part striking abstract works, there are Past and present artfully connect of a railroad route the Milwaukee currently 20 sculptures on display along the Downtown RiverWalk. Road utilized to serve the Schlitz, representing national, regional, and This section traverses Milwaukee’s Pabst, and Blatz breweries. This local artists. main thoroughfare, Wisconsin Avenue, and passes by its largest area has been redeveloped into a The Historic Third Ward RiverWalk theater district, which includes neighborhood of modern, riverside Milwaukee’s answer to “SoHo,” the Milwaukee Repertory Theater, condominiums in cutting-edge The Historic Third Ward has music venues Pabst and Riverside architectural designs, and is home become a hub for artistic activity Theatres, and the Marcus Center to the #4 best brewery tour in the and exhibition within Milwaukee for the Performing Arts, home to nation (according to TripAdvisor), and is currently home to more the Milwaukee Ballet, Milwaukee Lakefront Brewery, located along than 20 galleries and art studios, Symphony Orchestra, Florentine Commerce Street. the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Opera, and First Stage Children’s The Brewers Hill neighborhood is Design (MIAD), and the Broadway Theater. Warm summer evenings west of the Milwaukee River on a hill Theatre Center, which houses the bring locals and visitors alike to overlooking the Beerline area and renowned Skylight Opera Theatre, Pere Marquette Park to listen to downtown. Brewers Hill got its name Milwaukee Chamber Theatre and free weekly concerts as part of the from the beer barons who lived there Renaissance Theaterworks. The RiverRhythms series. during the height of Milwaukee’s Historic Third Ward’s quarterly Milwaukee’s German heritage beer industry boom. Today, you’ll Gallery Nights are a popular truly comes alive along Old World find a neighborhood of century-old showcase of local, regional, and Third Street, a three-block historic Victorian homes and the former national talent. landmark zone just north of Schlitz Brewery, now a converted This charming, turn-of-the- downtown. The city’s past is brought office park. Overlooking the river is century commerce and warehousing to life in the detailed facades of Kadish Park, which is transformed district is now filled with boutique the 19th-century European-style into an outdoor music venue every shopping, craft breweries, and buildings lining this cobblestone Tuesday in the summer for Skyline award-winning restaurants with street. Shopping at Wisconsin Music and also boasts one of the best beautiful riverside patios. You’ll also Cheese Mart, the legendary Usinger’s views of the city. find the Milwaukee Public Market, a Sausage, and The Spice House is a year-round, indoor market (named feast for all senses. And a visit would Information courtesy of one of the best in the nation by not be complete without a stop at www.visitmilwaukee.org/ Frommer’s) where you can pick the Old German Beer Hall, The Brat

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7. The DELLS JUST THE FACTS – A Little Bit on a Lot of Things that Define Wisconsin Dells

Location and Size Tourism Past • The Wisconsin Dells community is in the south • Local photographer H.H. Bennett, considered one of central part of the state of Wisconsin. the finest landscape photographers of the 19th century, • It is comprised of the City of Wisconsin Dells and the is credited with making Wisconsin Dells famous. He Village of Lake Delton. created hauntingly beautiful images of the Wisconsin • It is a little less than 20 square miles with just over Dells landscapes and waterscapes back in the late 5,500 permanent residents and hosts 4-5 million 1800s. Then he arranged to have his photographs visitors each year. displayed in train stations between Wisconsin Dells • Wisconsin Dells is approximately 55 miles from Dane and parts south to attract visitors to the area for County Regional Airport (MSN) in Madison, 116 rowboat and steamboat tours of the Wisconsin River miles from General Mitchell International (MKE) and a glimpse of the Cambrian-era sandstone bluffs. in Milwaukee, and 150 miles from Chicago’s O’Hare So you might say he was a savvy marketer as well. International Airport (ORD). There is also Amtrak • Those bluffs were carved by glacial meltwaters, the train and Greyhound bus service directly to Wisconsin sheer force of which cut the narrow gorges and Dells. Visitors driving to Wisconsin Dells can access the unusual rock formations in a matter of days. area from exits 85-92 on Interstate 90/94. • Bennett’s original studio, located in downtown

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Wisconsin Dells, is a state Waterpark Credentials racing speed slides, bowl drops, water historic site open to the public. • Today, the Dells is famously roller coasters, surf machines, massive It even has an exhibit devoted to referred to as “The Waterpark wave pools, lazy rivers and tot- his famous Stand Rock photo of Capital of the World!®” and for friendly spray pads - with 16+ million his son jumping from one bluff good reason. gallons of water at area waterparks. to another, with markers on the • It is here that the country’s floor to test your own leaping first indoor waterpark was Only in the Dells ability. introduced – that was in 1989 at • The world’s largest fleet of WWII the Polynesian Resort. It started land-to-water vehicles, known as Tourism Present with a sketch on a napkin after DUCKS (military shorthand), had • In 2017, the tourism economy local business partners attended their finest moment on D-Day, June produced a whopping $1.5 a waterpark convention in Texas. 4, 1944, when more than 2,000 of billion in visitor spending. No kidding – the blueprint these amphibious vehicles were • There are over 400 businesses for the first indoor waterpark put into service to deliver troops in the area, many of which was actually hand-drawn on a to the rough shores of Normandy, are owned by second, third, napkin. France. In 1946, a man by the name and even fourth generation • Today there are more waterparks of Melvin Flath brought the first Wisconsin Dells natives. here of every size per capita than DUCKs to Wisconsin Dells and set • There are more than 8,000 hotel anywhere else on the planet; up a tour company to take visitors on rooms and other lodging options here’s a sampling: scenic tours of the Wisconsin River campsites, more than anywhere • Wisconsin Dells is home to and Lake Delton. else in Wisconsin. the country’s largest outdoor • A MIR space station, a 43-foot- • The number of restaurants waterpark, Noah’s Ark long piece of Russian space in Wisconsin Dells now tops Waterpark, spanning 70 acres hardware, is on display at the 100, with options as diverse as with five million gallons of water Tommy Bartlett Exploratory – oysters on the half shell, deep and three miles of waterslides. Interactive Science Center. It dish Chicago-style pizza, famous • The Wilderness Hotel and Golf was acquired from a Moscow BBQ, mac and cheese creations, Resort’s indoor and outdoor museum in need of cash. It’s the dry-aged steaks, and, of course, waterpark space combined is only MIR exhibit in the world the traditional Wisconsin fish 500,000 square feet or equal to that you can step inside. fry. twelve football fields, making • The International Crane • There are some 90 attractions it the America’s largest indoor/ Foundation is the only place in that range from adventurous outdoor combo waterpark. the world where you can see all activities like zip lining, lazer • The Kalahari Waterpark Resort 15 species of cranes, including tag and go-karting to the more Convention Center is the largest the most endangered of all, the classic pursuits like scenic boat indoor waterpark in Wisconsin Whooping Crane. O&A tours, bowling and mini-golf, at 125,000 square feet. not to mention the waterparks. • All told, there are more than 200 For more information about waterslides – the variety includes WI Dells go to www.wisdells.com extreme plunge slides, tube rides,

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July 2018 events CALENDAR July 1 Kickbusch Plaza Sunday evenings in Woodsman, and Cowardly Lion to July and August. This series features embark on a quest to Emerald City. Party on the Porch a wide variety of jazz styles and On their way they must avoid the @ ICC with Pat & Patience musicians from across the state and Wicked Witch of the West, who Pat & Patience from Spicy Tie Band those who call central Wisconsin seeks to retrieve her dead sister’s play your favorites at The Indian home. 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm; magic ruby slippers from Dorothy’s Crossing Casino as part of our http://www.wausauriverdistrict.com feet. Throughout their quest various Sunday Party on the Porch Concert Pops Concert Featuring roadblocks test each character, but Series. 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm; Indian with love, courage, and intelligence Civic Symphony of Green Bay Crossing Casino - Waterfront they stand a good chance to make it Celebrate the 4th of July with the Restaurant & Ballroom, E1171 to Emerald City. The Palace Theater, Civic Symphony of Green Bay. Feel County Rd Q, Waupaca; 564 Wisconsin Dells Parkway South, free to bring in your own picnic. The http://www.indiancrossingcasino.com/ Wisconsin Dells; 608-253-4000; Garden will feature a cookout with Independence Day Festival http://www.dellspalace.com/ beverage stations. No alcohol carry- nowplaying/the-wizard-of-oz and Car Show ins allowed. Free/Lawn Seating; $10/ Food, crafts, petting zoo, horse rides, Cowles Terrace Seating; 6:00 pm July 3 blue grass music and fireworks! Free to 7:30 pm; Green Bay Botanical admission. Live music in the barn Garden, Green Bay; http://gbbg.org Live! Hydro Park Concert and tractor parade. All About You Series: Road Trip Downtown Entertainment: Karaoke. 715-675-1171; Join us for fun and great live music Wesley Williams http://www.willowspringsgarden.net/ at Live! From Hydro Park Summer Join us for a live musical Independence Day Festival Concert Series in Downtown performance by Wesley Williams! Kaukauna every Wednesday Night and Car Show Free; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm; Duchess Food, crafts, petting zoo, horse rides, this summer featuring some of the Plaza at the intersection of Broadway area's finest musicians. Concert is blue grass music and fireworks! Free and Oak, Wisconsin Dells; https:// admission. Live music in the barn FREE. 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm; Hydro www.wisdells.com/wisconsin-dells- Park, 100 Crooks Ave, Kaukauna; and tractor parade. All About You events-calendar/events_calendar.htm Karaoke. 10:00 am to 10:00 pm; 5480 https://www.facebook.com/ Hillcrest Dr, Wausau; 715-675-1171; July 1-31 events/1284850581597393/ http://www.willowspringsgarden.net/ independence_day.php The Wizard of OZ When a tornado hits Dorothy Gale’s Jazz on the River Kansas hometown she is transported River Valley Jazz Society will play to the enchanting land of Oz. She some smooth and spicy sounds to the teams up with the Scarecrow, Tin

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Appleton 4th of July July 3-4 PJ's Live: Bradley Sperger Celebration! Community Fest: Drums, bass, rhythm, and lead guitar—Bradley Sperger plays Celebrate Independence Day at Neenah/Menasha Memorial Park in Appleton! The them all. This singer-songwriter Independence Day Event celebration offers fun activities blends them, too, along with and music to entertain the whole Activities & Entertainment ALL his vocals, using live looping family before our amazing fireworks DAY LONG:Children's Events, Live techniques on his Boss RC-300 performance, put on by Festival Entertainment, Wisconsin Singers, loop station. 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm; Foods. The fireworks display Webfooters Water Ski Show, Neenah PJ's Restaurant, 601 N Michigan begins at approx 9:15 pm. Community Band, Venetian Parade, Avenue, Stevens Point; 715-345-1600 4:00 pm to 11:00 pm; Appleton Food & Beverages, and Festival ext. 2; https://www.facebook.com/ Memorial Park Gardens, 1313 E. Food's FIREWORKS at Dusk. July 3 events/376611946175805/ Noon to 11:00 pm and July 4 8:00 am Witzke Blvd., Appleton; Phelps 4th of July Celebration http://appletonjaycees.org/fireworks/ to 11:00 pm; Riverside Park, 500 E Wisconsin Avenue, Neenah; Includes Giant Firework Neenah Community Band http://www.nmcommunityfest.org/ The annual Phelps 4th of July Summer Concerts celebration will be taking place on Join us at beautiful riverside park July 4 Wednesday, July 4th starting at 3:00. For a full schedule of events, please for live music from the Neenah July 4th Parade Community Band. The Community visit www.PhelpsWI.us or call the Downtown Point will host the Band is under the direction of Marty Phelps Chamber office at annual Fourth of July Holiday O'Donnell. FREE Admission. 7:00 715-545-3800. Downtown Phelps, Parade at 11 a.m. on Wednesday pm to 9:00 pm; Riverside Park, 500 2288 State Trunk Hwy 17, Phelps; along Main Street in Stevens Wisconsin Ave, Neenah; https:// http://www.PhelpsWI.us Point. Free; 11:00 am to 12:00 pm; www.ci.neenah.wi.us/ Downtown Point, Stevens Point; Appleton City Band https://downtownstevenspoint.org/ Summer Concert events/july-4th-parade 7:00 pm; Pierce Park, 1035 W Prospect Ave, Appleton; https:// www.facebook.com/Appleton-City- Giant Band-187640211289597/ Phelps 4th Fireworks Monthly Nature Connects® Segway Tours of July Display Join Segway the Fox Tours as we cruise around our magnificent Celebration gardens, learning about the Garden history, notable plants, specialty Starting @ 3 pm gardens and view many of the Nature Connects sculptures. $55/Person; the musical talents of 10:00 am to 8:00 pm; Green Bay Botanical Garden, Green Bay; Scott Kirby @ 4 pm http://gbbg.org kids Pie Eating Contest @ 4:30 pm Downtown Entertainment: Jake O'McClusky Adult Pie Eating Contest @ 7:30 pm Join us for a live musical kids races @ 5:30 pm performance by Jake O'McClusky! Free; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm; Duchess Plaza at the intersection of Oak and Broadway, Wisconsin Dells; https:// www.wisdells.com/wisconsin-dells- For a full schedule of events, please visit www.PhelpsWI.us events-calendar/events_calendar.htm or call the Phelps Chamber office at 715-545-3800.

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July 4 Stevens Point Running of the Flag Stevens Point Running of the Flag is hosting 4th annual 5k Walk/Run Pet Friendly event on Wednesday, July 4th 2018. All proceeds raised during this event are donated to Portage County Veterans Relief Fund. Registration Fee: $25.00 on or before June 20th, $35.00 after June 20th; 7:00 am to 11:00 pm; Pfiffner Pioneer Park, Stevens Point; 715-498-8780; https://crowdspire.org/campaign/ stevens-point-running-of-the-flag- 4th-annual-5k-walkrun live music. Also a fabulous parade Fabulous 4th Levitt AMP - at 6pm and Fireworks at dusk. of July Celebration Elvis Thao and the Creatives Admission is free. Event will be held Family friendly activities beginning Join us at the Pfiffner Park Bandshell at River Park in Mosinee. at 4:00 pm, including food, inflatable to see folk rock group Elvis Thao and http://www.mosineechamber.org fun, and a children's entertainer. The Creatives! The evening's opening Fourth of July Fabulous fireworks display at 10:00 act is Carmen Lee & the Tomorrow Fireworks Paddle pm sponsored by Festival Foods. 4:00 River Two. Spoken word poet Will Enjoy one of the best firework shows pm; Marshfield Fairgrounds Park, Webb will perform between the acts. in the Fox River Valley like you have 513 E. 17th St., Marshfield; Free; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm; Pfiffner never seen before - from a seat in a http://visitmarshfield.com/events/ Pioneer Park, 1039B Ellis Street, kayak along the safe shore line of fabulous-4th-of-july-celebration/ Stevens Point; 715-254-0460; Jefferson Park! 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm; Downtown Entertainment: http://www.createportagecounty.org/ Fox River Kayaking Company, Rascal Theory calendar/elvisthaoandthecreatives 1 Center St, Menasha; Join us for a live performance Fourth of July Celebration http://foxriverkayakingcompany.com/ by Rascal Theory in Downtown Celebrate the 4th of July in Live! Hydro Park Concert Wisconsin Dells. Free; 5:00 pm to downtown Waupaca with a parade Series: Mistrial 7:00 pm; Duchess Plaza down Main Street starting at 10am Join us for fun and great live music at the intersection of Broadway and with floats, bands & candy. After at Live! From Hydro Park Summer Oak Street, Wisconsin Dells; https:// the parade in South Park – Chicken Concert Series in Downtown www.wisdells.com/wisconsin-dells- BBQ by the Waupaca Knights of Kaukauna every Wednesday Night events-calendar/events_calendar.htm Columbus in Waupaca’s South Park this summer featuring some of the 4th of July just a few blocks south of Downtown area's finest musicians. Concert Fireworks will be shot off at the Waupaca serving chicken, is FREE. 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm; Wisconsin Dells Municipal Pool hamburgers, hotdogs, and soda. The Hydro Park, 100 Crooks Ave, on July 4th. The Wisconsin Dells Popcorn Wagon will also be in the Kaukauna; https://www.facebook. Municipal Pool is located on park after the parade and during the com/pg/livefromhydropark/ Veterans Drive behind the post fireworks show serving soda, nachos, photos/?ref=page_internal office. The show starts at dusk, there popcorn and cotton candy. 10:00 am; will be refreshments on site and Waupaca; https://waupacamemories. Independence Day Free admission for military plenty of fun for the whole family! com/event/hometown-day- 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm; Wisconsin celebration-2/ personnel and veterans. 9:00 am to 6:00 pm; Green Bay Botanical Dells Municipal Pool, 510 Veterans 4th of July Festival, Parade, & Garden, Green Bay; http://gbbg.org Drive, Wisconsin Dells; https://www. Firework Show wisdells.com/Bureau-Calendar/4th- A family event with activities for the of-July.htm?Occurrence=2018-07- children, great food and beverages, 04T19:30:00

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July 5 Admission; 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm; Bret Michaels & Night Ranger Green Bay Botanical Garden, Green Here Come the Mummies Bret Michaels first rose to fame as the Bay; http://gbbg.org frontman of Poison. His current solo Here Come the Mummies is an tour, "Get Your Rock On" is selling eight-piece funk-rock band of 5000 Tim McGraw & Faith Hill out arenas across the country and his year-old Egyptian Mummies with Following an 80 date North forthcoming solo album of the same a one-track mind. Their "Terrifying American run of sold out shows, name will be released this summer. Funk from Beyond the Grave" is Grammy® Award winning superstars Night Ranger truly epitomizes the sure to get you into them (and Tim McGraw & Faith Hill are sound of the 80's, while at the same possibly vice versa). 7:00 pm; Indian showing no signs of stopping as their time transcending it. 6:00 pm; Crossing Casino, E1171 County critically-acclaimed Soul2Soul The Greenville Lions Park, Municipal Road Q, Waupaca; http://www. World Tour 2017! Tickets start at Drive, Greenville; indiancrossingcasino.com/ $69.50; 7:30 pm to 11:00 pm; Resch Center, 820 Armed Forces Drive, http://www.greenvillelions.org/ Downtown Entertainment: Green Bay; https://www.reschcenter. concert TJ Howell com/events/detail/tim-mcgraw-and- Downtown Entertainment: Join us for a live musical faith-hill Rascal Theory performance by TJ Howell! Free; 7:00 Join us for a live musical pm to 9:00 pm; Duchess Plaza at the Downtown Entertainment: performance by Rascal Theory! intersection of Oak and Broadway, Eric & Mor Free; 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm; Duchess Wisconsin Dells; https://www. Join us for a live musical Plaza at the intersection of Oak and wisdells.com/wisconsin-dells-events- performance by Eric & Mor! Free; Broadway, Wisconsin Dells; calendar/events_calendar.htm 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm; Duchess Plaza at the intersection of Broadway and https://www.wisdells.com/wisconsin- July 6 Oak Street, Wisconsin Dells; https:// dells-events-calendar/events_ calendar.htm Live Music: Soul Whiskey www.wisdells.com/wisconsin-dells- events-calendar/events_calendar.htm Soul Whiskey is an acoustic duo July 8 from Central Wisconsin with July 6-7 Downtown Entertainment: a unique sound and an energy Josh Cohen to match! 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm; Great Greenville Catfish Join us for a live performance by Josh Central Waters Brewing Company, Extravaganza - 30th Annual Cohen! Free; 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm; 351 Allen St, Amherst; 715-824- Friday night family night: All Duchess Plaza at the intersection 2739; https://www.facebook.com/ events FREE. Live Music, Kids of Broadway and Oak, Wisconsin events/197513284366036/ games, Fireworks. Saturday Dells; https://www.wisdells.com/ Neenah - Out to Lunch Concert: night: Concert featuring Brett Michaels and Night Ranger. One wisconsin-dells-events-calendar/ Guy Parker more act TBD; Greenville Lions events_calendar.htm Bring or buy a lunch and enjoy a Park, Corner of Hwy 96 and 76 in July 9 mid-day break at beautiful Shattuck Greenville, Greenville; http://www. Park. A variety of entertainment will greenvillelions.org/concert I'm Tellin! Open Mic be featured along with a restaurant This is rock and roll, hip hop, vendor of the week. 11:30 am to 1:00 July 7 comedy, and passionate poetry - pm; Shattuck Park, 210 E Wisconsin Participate with snapping validation, Ave, Neenah; http://www.neenah.org/ Live Music: Gumbo Gumbo will be rocking the brewery cheers and new sh*} encouragement! Seeds to Snacks with a variety of classic-rock gems Free with donations accepted for Discover the Children's Gardening and fingerpickin tunes, bring thirst lights and PA; 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm; Patch (weather permitting) and for good music and beer, and your The Green Room, 365 main Street, introduce your child to the amazing dancing shoes. 5:30 pm to 10:00 pm; De Pere; https://www.facebook.com/ experience of growing food. Dig Central Waters Brewing Company, events/235111077055080/J into hands-on gardening activities 351 Allen St, Amherst; 715-824- and investigations, then create a 2739; https://www.facebook.com/ fresh garden snack to enjoy from our events/184550725691279/ harvest each week! Free with Garden

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July 10 blanket; 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm; PJ's Restaurant, 601 N Michigan Gather by the Gazebo: Avenue, Stevens Point; 715-345-1600 Music in the Park ext. 2; https://www.facebook.com/ Join family and friends for MUSIC, events/150181849157569/ FOOD, and FUN at Alpine Village Business Park - Town of Rome! Neenah - Evening Concert Make it your causal business Series: Steem meeting spot, family summer get FREE Wednesday evening concerts together, or a dinner date under at beautiful Shattuck Park. Bring the beautiful gazebo. 5:30 pm to your blanket or lawn chair. Food 7:30 pm; Alpine Village Business is available for purchase. 6:00 pm Park, Town of Rome; http://www. to 8:00 pm; Shattuck Park, 210 E wisconsinrapidschamber.com/ Wisconsin Ave, Neenah; events/details/gather-by-the-gazebo- The Fox Valley Food Truck http://www.neenah.org/ music-in-the-park-23184 Rally is a collaboration of Concerts In the Courtyard: Appleton City Band local food trucks in the Fox Jesse Ray and the Carolina Summer Concert Valley region of Wisconsin. Catfish 7:00 pm; Pierce Park, 1035 W We usually have 10-12 Come enjoy Wednesday evening in Prospect Ave, Appleton; trucks at each rally! the Courtyard at the Red Lion Paper https://www.facebook.com/Appleton- Valley Hotel (formerly Radisson) City-Band-187640211289597/ https://www.facebook.com/ for FREE live music from some of Fox Valley Food Truck Rally pg/FoxValleyFoodTruckRally/ your favorite Mile of Music Artists! Grab your friends and family for about/?ref=page_internal 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm; Red Lion Hotel an evening at the park and take Paper Valley, 333 W. College Ave., Appleton; https://mileofmusic.com/ your pick of some great local food July 10-14 trucks. With 10+ local food trucks event/concerts-in-the-courtyard- all in one place offering everything Hudsons Rock the Dells jesse-ray-and-the-carolina- from delicious deserts to great BBQ The Hudson Essex, Terraplane catfish/?instance_id=1279 and more, there's something for (HET) Historical Society’s Doc Live! Hydro Park Concert every taste. 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm; Hudson replica will be at Chula Series: The Mascot Theory Jefferson Park, 3rd Street, Menasha; Vista Resort in the Wisconsin Dells Join us for fun and great live music https://www.facebook.com/ along with close to 100 other Hudson at Live! From Hydro Park Summer FoxValleyFoodTruckRally/ made vehicles, when Hudsons Concert Series in Downtown Town and Gown: Stories Rock the Dells during the 59th Kaukauna every Wednesday Night from 150 Years of the City & Annual HET Club International this summer featuring some of the Meet. 8:00 am; Chula Vista Resort, Campus Relationship area's finest musicians. Concert 2501 River Rd, Wisconsin Dells; The University of Wisconsin Oshkosh is FREE. 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm; https://www.wisdells.com/Bureau- Hydro Park, 100 Crooks Ave, is one of its host city\'s oldest Calendar/Hudsons-Rock-the- institutions. University Archivist Kaukauna; https://www.facebook. Dells.htm?Occurrence=2018-07- com/pg/livefromhydropark/ Joshua Ranger will explore cultural, 10T08:00:00 political, and, economic exchanges photos/?ref=page_internal that have shaped the history of both July 11 Downtown Entertainment: the campus and the city. This event Swing Crew PJ's Live: Dig Deep is co-sponsored by the Winnebago Join us for a live musical County Historical and Archaeological Unless you’ve already heard this performance by Swing Crew! Free; Society with the UW Oshkosh Stevens Point-based string band 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm; Duchess Plaza Alumni Association. Free; 7:00 pm; live, you’ve likely not experienced at the intersection of Oak and University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, a sound quite like it. Dig Deep lets Broadway, Wisconsin Dells; https:// Sage Hall Room 1210; https:// it rip through tight vocals and a www.wisdells.com/wisconsin-dells- winnebagocountyhistoricalsociety. stand-up bass, mandolin, banjo, and events-calendar/events_calendar.htm wordpress.com/ guitar. Free- Bring your own chair or

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July 12 Appleton; http://appletonparkandrec. Neighborhood Beer Garden org/programs--activities/special- Levitt AMP - Immegré Experience Appleton's newest events/movies-on-the-hill authentic German beer garden! Join us at the Pfiffner Park Bandshell Come with friends, family, to see Afro funk group Immegré! The Sanimax Concerts coworkers, or come alone--our evening's opening act is Kyerokaya. Relax all summer long with this community tables welcome all! Spoken word poet Ivy Boudreau will annual music series that thrills Neighborhood Beer Garden is a place perform between the acts. Free; music lovers across all genres and for the community to gather and 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm; Pfiffner Pioneer all generations. Stroll through the enjoy beer, brats, pretzels, music, Park, 1039B Ellis Street, Stevens Garden, enjoy live music, wine, beer and fun times. 4:30 pm to 11:00 pm; Point; 715-254-0460; and dining. Free/GBBG Member; Scheels USA Youth Sports Complex, http://www.createportagecounty.org/ $15/Family (2 adults & children 3300 E. Evergreen Dr., Appleton; calendar/levittimmegre 18 & under in the household or grandchildren); $10 /Adult; $8/ https://www.facebook.com/ Gin Blossoms Senior (62+); $5/Child (3-12 yrs); neighborhoodbeergarden/ Live in Concert Free/ Children 2 & Under *Tax not Downtown Entertainment: The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers included; 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm; Green Steve Meisner will host the WIXX Mid-Summer Bay Botanical Garden, Green Bay; Join us for a live musical Fling Concert with Gin Blossoms http://gbbg.org/sanimaxconcerts/ performance by Steve Meisner! at Neuroscience Group Field at Free; 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm; Duchess Fox Cities Stadium presented by Downtown Entertainment: Plaza at the intersection of Oak and WIXX and The Community Blood TJ Howell Broadway, Wisconsin Dells; https:// Center. Special guests Tonic and Join us for a live musical www.wisdells.com/wisconsin-dells- The Rembrandts are also scheduled performance by TJ Howell! Free; 7:00 events-calendar/events_calendar.htm to perform! 6:30 pm; Fox Cities pm to 9:00 pm; Duchess Plaza at the Stadium, 2400 N. Casaloma Dr., intersection of Oak and Broadway, July 13-14 Appleton; https://www.milb.com/ Wisconsin Dells; https://www. wisconsin/news/gin-blossoms- wisdells.com/wisconsin-dells-events- Portage County Master in-concert-with-tonic-and-the- calendar/events_calendar.htm Gardeners Garden Parade rembrandts-at-neuroscience-group- Tour local gardens chosen for their field-on-july-12-for-wixx-mid- July 12-14 exceptional creativity and beauty. summer-fling/c-273781754 Iola Old Car Show $10. in advance- Tickets at local Neenah - Out to Lunch Concert: The Midwests greatest Car show Garden Centers $12 Day of Parade; Friday - 2:00 pm to 7:00 pm and David Paul Martin and Swap meet. Featuring: Lights, Camera, Action! movie cars & Saturday - 10:00 am to 4:00 pm; Bring or buy a lunch and enjoy a Private Garden Displays Multi mid-day break at beautiful Shattuck Service Vehicles One of America’s largest Car Show and Swap Meet is Sites, Stevens Point/Plover; 715- Park. A variety of entertainment will 340-7098; https://portage.uwex.edu/ be featured along with a restaurant held annually the 2nd weekend of July. $10 a day or $18 3-day pass; horticulture/20th-annual-garden- vendor of the week. 11:30 am to parade-july-14th-15th/ 1:00 pm; Shattuck Park, 210 E 6:00 am to 7:00 pm; Iola Old Car Show Grounds, 130 Jensen Drive, Wisconsin Ave, Neenah; July 13-15 http://www.neenah.org/ Iola; 715-445-4000; https://iolaoldcarshow.com/ Art Bloom at Q Gallery Movie on the Hill - Floral arrangements will be Despicable Me 3 July 13 individually displayed in proximity Free! Bring your blanket (no lawn Beer, Cheese and Pets Please to their source of inspiration, the chairs) and enjoy entertainment Fundraiser to benefit the Humane art work. Free; 10:00 am to 5:00 pm under the summer sky! Children's Society of Portage County. VIP $50, Friday and Saturday and 11:00 to games start at 7pm and the movie General $35 , Non Alcoholic $10; 3:00 pm Monday; Q Gallery, 1108 will begin at dusk (approx. 8:45 pm) 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm; SentryWorld Main Street, Stevens Point; Concessions are available. Dusk. Sports Center, 601 N. Michigan http://www.qartists.com/ Approx. 8:45 pm; Appleton Memorial Avenue, Stevens Point; http://www. Park Gardens, 1313 E. Witzke Blvd., hspcwi.org/beer-cheese-pets.html

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July 14 Downtown Entertainment: Dells. Learn how to paint modern watercolor florals and create a Live Music: The Oxleys Steve Meisner Join us for a live musical collection of stationery cards to send Live Music: The Oxleys. Come catch a performance by Steve Meisner! to your friends and family! 3:30 pm show at Central Waters that is part of Free; 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm; Duchess to 6:00 pm; Duchess Plaza at the The Oxleys summer tour. 7:00 pm Plaza at the intersection of Oak and intersection of Broadway and Oak to 10:00 pm; Central Waters Brewing Broadway, Wisconsin Dells; https:// Street, Wisconsin Dells; https://www. Company, 351 Allen St, Amherst; 715- www.wisdells.com/wisconsin-dells- wisdells.com/wisconsin-dells-events- 824-2739; https://www.facebook.com/ events-calendar/events_calendar.htm calendar/events_calendar.htm pg/CWBrewing/events/ Heckrodt Critters of the Night July 14-15 Learn about nocturnal critters that Chalkfest call the Reserve home and go for Watch as the 400 Block is a guided night hike. Finish the transformed into a museum evening with a campfire treat! $5/ of artwork. It is a 'must' to see. person. Advanced registration Admission is free. Sat 8:00 am to appreciated. 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm; 8:00 pm and Sun 8:00 am to Heckrodt Wetland Reserve, 1305 4:00 pm; 715-297-9531 or Plank Rd., Menasha; https://www. http://www.wausauevents.org heckrodtnaturecenter.org/ Brats, Beer and Beethoven July 15 Make plans to join the Fox Valley Scott Wilcox Acoustic music Symphony Orchestra for FREE music Scott Wilcox has been writing under the stars! This family-friendly, music for 30 years and has been community event will feature a on the Oprah Show! He will keep concert by the Fox Valley Symphony you entertained all afternoon! 2:00 Orchestra and a huge fireworks to 6:00 pm; Bullheads Bar & Grill, celebration at Fox Cities Stadium. 3368 Campsite Drive, Stevens Doors Open at 6:00 pm, Concert Point; https://www.facebook.com/ starts at 7:30 pm; Fox Cities Stadium, events/395728744204877/ 2400 N. Casaloma Dr., Appleton; http://www.foxvalleysymphony.com/ Motzart on the Move concerts-and-tickets/concerts/ Enjoy live music located at Universalist-Unitarian Church in Eirias Stadium Wausau as part of South Beach up Paloma Faith: The force of nature North. 305-673-2183; http://www. that answers to the name PALOMA sobechamberensemble.org FAITH is one that has been known in underground arts circles in London th Bergstrom-Mahler Museum for some time. As an ex magician's July 14 of Glass Arts Festival assistant, trained contemporary Fox Cities Stadium 44th Annual. More than 60 dancer, St Martin's college alumni 7:30 pm high-quality artists. Enjoy fine with an MA in theatre direction, art, live music, food and fun at scenic Riverside Park in Neenah, performer in burlesque shows and http://www.foxvalleysymphony.com/ Wisconsin. Will feature live music on actress , Paloma has been mixing concerts-and-tickets/concerts/ media throughout her short adult the museum lawn -no cover charge. life. A few years ago she introduced Relax at the beer and wine garden music, her primary love, into the Downtown Entertainment: featuring Wisconsin craft beers, draft equation, at first mimicking the blues Allie Shultz Watercolor root beer, food and great views. and soul singers she so admired, but Workshop 10:00 am to 4:00 pm; Bergstrom eventually finding her own voice. This is one of four workshops in Mahler Museum of Glass, 4:00 pm; Eirias Stadium, Green Bay; the Summer Watercolor Workshop 165 N. Park Ave., Neenah; https://www.palomafaith.com/ Series in downtown Wisconsin https://www.bmmglass.com/

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Songs on the Lawn 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm; Duchess Plaza 117 South Washington Street, Green Preview Mile of Music artists at at the intersection of Broadway and Bay; https://meyertheatre.org/ Songs on the Lawn at Bergstrom- Oak Street, Wisconsin Dells; https:// an-evening-with-chris-robinson- Mahler Museum of Glass. The www.wisdells.com/wisconsin-dells- brotherhood-2018-07-18/ concert will be held on the lake-side events-calendar/events_calendar.htm Neenah - Evening Concert lawn of the museum in our beer and Series: The Honeygoats wine garden. 11:00 am to 6:00 pm; July 17 FREE Wednesday evening concerts Bergstrom Mahler Museum of Glass, Appleton City Band at beautiful Shattuck Park. Bring 165 N. Park Ave., Neenah; Summer Concert your blanket or lawn chair. Food https://bmmglass.com/ 7:00 pm; Pierce Park, 1035 W is available for purchase. 6:00 pm Sunday Afternoon Prospect Ave, Appleton; to 8:00 pm; Shattuck Park, 210 E Entertainment at the Park https://www.facebook.com/Appleton- Wisconsin Ave, Neenah; Entertainment series with comedians City-Band-187640211289597/ http://www.neenah.org/ Miller and Mike. The Miller and Downtown Entertainment: Concerts In the Courtyard: Mike show is perfect for any event Sound Decision Porky's Groove Machine that focuses on Family. Their Join us for a live musical Come enjoy Wednesday evening in interactive comedy juggling show performance by Sound Decision! the Courtyard at the Red Lion Paper and strolling entertainment are Free; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm; Duchess Valley Hotel (formerly Radisson) perfect any event geared towards Plaza at the intersection of Broadway for FREE live music from some of families as a way to gather and laugh and Oak Street, Wisconsin Dells; your favorite Mile of Music Artists! together. Free; 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm; https://www.wisdells.com/wisconsin- 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm; Red Lion Hotel Wanick Choute Park, Sherwood; dells-events-calendar/events_ Paper Valley, 333 W. College Ave., https://www.facebook.com/ calendar.htm Appleton; http://www.wapl.com/ events/794034154128281/ events/170017/ Downtown Entertainment: July 18 Live! Hydro Park Concert Gene Schmidt PJ's Live: Southbound Series: J-Council Join us for a live musical At the heart of Southbound lies two Join us for fun and great live music performance by Gene Schmidt! dynamic musicians and vocalists— at Live! From Hydro Park Summer Free; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm; Duchess Brian and Chelle Baumann—who Concert Series in Downtown Plaza at the intersection of Oak and dated as UW–Stevens Point music Kaukauna every Wednesday Night Broadway, Wisconsin Dells; https:// majors in the mid-1980s. Free- this summer featuring some of the www.wisdells.com/wisconsin-dells- Bring your own chair or blanket; area's finest musicians. Concert events-calendar/events_calendar.htm 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm; PJ's Restaurant, is FREE. 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm; 601 N Michigan Avenue, Stevens July 16 Hydro Park, 100 Crooks Ave, Point; 715-345-1600 ext. 2; Kaukauna; https://www.facebook. Family Nature Night: https://www.facebook.com/ com/pg/livefromhydropark/ Dancing Dragonflies events/2166591206905588/ photos/?ref=page_internal These ferocious predators are expert An Evening with Chris Downtown Entertainment: fliers! Join us to learn more about Robinson Brotherhood Swing Crew these acrobatic insects. Wear your The Chris Robinson Brotherhood Join us for a live musical walking shoes and let us guide you are on tour in support of their latest performance by Swing Crew! Free; through a family adventure. Free/ studio album ‘Barefoot In The 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm; Duchess Plaza GBBG Member Family; $5/Non- Head.’ In the middle of one of their at the intersection of Broadway and Member Family; 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm; most prolific periods to date, the Oak Street, Wisconsin Dells; https:// Green Bay Botanical Garden, Green band is riding a creative wave with www.wisdells.com/wisconsin-dells- Bay; http://gbbg.org a slew of studio and live records events-calendar/events_calendar.htm Downtown Entertainment: coming out amidst a rigorous tour Bahama Bob schedule that only seems to fuel Join us for a live musical their fire even further. 7:30 pm; performance by Bahama Bob! Free; $25.00 - Reserved Seating - VIP Packages available; Meyer Theatre,

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July 19 Levitt AMP - Sweet Sheiks Join us at the Pfiffner Park Bandshell to see Roaring 20s pop act Sweet Sheiks! The evening's opening act is Auralai. Spoken word poet Muhlissa Haack will perform between the acts. Free; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm; Pfiffner Pioneer Park, 1039B Ellis Street, Sunset Park in Kimberly, Wis. will host the 30th Annual Paperfest on July Stevens Point; 715-254-0460; 19-22, 2018. This is a free admission, four-day festival featuring live music, http://www.createportagecounty.org/ sporting events, fireworks, hot air balloon glow and family entertainment. calendar/levittsweetsheiks Kicking off all of this fun onT hursday night, July 19, will be Vic Ferrari Bazaar After Dark Night Symphony on the Rocks and the Fox Valley Food Truck Rally. Fireworks will Market - Neenah be launched Friday while the hot air balloon glow will take place Saturday. Pulse Young Professionals Network The four-day event will also feature helicopter rides, giant yard games, will host the Fox Cities Bazaar After Scheels Tour de Fest bike ride, Appleton Harley-Davidson Car & Motorcycle Dark night market. Attendees will Show, and much more! enjoy live music, art vendors, food truck rally, restaurants, family Paperfest, presented by Community First activities and a few other fun quirky Credit Union, is a free admission festival surprises! FREE and open to the with funds raised going directly back into public! 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm; Neenah, the community though various non-profit S Commercial St, Neenah; organizations. Check out more at http:// http://pulsefoxcities.com/bazaar- www.paperfest.com and stay updated by after-dark/ liking Paperfest on Facebook. July Art @ Noon Concessions are available. Dusk. wisdells.com/wisconsin-dells-events- Join us for a 25-minute lunchtime Approx. 8:45 pm; Appleton Memorial calendar/events_calendar.htm tour of the exhibitions in the Wriston Park Gardens, 1313 E. Witzke Blvd., Art Galleries. Each tour will be Appleton; http://appletonparkandrec. July 19-20 unique!July 13-August 19: The org/programs--activities/special- Artwork of Joseph Friebert. 12:00 pm Downtown Appleton Chalk on events/movies-on-the-hill to 12:30 pm; Wriston Art Center, the Town 613 E. College Ave., Appleton; Fox Valley Food Truck Rally Join us for this fun event as part http://www.lawrence.edu/s/wriston Grab your friends and family for of our Art on the Town series. Neenah - Out to Lunch Concert: an evening at the park and take Register to be an artist and show your pick of some great local food Eddie Biebel us your best chalk art or come trucks. With 10+ local food trucks down to see all the fun art created! Bring or buy a lunch and enjoy a all in one place offering everything 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm; Downtown mid-day break at beautiful Shattuck from delicious deserts to great BBQ Appleton, College Avenue, Appleton; Park. A variety of entertainment will and more, there's something for https://appletondowntown.org/ be featured along with a restaurant every taste. 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm; artonthetown/ vendor of the week. 11:30 am to Pierce Park, 1035 W Prospect Ave, 1:00 pm; Shattuck Park, 210 E Appleton; https://www.facebook. July 19-22 Wisconsin Ave, Neenah; com/FoxValleyFoodTruckRally/ http://www.neenah.org/ Portage County Fair of Downtown Entertainment: Amherst Movie on the Hill - Coco TJ Howell Fun for all ages including Carnival Free! Bring your blanket (no lawn Join us for a live musical Rides, Truck and Tractor Pulls, chairs) and enjoy entertainment performance by TJ Howell! Free; 7:00 Market Animal Sale, Volleyball under the summer sky! Children's pm to 9:00 pm; Duchess Plaza at the Tournament, Vacation Raffle, games start at 7pm and the movie intersection of Oak and Broadway, Famous Fair Food, Games, Cake will begin at dusk (approx. 8:45 pm) Wisconsin Dells; https://www. Auction, Animal Judging, Pedal

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Tractor Races. $4 day pass; activities; Evergreen Elementary on the square, Ping Pong Ball All Day; Amherst Fairgrounds, School, 817 W Main St, Waterford; Drops, Kayak Demo, Food and 4504 Fairgrounds Rd, Amherst; https://www.waterford-wi.org/ more. 10:00 am to 4:00 pm; Main http://amherstfair.com/ waterford_balloon_fest.html Street, 900 Main Street, Stevens Paperfest Point; https://www.facebook.com/ July 20 events/1121282027995151/?active_ Paperfest is celebrating 30 years tab=about as a free-admission community The Rising Star Mill Presents: driven festival featuring great live MoJo & Flipside RiverHeath Summer Concert music, fireworks, food, sporting "Funky-Blue Americana" best Series - The Way Down events (bike ride, volleyball, softball, describes this band's musical style Wanderers 3 on 3 basketball), kids games, which merges the best of blues Come listen to live music while you rides, family fun, and much more! with R&B classics. $12; 7:00 pm; enjoy the views of the riverfront All the proceeds go back into The Rising Star Mill, 3190 County on the boardwalk at RiverHeath. the community! Sunset Park, W. Highway Q, Nelsonville; http://www. Food and beverages will be available Kimberly Ave., Kimberly; pchswi.org/events/events.htm from local vendors. The concert is https://www.paperfest.com/ Downtown Entertainment: free and ope to the public! 5:00 pm 8th Annual Hot Air Balloonfest Prairie Thunder Cloggers to 9:00 pm; RiverHeath District, 181 S Riverheath Way, Appleton; Come celebrate our 8th Annual Join us for a live musical https://www.facebook.com/ Hot Air Balloonfest, featuring the performance by Prairie Thunder events/211200002779890/ 2018 U.S. Nation Women's Balloon Cloggers! Free; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm; Competition! View hot air balloon Duchess Plaza at the intersection Jam'n'July ascensions at dawn and early of Oak and Broadway, Wisconsin Join us for a day full of incredible evenings, as well as "glows" at dusk Dells; https://www.wisdells.com/ heavy music where new friendships (all weather permitting) - this is an wisconsin-dells-events-calendar/ are abundant, as the best heavy event not to miss! Family friendly, we events_calendar.htm metal bands from across the Midwest feature live music, food, beverages, descend upon Pfiffner Park. $15 per outdoor movie, crafters, kids area, July 21 person. The event is free for children Drones, helicopter rides and more! Discover Downtown 15 and younger. 12:00 pm to 10:00 Admission is free; there are charges Sidewalk Sales, Fashion Show, pm; Pfiffner Pioneer Park, 1100 for parking and selected (not all) Music Entertainment Stage, Music Crosby Ave, Stevens Point; 715-340- 0613; https://www.facebook.com/ Jamnjuly/ Quilt Show MOJO & The Quilt Show is being done in conjunction with the Rosholt FLIPSIDE Thresheree. $5 fee for Thresheree, no additional fee for Quilt Show; Fri., July 20 10:00 am to 4:00 pm; Rosholt Fair 7:00 PM Park, 186 Forest St, Rosholt; 715-677- 3188; https://www.facebook.com/ Come, listen and enjoy! events/492466094501318/ Downtown Entertainment: The Rising Star Mill Rascal Theory on the Tomorrow River at Join us for a live performance County Roads Q & SS in by Rascal Theory in Downtown Downtown Nelsonville, WI Wisconsin Dells. Free; 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm; Duchess Plaza at the Admission for concerts is $12 for adults; $5 for students aged 12-18; children under 12 are admitted free. intersection of Broadway and Oak Street, Wisconsin Dells; https://www. http://www.pchswi.org/events/events.htm wisdells.com/wisconsin-dells-events- calendar/events_calendar.htm

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July 21 Hortonville; https://whistlersknoll. Admission is free. 8:00 am to com/events/3rd-annual-jazz-fest- 4:00 pm; Pierce Park, 1035 W 3rd Annual Jazz Fest vineyard/ Prospect Ave., Appleton; at the Vineyard http://www.appletonoldcarshow.com/ Come for an afternoon of live jazz & July 21-22 relaxation! Bring a lawn chair, some Downtown Entertainment: sunscreen, and your hat. Mr Taco Shiocton Airport Fly-in Wesley Williams Food Truck will be here to keep your Plane rides 9am to dusk on Saturday Join us for a live musical belly happy. Enjoy the day listening and 7am to dusk on Sunday. Food performance by Wesley Williams! to: Janet Planet & Tom Theabo available (brats, hamburgers, fries, Free; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm; Duchess performing @ 1 pm, Erin Krebs Jazz o-rings, etc.) both days. Breakfast Plaza at the intersection of Broadway Quartet playing @ 2:45 pm, Mark Te Sunday morning only 7-11am, potato and Oak, Wisconsin Dells; Tai Jazz Quartet performing @ 5:15 and wheat pancakes, eggs, sausage, https://www.wisdells.com/wisconsin- pm; Admission: $10 cash per person; juice, milk, coffee. Bands Saturday dells-events-calendar/events_ Whistler's Knoll, N2845 Hwy 15, afternoon and evening and Sunday calendar.htm afternoon. Large raffle drawing Sunday 6pm. Shiocton Airport, July 23 W7406 State Road 54, Shiocton; 3rd Annual Downtown Entertainment: http://www.shioctonairport.com Bahama Bob July 22 Join us for a live musical at the performance by Bahama Bob! Free; Jazz Golijov, Del Agula and 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm; Duchess Plaza Onslow String Quartets at the intersection of Broadway and Enjoy live music at St. John's Oak Street, Wisconsin Dells; Vineyard Episcopal Church in Wausau as https://www.wisdells.com/wisconsin- part of South Beach up North. dells-events-calendar/events_ Sat., July 21st 305-673-2183; http://www. calendar.htm sobechamberensemble.org Come for an afternoon of live jazz Dive-In Movie - Finding Dory July 23-29 & relaxation! Bring a lawn chair, Come for an outdoor movie, dive-in EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2018 some sunscreen, and your hat. Mr style! Bring your suit and enjoy a EAA AirVenture 2018 is the world’s Taco Food Truck will be here to movie from the pool. (Out of water largest fly-in gathering and one of the keep your belly happy. Enjoy the seating also available) concessions world’s largest aviation events, with day listening to: will be available for purchase. Movie a total attendance of 500,000. Each start time at Dusk; Erb Pool, year, you can enjoy daily air shows, Janet Planet & Tom Theabo 1800 N Morrison St, Appleton; nearly 1,000 forums and workshops @ 1 pm http://appletonparkandrec.org/ and 800 exhibitors. 7:00 am to Appleton Old Car Show Midnight; EAA Aviation Center, Erin Krebs Jazz Quartet & Swap Meet 3000 Poberezny Road, Oshkosh; https://www.eaa.org/en/airventure @ 2:45 pm The 41st Annual Appleton Old Car Show and Swap Meet is one July 24 Mark Te Tai Jazz Quartet of the largest free car shows in the Midwest and annually draws Downtown Entertainment: @ 5:15 pm over 15,000 people and has nearly Sugar Still (2) 1,200 cars on display. This family- Join us for a live musical Admission: $10 cash per person. Gates open at noon. Carry in friendly event provides special performance by Sugar Still! Free; 7:00 beverages are not allowed. vintage car collections (Classic, Hot pm to 10:00 pm; Duchess Plaza at the rods, Muscle, and modified cars), intersection of Oak and Broadway, https://whistlersknoll.com/ vendor sales & swap meet, judging/ Wisconsin Dells; events/3rd-annual-jazz-fest- voting and awards, and food/ https://www.wisdells.com/wisconsin- vineyard/ beverage concessions provided by the dells-events-calendar/events_ Appleton Fox Cities Kiwanis Club. calendar.htm

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July 25 com/pg/livefromhydropark/ photos/?ref=page_internal PJ's Live: BriTins Playing on authentic Beatles gear, Downtown Entertainment: TEACHER The BriTins have enjoyed a 20-plus Swing Crew year ride recreating the musical Join us for a live musical DAY phenom that would define an era and performance by Swing Crew! Free; July 27 Free Event 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm; Duchess Plaza change rock ‘n’ roll forever. gives teachers practical Free- Bring your own chair or at the intersection of Oak and ideas for aviation, blanket; 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm; PJ's Broadway, Wisconsin Dells; Restaurant, 601 N Michigan Avenue, https://www.wisdells.com/wisconsin- STEM concepts Stevens Point; 715-345-1600 ext. 2; dells-events-calendar/events_ https://www.facebook.com/ calendar.htm The program especially for events/273348233206812/ educators is supported by July 26 Flite Test STEM and is part of Concerts In the Courtyard: EAA AirVenture on July 23-29 Seth Anderson Levitt AMP - Samantha Fish at Wittman Regional Airport in Come enjoy Wednesday evening in Join us at the Pfiffner Park Bandshell Oshkosh. the Courtyard at the Red Lion Paper to see blues act Samantha Fish! Valley Hotel (formerly Radisson) for The evening's opening act is Soul There are separate Teacher FREE live music from some of your Whiskey. Spoken word poet Jon Day activities for teachers of favorite Mile of Music Artists! Gadbois will perform between pre-kindergarten through sixth 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm; Red Lion the acts. Free; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm; grade and for those in seventh Hotel Paper Valley, 333 W. College Pfiffner Pioneer Park, 1039B Ellis through 12th grade classrooms. Ave., Appleton; Street, Stevens Point; 715-254-0460; Homeschool teachers are also https://mileofmusic.com/presents/ http://www.createportagecounty.org/ invited and can be placed in the calendar/levittsamanthafish Nature Sings! pathway best matching their Concert Series Neenah - Out to Lunch Concert: students’ needs. Evergreen Credit Union presents Stuck on Blue Activities include STEM the Nature Sings! summer concert Bring or buy a lunch and enjoy a experiences through flight series, a relaxing evening of music mid-day break at beautiful Shattuck and design curricula that in nature. From earth, wind, fire, Park. A variety of entertainment will incorporate aerospace ideas and water – to plant and animal life, be featured along with a restaurant and initiatives. Presenters experience how composers over the vendor of the week. 11:30 am to include Jake Marshall, ages have celebrated planet Earth in 1:00 pm; Shattuck Park, 210 E Flite Test STEM curriculum the Gordon Bubolz Nature Preserve’s Wisconsin Ave, Neenah; developer, and Tara Parkhurst, “Nature Sings” Concert Series. 6:00 http://www.neenah.org/ EAA museum educator. pm to 7:30 pm; Gordon Bubolz Downtown Entertainment: Participants will complete the Nature Preserve, 4815 N. Lynndale TJ Howell day with a design challenge Dr., Appleton; Join us for a live musical to put their skills to the test http://www.bubolzpreserve.org/ performance by TJ Howell! Free; 7:00 with a free hands-on STEM Live! Hydro Park Concert pm to 9:00 pm; Duchess Plaza at the activity. In addition, Redbird Series: Copper Box intersection of Oak and Broadway, flight simulators will also be Join us for fun and great live music Wisconsin Dells; available. at Live! From Hydro Park Summer https://www.wisdells.com/wisconsin- Concert Series in Downtown dells-events-calendar/events_ Kaukauna every Wednesday Night calendar.htm this summer featuring some of the area's finest musicians. Concert is FREE. 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm; Hydro Park, 100 Crooks Ave, Kaukauna; https://www.facebook. www.eaa.org

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July 26-29, August 1-5 Live Music: Gumbo nocturnal animals from the educators from the NEW Zoo of Riverside Players presents: Gumbo will be rocking the brewery with a variety of classic-rock gems Brown County. 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm; Legally Blonde, The Musical and fingerpickin tunes, bring thirst Wanick Choute Park, Sherwood; A fabulously fun award-winning for good music and beer, and your https://www.facebook.com/ musical based on the adored movie, dancing shoes. 5:30 pm to 10:00 pm; events/2076326395944069/ Legally Blonde the Musical, follows Central Waters Brewing Company, the transformation of Elle Woods 351 Allen St, Amherst; 715-824- as she tackles stereotypes and 2739; https://www.facebook.com/ scandal in pursuit of her dreams. events/373063019878486/ Thur-Sat: 8:00 pm, Sunday: 7:00 pm; Riverside Park, Neenah; https://www. Downtown Entertainment: ci.neenah.wi.us/departments/parks- Island Jack recreation/riverside-players/ Join us for a live musical performance by Island Jack! Free; July 27 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm; Duchess Plaza Starfire at the intersection of Oak and Broadway, Wisconsin Dells; https:// Enjoy some country music while www.wisdells.com/wisconsin-dells- enjoying our fabulous fish fry events-calendar/events_calendar.htm Art at the Park menu. FREE; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm; Each year, Art at the Park draws tens Winncrest Banquet Hall, July 28-29 of thousands of visitors to this one- 2788 Towne Ct, Neenah; day event held in historic City Park http://www.winncrestbanquet.com Hub City Days in downtown Appleton, Wisconsin. A weekend to celebrate Marshfield's Downtown Entertainment: Since 1960, Art at the Park has been historic downtown, past, present Eric & Mor a treasured community event that and future! Join us for a weekend showcases the work of nearly 200 Join us for a live musical of fun celebrating our community participating artists from throughout performance by Eric & Mor! Free; and creating shared memories. the country. 9:00 am to 4:00 pm; City 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm; Duchess Plaza Events to enjoy include a big screen Park, 500 E. Franklin St., Appleton; at the intersection of Broadway and movie on Central, Kids Duathlon, https://www.facebook.com/ Oak Street, Wisconsin Dells; https:// Hub City Days Duathlon, Food ArtattheParkAppleton/ www.wisdells.com/wisconsin-dells- and Craft Vendors, Brew Fest, Car events-calendar/events_calendar.htm Show, Beer Garden, 3 on 3 Youth Downtown Entertainment: Oldstock 2018- Daddy Basketball Tournament, Pork Gene Schmidt Whiskers and Heartstrings Cook-off, Amazing Race Marshfield Join us for a live musical in concert Edition, Martial Arts and Dance performance by Gene Schmidt! $10 must be 21 years of age Lawn Demonstrations, and a Street Dance Free; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm; Duchess chairs welcomed; 8:00 pm to 11:30 featuring a live band. Plaza at the intersection of Oak and pm; Indian Crossing Casino on http://mainstreetmarshfield.com/ Broadway, Wisconsin Dells; https:// Waupaca's Chain O' Lakes; www.wisdells.com/wisconsin-dells- http://www.indiancrossingcasino. July 29 events-calendar/events_calendar.htm com/events/ Mendelssohn Plano Trio july 30 Enjoy live music located at July 28 Universalist-Unitarian Church in Downtown Entertainment: Celebrate Plover Wausau as part of South Beach up Bahama Bob Fun for the whole family, food, North. 305-673-2183; Join us for a live musical crafts, kids activities, live music and http://www.sobechamberensemble.org performance by Bahama Bob! Free; fireworks at dark. No admission fee; Sunday Afternoon 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm; Duchess Plaza 9:00 am to Midnight; Lake Pacawa Entertainment at the Park at the intersection of Broadway and Park, 1831 Maple Drive, Plover; Come out to see the NEW Oak Street, Wisconsin Dells; https:// 715-345-5258; https://www.facebook. Zoomobile! Children and their www.wisdells.com/wisconsin-dells- com/celebrateplover families can come learn about events-calendar/events_calendar.htm

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