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David Westphal David manages office activities and provides event support for the Mayville Area Chamber of Commerce and Audubon Days promoting Dodge County tourism.

Julie Csiacsek-Schewe Julie is a school psychologist in Manitowoc, but grew up in Beaver Dam. An avid runner who enjoys traveling, she and her husband John have three daughters.

Scott Schmidt Scott and his wife Linda live in Park Falls where he was born and raised. He enjoys fishing with his grandkids and reciting poems in taverns for pizza and beer.

Andrew McDonnell Andrew McDonnell is the Director of Communications at Wayland Academy, Beaver Dam’s own co-educational college preparatory boarding and day school.

Karla Jensen Karla Jensen has been a freelance writer for 25 years. She is a pub¬lished playwright with her hus¬band Mark, and she teaches writ¬ing at the Seippel Center.

Kay Fanshaw Kay is a retired elementary teacher. An active member of the historical society, she is especially interested in the roles women have played in our local history.

To The Reader

Migrate to Mayville Audubon Days

Feature

Pilgrimage Home

The Wandering Man Letter of Legacy

Stump The Beaver

The Riverside Regulars

This & That Summer is Over

The Social Luxury of Beer

Viewfinder Dave Erickson

View From The Kitchen

One Family Hidden Gem

Diving Deep

Lines from Upstream

Feature Artist Frank Mittelstadt

Historical Society

Parting Thoughts

Notable Women

The MAGAZINE EDITOR

PUBLISHER

Erik Dittmann

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ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR

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It is amazing how easily friends can be made in such a tight knit community like ours. In the four years I have been doing this magazine I have been fortunate to meet a lot of people – many have become good friends that continue to stay in contact long after they are featured in the magazine. Friendships are a really important thing to have and I am so appreciative of the connections I continue to make. Even though I don’t feel like it most days, I am a relatively young person. I can hear your moans as I write this. At age 25, I am just far enough out of high school where I am starting to feel nostalgic. Students continually impress me in our area high schools. We feature a high school band The Riverside Regulars. These guys are outstanding – and I don’t say that because of their age. Check them out and support them in any way you can. They remind me a lot of my high school days with our garage band “Spent Past.” All of us who were in the band are still friends today and they are some of the best friends I could ask for. I have discovered there is a group of people locally that meets for just about any interest one may have. Seek out other people that share your interests – it can be the best way to feel truly a part of your community and you will grow to love the city you live in. It is easy to think you are the only one in the area that likes snowshoeing or vintage bicycles, but I bet there are more. By getting together with others, you create community – and community can be a very powerful thing. Finally – our cover is a really special one. This was one that I saw just scrolling through my news feed on Facebook and immediately thought – this is a cover. I was struck by how unique and creative it is. Mostly though by how seemingly ordinary it is at the same time. Technology is a pretty great thing that it allows us to capture these types of images at anytime. I am very thankful to Linda Chipman for allowing us to feature it.

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very year hundreds of thousands of Canada Geese migrate through the Horicon Marsh during their fall migration. For the past 27 years thousands of people from throughout the state have also migrated to Mayville to celebrate Mayville’s Audubon Days Festival. The 28th year will be no different with festivities planned by the Mayville Area Chamber of Commerce October 3rd, 4th and 5th. Many of the classic events that have been with Audubon Days for countless years will be back along with some new ones – there is sure to be something for everyone to enjoy! The festivities kick off on Friday October 3rd at 5 p.m. with the Audubon Days Bed Races. Be sure to grab your seat along South Main Street in Mayville as the beds will be racing right through downtown. Food and beverages will be available for purchase downtown during the races. Following the Bed Races, adults can make their way up to the Mayville Golf Club for the Audubon Days Beer & Wine Tasting. The tasting will feature 20 wines and 20 beers for you to explore along with many hors d’oeuvres and cheeses from Mayville area restaurants and cheese makers (advance tickets are available). Kids can spend their Friday night at the Audubon Days Youth Dance at the Mayville Park Pavilion. Youth can dance the night away from 7 to 9:30 p.m. with music by DJ Express. Concessions are available for purchase, $3 door entry fee. Activities in Mayville City Park on Saturday October 4th kick off with the Audubon Days 5K Run/Walk. The 5K course has rolling hills through Mayville and the countryside for a beautiful view of area scenery (advanced and same day registration available). If biking is more of your sport, tour the Horicon Marsh on five different marked bike routes with the Audubon Days Metric Century Bike Tour. Choose a route from 11 miles to 100 km and view scenes of fall color and waterfowl in the Horicon Marsh (advanced and same day registration available). Also on Saturday, explore the many activities happening in Mayville City Park. You can jump-start your holiday shopping

at the many booths of the Audubon Days Arts & Craft Gallery that opens at 9 a.m. in the park pavilion and stroll through the assortment of cars on display during the Car & Motorcycle Show at Lion’s Point. New this year - explore the world of fine art, as members of Wild Goose Fine Arts United will be in the park from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. demonstrating their fine art techniques and displaying their work. For lunch, be sure to visit the Audubon Days Food Court where area clubs and organizations will be selling many eats and treats, all for a good cause (and don’t miss the Mayville Rotary Club’s cream puff stand!). And there is plenty for kids to do at the Park on Saturday. The Kid’s 1K race starts at 10 a.m. and check out the Audubon Days Stage Tent where there will be hourly magician, comedy and clown acts from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. At Lion’s Point from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. kids can discover the Petting Zoo, Archery Alley, Crafts for Kids and Kids Games. Back by popular demand is the Duck-ORation Station where kids can adopt a Rubber Duck and decorate it and the Kid’s Mini Duck Races! Kids (7 & older) can also take part in the 3 vs. 3 Soccer Tournament at Fireman’s Field.

Saturday night’s activities include a Polka Dance with Chad Przybylski and the Polka Rhythms from 6 to 10 p.m. in the Park Pavilion. Concessions will be available; $10 door entry fee. You can also make your way to downtown Mayville for the 2nd annual Audubon Days Pub Crawl. The Pub Crawl starts at 5 p.m. at Wally’s Hideout, and don’t forget to purchase your commemorative T-shirt! Sunday starts with the Audubon Day’s Parade kicking off in downtown Mayville at 11 a.m. Mayville’s largest annual parade features area marching bands, various floats, an impressive fleet of Fire Trucks and more - Make sure you find your spot early! After the parade, make your way up to City Park for an afternoon of fun. The food court opens again at 11:30 a.m. Sunday features the Rock River BBQ. Lion’s Point kid’s activities including Kids Games, Mini Duck Races and the Duck-O-Ration Station will open again on Sunday at noon. On Sunday there are various activities in the park pavilion, all starting at noon. Browse through the Market Place booths in the upper level. The lower level will again feature the Retro 27 Lounge where you can sit back and relax and watch your favorite sports team. Make sure you check out the line-up of Mayville’s Ugliest Lamps and cast your vote during the 2nd Annual Ugly Lamp Contest. Find a perfect spot along the Rock River and listen to Shaker and the Egg making their second appearance at Audubon Days at the lower bandstand Sunday at noon. Shaker and the Egg was formed in 2009 by guitar player Tony Warpinski with the vision of establishing Green Bay’s first original swing/funk band;

their unique style is always a blast to listen to! Audubon Days concludes Sunday with the Great Rock River Rubber Duck Race at 4 p.m. Over 4,000 yellow rubber ducks will be raced in the Rock River in one of the festival’s oldest annual events. Duck tickets will be available for purchase all weekend; this year’s prizes include thousands of dollars of cash and gift certificates to local businesses. For event registration information you can visit the event website www. audubondays.com or call the Mayville Chamber office at 920-387-5776.

hen my grandmother Anna Csiacsek immigrated to the United States at the age of 15 in 1921, she brought a bundle of pepper seeds with her. She carried the seeds, a brass cookie mold, and a few other items 1300 miles when she left Vörösmart (pronounced Verershmart), Hungary and made her way by foot west to Charbourg, France, where she boarded a ship for America. She had not seen her father and stepmother for over nine years when she arrived in Beaver Dam. As she settled in, she found a close-knit community of Hungarian families including the Joe Hussli family. These families preserved many old world traditions including wine making, baking, gardening and cooking. Given its culinary importance in the homeland, they were careful to preserve the Hungarian pepper. The heirloom Beaver Dam pepper brought to America in 1913 by the Joe Hussli family is from the same Baranja region of Hungary that the Hasenstab and Csiacsek families came from. The Slow Food movement group, a non-profit organization that aims to preserve biodiversity, celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Beaver Dam pepper statewide last year. The movement estimates that about 300,000 vegetable varieties have been lost over the past century. My cousin Tim Csiacsek has been working hard to organize a celebration of the pepper right here in Beaver Dam: The Beaver Dam Festival will take place October 4, 2014, at the Park Village Shopping Center. One of my first experiences with the pepper was not a pleasant one. Growing up we had an abundance of peppers every

year. I have very few memories of when I was two or three, but this I will never forget. One afternoon my father picked and cut the ribs out of some peppers. He left a pile on the back patio. I was playing with them and did not know how hot they were. I licked my fingers and rubbed my eyes and pretty soon my whole face was on fire. Despite this early childhood experience, I treasure the peppers as well as my grandmother’s recipe for Hungarian goulash. I recently made a batch and just smelling it simmer on the stove triggers a flood of memories that takes me home again. I can picture myself sitting in my grandmother’s kitchen, and it warms my heart. Although she has been gone since 1995, I still miss her. I also love to eat the peppers raw, added to wraps, sandwiches and salads, or cooked in chili. I picked up a couple of cookbooks while in Hungary and am anxious to expand my collection of dishes that call for the pepper. My sister added some to homemade tomato soup and people raved over it. Love for the heirloom pepper has rubbed off on my family, including my husband John and daughters Olivia age 10 and McKenzie, 11. The peppers have a distinct flavor. It is a rich, sweet yet smoky, chili-like taste with a spicy bite if you are not careful. They are a little unpredictable though, and despite one’s best (and careful) efforts at cutting out the ribs, you cannot always tell which one will be hot. The peppers are tricky to grow. I usually start the seeds indoors around St. Patrick’s Day in March. The peppers, which like heat and humidity, can go outside in June when the weath-

Jacob, Mary Anne, Grandma Anna, Janice, Great Grandma Hasenstab and Grandma Anna’s granddaughter

er turns warm and there is no threat of frost. They are delicate. They need gradual exposure to the outside and require a lot of attention. This year I hope to harvest triple what I brought in last year. One hundred of my plants came from my Cousin Patrick Csiacsek’s rural Beaver Dam farm. He has the ideal environment in a greenhouse he made, and each year he starts hundreds of the peppers for many of the Csiacsek clan. To save the seeds, I simply cut out the tops of some of the best peppers and set them aside at room temperature. There are about 40 varieties of peppers in Hungary today, and as I mentioned, my family visited Hungary and Croatia in June and tasted some of them. We began our trip in Budapest, Hungary. We visited the Great Market Hall where we found an abundance of peppers and paprika. Although we could only enjoy the peppers while in Budapest, we were able to bring home lots of paprika. Talking to the locals I learned that peppers and paprika continue to be an important agricultural commodity in Hungary. Thousands of pounds of Hungarian paprika are sold worldwide every year because of its popularity, and 90% of traditional Hungarian and Croatian meals are seasoned with paprika, everything from sausage to fish to goulash. While in Eastern Europe, we enjoyed many such dishes and felt as though the cuisine was one of the best parts of our trip. After touring around Budapest for a week, we took a train to Croatia to my grandmother’s village. It is nestled between the Danube and Drava rivers and was named Zmajevac (pronounced zmi-ya-vatz) after World War I. My grandmother said it was in the Baranja region of Southern Hungary when she was a little girl. For its part as a key instigator, Hungary was punished by the Allies after the Great War and with the Treaty of Trianon signed in 1920 was stripped of two-thirds of its land. Vörösmart became part of Yugoslavia, and following the more recent Croatian War of Independence (1991-1995), became part of Croatia. It is located in the far northeastern part of Croatia and about 5 miles from the Serbian border. Mihály Vörösmarty (18001855) was an important Hungarian poet and dramatist. Zmajevac means dragon and the locals tell me there is a legend about the dragon the town was renamed for, but no one seemed to know any

of the details (good topic for future research). We noted the beautiful countryside driving east from Osijek, the county seat of the Baranja region and our home base as we toured the area. We visited the Kopacki Rit Nature Park, one of the largest wetland areas in Europe, and had a boat tour by an English-speaking guide who filled us in on the local flora and fauna. When we told him my grandmother had lived in Zmajevac one hundred years ago, he said many of the locals are of Hungarian descent, himself included. He talked about the importance of the Hungarian pepper in the local cuisine and said his favorite is carp soup seasoned with paprika. After leaving the preserve, we continued east toward Zmajevac. On the way, we saw breathtaking fields filled with sunflowers in full bloom and large pepper gardens. A Croatian travel brochure we picked up (also printed in English, thank goodness) says Baranja is a major heartland of the paprika-laden cuisine that is common to Eastern Croatia and neighboring Hungary with dishes like cobanac, paprikas and perkelt (hot red stews that in English-speaking countries might be grouped under the generic name of goulash) appearing on the menus of everything from fancy restaurants to roadside bistros. One of the region’s main sources of culinary wealth is the rich stock of freshwater fish provided by the Danube and Drava rivers. Catfish, pike perch and carp form the ideal ingredients for the local specialty fis paprika, a soupy paprika-laden stew featuring huge chunks of usually un-boned fish swimming around in spicy red liquid. Dishes like fis paprika and its slightly thicker cousin perkelt are usually served with pasta noodles and most establishments provide diners with a bib to prevent the (otherwise inevitable) embarrassment of coming away with red blotches all over their shirts. I remember my grandmother’s homemade noodles used for goulash, and a fish stew made with carp and seasoned with paprika I never particularly cared for. We stopped for lunch in Suza, the village just before Zmajevac, at a restaurant called Kovac Carda famous for its fis paprikas. The family has a fishpond just up the road, ensuring their fare is fresh. After we were seated and ordered, I ran around snapping pictures of the dining room walls, which were covered with framed prize-winning diplomas from major paprika-cooking contests (notably from Kalocsa, the red-pepper capital of southern Hungary). Suza and Zmajevac hug the southern slopes of the Banska kosa, a long low ridge covered with some of the most productive vineyards in eastern Croatia. Although I was not allowed to take pictures of the Kovac family’s pepper field, I was able to come away Photo of garden taken on the pilgrimage, June 2014

with two 3 lb. bags of paprika, which my husband spent the rest of the trip complaining about lugging around in his carry-on bag for safekeeping. One bag is a smoky flavored hot paprika and the other is sweet. They have a richer flavor than the paprika (hot and sweet) we bought in Budapest. Finally, after a year of planning, we drove our rental car into Zmajevac, but not before stopping at the edge of town for a picture of the girls and I standing next to the sign that says Zmajevac on top and Vörösmart underneath. I could not believe I was there! After I shed a few tears, we piled in the car and headed into the village. My family quickly tired of the frequent delays when I would exclaim “Stop! A pepper garden!” because of my obsession with capturing the perfect pepper garden image. (They don’t quite get it.) We observed in Hungary and Croatia many homes and restaurants proudly displaying bright red pepper garlands. I managed to smuggle two of them home pretty well intact. I was disappointed though that my pepper garden photos do not show much color because our trip was early in the growing season and none of the plants I saw even had buds on them yet. We did find a graveyard, but no stones with the name Csiacsek, Hasenstab, Schneller or Blais. It was getting late, so we headed back to Osijek for the night. The next day we returned to Zmajevac and this time had lunch at the Josic winery/restaurant. In addition to the peppers, my family has a winemaking tradition that started right here in Baranja. My great grandfather Joseph Hasenstab and my father made wine, and now my brother Tom Csiacsek makes wine, so this place was a delightful find! Before going in, we drove around and snapped more pictures of the village. We happened upon the Josic vineyard and took pictures of that too. Finally we parked the car and found a back entrance that led down a white brick enclosed stairwell leading to the restaurant. Inside, the restaurant is housed in one of the surduks or wine-storing tunnels cut into the sandy soil of the Banska kosa ridge. We sat at a table in one of the tunnels with oak wine barrels in the background. At the front, large wooden barn-like doors opened to the outside where we could see an outdoor red brick oven with a large black kettle hanging over Elizabeth Hasenstab

an open fire. An enticing aroma filled the room that was a mixture of burning wood and some kind of spicy stew. We had the waiter take our picture and asked if he recognized any names of family that had come from Vörösmart all those years ago. He said although he did not think there was any of the Blais family left in Zmajavac, he knew the name and said his father would know more about them. Our meal was divine! I had a paprika-seasoned pike perch and my husband had a paprika seasoned venison stew. The girls had spaghetti. After lunch, the waiter led us right to the wine tasting room where we sampled several different kinds and bought two bottles to bring home. My grandmother would be amazed!! Still a very small village with a total population of only 974 (701 Hungarian, 178 Croatian, 10 Serbian, 85 other), the locals tell us Zmajevac is very different than it was 100 years ago when my grandmother was a girl. Driving around we saw remnants of old houses and barns hiding behind overgrown vines, shrubs and

Grandma Anna at home on West Davis Street

trees, and broken down old fences and small wooden houses covering old water wells. Perhaps we happened upon the house where my grandmother lived. There were two churches we could find that looked as though they were old enough to have been there when my grandmother was. Perhaps she was baptized and received her first communion in one of them. I will never know, but at least I was able to walk the streets she talked about playing in with her friends. She would be happy to see all the new beautifully colored stucco sided houses with red-tiled roofs and neat and wellkept yards. She would be proud of the tidy, weed-free gardens that were common throughout the village. She would be proud of the place she came from. We suspect some of the old buildings with missing walls or large gaping holes in their roofs were left from the recent War of Independence that ravaged her little village in the 1990s, but there was little evidence otherwise. The people were all kind and spoke not a word of the hardship and strife of war. My grandmother also lived through war in this place. Even as an old woman she held onto a fear of the Serbian soldiers that came into Vörösmart in World War I. She said they took anything of value that could be carried away and destroyed most everything else. They killed chickens and livestock and smashed open barrels leaving wine to drain out and soak into the ground. With a smile she said after a time, however, the villagers began hiding things in haystacks, including their precious peppers and wine stock. I am already dreaming of going back to this beautiful and intriguing place of my heritage. I certainly feel a connection now and there remain many unanswered questions. My great-grand-

Jim, Richard, and Jacob with Anna in background.

mother had been a cook for a Hungarian General. While there, I learned about Count Esterhazy who owned a large estate in Baranja around the turn of the last century. Maybe it was him? Perhaps there is a record of her employment there and perhaps I can find it. Perhaps I can locate the book of names in Zmajevac and visit the house my grandmother lived in with her grandparents. Of course, I will visit the winery and look forward to the food. Most important will surely 4 EVENT be to visit when the peppers are ripe and red. Info @ www.localeben.com

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ow are you? Here are a couple of things (a photo of yourself as a young girl and a letter you wrote as a teenager) from your own life of yesterday that I came across in the attic while trying to manage my own life in a today that surprises family, friends, and myself with twists and turns that cannot and could not possibly be foreseen. Cancer? To what end? No one may know that either and I encounter all manner of doubts and fears that I never knew existed before. If I were to turn to poetry as a legacy, “Ash Wednesday” by T.S. Eliot is the anthology that would be my first choice, perhaps my only choice, “because I cannot hope to turn.” The Book of Ecclesiastes is the only other thing: “There is nothing new under the sun, to everything there is a season.” This, and only this, would be the legacy I would choose if I would be so fortunate as to be enabled to choose. We, being human, grasp at straws even as we may notice strands of that same straw being thrown into our bonfires and heaters. We’d like to be warm without getting burned or scarred and we’d like to believe it is possible; that is our human spirit that turns from pain and desires comfort. Never mind the unknown, never mind that opposites always are. Never mind the light that

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creates shadows. Never mind the shadows and/or the darkness that is also always there. What will we see in our children, our grandchildren, or even our great-grandchildren should we live so long? Will we see the stories of our own lives being played and replayed? Will we see pictures that will bring memories back to us that we didn’t know we carried (and we carried them down through the years)? We may look at our own parents, grandparents, and again, if we are so fortunate, our great-grandparents and wonder how much we know these people who are the very reason we are here at all and continuing to bring others into the story. (In only 3 generations, 104 people are involved.) “Would you like to hear a story?” Life seems to demand that we look at our own lives again and again. “Teach us to care, and not to care. Teach us to sit still.” -T.S. Eliot. We have our dreams and agendas. We keep trying to understand our teachers, because everyone has mentors and teachers. Who taught us how to read? To write? To add, subtract, multiply, divide? Fractions are in there too. Who taught us that x = y but not always? Who taught us to ride a bicycle, to swim, to drive, to dance? Who told us jokes? Who told lies? Who read to us? Sang to us? Who baked us a birthday cake and made sure the right amount of candles were planted on top? Who made sure the candles were lit and blown out before too much wax got on the frosting? It’s been 61-1/2 years for me. My deepest wish now? To do more than teach you to bow to the moon and the life streaming all around you. My deepest wish is to wake up.

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Dodgo from Grosse Pointe asks: Beavers always seem to be so cute and cuddly, so I was surprised to hear that an angry beaver recently killed a human fisherman in Belarus. Have beavers ever saved a human life? Answer: John Colter. The only human rescue that comes to mind is that of John Colter, who is sometimes known as the “First Mountain Man.” As you may know, Colter was an indispensable member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1805 because of his outdoor skills and resourcefulness. Following his tour de Missouri with Lewis and Clark, he remained in the frontier and became the first non-Native American to visit Yellowstone Park. Not surprisingly, his incredible reports of geysers and boiling cauldrons were initially dismissed as fabrications and the area was sarcastically referred to as “Colter’s Hell.”

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During one of his adventures, he played a leading role in what has become known as “Colter’s Run.” The story begins in Montana, where he and his partner were doing some trapping when they stumbled upon a party of more than 500 Blackfeet Indians. After killing his partner, they stripped Colter naked and gave him the chance to run for his life. This proved to be a pretty good motivator and Colter arrived at a stream, complete with beaver lodge, ahead of his attackers. As those of us who live in Beaver Dam know, the entrances to beaver lodges are located underwater to prevent predators from gaining admission. Evidently, John Colter also knew about beaver lodges – for legend has it that he dove under water, crawled inside the beaver lodge, and hid in the safety of the beaver lodge until his pursuers gave up and withdrew. * As it turns out, he was also an accomplished beaver trapper, so I’m not entirely sure if that heroic Montana beaver made a wise decision when she chose to build her lodge exactly where it would provide Colter refuge. But there you have it. * (Note that accounts vary – some sources indicate that Colter hid under some riffraff in the water rather than inside a beaver lodge. Personally, I prefer the heroic beaver version.) Send your questions to: Beav@LocaLeben.com and check out The Beaver’s weekly updates at www.LocaLeben.com.

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he Riverside Regulars are an original indie alternative band from Beaver Dam made up of three high school seniors. We are Devan Diefenbach (vocals and guitar), Jordan Dahl (drums) and Justin Meli (vocals and guitar). About two years ago, the band formed as the result of a simple Facebook message. It was a message from Justin to Jordan that nonchalantly asked if he wanted to start a band. At the time Jordan was the only one who was set with his instrument. He had been playing drums for many years. Justin had been into guitar a little bit, but he intended to only be the lead singer. About two weeks passed and Devan messaged Justin. He had been playing guitar for about four months and he was really interested in joining the band. Devan was only going to play guitar, but it was brought to Jordan and Justinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attention that Devan could sing pretty well, though at the time he had never sung in front of an audience. When Devan joined, he had a big effect on the band. Justin encouraged Devan to sing more, while Devan encouraged Justin to play guitar more. That is how we have gotten to where we are now. Many people have brought it to our attention that they like how the band is set up. The two guitars and the two different vocalists seem to stand out a lot to many people. The solid drums along with the two seem to create a pretty unique sound. When the band was just starting, we would practice in Devanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s backyard, also known as Riverside Park. Almost every day, we would get together and try to come up with new song ideas. We wanted to incorporate the park name into our band name since we had spent so much time there. After talking about many options, we decided to go with The Riverside Regulars. On the 21st of June, we started recording our first ever EP, a short album, with Sam Sterk in Waupun. We had recorded before, but never in an actual studio with top of the line gear. We are really excited to get new, professional quality recordings out there for everyone to enjoy and hope it will bring in more fans and

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exposure. With only one session left to go, it should be out around October. As a band, we have been playing shows for over a year now. We have played at Beaver Dam’s Oktoberfest, the BMX park fundraiser and also at Beaver Dam Lake Days, and we have also gotten a few acoustic shows from Karla Jensen at the BDAAA, such as An Evening In Rome at the Chapel of Archangels. Our biggest shows were at the high school. We were asked to perform first for the high school band class and then later asked to play for the orchestra. We were also a part of the first annual Key Club Talent Show put on at the Beaver Dam High School. With many other great acts, we ended up getting first place after performing our original song “In My Head and My Heart.” After high school, our plan is to move to Nashville and try to get more shows and exposure there. We believe that we truly have potential and we are really passionate about making this happen for the rest of our lives. The way we see it is if you have a dream, you will never achieve it if you don’t try. Being 17, now is our time to try it and make things work and we will do whatever we have to do to make it work. We started this band because we have a love for music, not just because it would be “cool” or to just pass the time. We are just three guys who love to make music. This isn’t just a hobby for us; it is a lifestyle. We have been very honored to play these shows and get the chance to show everyone what we are so very passionate about. If you are interested in coming to any of our shows or preordering an EP, check out our Facebook page at www. facebook.com/theriversideregulars and if you are also interested in learning more about Sam Sterk you can find him at VIDEO www.samsterkaudio.com. More on www.LocaLeben.com We hope to see you at a future show of ours.

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he calendar is saying it. Nature is saying it, with the miniscule but still noticeably shorter days. The kids are starting to gather up and organize their back-to-school supplies. Corn carnivals galore. Dairy Queen selling their final “Double Chocolate Fudge Brownie Éclair Mousse Blizzard” before closing up shop for the fall and winter. The final days of another hazy, lazy summer are upon us. But, in other ways, it is not so clear. Some cultural benchmarks signifying the end of another solstice season have slowly been relegated to the “ash heap of history” these days, what with cable and online services offering new television viewing choices every second of every day. There was a time when the inevitable and sad ending of carefree days would be replaced by the highly anticipated and exciting arrival of…the brand new fall television line up. Through the summer months, the three major television networks would parade out the hum-

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ktoberfest doesn’t have much to do with the month of October these days. Each year Oktoberfest beers hit liquor store shelves earlier and earlier—the season of availability has extended into August and even July in some cases. Since Oktoberfest beers are lagers, and need longer time to age in a brewery’s tanks, that means these beers are being brewed in June or even May. And considering the annual German festival that gave birth to the style starts in September, you may wonder why it’s even called Oktoberfest at all. Of course, the reason the beer is being brewed earlier and earlier is simply because there are enough thirsty beer drinkers demanding the popular malt-forward beer after a spring and summer chock-full of ultra-hoppy IPAs. But why does the German Oktoberfest celebration start in September? Germans are stereotypically much more precise than that. Were the beer-loving Bavarians of yesteryear dizzy from dancing the polka? Nay. There is a very simple explanation based on practical reasoning. The first Oktoberfest was not the festival of beer and pretzels of today, but rather a weeklong wedding reception for Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria to Princess Therese back in 1810. Oktoberfest began as a Volksfest (a festival for the people), and the community was invited to celebrate the royal nuptials on the land that was thus named Theresienwiese (fields of Therese). Perhaps there is a correlation there between Theresienwiese and the village of Theresa in Dodge County, Wisconsin, although I don’t think so. The epic wedding of Ludwig and Therese was such a fun time that the people of Bavaria decided to keep it going as an annual event. It was named Oktoberfest in 1811. Oktoberfest originally started and ended within the month of October, but as it continued from year to year they shifted it to an earlier start date to maximize the opportunity for better weather, similar to here in the Midwest where we try to get all our outdoor fall festivals in before the snow flies (except the Beer Dabbler Winter Carnival, which celebrates the cold and snow). Oktoberfest now begins in September and continues for over two weeks, but it always ends with Unity Day in early October. Have a yearning to celebrate Oktoberfest without holding a ticket to Germany? There are plenty of Oktoberfest celebrations here in the states, including La Crosse’s famous Oktoberfest from September 25–28. For another festival featuring beer in October, check out Fermentation Fest in Reedsburg, Wisconsin, from October 4–13. This will be the third annual event known as Fermentation Fest, hyping agriculture and various forms of fermentation that produces beer and other food and beverages like sauerkraut, kimchi, and kombucha. Fermentation Fest adds in workshops, theater performances, live music, a scenic bike ride, and a corn maze. The festival, presented by The Wormfarm Institute, a non-profit focusing on the intersection of sustainable farming and the arts, leaves you with the prized souvenir of knowledge. Some of the workshop topics: Intro to Hard Cider and Vinegars, Chocolate and Beer Pairing, Intro to Homebrewing, and All Things Beer. For more information, visit fermentationfest.com.

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home situated on the eastern shore of Beaver Dam Lake will likely challenge those that pass by to describe it in familiar terms. You see the front of a house constructed entirely of wood, stone and glass. The long, horizontal stretch of the house seems to complement the landscape rather than intrude. Sunlight and shadows paint the natural surfaces that conceal even the entry to the house. The architect responsible for the design of the house built by the Maloney family in 1957 was John Randal McDonald, a Wisconsin native who was born in Milwaukee and grew up in Wauwatosa. McDonald studied fine art at Milwaukee Teachers College (todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s UW-Milwaukee), served as a navigator in World War II, and after the war, earned a Masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Degree in Architec-

ture from Yale University in 1949. Yale awarded McDonald its highest honor, the Winchester Fellowship, to study abroad. He declined the opportunity in order to return to Wisconsin, with his wife Josephine and their daughter, to begin his practice in Racine. McDonald began at once designing homes for clients, often young professionals that wanted a house quite different than most others, but the house had to be built within a limited budget. These affordable, distinctive designs were best described by the materials he designed with: wood, stone and glass. McDonald explained: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want your home to be so quietly designed that all the materials woven outside are woven inside as well. When we use wood on the outside on a particular wall, the warmth of the wood is in relation to the property, and that same wood then comes in-

side the home as well. Or when we use stone or brick on the outside, that same stone or brick comes into the home as well.” Some describe this as Organic Architecture - he liked to call it American Architecture. He considered his designs so “honest” that a room should look attractive without a single piece of furniture in it. James Maloney, along with his wife Ruby, owned and operated a jewelry store in Beaver Dam in 1957. Not only did James’s business demand an eye for the aesthetic but he was an artist and enjoyed painting. He was paging through an issue of New Homes Guide magazine when he came across a plan that he found most striking - design #1632 contributed by John Randal McDonald. This bi-annual publication provided house designs by some of the nation’s most talented architects for readers to review. Construction drawings could be ordered from the architects for a modest fee and the reader would build or contract for construction from these plans. While John Randal designed over sixty homes for families in the state of Wisconsin alone and hundreds around the world, he believed that beyond this direct client work, the New Homes Guide enterprise helped fulfill his ambition: “To bring my designs within the reach of many people, not just a few.” From 1955 to 1958 McDonald contributed eleven “Guide House” designs. Apprentices were kept busy sending plans to customers and claim to have mailed drawings to locations in all 50 states. Maloney didn’t have to think about it. He told his wife, “This is the house we’re going to live in.” With the plans in hand and a plot of land on Beaver Dam Lake surrounded by fields and a stone quarry, the Maloney’s enlisted the help of James’s brother, the owner of a construction company in town, to help build the house. Construction proceeded carefully to the working drawings, using specified wood panels and limestone, but with one exception. The house was flipped with the entry and carport on the left rather than right. With a large mirror propped up behind the drawings, James and his brother worked with an inverted vision of the finished Maloney home. The house today reflects several changes from its original design. Subsequent owners converted the carport to a garage, and Mrs. Maloney added shake shingles to the exterior. John Randal McDonald had studios in Wisconsin, Florida and St. Croix. His work expanded to include not just residential design, but commercial buildings and churches throughout the country and the world. McDonald continued to design until his passing in 2003. He is survived today by his wife and five children.

After leaving corporate life, Dave Erickson has established himself as a freelance photographer and does image and document restoration. He also enjoys volunteer work in the Wisconsin Historical Society’s Digital Lab. Currently residing in Cudahy in a home designed by John Randal McDonald, he is working on a book, along with a co-author, that will not only provide written and photographic documentation of McDonald’s work but also include many stories surrounding PHOTOS the architect, the homes and the incredible More on www.LocaLeben.com people encountered along the way.

ment of squashes. Who hasn’t brought home a couple bushels of apples and made more applesauce than you know what to do with? (Sometimes I’ll mix in some fresh cranberries for fun.) If you’re like me you’ll be enjoying a nice little road trip sometime soon. Be it for cranberries in Warrens or a fish boil in Door County, get out while you can. For a more extensive list of going’s on in Wisconsin, visit www.travelwisconsin.com and click on Festivals Only for Fall. When you’re done, here is a recipe for that squash you just bought. CHEF RON DOMBROSKI

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2 Butternut Squash 4 Cups of Heavy Cream 1 Cup Whole Milk 1 Cup Buttermilk 1 Tablespoon Nutmeg 1 Teaspoon Cinnamon Salt and Pepper to taste Fresh Sage - optional

all is here! Okay, not really, but Labor Day does mean you need to put away your white outfits and seersucker suits. When I think of fall, I think of bonfires, Door County (of course), pumpkins, red and orange leaves and butternut squash soup. I also think of all of the marvelous festivals and gatherings our wonderful state has to offer. Fall Festival in Oconomowoc, The Old Time Gathering in Beaver Dam, Sun Prairie Blues Fest, Maple Fall Fest in Marshfield, Warrens Cranberry Festival Farm Market and my favorite….Oktoberfest in Chippewa Falls. True that “Fall” and “Oktoberfest” in any sentence are harbingers of cooler days and nights and winterizing the ol’ boat, but they also are a precursor to the Harvest Moon and many a Harvest Festival. I also like to think that this time of year brings out the best at the Farmers Markets in the form of apples, fennel, brussels sprouts, cranberries, sunchokes, pumpkins and an assort-

Cut squash in half. Place on sheet tray flesh side up and bake at 350 for about 2 hours (flesh will start to brown). Combine the other ingredients and bring to a simmer. Scoop out the now tender flesh and add to your pot and blend using a hand mixer, garnish with chopped sage. Enjoy!

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ucked away, across the road from the federal Horicon Marsh National Wildlife Refuge auto tour in Waupun, waits the small, private non-profit Marsh Haven Nature Center. While strongly collaborating in positive partnerships with both the state and federal agencies responsible for the Horicon Marsh, Marsh Haven exists as its own, independent little gem. Founded in 1984 by Lawrence Vine, Marsh Haven focuses on providing quality hands-on environmental education to children and adults and has relied solely on volunteers throughout its 30-year history. Driving up the gravel approach and parking on the grass, you immediately feel the natural, grassroots foundation that supports Marsh Haven. The surprise comes when you walk in and see the museum quality displays. There is a large taxidermy collection as well as up-close live animal experiences, several prairie trails and a group camping lodge complete with bonfire circle. The meager $2 admission fee ($1 for kids and free to members) is well worth it and directly supports care of the land, animals, facilities and programs. Marsh Haven’s educational focus means there are many learning opportunities and classes throughout the year, including nature-focused summer day camps ideal for green families like ours. While visiting, we saw handmade garden mosaics and environmental posters from some recent projects. The calendar of events on Marsh Haven’s website www.marshhaven.com/calendar.html provides details on all their offerings. With our family’s love for all things Halloween, we are especially looking forward to Monsters on the Marsh, as well as the educational opportunities of the Fall Living History Festival which teaches about the early settlers to our area and their crafts like soap and candle making, blacksmithing and fiber arts. For the more adventurous, there will also be tomahawk throwing. During a recent visit, I had the opportunity to chat with the passionate volunteer Executive Director Renee Wahlen about what inspires her at Marsh Haven. She reflected on the newness of every day and the unexpected experiences you get working in nature. One morning, going out to feed the chickens, she could hear cranes calling. Walking toward a trail at the back of the property,

she spotted a dozen sandhills and a whooping crane, all calling and dancing. Little moments like that are what bring joy to her work. She says, “They weren’t there for me, but I was given the gift of witnessing their dance.” A gift that could just as easily be bestowed upon any visitor any day they happen to stop in. While I talked with Renee, my daughter spent almost an hour giggling at the gophers popping in and out of their catacombs. These personal connections are what nurture a love for nature and are the birthplace of caring for our environment. Renee also draws inspiration for Marsh Haven from her early experiences with John Denver’s Windstar Foundation, which also focused on environmental education and preservation. Renee recalls visiting Colorado for environmental celebrations and returning home with ideas on how, as one person, she could make a difference. Some of these ideas she continues to share with visitors to Marsh Haven: Pick up trash, plan a clean up day in your neighborhood, turn off the water while brushing your teeth, turn off the lights when leaving the room, plant a tree or flowers in your yard, ride your bike or walk instead of driving, choose an environmental issue that matters to you and learn all you can about it, write letters to local and national politicians to voice your environmental concerns, replace highly toxic products with earth-friendly ones, buy recycled products or those with recycled or minimal packaging, do something to help your local environmental non-profit. Another way Renee hopes to build the local environmental community is by bringing a John Denver Celebration to our area. Inspired by what she experienced in Colorado, the event starts with a tribute concert Friday, October 3 at the Historic Waupun City Hall Auditorium followed by a weekend full of activities at Marsh Haven - wild birds of prey and naturalist programs, music and a peace pole planting - bringing those with a passion for caring for our environment together. Tickets to the event are available at Marsh Haven and at Waupun City Hall and all proceeds will benefit the educational programs at Marsh Haven. For more information contact Renee at director@marshhaven.com or call 920-318-9518. Marsh Haven Nature Center hours are noon-4 on weekdays and 9-5 weekends.

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here are few things as unnatural to a human being as breathing underwater. To some, the notion is too terrifying to consider for very long. To others, it is a phenomenon akin to a superpower, a form of magic. The ancient Greeks created Triton, merman son of Poseidon, with the fins of a dolphin and the torso of a man who breathed as easily in water as he did in open air. Author J.K. Rowling created Gillyweed, an edible plant that allowed Harry Potter and his classmates to breathe comfortably underwater through freshly sprouted gills and swim easily with newly webbed toes and fingers. While Wayland Academy Spanish teacher Mike Schneider may deny that he is the offspring of Poseidon or the creation of author J.K. Rowling, the man is, nonetheless, most assuredly comfortable breathing underwater. Schneider was first introduced to Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus (SCUBA) diving in 2001, while he and his wife Lisa were on vacation in Mexico. Since then, he has cultivated a passion for diving that defies the label “hobby.” After that first diving experience, Schneider made arrangements with a dive shop in Baraboo and shortly thereafter was signing up students for the first SCUBA certification program at Wayland. When Schneider heard about a new hire in Wayland’s Sodexo maintenance office that was certified by the Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI), the Wayland program found a new instructor. Keith Lauth was the new HVAC maintenance hire. He had been certified to dive in 1991 while serving in the United States Marine Corps. He later worked for a large dive shop in southern California and had been a dive instructor since 1996. Lauth was also a certified cave diver, a type of diving that Schneider describes as “… climbing the Mount Everest of the SCUBA world.” According to

Lisa Schneider is shown diving in the coral reef in Cozumel, Mexico

Meredith Turner '14 is shown at Wazee Lake in Black River Falls

Lauth, “Everyone should at least try SCUBA diving before saying that they can’t do it. You would be surprised how many people are afraid or are convinced that they can’t do it. They put on a mask and regulator, take their first breath underwater and you can see the excitement. It’s truly an experience they will never forget.” Meredith Turner, who graduated from Wayland in May, earned her certification as a sophomore. Turner described the first moments breathing underwater in the Wayland pool as serene. “It was perfect and oddly comforting, like being a part of the nature that makes up so much of life. I’ve loved diving ever since that day.” Training is a two-part process. Before students can catch a glimpse of the water, they have to study a diving manual thoroughly and pass a written exam to demonstrate a clear understanding of numerous concepts and skills. Daunting scenarios are studied such as “What to do when someone kicks your mask off at

a depth of 100 feet underwater,” and “What do you do if you run out of air?” After students have demonstrated written mastery of the subject, Schneider and Lauth work with them to master 20 essential skills in the Sol Wolfe pool at Wayland Academy. The pool provides students and instructors a controlled, safe environment where they can practice maneuvers such as “remove all breathing apparatus while submerged, and then, put it back on.” After passing the pool assessment, students must complete four dives in an open water environment such as a quarry, a lake or the ocean, demonstrating all 20 of the essential skills in order to receive their SCUBA certification. This must be done over at least two separate days. Schneider has traveled with students to complete their certification in Devil’s Lake, Redgranite Quarry and Wazee Lake. Over the past 13 years, nearly 200 members of the Wayland Academy community, students, parents, faculty, staff and ad-

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ministrators, as well as neighbors in Beaver Dam, have become certified in SCUBA diving. Thanks largely to Lauth and Schneider’s efforts and enthusiasm, the SCUBA bug runs rampant through Wayland. Almost a quarter of the Wayland faculty is now either certified or currently in the process. Schneider has helped certify his wife, as well as his daughter Beth Ratajczak who teaches biology at Wayland and her husband Tyler. Beth and Tyler have continued on to earn advanced certifications. Schneider also helped train his dentist Dr. David Stecker, and last year, Schneider and Lauth trained firefighters from the Beaver Dam Fire Department who were hoping to work their way up to rescue diving. Like any great teacher, Schneider continues to learn and develop his own skill-set. Officially a Divemaster, he continues to gain new certifications including those that allow him to dive on shipwrecks, beneath the ice of frozen lakes, and with a special gas called Nitrox that allows for longer dives. He has dived in the Caribbean, Aruba, Curaçao and Honduras, as well as in lakes around Wisconsin, including a trip to help a man retrieve an engine from the bottom of a lake near Madison. He said that he teaches others to dive because “when you have a passion, you want to share your passion. Teaching Spanish is nice; I love to teach Spanish. We laugh a lot in class, but we don’t often see a person’s eyes light up with excitement. When they’re in the pool for the first time and they’re breathing underwater… until you’ve done that and experienced that, you can’t imagine it. Sharing the sense of weightlessness that you experience, it’s the closest you can get to being a spacewalker. Your weight is balanced so you’re neutrally buoyant.

Student Divers practice an air depletion exercise while in Wayland's Sol Wolfe Memorial Pool

To swim over a coral reef and hover over a 3,000-foot drop-off and look at the fish… it’s thrilling. It’s absolutely thrilling.” Keith Lauth can be contacted at lauthk@hotmail.com for more information about the SCUBA diving certification program at Wayland Academy.

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I was born in ‘63 I saw some things Scott Schmidt is the Muskie Poet. He was born and Some things saw me raised in Park Falls, Wisconsin, and after serving in Too slow to run the military, he attended UW-Stevens Point. Scott has Don’t like to fight held several jobs since then, including carpentry and a I stay here with my pen 14-year stint as a long-haul truck driver. He now works And write. as a painter in a door factory and is an active member of Mostly about fish. the Third Story Writer’s Guild. PORKY AND THE BLOCKHOUSE BUCK a mostly true story When Porky went to bait his stand One frigid autumn morn, All he carried in his hand Was a bucket full of corn.

The Blockhouse Buck let out a snort, Stomped his feet, and attacked, But Porky’s not the retreating sort, He took not one step back.

No gun, no bow, no hunting knife Was with him on that trail, All he had to defend his life Was a flimsy plastic pail.

Porky swung the pail, but missed, The buck tried for a gore, Then Porky connected with his fist, And that enraged the Buck some more.

For Porky could not know that day, As he marched along that path, That he would face, to his dismay, A Mighty Whitetail’s wrath.

The Buck backed up and charged again, Porky feinted to his right, The Buck fell for it, so that was when Porky swung with all his might.

The Blockhouse Buck was strong that year, The Rut was at its peak, Doe fever had erased his fear, He’d rutted hard all week.

Porky’s aim was on that time, He hit the Big Buck’s nose, But an upward sweep of sharpened tines Tore the buttons from his clothes.

He was the King around Blockhouse Lake, His crown was a massive rack, With a roundhouse and an uppercut, Young bucks would flee and does would quake, the Blockhouse Buck was stunned. At the mere sight of his track. Though Porky’s brave, he isn’t nuts, He took the chance to run. His rack was wide and thick and long, The tines were sharp and white, As Porky raced back to his truck, His neck was stout, his shoulders strong, He laughed, but with good reason, And he just loved to fight. He knew he’d meet that Blockhouse Buck again, So that’s what Porky met that day, During rifle season. The Mighty Blockhouse Buck, Porky knew then, right away, And He Did. That he’d need all his luck. End of Story.

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e is as calm as the wilderness he paints and as inviting as snowcapped mountains. He appears as patient as a mighty Matterhorn and carries the subtle humor of mischievous critters with whom he shares space. Although his jam-packed schedule is as busy as a musician on tour, he does not peddle artwork. Rather, this artist sells tranquility year round to people, many in the midst of busy and hectic lives, who crave his brand of peace. He sells splendor and harmony that is oh-so-tempting, but often out of reach, which makes his work even more tantalizing. It is as if his art is not a noun, but a verb that calls us to step away from the desk, turn off the TV, grab our hiking shoes or kayak, and become one with nature.

Frank Mittelstadt is nothing like his name sounds. He is not old and he is not young, but dwells in an age perfect to devote his time and energy to his art full time. “My last real job was in 1985 and since then, I’ve done nothing but artwork. I had previously worked in the restaurant industry and as a plasterer in construction, but I worked my way towards being a full time artist,” shares Mittelstadt. Frank is a Beaver Dam native and surprisingly, had few art classes until his teenage years. “In high school, I picked up my first paint brush and instantly knew what I wanted to do,” said Frank. “I explored other mediums but found out early on that I loved acrylics. I knew I had talent when I started selling my work to teachers, some of whom couldn’t believe I had actually painted

work I presented,” he recalls. He was always artistic, he says, even during his early childhood and still references the photo of him winning a Sentry Halloween coloring contest at age nine or ten. Although he lived for a time with his brother in Madison, Frank did not get involved in the art scene there. Instead, he dabbled in working toward technique and figuring out how he could make money through art avenues. “I attended a seminar which focused on drawing pencil portraits of kids. I’d take a photo then knock out a pencil drawing in a very short time. I drew individual children at first, then groups. This kind of business took a lot of hustling, but the income paid the rent. Kids’ drawings were relatively easy to sell to parents since we worked hockey, basketball or football games. I’d create a drawing of one child in the family, then receive requests to do other family members.” Mittelstadt started with pencil drawings, but that is not where his skill remained. This artist clearly leveraged his passion for nature and capitalized upon it. Frank is not exactly Duck Dynasty material or a Wild Kingdom crusader, but is an avid outdoorsman, and knowing him, you would be surprised he commits to placing his body in front of an easel long enough to conduct the work of a painter. Talk to him for five minutes and you will gather he would rather be outside enjoying the fresh air, the symphony of sounds from wildlife, capturing the detailed and often magnified images that he pins down as cleverly as a wrestler and holds them tight. What he lacks in formality he makes up in detail. That is how he sees himself as an accomplished artist – through the eyes of detail. His creations are like a mirror and a shadow both: a mirror because everything he paints is a reflection of his love for nature, and a shadow because what he has left in his wake is truly a silhouette of his own passions and love, shaped not surprisingly after himself. Frank Mittelstadt’s brand of work has captivated us with regal beauty which typically begins as a photo. He then uses the photo as inspiration for his painting. His style appears on castaway cabinet drawers and doors from his wife Lori’s leftovers. She

has worked for a cabinet manufacturer for years and Mittelstadt was enterprising enough to upcycle these panels in order to provide a clever and fetching instant frame for his work. “I remember Lori had some cabinet door samples she was going to throw out. I said, ‘That’s beautiful wood. I want to paint on them.’” She spoke to cabinet company reps she worked with, and suddenly they found boxes of samples delivered to their door. “Since then, I’ve changed jobs and my new employer also had quite a supply of discontinued door samples, enough to keep Frank busy for years,” added Lori. Painting on cabinetry is now Frank’s signature style, sure to be hijacked by other innovative artists. Frank met wife Lori by virtue of her brother purchasing one of his most famous “Turn of the Century” prints in 1999. “Lori was very creative and artistic. I met her when Eagle Publishing and the Knights of Columbus held the fifth and final Artist Meet & Greet at Bayside Supper Club. I had sold a number of signed limited edition prints along with the “Turn of the Century” matching beer steins. Those who purchased a print and stein met for a nice dinner at Bayside. Lori was there to pick up her brother’s print and as we spoke, we found we had a lot in common.” “At the time, I worked with Eagle’s Nest Gallery in the mall with Jerry Indermuehle. He served as my agent and helped me negotiate with clubs and organizations around the country to produce specialty art products with my designs. I was commissioned to create a number of designs for various chapters of Jim Beam Bottle Collector’s Clubs,” recalled Frank. He was also commissioned by the Bradford Exchange to create several series of collector’s plates. He produced four different designs for the McDermott Pool Cue Company as well and has a couple of hand-

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“LITTER BASKET” crafted cues that he shoots pool with in the Dodge County Pool League. “I provided an odd shaped painting which is then fashioned into decals to place on the cues,” explained Frank, much like he did for the “Turn of the Century” beer steins. Indermuehle was instrumental in collaborating with Mittelstadt and the local Knights of Columbus to produce the limited “Turn of the Century” series. “By 2000, I had created four in the series of historical prints and finished my fifth and final one. I started the series in 1995,” said Frank. The artist recalls heading down to the Williams Free Library, taking photographs from across the street and collecting historical photos. “That wasn’t my comfort zone, working from black and white photos, and I’ve never been very good at painting people. I crafted some sketches, reported to the Knights of Columbus who approved them and then, completed the project.” Jerry Indermuehle also helped him establish himself as a wildlife artist. “I had shown some of my work in Sauk City, where they published my first prints, many of which sold out. There, I saw how lucrative wildlife art could be.” For years, Frank has created pencil drawings that adorn the covers of the Lake Improvement Association fundraising banquet program covers and collectable plates. Prior to his local groundbreaking “Turn of the Century” work, Mittelstadt had previously put his name on the map as a winning Duck Stamp artist. “In the mid 1980’s, my mom saw the announcement for the Federal Duck Stamp contest. She sent for an application and told me to try it. This really opened my eyes to the vast world of wildlife art. I am inspired by what other artists contribute. Until that time, I had done mostly big grand landscapes with wildlife in the scene. The Duck Stamp competition is entirely different,” said Frank, knowing he could delve deeply into detail that would challenge him and that he thoroughly enjoyed. “I entered my first Federal duck stamp contest in 1986,” said Frank. “I had to send the original and follow rigid guidelines creating a 5x7 inch painting; now it’s larger at 7x10.” No payment is made to the artist. Winners simply receive a sheet of stamps. After the fact, publishers swarm winning artists and create merchandise from the winning image. Frank has placed in the top five nationally several times. “I know the Federal Duck Stamp competition is within my grasp,” says Frank, appearing as eager to score

the big one as a hockey forward. He tells the story of waiting by the phone to receive the news about his winning duck stamp. “You get a call from Washington DC and get to speak with the Secretary of the Interior.” “I push the limit on the deadline every time,” reveals Frank. “In the pre-worldwide web days, it was difficult to find out how you placed in the Federal, but now you can watch the judging live on the Internet.” He has won the state contest a couple of times. “I was so thrilled, I was now in the same arena with very good artists and competing. That felt great.” Mittelstadt has been present at the DNR headquarters for the state competition where, he says, “We just hang out and see who wins. One year, I was on the way to a friend’s place to go fishing, and decided to drop by the judging. As I entered the building I saw the secretary approaching me with a big smile. I knew I had finally won. When you win state, the state uses your image to make duck stamps, but the artist retains the original painting and reproduction rights. Suddenly, people bought my work to add to their collections. Duck Stamps were definitely lucrative. Peter Seippel bought all my winning paintings. I was amazed that my work was there beside famous originals that Peter owned. It was an honor.” Beyond enjoying having his work in Peter Seippel’s collection, Mittelstadt has been involved regularly as a contributing artist to many exhibits at the Seippel Arts Center. “I participated

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in the wildlife show every year,” said Frank. He has also participated in “Brothers in Art” and the most recent BDAAA Membership Shows, where he has won several top prizes. He is also set to host a one-man show in 2015 at the Seippel Center. His proudest art moment on a national level came in the National “Arts for the Parks” in the 80s and 90s. The top 100 winners’ artwork (of which Frank’s was included four times) travels the country with an extravagant awards ceremony and dinner in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, which according to Frank “is a spectacular place.” Frank sent an entry for many years and “felt a big thrill to be a part of it. I sat at tables with famous people, the Rockefellers, TV personalities, etc. Our artwork was often sold at an auction during the

event. My pencil drawing of ‘Alpine Warrior’ went for $1700.” Outside of art, Frank loves to travel, bicycle, take photographs and ski. He enjoys sharing his self-deprecating sense of humor. He has made peace with his laid-back spirit but counters his cavalier attitude with a thirst for perfection. “I’m also a morning person. I love to see the sun rise. I say I’m late if it’s 6 am and I’m dragging myself out of bed, plus the noise from the birds outside wakes me up so I just get up with them. I love to paint butterflies, too. I’ve borrowed a few expert reference photos from Jack Bartholmai, a very fine photographer.” According to Lori, “People love to listen to Frank. He knows nature and it comes so natural to him. Our two different personalities come out when we sit on the deck or take a ride on our pontoon boat,” explains Lori. “He has to be identifying things in nature, but can just sit and stare and enjoy, too. I have to be doing other things. Frank also has a very sharp memory,” adds Lori. “He’s great at the Sunday morning crossword.” Frank has a wonderful smile and a great head of hair. He almost looks too neighborly, too normal to be a prominent artist who should have a big head and a bigger ego, but he doesn’t. He has simply forged bewitching unity with the land and her majesty and enjoys submersing himself fully into his leisure, which is his work. If we could all be this lucky. His best friends and companions are his wife Lori and his dog Biscuit. Biscuit accompanies him everywhere and has appeared as his own personal Mona Lisa, canine style. Get close enough to Frank and you might find yourself in one of his works. One cannot help but believe he will continue gaining on his goals and fulfill every one of them.

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eaver Dam and Dodge County’s proud history and heritage includes the accomplishments of many men who pursued their dreams to make this area growing and prosperous; however, too often, the woman’s role in these events is neglected. Research reveals that very remarkable women have left noteworthy and significant legacies, right here at home as well as afar. White settlers began streaming into Wisconsin in the nineteenth century. Bold pioneer women were among these settlers. The first white woman to dwell in Beaver Dam was Hannah Goetschuis, the sister of Thomas Mackie. Her husband Joseph Goetschuis and Mackie are known to be the first settlers in Beaver Dam. They had previously explored this area in 1840, traveling down a small water inlet from Fox Lake, finding a perfect spot ten miles down near a spring with plentiful trees for building. They cut and trimmed logs and covered them with brush in hopes of returning to build a cabin by the spring. When they returned, they brought Hannah with them. The cabin near the spring was very simple in its structure and how long it took to build the cabin is unknown. Shortly after the cabin was completed, Hannah’s husband and Mackie returned to Fox Lake for more belongings. Our brave “first lady” was alone and became alarmed when she noticed the presence of Indians around her cabin. In her anxiety, she bolted the wooden door, put out the fire and anxiously waited for her husband’s return. Ann Mackie, wife of Thomas, was the second white woman to settle in the township. These women took on a crushing physical and emotional workload in order for their families to survive. As wife, mother, housekeeper and field hand, these women tolerated loneliness and hard labor. Ann’s dream of moving from a humble cabin into a house with an elegant parlor and a clean kitchen was realized when the Mackie family built the first permanent house in Beaver Dam, locating it near the spring at the head of a brook. Women of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were not usually recognized for their achievements or even by

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their first names. They could not hold title to property and any wealth they had at marriage reverted to the husband. Their accomplishments were rarely known except as wife and mother. Most women of this era were bound to the home with cooking, sewing, gardening, childcare and care of the sick. Women who held jobs were most often employed in the homes as maids, housekeepers and nannies. The woman’s place was in the home. Delia Akeley, also known by her nickname Mickie, did not believe that a woman’s place was in the home. Her life was not to be dominated by the drudgery of washing dishes, cooking, sewing, and housekeeping. Born Delia Denning in 1875, she grew up on a farm outside of Beaver Dam, the youngest of nine children of Irish immigrants. Known for her hot temper, she had already displayed an independent spirit and resourcefulness when she ran away from home at the age of 13. Just a year later she married Arthur Reiss, a barber in Milwaukee. It is thought that through Reiss she met her second husband, Carl Akeley, whom she married in 1902 after divorcing Reiss. Akeley was a well-known taxidermist and animal hunter. After they married, she made her first trip to Africa in 1905 to collect museum specimens for the Chicago Field Museum. It was a long way from her birthplace in Beaver Dam to the bush land of Kenya where she worked shoulder to shoulder with her husband, hunting game. Another famous hunter, Theodore Roosevelt, and his son Kermit joined one of the Akeley’s expeditions in 1909. Delia divorced Carl in 1923, but she continued her adventurous life and led two further expeditions from Kenya into the Belgian Congo and to the Atlantic Ocean. She traveled by truck, train, camel and dugout canoe, shot game for eventual display in the museum, braved fever and a Somali insurrection, and lived with the pygmy people of the Congo’s Ituri Forest. Delia took photographs of the pygmies and recorded invaluable data about their customs, environments, and society. Back in the United States she lectured widely and wrote several books about her travels, including Jungle Portraits, before her death in 1970 at the age of 94. Delia Akeley was “the woman who shot elephants” for America’s natural history museums. She was also the first woman to lead a safari, the first woman hired to collect wildlife samples for the Brooklyn Museum of Arts and Sciences in New York, and the first Western woman to transverse the African continent from ocean to ocean. She was indeed a high-spirited and bold pioneer woman. There are numerous women throughout our local history that have made significant contributions to our community and to our country. Their roots are in the Beaver Dam area; some stayed to leave a legacy, others like Delia Akeley left and never returned. Residence of W.H. Clark 124 East Mackie Street On this site the cabin of Thomas Mackie was built, 1841

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increasing patient privacy and improving ease of navigation throughout our facility,” said John Russell, President and CEO of Columbus Community Hospital. Vogel Brothers Building Company is serving as the general contractor for the project, with Flad Architects as the architectural firm and KJWW as the engineering firm. Lending services are being provided by First Business Bank. “This is a transformational time for Columbus Community Hospital,” said Russell. “Because of the support from the communities we serve, we are growing in ways that didn’t seem possible even 10 years ago. With the addition of Prairie Ridge Health Clinic in both Columbus and Beaver Dam, we are poised to become a hub of excellence for this entire area. Our Columbus Community Hospital team and our community are ready for us to take things to the next level. And we couldn’t be more excited to see what the future holds.”

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o, did you make it over to Volksfest dehr hey? A couple of our good friends received distinguished service awards for their outstanding contributions to the performance, preservation and promotion of Polka music in Wisconsin! These two “Durable Survivors” – Carl Neumann of Waupun and Bill “Uncle Bill” McCollum received lifetime achievement awards from the Wisconsin Polka Hall of Fame. Please visit www.LocaLeben.com where you can view a video of the presentation. Uncle Bill tells some pretty good stories… It’s gone now but I’ll always remember it as Howie Louden’s tavern. We’d stop in now and then – Howie’s signature shuffle and the quick yak-yak-yak from behind the bar, as he’d suggest a Virginia Dare for Kathy – Old Style for me. To me the building was a work of art - masonry, tile and hardwood details built for durability and comfort. The deco booths provided the social media space – if you paused for a moment, you could hear the jazz bands from years gone by - still playing in the back corner. Remember when the Beaver Dam mall was brand new? To humor the community, Howie and Chili John ran an ad in the Daily which read something like this: “Contrary to popular belief Howie Louden’s Tavern & Chili John’s Café will NOT be moving to the mall.” This summer we were given the opportunity to follow the Nation of Patriots Tour as it traveled the 48 contiguous states. Photos from across the country arrived, and week by week as I posted these images, the emotions amplified - I felt I was meeting these folks first hand. There isn’t space to mention everyone, but I met patriots from Ohio – Massachusetts – Virginia – Florida - Mississippi – Louisiana – Texas – New Mexico – Nevada - California – Montana – Wisconsin, just to name a few. What impresses me the most is this is grassroots - real people aligning with a cause they really give a “you know what” about. It is more powerful than my words can describe. A slide show and video can be viewed on www.LocaLeben.com please take a look… Special thanks go to Tim Csiacsek for being a true gentleman. I had lost track of some very important heirlooms his family had entrusted to me. The time came that I needed to call Tim – he listened calmly while I fell on the sword, explained my failure, tried to apologize; then he very quietly said, “Well, we all lose things once in awhile.” – I reassured him that I was still looking and would not give up, and he in kind encouraged me stating, “Let’s stay in touch.” The story ends well – we located the family photographs a few hours later and I got to call Tim with the good news… – Cheers!

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