Columns T h e N e w sl e tt e r o f t h e W i s c o ns i n H i st o r i c a l S o c i e t y Vol. 34 No. 1 | ISSN 0196-1306 | Winter 2013

In this issue: 4 New Spanish Language Fourth-Grade Textbook 11 Preservation Grant Received

12 Field Trips Meet State Academic Standards

2 Director’s Column 5 State Register of Historic Places

6 Local History 8 Events Calendar

13 | Spotlight on Supporters

15 | Statewide Programs and Locations

Collecting, Preserving and Sharing Stories Since 1846 The spectacular, sun-drenched mansion seen here, Black Point Estate, a historic house and gardens overlooking Geneva Lake, was the summer home for Chicago business mogul Conrad Seipp and four generations of his descendants. Now it joins the Society’s network of 11 other historic sites and museums, and will be open to tours this summer and fall. Read the story on page 10.

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At the dawn of a new year, we can look back on many positive changes in the past 12 months – and forward to anticipated opportunities in the year that lies ahead. LAST FALL we successfully completed the first transferring management responsibility of the major fundraising campaign in the Society’s property to the Society. You can read more details history, a public/private campaign that yielded about the addition of Black Point to our historic tremendous tangible milestones: a new Visitor sites and museums on page 10. Center and Wesley W. Jung Carriage Museum The Society Press had a prolific year, publishing that will open at Wade House in June; a fully 15 books and two audio books. Three books funded Preservation Storage Facility, now in received national media attention and required Ellsworth H. Brown design, to house treasured collections for us reprints: Return to Wake Robin: One Cabin in The Ruth and Hartley Barker Director and the Wisconsin Veterans Museum; a top-to- the Heyday of the Northwoods Resorts by Marnie bottom restoration of our grand Library Reading Mamminga (recommended by Parade Magazine Room; and a new Interpreter Training Facility to its 63 million readers); Green Bay Packers: at Old World Wisconsin that now also houses Trials, Triumphs, and Tradition by Bill Povletich; the outdoor museum’s staff. The campaign also and Bottoms Up: A Toast to Wisconsin’s Historic endowed a full-time preservation specialist Bars & Breweries by Jim Draeger and Mark Speltz. position, vastly improved the visitor experience The year 2012 was not, however, without loss at Old World Wisconsin and Wade House, to the Society. Last fall we learned of the passing dramatically increased the scope and content of three of our esteemed colleagues. Marty of our online digital collections, and initiated Perkins, 61, a 35-year Society employee and one the complete redesign of the Society’s third- of the principle architects behind the planning generation website. and development of Old World Wisconsin, died As you can see from the stunning image November 3. We also lost John Kerrigan, 76, Columns on the cover, another exciting change for us is on November 5. He served with distinction on Bob Granflaten, Editor that, on January 1, 2013, the Society assumed the Board of Curators from June 2002 to June Composure Graphics, Designer management responsibility for Black Point 2011. Finally, Lincoln scholar, prolific author Published quarterly by the Estate, a magnificent historic house and gardens and eminent historian Richard Current, a Wisconsin Historical Society and in Lake Geneva. Black Point now becomes the Distinguished Society Fellow, died on October distributed to members as part 12th historic site in our statewide network of 26 at 100. of their dues. Full membership levels begin at $45 for individuals historic sites and museums. I want to personally In closing, I extend the Society’s heartfelt and $65 for institutions (rates thank William O’Connor, a member of our gratitude to the Wisconsin Historical Foundation subject to change). To join or Board of Curators, for shepherding the transfer for its tireless work in support of the Society’s for more information about of the estate from William O. Petersen, great- mission. Much of the successes enumerated above membership, visit our website grandson of Black Point’s builder, Chicago would simply not have been possible without the at support.wisconsinhistory.org brewing magnate Conrad Seipp, to the state of Foundation’s dedication to the Society’s goals and or contact the Membership Wisconsin. O’Connor also was instrumental in aspirations. Office at 888-748-7479, email • membership@wisconsinhistory. org, or write to the Membership Nominations to the Board of Curators Office at the address below. Address inquiries about this The Nominating Committee of the Board of Curators nominates Society members for election to the board. Voting members of the Society may suggest a candidate for board service by submitting the candidate’s name and a brief publication to the editor, Columns. resume to: Nominating Committee Chair, c/o Margaret Maly, Wisconsin Historical Society, 816 State Street, Madison, WI Media may reprint any article 53706 or via email to [email protected]. provided credit is given to the Wisconsin Historical Society and Members may also nominate a prospective candidate by petition. In addition to its nominees, the Nominating Committee Columns. Periodicals postage will place in nomination the name of any member presented to it by a petition signed by 25 members of the Society, paid at Madison, Wisconsin. provided that the signatures are gathered between January 31 and March 2 of each year and submitted to the Postmaster, send address committee by March 2. changes to: Columns, Wisconsin Upon request, any member seeking to prepare such a petition shall have access to the names and addresses of the Historical Society, 816 State Society’s members. A petition template is also available upon request. Such requests may be sent to the above-listed Street, Madison, WI 53706. name and address.

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Thank You for Supporting Our Work Behind the Scenes When you visit the Society’s historic sites and Historic Places Throughout Wisconsin museums, library and archives, or receive your With your support, we’ve been able to help copy of the Wisconsin Magazine of History, what hundreds of people through special tax credit you’re seeing represents a massive behind-the- programs we administer. These programs help scenes effort to share the stories of Wisconsin’s property owners bring historic buildings back to past. Although you may not see all the preservation their original state, safeguard what’s in existence, work, research, collecting, cataloging, digitizing repurpose historic buildings, and rebuild those ARD DW

and programming that happens every day, it is structures in need of preservation. OO

your membership that helps make it possible. Genealogical Research Services and Tools N W With your support, we have assembled one

Thanks to you, the Society has one of the top USTI J of the finest North American history collections five genealogical collections in the nation, which in the world. Our archival and library collections Bill Mulligan, one of thousands of includes an astounding array of birth, marriage, young people across the state who tell stories of struggle and achievement, and our death, census, immigration and military records, have benefitted from the expanded museums show us what makes Wisconsin so biographical sketches and obituaries, plus collections and resources now available to students online. special — capturing our history in a way that thousands of eyewitness accounts, memoirs, nothing else can. Thanks to your generosity, we letters, diaries, family histories, and newspaper can continue to share these resources with you, and magazine articles. Your support helps make your children and your grandchildren. these collections easily accessible via workshops, We are pleased to share with you here the webinars and person-to-person consultations, as highlights of what you accomplished with your well as online. support in the last year. These are but a few ways that your membership Online Collections and Resources helps people connect to the past. We are so You have helped us expand our digital collections, grateful for your generous support, and we look CK adding to the 80,000 historic images, 4,000 forward to an exciting year ahead. E RB artifacts, 200,000 images of historic properties O M E

and so much more already available online. Sincerely, K I Millions of people access these online resources M each year, including elementary school students, A young visitor experiences “Life on the Farm” at Old World Wisconsin. academic researchers, teachers, history lovers, historic property owners, local historical societies, families throughout Wisconsin and many more. Cheryl Sullivan, Director 11 Historic Sites and Museums Division of Museums and Historic Sites More than 250,000 people (including 53,000 schoolchildren) were able to enjoy the Society’s 11 historic sites and museums, and the hundreds of thousands of artifacts they hold. With a wide Michael Stevens, State Historic Preservation range of daily activities, changing exhibits and Officer and Director unique special events, your support continually Division of Historic Preservation-Public History A historic home in Mineral Point that provides new and engaging ways for thousands of the owners restored with help from the people to experience Wisconsin history firsthand. tax credit program. Local History Resources Around the State You helped local history efforts take shape and flourish, including assistance to more than 380 affiliated county, local and specialized historical Matt Blessing, State Archivist and Director organizations through regional meetings, Division of Library-Archives workshops, an annual statewide conference and more.

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Board of Curators, Foundation Board Welcome New Members THE SOCIETY WELCOMES two new members of 1970 he entered private practice in Appleton, the Board of Curators who have been appointed where he served with the Appleton Heart Institute to fill unexpired vacancies on the 36-member until his retirement in 2009. Peterson has written board: Thomas L. Shriner Jr. of Shorewood and and self-published four books about his own Lowell F. Peterson of Appleton. or his family’s history, including The Birds Were Shriner, who fills the unexpired term of the late Silver Then, stories from the Vietnam air war, and John Kerrigan, is a partner with Foley & Lardner Heartfelt Journey, a cardiologist’s memoir. LLP in Milwaukee. He concentrates his practice The Wisconsin Historical Foundation also Thomas Shriner in commercial and public law litigation and has added one new member of the Foundation’s extensive appellate practice in both state and Board of Directors, Stephen F. Brenton of federal courts. He also is an adjunct professor of Verona. Brenton, who fills a vacancy left by the law at Marquette University Law School. Shriner departure of Fritz Grutzner, is the president and served on his law firm’s history committee when CEO of the Wisconsin Hospital Association in current Board of Curators President Ellen Langill Madison. Brenton’s professional background wrote a history of the firm. focuses heavily on federal and state government Peterson, who fills a vacancy left by the relations and advocacy. He also is a member of departure of Mary Buestrin, is a retired cardiologist the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s political and author. He served as an Air Force flight science department Board of Governors. • surgeon before and during the Vietnam War. In

Lowell Peterson Society Press Introduces Spanish Language Fourth-Grade Textbook SCHOOL DISTRICTS ACROSS Wisconsin are This Wisconsin history standard also welcoming the recent publication of a Spanish incorporates a wealth of Society resources edition of the Wisconsin Historical Society Press’ including illustrations, photographs and maps. award-winning fourth-grade textbook, Wisconsin: The historical information has recently expanded Our State, Our Story. The Press partnered with to include interactive lesson materials such as Milwaukee Public Schools to translate its online activities and assessments that encourage definitive state textbook into Wisconsin: Nuestro student participation with “Thinking Like Estado, Nuestra Historia. a Historian” questions, vocabulary, literacy, Dubbed the “first truly comprehensive strategies and other visual materials. Teacher textbook devoted to Wisconsin history for guides and complementary student activity elementary students” by Tina Flood, executive guides are also available. Stephen Brenton director of curriculum and instruction for Since its publication in 2008, the state Milwaukee Public Schools, the state history history textbook has been adopted by districts textbook promotes strong literacy and content statewide, including the major districts of skills — now in Spanish as well as English. Milwaukee, Madison, Janesville, Green Bay, Wisconsin: Our State, Our Story, and now Sheboygan, Wisconsin Rapids and others. Wisconsin: Nuestro Estado, Nuestra Historia, teach Learn more about Wisconsin: Our State, Our Wisconsin history through an inquiry-based Story and its interactive enhancements at approach with lively stories from famous and wisconsinhistory.org/textbook. Underwriting everyday Wisconsinites who shaped our past as for the translation of Wisconsin: Nuestro Estado, well as timelines and pronunciation glossaries. Nuestra Historia was provided by the Jane Bradley Pettit Foundation of Milwaukee.•

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State Register of Historic Places Recent Wisconsin Additions

Charles Klingholz was an early German settler and prominent citizen in the community, where he operated a mill and a general store. The 1850, two-story, Italianate-style house features segmental arched and hooded windows and doors and a deep trim-band frieze directly below the low-pitched, hipped roof. In addition, the house is an excellent example of the distinctive cream-brick building tradition practiced in eastern Wisconsin, stemming from the types of clay available for local brickmaking along the western Whitewater Passenger Depot shore of Lake Michigan. Whitewater, Walworth County

Charles and Herriete Noted Wisconsin architect J.T.W. Jennings Klingholz House designed the brick and limestone Whitewater Town of Manitowoc Rapids, Manitowoc County Passenger Depot. The depot represents the growing importance of the railroad, which contributed to the community’s development. When completed in 1891, it was a stop on Wisconsin’s most important rail line during the The John Pritzlaff Hardware Company facility height of passenger rail transportation. The was the location of the firm’s operations and former depot currently serves as the home of offices from 1875 to 1958, when the company the Whitewater Historical Society’s local history closed. No other hardware concern in Milwaukee museum. compared with the Pritzlaff Hardware Company in terms of volume of business. Additions to the initial building in 1879, 1887, 1895, 1903, 1912, 1915 and 1919 reflect the growth and success of the firm. The facility is also notable for its unique collection of storefront design with examples of decorative cast iron and carved-stone columns. John Pritzlaff The complex was recently partially rehabilitated Hardware Company under the federal historic preservation tax credit Milwaukee, Milwaukee County program.

The Pulaski Presbyterian Church’s tall steeple Upper Twin Falls Bridge has been a prominent visual landmark in the Town of Florence, Florence County surrounding rural countryside for more than 100 years. The complex contains two buildings: The Upper Twin Falls Bridge is a steel the Gothic Revival-style church and the smaller camelback-through-truss structure built 1910- schoolhouse annex. Congregation members built 11 by the Central States Bridge Company the clapboard-clad church in 1874 to replace of Indiana. Designed by Wisconsin engineer the original log church constructed 1862. They M.W. Torkelson, it spans the channel of the constructed the schoolhouse in 1901. These Menominee River on the Michigan-Wisconsin buildings served the congregation continuously border. The truss bridge has a length of Pulaski Presbyterian until 2002, when the church suspended 145 feet and, together with its associated Church Complex services. Currently, the buildings are used for causeways, crosses a wide stretch of the river special events. that, known as Badwater Lake, backs up Town of Pulaski, Iowa County behind the dam associated with the Twin Falls Hydroelectric Facility.

To learn more about available Society resources to aid in preserving historic homes or properties, visit wisconsinhistory.org/hp.

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Collections Highlight: Deke Slayton Museum in Sparta THE DEKE SLAYTON Memorial Space & Bicycle A new addition to the museum arrived this Museum, founded in 1999, honors the late past July: Pegasus, the Space Bike. This bike Sparta native, Donald “Deke” Slayton. He was started out as a 1981 Schwinn bicycle that one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts, a group Donovan Hall, inventor of Pegasus, transformed

DEKE SLAYTON MUSEUM of seven courageous men chosen in 1959 to be into the “Swiss army knife” of bikes. Hall took America’s very first astronauts. Sparta also has the his inspiration from NASA’s shuttle program earliest rails-to-trails program in the country. This and wanted to make something unique. It took What to Know Before program converts old railroad tracks into bike him 10 years to transform the bicycle. Pegasus, You Go trails and, because Sparta was the first participant, as he fondly calls it, has some amazing features: the community embraces the title, “Bicycling a six-disc CD changer, headlights, parking lights, The museum is open year round. For location, hours, group Capital of America.” The museum blends these sirens, a fire extinguisher, air compressor and, of tour information, admission two unlikely subjects of space and bicycles, course, live rockets. fees and other details, visit attracting more than 7,000 visitors a year. The crown jewel of the museum’s artifact dekeslaytonmuseum.com/about. The museum artifact collection displays more collection is a moon rock brought back on than 100 bikes, ranging from the early 1800s the Apollo 16 mission in 1972. It came to the to today. Space memorabilia from every decade museum in 2006 as part of an Ambassador of of the space program is on display including Exploration Award the museum received from letters signed by five United States presidents. NASA and Slayton’s wife Bobbie in honor of The museum also features artifacts on loan from Deke Slayton. It is the only place in Wisconsin NASA, the largest being Deke Slayton’s Mercury where you can view a piece of the moon. The 7 space suit from 1959. museum is proud to display it. •

Sixth Annual Wisconsin Local History-Historic Preservation Conference a Big Hit THE TWO-DAY 2012 Local History and Historic and statewide historical groups are doing while Preservation Conference in Madison drew simultaneously providing conference attendees almost 300 attendees. Conference participants with an opportunity to network with colleagues took advantage of the 23 presentations and 13 over a hot beverage and a piece of kringle. workshops. Topics ranged from managing your Don’t forget to mark your calendar for the museum collections and partnering with your 2013 conference, October 11-12, at the Hotel local library to repairing ornamental stained Mead in Wisconsin Rapids (hotelmead.com). glass. Many of the conference presentations are This year’s conference will feature an expanded available to view online, print or download at Town Square, a full schedule of sessions and wisconsinhistory.org/localhistory/presentations. workshops, and tours that highlight the area’s This year the Wisconsin Council for history and natural environment, including Local History, a longtime conference partner, Glacial Lake Cranberries, one of the oldest and introduced something new – the Town Square largest cranberry marshes in Central Wisconsin. Conference attendees view exhibits – which by all accounts was a huge success. The conference is open to anyone with an interest in the Society’s recently renovated This new feature greatly facilitated everyone’s in historic preservation or local history. • Library Reading Room opportunity to learn more about what other local

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Local History Highlight Try Out the Vernon County Historical Society’s New Smart Phone Technology LOCAL HISTORY ORGANIZATIONS have used The purpose of the mobile site is to promote technology to connect with audiences in various the Vernon County Historical Society to local ways. At recent regional meetings and the annual residents and tourists, with a focus on reaching conferences, conversations have focused on younger audiences. Visitors new to the area websites, email, social media and, more recently, now can access helpful information available on QR codes. their smart phone, complete with maps, website Short for Quick-Response Code, a QR code links, and contact information. The walking is a matrix barcode that you scan with a smart tour comprises 21 locations that have their own phone to connect to a mobile website. They seem mobile Web pages with a Google Map and a to be popping up everywhere, from billboards summary of the historical background of the to magazine ads, and now even at your local property. The site also has links to membership, historical society. The Vernon County Historical contact and sponsorship information. Local Scan this QR code with your smart Society, located in Viroqua, launched its QR businesses sponsor the site, and the ads renew phone to visit the Vernon County code project last year. Mark Troy, a local business each year, creating an ongoing source of funding Historical Society’s mobile site. owner, approached past president of the society, for the society. In the future, Krause hopes to see Gary Krause, about how a QR code project could additional components added, such as museum What to Know promote the society’s walking tour. Troy had exhibit information, events, and audio and video Before You Go taken the Heritage Hike Tour, which highlights components. • 21 historic buildings, and developed a draft of The Vernon County Historical Society operates four historic sites the mobile site. Gary and other board members in the county: the Vernon County saw the potential of the idea. Museum, located at 410 South Center Avenue; Old St. Mary’s Church Museum; Foreaker One- Room School in Liberty Township; and the historic Sherry-Butt House. For hours and locations, call (608) 637-7396 or visit vernoncountyhistoricalsociety. Another Series of Local History and Genealogy com. Classes Available Spring 2013 IN 2013 THE field services program and planning to submit a mini-grant application the Division of Library-Archives will partner in 2013. Genealogy programming will include to offer a new slate of workshops and webinars information about organizing your research, providing instruction on topics related to the finding collections that will help fill in the gaps, administration of local historical organizations as well as what you can and cannot find online. and genealogy research. The cost will range from Free genealogy webinars will also be available for $25 to $45, while a few will be free. Members of certain topics. the Society and the Wisconsin State Genealogical For details and information about registering Society receive $5 discounts. for these workshops or webinars, visit Workshop topics will include how to research wisconsinhistory.org/localhistory/workshops or land records, develop an oral history program, call Amy Norlin at (608) 264-6579. If you want WHI 50491 preserve historic barns and work with archival your name added to an email list for notifications Drawing of Ames-Angier family tree of North Easton, Massachusetts, collections. One free webinar will provide tips of classes, email AskLibrary@wisconsin 1560–1937 on submitting mini-grant applications. This history.org. • program will be especially useful to affiliates

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The following are special event highlights for the Winter 2013 Save the Date: FREE Member Even quarter. For a complete listing of events, visit wisconsinhistory.org/ calendar. Thursday evening, February 21 Hollywood in the Heartland > J a n u a r y University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee More details coming soon. January 9 Bottoms Up Book Event For more information call (888) 748-7479 in Shorewood Jim Draeger, co-author of Bottoms Up: A Toast to Wisconsin’s Historic Bars & Breweries, will discuss the book and sign copies. Shorewood Public Library, 3920 > M a r ch North Murray Avenue, Shorewood, 10 a.m. (414) 847-2670 January 12 Hearthside Dinner March 9 Hearthside Dinner See the January 12 event description. Wade House, Live the history of the 1860s as you prepare a meal in 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. $45. (920) 526-3271 or wadehouse@ the kitchen of the historic Wade House stagecoach inn. wisconsinhistory.org Wade House, 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. $45. (920) 526-3271 or [email protected] March 15 – 16 Annual Ghost January 14 Bottoms Up Co-Author to Ships Festival in Milwaukee Address Portage Historical Society Society underwater archaeologists will host an informational table at the festival, where exhibits, Jim Draeger, co-author of Bottoms Up: A Toast to workshops and presentations cover just about Wisconsin’s Historic Bars & Breweries, will speak at the every aspect of Great Lakes maritime history and local historical society’s annual dinner. A book signing scuba diving. Crowne Plaza, 6401 South 13th Street, will follow. Trail’s Lounge Supper Club, Milwaukee, 3 – 9:30 p.m. Friday, 8 a.m. – 7 p.m. 125 Wauona Trail, Portage, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. Saturday. (414) 764-5300. $20 in advance, Reservations required. $15 includes meal and $25 at the door. presentation ($5 for presentation only). (608) 429-9214 or [email protected] March 16 Bottoms Up Book Party in Mineral Point > F eb r u a r y Jim Draeger and Mark Speltz, co-authors of Bottoms Up: A Toast to Wisconsin’s Historic Bars & Breweries, will help mark St. Patrick’s Day and toast the history February 6 Bottoms Up Book Event and culture of bars and brewing in Wisconsin. A book in Madison signing will follow. Pendarvis, 5:30 – 9 p.m. Culinary History Enthusiasts of Wisconsin will host (608) 987-2122 or [email protected] Jim Draeger, co-author of Bottoms Up: A Toast to Wisconsin’s Historic Bars & Breweries, at its February March 21 Building Taliesin Book meeting. Goodman Community Center, 149 Waubesa Talk in Middleton Street, Madison, 7:15 p.m. (608) 241-1574 Ron McCrea, author of Building Taliesin: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Home of Love and Loss, tells the fascinating February 9 Hearthside Dinner story of building the architect’s principal residence See the January 12 event description. Wade House, through previously unpublished memoirs, letters and 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. $45. (920) 526-3271 or wadehouse@ photos. Middleton Public Library, 7425 Hubbard Avenue, wisconsinhistory.org Middleton, 7 p.m. (608) 831-5564 or [email protected] February 23 Upper Midwest Scuba March 24 Building Taliesin Book and Adventure Travel Show in Minneapolis Talk in Middleton Society underwater archaeologists will host an See the March 21 event description. A Room of One’s informational table at the annual travel show. Crowne Own, 315 W Gorham Street, 2 p.m. (608) 257-7888 or Plaza North, 2200 Freeway Boulevard, Minneapolis, [email protected] 9 a.m. – 9:30 p.m. (877) 834-3613. $10 in advance, $15 at the door.

See more winter events on page 9.

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Winter Events and Exhibits at the Wisconsin Historical Museum Admission by donation (unless otherwise noted)

Through March 23 Bottoms Up: A Toast to Wisconsin’s February 5 History Sandwiched In: Teju the Storyteller Historic Bars & Breweries Come and listen to tales of African heritage by Teju Explore Wisconsin’s tavern culture through historic photos (Tejumola Ologboni), a master storyteller and folklorist of and breweriana, and discover how the state came to international renown. 12:15 – 1 p.m. dominate the brewing industry. 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Tuesday February 9 Ojibwe Songwriting through Saturday Join folk music singer and songwriter Bobby Bullet St. Through August 31 Wisconsin Innovations: From the Germaine for a compelling performance as he shares his Iconic to the Unexpected* story and his Ojibwe heritage. 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. Discover the diverse array of inventions, concepts and February 9 Omeyocan Dance Company traditions that originated, in one way or another, in Watch the Omeyocan Dance Company performance Wisconsin. 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday featuring authentic dances, costumes and music as they January 12 Toasting Our Fermented Past entertain and educate about Mexico’s colorful cultural Kevin Cullen, archaeology associate at Discovery World, history. 11 a.m. – noon will explore the archaeological evidence of brewing beer February 16 – 17 Madison Winter Festival throughout the world and Wisconsin, including a discussion Madison Winter Festival revelers can drop in to warm up of recent re-creations of ancient recipes. 1 – 2:30 p.m. with hot chocolate and explore Wisconsin’s distinct heritage Registration required by Friday, January 11 through the museum’s exhibits. Saturday 10 a.m. – 3 p.m., January 15 History Sandwiched In: Life, Death and Sunday 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. Archaeology at Fort Blue Mounds February 19 History Sandwiched In: Robert A. Birmingham, author of Life, Death and Civil War Quilts and Stories , will summarize the Archaeology at Fort Blue Mounds Join quilter Pat Ehrenberg as she shares her knowledge of 1832 conflict and details the history of Fort Blue Mounds. the stories of quilts made during the Civil War. 12:15 – 1 p.m. 12:15 – 1 p.m. January 26 The Science of Beer February 23 Woodland Flutes David Ryder, chief brew master at MillerCoors, will give Frank Montano plays and makes a unique type of flute an entertaining romp through brewing history as he traces called the Woodland flute after the people who historically back various styles of beer, ingredients and processing played it, Woodland Indians. Come learn more about this methods, and where the industry is headed today. traditional instrument, and listen to Frank as he shares his 1 – 3 p.m. Registration required by Friday, January 18. knowledge of the Woodland flute.11 a.m. – noon February 2 Beer and Chocolate February 23 Iroquois Raised Beadwork Furthermore Beer will provide its best brews to complement Join Karen Ann Hoffman, a member of the Oneida Nation Gail Ambrosius’ sweet treats as they take you on a delicious of Wisconsin, as she discusses Iroquois raised beadwork. journey through new flavor combinations. 1 – 3 p.m. 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. Registration required by Friday, January 25. Must be 21+.

The museum is located at 30 North Carroll Street on Madison’s Capitol Square. For more information call (608) 264-6555, email [email protected] or visit wisconsinhistory.org/museum.

* Wisconsin Innovations is made possible by a lead grant from the Madison Community Foundation, generous gifts from American Family Insurance, the Save the Date Evjue Foundation, Inc., and Sentry Equipment Corporation, with additional support from Ann L. Koski, Promega Corporation, Madison Gas and Electric Looking for a Home: An African-American Foundation, U.S. Bank and Wisconsin Public Radio. Genealogy Conference Friday and Saturday, June 21-22, 2013 The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street, Madison For more information email [email protected]

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Society Welcomes Black Point Estate in Lake Geneva to its Family of Historic Sites ONE OF WISCONSIN’S most magnificent furniture from the family’s previous Chicago properties, Black Point Estate, a historic house home into Black Point. The four generations of and gardens on the shore of Geneva Lake, joined Seipps kept all of those furnishings in the house, the other 11 historic sites and museums managed making it a rare time capsule for historians. As by the Society, effective January 1. Chicago each generation took its place, though, it added beer baron Conrad Seipp built the grand Queen its own touches so that now everyday household Anne-style home in 1888 as a summer family items range from Victorian to modern but share getaway to give his family respite from the heat the same family provenance. and bustle of the city. Seipp’s great-grandson, “We’re delighted to welcome Black Point into William O. Petersen, donated the 20-room our network of historic sites and museums,” said house, its grounds and furnishings to the state of Ellsworth Brown, The Ruth and Hartley Barker Wisconsin in September 2005 for use as a state Director of the Society. “We have a longstanding One of the elegant rooms of Black historic site. tradition of interpreting the state’s history through Point Estate Part of Petersen’s motivation for donating historic homes and buildings, and Black Point is the lakefront property is that he lamented the a real treasure chest of Wisconsin history.” loss of so many of Lake Geneva’s original homes As was typical of Lake Geneva mansions built and wanted to avoid the same fate for Black in the late 19th century, Black Point’s creators Point. Following a $1.9 million state-financed saw it as a “summer cottage.” With no roads or restoration overseen by the Department of access to utilities, the owners of these splendid Administration, Black Point opened for visitation structures never envisioned that they could ever in June 2007. Between then and January 1, 2013, be more. Black Point is open for tours from the Black Point Preserve Inc. Board of Directors, May through October. For the rest of the year, composed of dedicated volunteers, ably managed it quietly sleeps as it has for more than 124 years. the house and property. During that time the A conservation easement protects Black Preserve has shared the story of the house and Point and its 620 feet of shoreline from future family with tens of thousands of visitors who development, and a conditional use permit helps arrive at the estate the most authentic and popular define the parameters of operation so that Black way, by boat, just as family and friends did in a Point will continue the operating traditions that bygone era. protect the privacy of nearby residents. The house is one of the oldest mansions in Look for more details about Black Point’s Lake Geneva. The Seipp family, while building 2013 operating season in the spring issue of Black Point, was simultaneously building a new Columns. The front porch overlooks the scenic • Geneva Lake shoreline mansion in Chicago and moved much of the Staff of the Lake Geneva Regional News contributed to this story.

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$237,000 Awarded for Local Preservation Training IN SEPTEMBER the Society received a $237,000 hands-on training held across the state and by grant from the federal Institute of Museum and strengthening the networks among all small and Library Services’ “Connecting to Collections” large Wisconsin collecting institutions to better program to help preserve historical collections in share resources and information.” local institutions. Working with the Wisconsin Matt Blessing, director of the Society’s Department of Public Instruction, the Wisconsin Library-Archives Division, views the grant as a Federation of Museums and Wisconsin Library direct result of the Society’s recently completed Services, the Society will train more than 300 capital campaign: “Our ability to offer this kind of local staff in low-cost, practical measures that substantive training is a fine example of the direct improve their current collections care and help benefits stemming from the endowed preservation them respond to emergencies. The training will coordinator position, a major initiative within the consist of 28 statewide and regional conferences recently completed Forward! Campaign.” over the next two years. Conference workshops The institute’s “Connecting to Collections” will also cover risk assessment, disaster planning program funded the project, which is the federal The Society’s Preservation Coordinator and salvage strategies, so local organizations can government’s principal way of supporting the Katie Mullen respond professionally to floods, fires, storms and nation’s 17,500 museums and 123,000 libraries. other catastrophes. Wisconsin was one of only eight states to receive Society Preservation Coordinator Katie the award this year. Mullen, who administers the grant, said, “it For more information, contact Katie Mullen, allows us to address the greatest preservation the Society’s preservation coordinator, at (608) needs of Wisconsin cultural heritage institutions 264-6489 or via email to kathleen.mullen@ in the most effective manner possible – through wisconsinhistory.org. •

Easier Access to Society Headquarters on the Horizon THE SOCIETY APPRECIATES your patience as All of this much-need work coincides with its headquarters at 816 State Street in Madison a demolition and construction project on the undergoes a flurry of construction that will Memorial Union. Langdon Street is temporarily result in a new ADA-compliant wheelchair ramp restricted to one-way, westbound traffic, and on the north side facing the Memorial Union. fences cordon off much of the University of Additional work involves waterproofing the film Wisconsin’s Library Mall. Please allow a few extra vault, which lies beneath the sidewalk and lawn minutes of travel time when visiting the Society. in front of the building, and repair of the carved The best nearby public parking is Madison’s Lake stone lions that overlook the front entrance, Street Parking Ramp. For questions about access which will remain closed until spring or early to the building during construction, scheduled summer. Miron Construction of Neenah is the for completion in August 2013, please call (608) general contractor for the $2.9 million project. 264-6535. •

Miron construction workers excavate near the area where a new wheelchair ramp will begin at street level

Workers remove the balustrade’s corner block Workers begin removing the front steps

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Old World Wisconsin Field Trips Meet State Academic Standards OLD WORLD WISCONSIN strives to continually and a short recess activity. Together the activities create programs for students that align with state weave a story of how immigrants arrived, adopted academic standards for social studies. Students American characteristics and held hopes that participate in a variety of activities that vividly their children would embrace the culture of their

VERN demonstrate how life in the past connects to new homeland. GO

c the ideas they are learning in the classroom. The education staff encourages teachers to Teachers choose two or three one-hour programs rate Old World Wisconsin school programs on a

LISA M from among the seven offered. Each program scale of one to five, using the feedback to adjust Raspberry School at Old World comprises visits to selected buildings on the site programs to make sure that a field trip to Old Wisconsin that illustrate an immigration theme. One can World Wisconsin is a winning experience for experience the life of a newly arrived immigrant students and teachers alike. The teacher input at the 1840s Fossebrekke house in the Norwegian also gives them a voice in how modifications to area, where students cooperate in packing trunks, the field trip programs will help them achieve as if they are leaving on their voyage to America. their teaching goals. At the 1860s Kvaale house, inhabited by an Teachers planning on scheduling a field immigrant family who had been in the U.S. trip should contact Old World Wisconsin at for 20 years, students card wool – signaling (262) 594-6301 or email owwschooltours@ they had become part of the local economy wisconsinhistory.org. For more information, visit and community – and furnishings reflect an the museum’s website at oldworldwisconsin.org American influence on the family. A trip to the and follow the field trips link. 1900s Raspberry School includes a mock lesson Mary Nohl and Father Groppi Featured in Two New Badger Biographies THE SOCIETY PRESS expands its Badger Biographies Father Groppi: Marching for Civil Rights by offerings to young readers with biographies about Stuart Stotts tells the story of the Catholic priest Milwaukee artist, Mary Nohl, and Milwaukee who stood up for civil rights in the 1960s and civil rights activist, Father James Groppi. ‘70s. Growing up on Milwaukee’s south side as the Mary Nohl: A Lifetime in Art by Barbara son of Italian immigrants, Father James Groppi Manger and Janine Smith tells the story of a knew what it felt like to be treated poorly because Milwaukee-born artist who made her home on of who you are and learned to respect people the shores of Lake Michigan. From the time she from other groups. While studying to become was young, Mary Nohl enjoyed making things a priest, Groppi saw the discrimination African and working with tools. Her interest in art Americans faced. Father Groppi marched with blossomed at the Chicago Institute of Art, where Martin Luther King Jr. and other leaders of the she developed a lifetime of curiosity and ventured civil rights movement, but he focused much of into new mediums. From pottery and silver his work on his own city. In Milwaukee he teamed jewelry to oil painting and concrete sculpture, up with the NAACP and other organizations, Mary explored new ways of making art. She protesting discrimination and segregation. This made many of her pieces from “found” objects important story of a turbulent time in Wisconsin that other people might think of as junk, such as history sheds light on the civil rights movement chicken bones, bedsprings and sand. Though she and its place in the North. died in 2001, Mary’s legacy continues. The John The Badger Biographies series helps kids ages 7 Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan holds a to 12 explore the stories of real Wisconsin people. collection of her art, and her home in Fox Point is Learn more about our Badger Biographies at listed in the National Register of Historic Places. wisconsinhistory.org/whspress/series-young.asp.

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W11256_Columns_Winter13.indd 12 12/19/12 8:29 AM Spotlight on Supporters

Meet: George Elder

Spotlight on Supporters

Lifelong Madisonian Creates Lasting Are you particularly interested in any houses incorporation papers and charter Legacy specific aspects of history? documents for thousands of Wisconsin George Elder has not only lived in I suspect that I have been captivated corporations. Madison, Wisconsin, his entire life, by history since I was a child. I am he has also resided in the same house especially interested in the history and What inspired you to include the that whole time, nestled on a tree-lined development of the United States. I Wisconsin Historical Society in your block in the Williamson-Marquette greatly admire George Washington estate plans? neighborhood. Elder inherited his and Thomas Jefferson and the other I have decided to include several childhood home from his parents, prominent statesmen of America’s organizations that have enriched my life who purchased the dwelling in 1920. revolutionary generation. However, my in Madison in my will and that have a But don’t let that fool you, he is no favorite American president is Abraham legitimate and worthy need for funds. homebody — Elder has a fondness for Lincoln. His career as a lawyer is often The Wisconsin Historical Society is one travel and his global voyages have taken overlooked and is truly fascinating. I organization that has a rather diverse him “just about anywhere you can recently discovered that Lincoln argued field of functions, including academic think of.” many important cases in defense of the and recreational. It serves millions of railroad companies. As president, Lincoln people statewide, which requires a Recently, Elder informed the Wisconsin signed the Pacific Railway Act, which led substantial amount of funding, making Historical Foundation that he has to the creation of the Transcontinental it a very appropriate place to make a included a provision in his will to Railroad. donation. I am generally a “tight-fisted” support the Wisconsin Historical individual, but I have realized you can’t Society. Following is a transcript of a What is special, in your view, about take it with you, and the next best thing recent interview with him. the Wisconsin Historical Society? is to direct it towards beneficial causes I have vivid memories of going to see the that make sense. • Why does history matter to you? museum as a child when it was housed If you visit the National Archives in the same building as the Society’s building in Washington, D.C., there headquarters on the UW-Madison Create a Lasting Legacy – is an enormous sculpture on the campus. Today the museum is located Join the Robert B.L. Murphy Pennsylvania Avenue side of the building on the Capitol Square and remains an Legacy Circle called “The Future” by Robert Aitken. excellent place to visit. The Society also It is a statue of a young woman who operates several wonderful historic sites Creating a legacy often means handing down lifts her eyes from the pages of an open throughout the state, many which are what we value most. For many of us, that book and gazes into the future. Its base museums themselves. The historic sites includes making certain that our successors will inherit our history and heritage. is inscribed with a line inspired by really tell the story of Wisconsin — how Shakespeare’s play The Tempest: “What it evolved, its various ethnic cultures, You can help ensure future generations will become heir to the stories of our state and is Past is Prologue.” I believe history and what life used to be like. They nation by including the Wisconsin Historical matters because it influences the present. serve both a recreational and academic Foundation in your will, naming the Foundation It is important to make certain history is purpose. I’ve used the Society’s library as a beneficiary of your retirement plan or passed onto today’s young people. That’s from time to time, and I believe the establishing a life-income or other planned gift. For more information about the various what generations before us did, so why archives provide an invaluable service to ways you can support the Society through not continue that arrangement? both individuals and private companies. gift planning, please contact Sarah Milestone In addition to personal papers, many at (608) 264-6585 or via email at sarah. people don’t realize that the archives also [email protected].

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Meet the Wisconsin Historical Foundation’s New Co-Directors We are PLEASED to announce that Diane Nixa an endowment and enhance ongoing operational and Wes Mosman Block have been appointed co- and capital fundraising programs. She holds a directors of the Wisconsin Historical Foundation. bachelor’s degree in literature-communications Diane L. Nixa from the University of North Florida and an Co-Director and Chief Advancement Officer MBA from the University of California-Davis. Diane joined the Wisconsin Historical Wesley E. Mosman Block Foundation in October 2010 as director of Co-Director and Chief Operations Officer philanthropy. Before moving to Wisconsin to Wes joined the Wisconsin Historical Diane Nixa be closer to family in Minnesota, Diane served Foundation in 2006 and has served the as managing director, development and special Foundation as annual giving manager, operations events with New York City Ballet. Previously manager and director of operations. Wes is a native she was vice president of development with of Bayside, Wisconsin, and earned his bachelor’s Friends of the High Line in New York City, and degree from St. Olaf College in political science. vice president of development at the New Jersey He relocated to Madison to join the Foundation Performing Arts Center where she oversaw a staff and has since earned his MBA from the comprehensive $180 million campaign to build University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Members Toast Wisconsin’s Historic Wes Mosman Block Bars and Breweries MEMBERS TOASTED WISCONSIN’S storied enjoyed a sneak preview of Wisconsin Public To purchase a copy of Bottoms tavern culture at two events in September and Television’s companion documentary. Members Up: A Toast to Wisconsin’s October. Guests celebrated the release of a new also celebrated the opening of a new Bottoms Up Historic Bars & Breweries, or its book from the Wisconsin Historical Society companion exhibit at the Wisconsin Historical companion documentary from Press, Bottoms Up: A Toast to Wisconsin’s Historic Museum in Madison. Wisconsin Public Television, visit Bars & Breweries, in La Crosse, where they also wisconsinhistory.org/shop or call (888) 999-1669.

For more information about viewing the Bottoms Up exhibit at the Wisconsin Historical Museum, visit wisconsinhistory. org/museum or call (608) 264-6555.

(Above) Erik and Neal Ford (Right) Karen Rude and Gail Cleary

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W11256_Columns_Winter13.indd 14 12/19/12 8:29 AM Statewide Programs Madeline Island Museum UW Superior and Locations Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center

UW River Falls UW Stout

UW Eau Claire

UW Stevens Point Reed School UW Green Bay LEGEND

Society Headquarters 816 State St. UW Oshkosh Madison, WI 53706 General Information: (608) 264-6400 UW LaCrosse LIBRARY (608) 264-6534 Wade House ARCHIVES (608) 264-6460 H.H. Bennett Studio Regular Hours: 8AM - 9PM Monday-Thursday 8AM - 5PM Friday and Saturday Circus World Wisconsin Historical Foundation (608) 261-9364 UW Milwaukee

Villa Louis Historic Sites And Museums Old World Black Point Estate Pendarvis Wisconsin Lake Geneva, WI Stonefield (262) 248-1888 First Capitol UW Whitewater Circus World UW Platteville UW Parkside 550 Water St., Baraboo, WI Black point estate (866) 693-1500 First Capitol County Hwy. G, Belmont, WI Stonefield Area Research Centers (608) 987-2122 12195 Hwy. VV, Cassville, WI wisconsinhistory.org/libraryarchives/arcnet H.H. Bennett Studio (608) 725-5210 215 Broadway, Wisconsin Dells, WI Affiliated Historical Societies Villa Louis (608) 253-3523 521 N. Villa Louis Rd., Prairie du Chien, WI Madeline Island Museum (608) 326-2721 Active Historic Preservation Commissions 226 Col. Woods Ave., La Pointe, WI Wade House (715) 747-2415 Participating National History Day Schools W7824 Center St., Greenbush, WI Old World Wisconsin (920) 526-3271 W372 S9727 Hwy. 67, Eagle, WI Fourth-grade Textbook In Use (262) 594-6301 Wisconsin Historical Museum 30 N. Carroll St. National Register Listings Pendarvis Madison, WI 53703 114 Shake Rag St., Mineral Point, WI (608) 264-6555 (608) 987-2122 Hours: 9AM-4PM Tuesday-Saturday Reed School wisconsinhistory.org/museum U.S. Hwy. 10 & Cardinal Ave., Neillsville, WI Museum Store (608) 253-3523 (888) 999-1669

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W11256_Columns_Winter13.indd 15 12/19/12 8:29 AM Columns Published Quarterly by the Wisconsin Historical Society Headquarters Building | 816 State Street | Madison, WI 53706 Periodical Class

DidDid youyou know? know?

• The Sunday afternoon ritual during summers at Black Point was to make ice cream, with each child taking a turn at the churn. • To teach responsibility, each child in the Black Point household was assigned a goat for the summer to care for and keep out of the gardens. Though Black Point always served the Conrad • Alma Schmidt Petersen was the first to envision Black Point as a Seipp family as a summer home only, the elegantly furnished house exudes an air of house museum, but it was her son William and his wife Jane who opulence and wealth. made it happen.

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W11256_Columns_Winter13.indd 16 12/19/12 8:30 AM Thank You to Our Donors 2011 - 2012

The Wisconsin Historical Foundation and Wisconsin Historical Society thank the following individuals and organizations for their invaluable annual contributions. Your generous support provided over $2.8 million in critical funding for our ongoing education, genealogy, local history and historic preservation programs, historic sites and museums activities, and the preservation of the priceless evidence of Wisconsin’s heritage.

The following giving levels and listed contributions represent cumulative gifts of $500 or more to the annual fund from July 1, 2011 through June 30, 2012.

W. Jerome Frautschi Jennifer and Martin Chiaverini ritage He Ci e rc Robert and Dorothy Luening Tom DeChant h le T Tom and Nancy Mohs George A. Fait Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation Kristine M. Heideman Mrs. Carroll A. Heideman $5,000 to $9,999 Richard G. Jacobus Family Foundation Anonymous (2) Neal R. Nottleson John Arnold Anita A. Reid Nancy Marshall Bauer Walt and Milly Rugland Greater Milwaukee Foundation Grant and Heritage Circle Rosemary Beutner Fund Donald and Cynthia Schott Gifts of $1,000 or more Mr. and Mrs. Oscar C. Boldt Snoeyenbos Family Foundation, Inc. Kathryn A. Steckelberg $25,000 and more Anne W. Bolz Dave and Maggie Stoeffel Anonymous Thomas E. Caestecker Donald E. Thies Ruth and Hartley Barker Advised Fund Rockne and JoAnn Flowers Peter B. Wiley through Incourage Community Mrs. Paul W. Guenzel* Foundation Robert and Elke Hagge Frederick and Eleanor Winston Jeffris Family Foundation Ltd. Richard Jung Michael and JoAnn Youngman Ruth DeYoung Kohler Ralph and Erica Kauten Dave and Sandy Zweifel William O. Petersen* Audrey Z. & Rowland J. McClellan Fund, a component of the Community Foun- $10,000 to $24,999 dation of Southern Wisconsin, Inc. Anonymous John K. Notz Mr. James P. Danky and Ms. C. I. Julia A. and David V. Uihlein, Jr. Schelshorn Dohmen Family Foundation $2,500 to $4,999 John J. Frautschi Family Foundation Jim Cargill

Family at History on the Square

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$1,000 to $2,499 Mark and Janet Gajewski Connie and Bob Lieding Anonymous (3) C. Frederick Geilfuss II and Anne Hamilton Sheldon & Marianne Lubar Charitable Estate of Donna M. Kalnes Conrad and Sandra Goodkind Fund of the Lubar Family Foundation Ramona and Jerry Achtor Alicia L. and Jerry D. Goehring James Luckow Elizabeth and Lynn Adelman Michael and Sherry Gotzler George L.N. Meyer Family Foundation, Inc. Peggy Ahlgren Joel Greiner Mr. and Mrs. Frederic E. Mohs Amy Alpine Hayden D. Groy George and Julie Mosher Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Dave Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Fritz P. Grutzner Wesley and Caitlin Mosman Block Jon and Rita Angeli Richard and Beverly Hahn Sharon Mulak and Lloyd Velicer Rima and Michael Apple Margie Devereaux and David Hall Greg Oberland Janet C. Balding Warren E. Hansen, Sr. William P. O’Connor and Krista Roys Drs. Gita and Jitendra K. Baruah James Hardy and Diane Dei Rossi Kay J. and Konrad C. Opitz Lawrence E. Bechler and Profs. Edward R. and Betty R. Hasselkus Peter Ostlind Patricia D. Struck F. Curtis and Dawn Hastings Bob and Holly Ottum Anita Been Henry and Suzanne Herzing Virginia A. Palmer Virginia J. Bench Fannie Frazier Hicklin Parker Foundation Todd I. & Betty J. Berens Norbert and Mary Anne Hill Mr. and Mrs. Fred D. Pfening III Barry Berman Dr. James L. Hoehn and Ms. Nancy J. Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Pifer Christopher and Mary Pat Berry Goldberg Cheryl and Gregory Poplett Thomas and Karen Binder Dick and Donna Holscher Kathleen Ratteree Joan and Roger L. Boerner Jack Holzhueter William F. Reinicker Tom and Renee Boldt James M. and Joan M. Horsfall Jeff and Jone Riester Ann and Dean Bowles Carolyn and Wm. Pharis Horton James R. Riordan Glenda and Dave Buholzer Mr. and Mrs. Clare F. Hutson Dr. David and Peggy Rosenzweig Peter and Carol Carstensen Susie Fritz Jablonic Carol Ann Schlatter Gail K. Cleary Dr. Gretchen Jaeger Michael Schmudlach Mildred and Marv Conney Bruce J. Johnson The Honorable and Mrs. Martin J. Schreiber Bob and Susan Crane - Crane Farms The Henry Jung Family June and Richard Seaman Mr. and Mrs. Francis R. Croak Art and Martha Kaemmer Fund of Philip and Phyllis Sillman Mark and Mary Curran HRK Foundation Joyce A. Smith Laurie and Bruce Davidson Terrence K. Knudsen Trygve A. Solberg Dennis and Maribeth Dorn Ann L. Koski Dawn and David Stucki Mary Ann and Tom Dyer Mr. and Mrs. John C. Koss Sr. E.C. Styberg Foundation, Inc. Stephen P. and Jennifer Eager Ehle William M. Kubly Elizabeth Talley John H. Englesby Nancy and Pedro Kuczynski Judith and Donald Taylor Jim and Pati Ericson William L. Kundert Bob and Pat Thomasgard Leota B. Ester Family Fund within the James P. and Joan E. Laabs John and Carol Toussaint Community Foundation for the Mary Ann and Charles LaBahn Charles Trainer and Anne Booth Fox Valley Region Jay Lang/The Lang Group Terry and Judith Turner John R. Evans Ross and Ellen Langill Bill and Marilyn Van Sant Emil Ewald Family Foundation Lars Erik Larson Gerald D. Viste Pat and Anne Fee Dan Lau and Ruth Nelson-Lau George L. Vogt Darrell and Sally Foell Mark and Ilene Laufman G. Lane and Linda Ware Barbara N. Fuldner Eric and Monica Lawson William J. Wartmann

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Mr. and Mrs. William J. Webster Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Laskin Organizations Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Weiss Dan Laux and Audrey Shomos Estate of Margaret Heminway Wells David Lee $100,000 And Above Maurice and Grace White Robert J. Lenz Old World Wisconsin Foundation Barbara and Ted Wiley James and Susan Lundberg State of Wisconsin Kim E. and Del F. Wilson Mr. and Mrs. John J. Magnuson $25,000 to $99,999 Jennifer Younger Lucile McFee Navistar Ronald and Amber Zank David V. Mollenhoff Caxambas Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Frank S. Zillner John P. Morgridge Ceres Trust Dr. and Mrs. H. Nicholas Muller III Kohler Foundation, Inc. MEMBERSHIP Sally Mundt Jane Bradley Pettit Foundation John and Lyn Otterstein $500 to $999 Allan and Patty Patek $10,000 to $24,999 Dean Achenbach Mary E. Pautz Judd S. Alexander Foundation Sidney R. Anderson Jerry and Mary Phillips Culver’s Frozen Custard & ButterBurgers G. Leonard Apfelbach John D. Powell The Evjue Foundation, Inc. the charitable M. Jane Ayer James Powell and Kathleen McCormick arm of The Capital Times Julie A. Bader William G. Rasche FRIENDS of the Wisconsin Historical Susan Paskewitz and Bill Barker Society Kevin P. Reilly Marilyn Kapter Bernd and John M. Bernd Sally Mead Hands Foundation Jean S. Rennebohm Dr. and Mrs. Charles R. Boardman Sentry Equipment Corp. Lori Richards Susie B. Boyce Wisconsin Council for Local History Mark D. Ronnie Dr. and Mrs. Henry Burko Jeff Ruehl $5,000 to $9,999 Thomas Burzinski Carolyn O. Schloemer American Girl Linda and Keith Clifford Nancy Z. Schreiber DEMCO, Inc. J. R. Curtis Sam Scinta and Kristen Foehner Dorothy Inbusch Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Patrick D. Eagan Ginny and Peter Seielstad International Harvester Collectors Wisconsin Margueritte S. Gardner Richard and Natalie Sewell Kohler Trust for Preservation James Golz John S. Skilton Mead Witter Foundation, Inc. Dennis and Karen Goodenough Jim Slattery Promega Corporation Edwin Hablitzel Robert J. Spinti Rhona E. Vogel/Vogel Consulting Beverly and Robert Harrington Frank D. Stekel Enid P. Hoffman $2,500 to $4,999 Dr. and Mrs. Michael E. Stevens Gregory Huber Beyer Construction John and Sherry Stilin Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Hyde Coburn Company, Inc. Dr. and Mrs. Alfred J. Tector Marilyn W. John Commonwealth Cultural Resources Group George Tesar Imogene P. Johnson Duluth Superior Area Community Angie and Martha Truby William and Charlotte Johnson Foundation Bernard Van Dinter M. J. Jones International Harvester Collectors, Missouri John E. Wall C. W. Jordahl Murphy Desmond S.C. Frank and Mariana Weinhold Anne and Paul Karch The QTI Group Rev. Charles E. & Mrs. Ruth Werth David and Margaret Kraus Sensient Technologies Corporation Anne M. West Kenneth Kuehn U.S. Bank, NA Richard and Judy Kvalheim *In Memoriam Wisconsin Society of Mayflower Descendants

whs_columns-donors.1.indd 3 12/19/12 8:39 AM $1,000 to $2,499 Robert B. L. Murphy Linda L. Marcinowski Anonymous Legacy Circle Ann M. McNeal George H. Miller* Alliant Energy/Alliant Energy Foundation In recognition of individuals who have Alpha Investment made a planned gift or included the Society Peter J. and Lisa A. Moris Bad River Band of Lake Superior Tribe of in an estate plan Dr. and Mrs. H. Nicholas Muller III Chippewa Indians Tess Mulrooney Anonymous (32) City of Madison Ruth E. Munz George R. Affeldt, Jr. Friends of Wade House, Inc. Judy K. Nagel Peggy Ahlgren German Interest Group John and Lyn Otterstein David H. and Nancy K. Aronson International Harvester Collectors - Indiana Allan and Patty Patek Judge Thomas H. Barland International Harvester Collectors, Inc Patricia J. Popple Nancy Marshall Bauer Marshfield Clinic Gregory Postles Ray Bayley Mead & Hunt James S. and Ann Wartinbee Reeve Dr. Stephen J. and Dr. Miriam R. Bensman Name Badge Productions, LLC Mary and Irvin Sather Todd I. & Betty J. Berens Navistar Michael Schmudlach Will and Ruth Bloedow Needle Arts Association Tony and Mickie* Schmudlach Patricia Anne Boge and R. Jerome Boge Northland College Ruth M. Schoenfeld Ann and Dean Bowles University Of Wisconsin - Extension Donna J. Sereda Carole A. Brandt WPS Health Insurance Judith Siers-Poisson and Jean-Marc Poisson Joyce E. and Thomas L. Bruckner Xcel Energy Foundation John C. Street Robert W. Chase Zebradog David R. Stucki Mary Jean Cronon Dawn E. Stucki $500 to $999 Ellen and Gerald DeMers Donald E. Swinton Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest Stephen P. and Jennifer Eager Ehle Natalie Tinkham CUES (Credit Union Executives Society) George H. Elder John and Carol Toussaint Fisher Barton Inc. Nancy and Gil Emmert George L. Vogt Fond du Lac Area Foundation Jeanne L. Engle Laurie A. Wermter Herbert H. Kohl Charities Richard A. Erney Rev. Charles E. and Mrs. Ruth Werth International Harvester Collectors, Mark and Janet Gajewski Carlyle H. Whipple Chapter #15 of Minnesota Dick Grum Barbara and Ted Wiley Isthmus Architecture, Inc. Richard C. Haney Robert S. Zigman Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Mrs. Carroll A. Heideman MGIC Lorenz Heim *In Memoriam Spacesaver Mark and Melinda Heinritz University League Jack O. Holzhueter Wisconsin Archeological Survey Carolyn and Wm. Pharis Horton Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Mrs. Peter D. Humleker, Jr. Wisconsin Department of Transportation Susie Fritz Jablonic Wisconsin Genealogical Society Joe Joas Tom H. Kalinke Joan B. Key Norma J. Kolthoff* Ann L. Koski Stanley Kutler Mr. and Mrs. Roy C. LaBudde David and Helen Laird Robert and Dorothy Luening

Ruth & Will Bloedow

If you are aware of an omission or error in the lists above, please accept our apologies and contact the Wisconsin Historical Foundation Advancement Office at 608-261-9364.

Thank you to our members

The Wisconsin Historical Foundation and the Wisconsin Historical Society value the generosity and support from all members. We owe a debt of gratitude to you and so many others too numerous to mention here. Thank you for your support.

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