Thursday, August 11, 2016

Put on the Dancing Shoes and Cut a Rug

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Cut a rug. Roll up a rug. That didn’t happen only in a flooring store. It happened in parlors and dining rooms all over Kewaunee County, at...
Saturday, July 16, 2016

Dr. Levi Parsons, Wolf River's First Physician

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August 12, 1856 was heralded as the best day in the fledgling hamlet called Wolf River.  It was the day Dr. Levi Parsons stepped off ...
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Monday, June 6, 2016

Lake Michigan and World War ll: Submarines, Aircraft Carriers, PT Boats and Fighter Planes

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2014 With a population of just over 3,000, Algoma would seem to have been too small a place to have any kind World War ll prominence, b...
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Sunday, May 22, 2016

The Day the Circus Set Up in Grandpa's Hay Field

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A few generations ago there were 10 year old boys whose ambition it was to run away and join the circus. Mothers probably thought they we...
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Friday, May 13, 2016

From Normandy to Kewaunee: The Tug Ludington

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Tug Ludington When a man took a job during the Depression, what he expected to make was money, not history. And so it was with 23 year...
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Saturday, April 16, 2016

Red River: What Happened to Bay View?

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Bay View is another of the long-forgotten Kewaunee County hamlets. The crossroads community in the Town of Red River is where some wo...
Saturday, April 2, 2016

Casco Cheese and a State-of-the-Art Plant

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Casco Cheese Company, 1941 In early April 1948 the Casco Cheese Company invited the public to tour its new addition. The company was...
Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Easter Finery, the Easter Bunny, Eggs and Ahnapee/Algoma

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www.hollywoodsgoldenage.com As early as 1870, there were Easter parades in New York City, the most famous of which is remembered year...
Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Fresh Fish: We Didn't Know Algoma was a Gourmet Paradise

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Algoma's Fishing Fleet on the Ahnapee River: A Time that Was Beautifully presented trout, perch and whitefish in glass display cas...
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