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Kiddieland at the Walworth County Fair has attractions and rides just for the little ones. The fair, which doesn’t serve alcohol, runs Aug. 31 through Labor Day, Sept. 5. The fairgrounds are at 411 E. Court St. in Elkhorn.
It’s almost County Fair time!
SHARON SOCH Wonders of Walworth County
The Walworth County Fair set for Aug. 31 to Sept. 5
The Walworth County Fair was established in 1849 and is celebrating its 167th year with the 2016 run Aug. 31 through Sept. 5. The fair opens at 7 a.m. daily and runs to midnight, except Labor Day, when it closes at 8 p.m. The fairgrounds are at 411 E. Court St. in Elkhorn. Every year, the fair attracts more than 140,000 residents and visitors for the food, fun and entertainment. The family friendly festival has no alcohol on the fairgrounds. The fair offers plenty to see and do, with free activities and entertainment throughout its run. Free activities include the Walworth County Truck and Tractor Pulls (not Badger State), Park Stage entertainment, touring the barns and buildings, Marvelous Mutts, harness racing, Discovery Barn, Farmers Market and Old World Artisan Village, draft horse hitch class, horse pulls, classic car and tractor parade, Kid Pedal Tractor Pulls, and, of course, the animal judging. Also free of charge are the eating contests, educational classes at the Learning Coop, Butterfly Barn, Barnyard Stage Entertainment and the Nick Kids Show. Also returning to the fair for 2016 is the Fairest of the Fair, Outstanding Senior, Grandparents of the Year, the Idol Vocal, All American Trashion Fashion Show, Centennial Farms, Mercy’s Healthy Babies and the Farmers Olympics competitions. The Olympics are an expansion of the bale-throwing contest that is traditionally held the Monday of the fair. Along with tossing a straw or hay bale, participants also compete in a bucket brigade, a round-bale rolling contest
and a bouncy horse race. The 2017 Fairest of the Fair will be crowned on Sept. 4. The contestants had not been announced as of press time. On the midway There is a cost to ride carnival rides in the midway, which is presented by North American Midway Enterainment. Ride tickets are $1.25 each and rides take two to four tickets. Tickets can be purchased in sheets to save money at 22 tickets for $25 or 55 tickets for $60. Wristbands for $27 are also available from noon to 11 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 31, and Friday, Sept. 2. On Labor Day, $25 wristbands are available from noon to 8 p.m. Discounted wristbands are also sold in advance at the fair’s website, www.walworthcountyfair.com. New this year Every year, the fair introduces new activities, contests, souvenirs and food. The new horse barn will be up and running this year on the north end of the fairground and the picnic pavilion in the campgrounds is also new. The fair has announced two new competitions for 2016 – the Monster Arm Wrestling Tournament and the “You Bacon Me Crazy Recipe Challenge.” The arm wrestling tournament invites men, women and children of all ages to test their strength. There will be right- and left-arm wrestling and contestants will be divided into weight classes to compete. Weigh-ins for the tournament begin at 11 a.m. on Sept.
3 with wrestling at noon. There is a $10 entry fee. The “You Bacon Me Crazy Recipe Challenge” •see will be at 11:30 a.m. on Sept. 3 in the Farmers FAIR Market and Old World Artisan Village. page 4 The culinary contest will have three categories:
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For the kids Walworth County Fair’s Kiddieland is the place to be if you have little ones. Kids can enjoy pony rides, Butterfly Barn, kiddie carnival, contests and the Barnyard Adventure Tent. Performers entertain nonstop with acts all week long including Nick’s Kid Show and the Marvelous Mutts. Kiddieland also gives kids a chance to participate in potato sack racing, hula dancing, a pigtail/ ponytail/braid contest WHAT: The 167th and pickle-eating and Walworth County Fair freckles contests. WHERE: County
when we were going to announce our main stage entertainers this year and because of this contract, we couldn’t announce until today but it’s really exciting news to share,” fair office manager Peggy Frazier said April 25. McCreery came onto the national music scene in 2011 when he was 17 years old and established himself as one of country music’s hottest new stars. By 21 years old, the singer and songwriter has sold nearly 2.5 million albums, received platinum and gold album certifications, debuted three consecutive albums at No. 1 on Billboard chart. The grandstand line-up for 2016 includes: • Aug. 31 – bull riding and barrel racing, The National Federation of Professional Bull Riders Shock and Awe Tour presented by Rice Rodeo. This year will feature championship bulls and nationally ranked bull riders; • Sept. 1 – truck and tractor pulls in the afternoon and in the evening Badger State Tractor Pullers; • Sept. 2 – monster trucks along with pro ATV races; • Sept. 3 – harness racing in the afternoon and a concert by a band on the WIIL Rock FM 95 play list. Contract restrictions prevent the fair from announcing the band until July 18; • Sept. 4 – antique tractor parade and a concert with Scotty McCreery and special guest Chasin’ Mason who will be filming a music video for an upcoming album release; • Sept. 5 – horse pulls in the morning and demo derby in the afternoon and evening. International Demo Derby will perform three demo derbies. For more information, visit the fair’s website at www.walworthcountyfair.com or find it on Facebook.
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Delavan man hit by Independence Day blast in 2006 BY Vicky
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aymond Hubbard considers the day he nearly died – or died and was revived as the case might be – to be one of miracles. A pessimist might say the opposite. Hubbard wasn’t even supposed to be there that day in Iraq when insurgents detonated a bomb that riddled him with holes, blew his leg off below the knee and left him with a traumatic brain injury. He volunteered. The mission that sent his company to the Middle East to begin with had been suspended. The reason he was there was a formality – he’d been granted a “compassionate reassignment” to Whitewater and was required to return to the Middle East to travel with his military-issued weapons. But Hubbard sees miracles – a double supply of donated blood on hand at two locations, without which he wouldn’t have survived; a newly built shanty to house military guards that might have somewhat shielded the blast; and the happenstance that other military personnel typically in the area at that time weren’t there on the day of the explosion. That day was July 4, 2006. Monday will mark 10 years since the day of what some would call a tragedy. Hubbard and his military colleagues call it his “survival anniversary.”
Beginnings
Hubbard, 37, of Delavan, grew up in Darien where he lived until his late teens. He attended Delavan-Darien and Williams Bay high schools and the Alternative High School in Elkhorn but didn’t graduate when he was 18 years old. He obtained his general education development, or high school equivalency, diploma when he was 21, and joined the military at 23, serving in the Wisconsin National Guard out of the Whitewater armory. In Hubbard’s first weekend in the Guard, during a pre-basic training tutorial, he tore his rotator cuff and was put on medical leave for a year. “Too many push-ups, I guess,” he said. After basic training, Hubbard had been back in Delavan for a month or two when he got a deployment letter saying his company was going to Saudi Arabia to guard a rest-andrelaxation camp where soldiers go for reprieve from battle. On the battery’s flight to Kuwait, its orders got suspended, so the unit showed up in theater in November 2005 without a mission, Hubbard said. The group stayed in Kuwait until January 2006 when it was tasked with accompanying special forces in Iraq as an attachment company. “That was a lot of weight to put on National Guard soldiers, but we did what we were asked to do,” Hubbard said.
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July 4, 2006, was no different. Hubbard’s company was required to supply a man to guard a gate at a facility, the function of which Hubbard said he can’t disclose. The group’s shift started at 4 p.m. after a long day of burning sun, and it got its debriefing from the first-shift crew. He saw a colleague gathering his newspaper to go to the gate, “and I said, ‘I’ll go,’” Hubbard said. It was the Fourth of July, and Hubbard stationed himself in a shanty the National Guardsmen had devised to protect them from the sweltering heat. It was wired for electricity, insulated and outfitted with air conditioning and had been operational just a few days, Hubbard said. He settled in reading an article – that he’d later find ironic or foreboding – about an amputee coming back in to the Iraqi campaign. He heard a slight whistle, then a pop, then an implosion – air being sucked in all around him, and then was laying on the ground. “I remember feeling the inhale of the device, but I don’t remember feeling the exhale,” Hubbard said. The device was a 122-mm Soviet-built rocket – 6 to 8 feet long and 6 to 8 inches in diameter, and the “exhale” was an explosion that hurled Hubbard headfirst into a concrete wall and riddled him with shrapnel. Two insurgents detonated the bomb from the back of a pick-up truck less than 20 feet from where Hubbard was stationed, he said. Military officers who were typically in the area chipping golf balls into tin cups at that time of the day, inexplicably weren’t there that day – another miracle, said Hubbard, who was the only casualty of the explosion. “I’m laying there,” he said. “I don’t know what has happened.” Hubbard said he only knew that he felt dry and itchy. He later learned that feeling was from insulation from the shanty blasted into every wound. His last recollection – before waking in a
Washington D.C. hospital eight or nine days later – was being taken from the scene. “I don’t remember anything after they put me on a gurney and lifted me in the truck,” he said. Hubbard awoke July 11 or 12 at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Washington, D.C., a hospital that doesn’t exist anymore but is now the site of the Department of Homeland Security. His mom, stepdad and then-wife were there. Hubbard couldn’t talk or move his right side (blood clots had caused a stroke), he didn’t remember what had happened, what mission he was on or his kids’ names, he said. He was told he had died and been brought back multiple times. He looked down at his bed and noticed the lack of shape under the covers below his left knee. He gave his wife an inquisitive look, and she told him his leg was gone. Hubbard said he merely shrugged, taking the amputation in stride. Hubbard learned he’d been in hospitals in Balad, Iraq, and Germany and flown back to the United States on a C-130 – essentially a mobile hospital, four or five days after the explosion. And, he learned why he was alive.
Resupply day
On the top of a hill that overlooked the area where the explosion occurred was a command center where a medical truck was stationed, Hubbard said. On that day, the truck was scheduled to resupply its donated blood – dispose of old blood and replace it with new blood, he said. That, he said, was another miracle. The old blood had not yet been disposed of, but the new blood was on hand in the truck and at the Diplomatic Hospital of Baghdad International Airport where Hubbard was taken – two double supplies, all of which Hubbard needed. “I used all the blood on the medical truck and at the hospital,” he said. Hubbard’s left leg suffered what is known as “traumatic amputation” – it was blown off below the knee. On his right leg, 90 percent of his calf muscle was obliterated, but the leg was in tact, and doctors were able to save it. A tuning-fork-shaped laceration to Hubbard’s upper left thigh required 120 stitches to close, five holes the size of baseballs were blasted in the left side of his torso, and his left arm had an open wound. His elbow and his head hit a concrete wall that the gate he was guarding was on. Hubbard said he was fortunate that shrapnel that tore open his torso in front – leaving a scar the length of his midriff – went in sideways, sparing his internal organs. Both femoral arteries and his carotid artery were severed. One doctor at the facility was tasked with keeping his hand in Hubbard’s neck to stop the blood flow from the carotid artery, Hubbard said. He had no pulse, and the doctor made Hubbard keep talking to gauge whether
he was alive, he said. Hubbard recalls the most painful part of his ordeal was the treatment of the open wounds in his torso. Because flesh was missing, the wounds couldn’t be closed but had to be allowed to heal and treated with wetdry dressings. Even though he was heavily medicated, he said, he would scream in pain when the dressings were changed. Traumatic brain injury resulted from his head hitting the wall and blood rushing so quickly from his brain, he said.
10 years later
Today, Hubbard is three years clean from opiates – painkillers he became addicted to after his injuries. To combat depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, he does yoga and keeps the company of his service dog – the second in the nation to be issued through Canines for Combat Veterans. He helps at the Veteran’s Administration Hospital in Milwaukee and is applying for grants to travel to different cities and offer companionship to other wounded veterans. “Find guys who are hurting (and) do one-onone stuff that gets brushed aside a lot,” he said.
Raymond Hubbard walks his dog Daze. Daze was given to Raymond through the National Education for Assistance Dog Services’ Canines for Combat Veterans program. Hubbard was the second veteran in the nation to receive a dog from the non-profit organization based in Worcester, Mass.
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In June 2006, Hubbard received information that his oldest son, who was 9 years old at the time, was homeless and living in a car with his mother. Hubbard consulted a superior, and his scheduled leave was bumped up by a week to allow him to return to Lake Geneva where his son was and take care of his living situation. Hubbard said he got his son secured and tended to his needs but wrestled with what he should do at that point. He’d been promoted to a specialist while in training in Mississippi, but his son needed a father at home. “I see that if I leave again, he’s going to be in endangerment,” Hubbard said. “My thought
was, ‘My son needs me.’” Hubbard asked for what is known as a compassionate reassignment, and his twoweek leave was extended by another week while his request was considered. His captain, Paul Gapinski, called and notified him that the request had been approved – Hubbard would work out of the Whitewater armory, but first had to return to Kuwait to travel back to the United States with his sensitive items. The process would take a month at most, Gapinski assured him, Hubbard said. Hubbard remembers a phone call from Gapinski when he was at the airport in Milwaukee waiting to fly back to Kuwait. He said the captain thanked him for following protocol and returning to get his military-issued belongings. “He said a lot of guys would have gone AWOL,” Hubbard said. “I said, ‘I wouldn’t think of it.’ I remember that phone call distinctly.” The conversation was memorable, Hubbard said, because it was the first time the captain talked to him man to man, not superior to subordinate. Once back in the Middle East, knowing he would be there only a month and others would be there much longer, Hubbard lightened the load as much as he could for his colleagues. He was cheerful – always singing, even in the morning, earning a reputation as a human juke box, he said. “I volunteered to take any guys’ shifts I could to give them a break,” he said, “I was still happy because I knew I was going home.”
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Window display honored local WWII vets killed in action BY
Heather Ruenz
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ave Saalsaa said the idea to create a display honoring local World War II heroes who had been killed in action began at the visitation for a local veteran last fall. “I went to (John) Jack Frawley’s visitation and didn’t realize until then that he was a decorated World War II vet,” Saalsaa, owner of Quiet Hut Sports in Whitewater, said. Frawley, who was 93 when he died Sept. 20, 2015, had served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1942 to 1946, according to his obituary. He served under fire while participating in military action against Japanese forces on Guadalcanal, in the assault and capture of Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands, and against Japanese forces in Saipan in the Marianas Islands. He was awarded a Bronze Star and two Purple Hearts. Following his service, Frawley returned to Whitewater and in 1948, took over Cites Service Oil distributorship, the beginning of Frawley Oil, a third
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generation company still in existence today. “Then Eugene Otto died and he was also a veteran,” Saalsaa said. “I started researching and found out that more than 100 people from Whitewater served during World War II. “That’s amazing to me,” he added. During his research, which spanned several months, Saalsaa made another discovery. “There are six people still living in Whitewater that served in World War II,” he said. Another astonishing number Saalsaa discovered is that 25 local World War II veterans were killed in action. Their names are on a memorial at Starin Park. Once Saalsaa came up with the idea for a display, it was time for more research and he began by getting in touch with as many family members as possible of the 25 veterans listed on a memorial. “I talked to them, tried to get more information which some had and others didn’t,” he explained. “I got some old Whitewater Registers from Pam Krauss. The paper was very dedicated to local people serving or who had served, and I searched online.” Another person who helped with the research was Kurt Skindingsrude, the nephew of Eddie Skindingsrude, Jr., one of the local heroes featured in the display. Saalsaa purchased the clothing for the mannequins and said he tried to be historically correct, which proved to be a challenge. The Air Force, for example, changed clothing during World War II to adapt to the conditions. “It was amazing how quickly they adapted to situations and conditions. It involved a lot of trial and error,” he said. For the display, Plahn’s Army store in Janesville donated the combat boots and assisted in putting items together while the furniture used was borrowed from When Pigs Fly – a local antique store – in Whitewater. Providing details about how they were killed and where that occurred was important, Saalsaa said. A few of the heroes featured include: William Flood: Killed in action Sept. 22, 1944, at Mosselle and Meurthe rivers engagement while leading his troops up an embankment. Eddie Skindingsrude, Jr.: Killed in action Dec. 25, 1944, when the plane on
I WANTED PEOPLE TO TAKE THE TIME TO HONOR THOSE WHO MADE THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE FOR US. WE REALLY DO OWE THEM A GREAT DEAL. - DAV E SA A L SA A , OW N E R O F Q U I E T H U T S P O R T S I N W H I T E WAT E R
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Above: Dave Saalsaa, owner of Quiet Hut Sports, works on a display honoring local World War II heroes killed in action. Left: The names of these 25 local heroes are on display at a memorial at Starin Park in Whitewater.
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which he was a tailgunner was riddled with flak before falling and exploding near Bitberg, Germany. Ivan Bogie: Killed in action Sept. 20, 1944, when his P-47D Thunderbolt fighter was shot down by German flak over France. Saalsaa’s display also features Elizabeth Gardner, from Rockford, Ill., in a tribute to the paramilitary aviation organization in service from 1943 to 1945, WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots.) “There were 1,074 WASP members, but 25,000 women had applied,” Saalsaa said. “They had to have their pilot’s license and experience flying. They were valuable to free up men to fight – which women couldn’t do then – by transporting planes and towing targets.” The most meaningful part of working on this project, he said, are the amazing stories he’s heard about local veterans. “Lt. Elaine Roe, for example, was stationed in Anzio, Italy, and in charge of a hospital there,” Saalsaa said. “The Germans decided to bomb it and she was responsible for getting patients and staff to the bunkers safely. She and two of her staff were awarded the Silver Stars, the first women to ever do so.” “Another interesting thing, in the Battle of Mets, France, a veteran, Don Grosinske, was wounded – shot in the leg – but made it home. Dick Tratt was a fighter pilot and Private Omholt was in a tank,” he added. “All three are from Whitewater. It was a tough struggle
because the Germans were so fortified. The bunker walls were eight feet thick. They were called the Iron Men of Mets.” Saalsaa said he is more than willing to help anyone seeking information on a veteran family member or friend, including those killed in action. “It can be a real challenge to find information but I’ve done a lot of it and would be more than happy to help,” he said. “All they have to do is call me and tell me what they know, even if it’s only the approximate time and where they were deployed. It would be great to help people find out more.” Saalsaa said the display drew a lot of attention and a lot of compliments on the clothing but hopefully helped to convey the real message. “I wanted people to take the time to honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice for us,” he said. “We really do owe them a great deal.” Saalsaa isn’t done honoring local heroes, either. The next project will be a live display representing veterans of Whitewater at the Cultural Arts Center in the fall. He has interviewed one of the six remaining World War II veterans and plans to speak with the other five as well. Those who may be interested in helping with the project are asked to contact Saalsaa. For more information, call Saalsaa at (262) 473-2950. Quiet Hut Sports is located at 186 W. Main St., Whitewater.
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Sections of the Geneva Lake shore path are paved and well-landscaped, offering plenty of natural beauty for walkers. The path is open year round.
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Looking for that perfect place to spend time out in the fresh air? The shore path around Geneva Lake is the ultimate place for a summer walk. The about 20 miles of lakeshore are traced by a trail with grand estates featuring well manicured lawns and gardens on one side and the clear blue waters of Geneva Lake with sailboats, excursion boats, and old time wooden boats on the other side. The sights will keep your head swiveling from side to side as you attempt to take in all the beauty. There is more beautiful scenery to enjoy than can possibly be absorbed in one trip. Surprisingly even on a cool and windy day walkers can be found on the path enjoying the beauty of the area. Winding history A plaque placed in Library Park in Lake Geneva gives a short history of the trail that today is known as the Shore Path. It reads “The 26-mile lakeside trail along the shore of Geneva Lake was used by several Indian cultures from 2500 BC and continuing up to 1836 AD. Chief Big
Foot’s Potawatomi tribe walked the trail between their villages at present Fontana, Williams Bay, and one at Lake Geneva located in this park. Later the trail became the workmen’s path from Lake Geneva to summer estates of wealthy Chicago families.” It was after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 that the rich and famous families of the big city made their way to the Geneva Lake area to begin building the elegant estates that they described as summer cottages but were large and elegant homes just as they owned in Chicago. Today many of these original estates can be seen as one walks along the Shore Path. Fortunately the path was preserved by early settlers who deemed that “20 feet leading to the shoreline be preserved as public domain.” Each property owner was and still is required to maintain the path through their property, which has made the trail unique. Each property owner has provided a different manner of creating and maintaining the path. At times some property owners were not pleased with the path running through their property and would try to discourage those using it by making their section of
the trail very narrow and overgrown. While some owners are opposed to the path, most embrace it. In 1970 the then-owners of Stone Manor were sued by the City of Lake Geneva for blocking the path with a fence. The city won and the path remains intact. Mutual respect expected Visitors who enjoy the shore path are expected to show respect for the property owners. Staying on the path and not venturing onto the lawns, piers, or boathouses is expected as is using public access points to enter the path. Dogs are allowed on the path but must be kept on a leash at all times. The surface of the path is as varied as the high-end estate homes along it. With surfaces that include cement, bricks, wood, stepping stones, and gravel spread over diverse terrain – some even, others hilly or twisting – walking can be treacherous especially when wet. Walkers are advised to wear comfortable shoes with good tread to keep from sliding. Some areas of the path are very narrow and must be traveled single file. Other areas are close to the edge of the
shoreline and must be travelled with care to prevent an unexpected swim. The path is narrow and not meant for any vehicles with wheels. Bicycles, scooters, skates, or strollers are not appropriate on the path. Some areas are too narrow to accommodate them and other areas are impassable for wheeled vehicles. The easiest part of the walk is the section of trail that begins at the Lake Geneva Library and extends in either direction for about a mile. This is the best place to walk with young children or those who may have some mobility concerns. For many, walking the entire path in one swoop is beyond their ability since it would require about 8 to 10 hours of walking for the average person in reasonably good physical shape. But there is a way to walk the path by handling it in shorter sections. There are four public access points where walkers can enter or leave the trail. Cutting through the private property of the homeowners is not allowed so be prepared for the trip. Two who know Helen Brandt, curator of the Geneva Lake Museum and
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longtime Shore Path walker completed the entire path in 6 hours, 22 “That was in 1981 when I •WALK minutes. was in much better shape,” she said from chuckling. But she recommends page 7 working up to completing the whole path by walking a section of the path at a time. Janet Ewing, director of the Geneva Lake Museum and also a longtime path walker and photographer, agreed. The path is easily accessible in Lake Geneva, Fontana, Williams Bay, and Big Foot Beach State Park. All areas have public parking available for a fee. Remember when walking a section of the trail that you need to walk the same distance back to your automobile unless you and your walking companions bring two autos, one to park at your starting point and one at your finishing point. Remember you are traveling through private property so there are no refreshment stands, water fountains or public restrooms between official access points. Gage’s Lake Geneva Cruise Line offers one-way fares between Lake Geneva and Williams Bay or Fontana. People may opt to walk the beautiful north shore
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from Lake Geneva to Williams Bay, a distance of approximately eight miles, and board the boat at the public pier in Williams Bay back to Lake Geneva. Tickets must be purchased in advance at the pier in Lake Geneva. On Sunday some of the trips include brunch. Contact www.cruiselakegeneva.com for complete schedules of days and times available. When you are ready to tackle the entire path in one trip, Brandt and Ewing recommend starting on the south shore. According to them, the south shore is more difficult to travel and is best to do while you are still fresh and full of energy. Remember to carry snacks and water. Many of the areas of the path do not have shade so don’t forget a layer of sunscreen and a hat or visor to protect your skin from sun. The perfect summer pursuit It isn’t too late to make walking the entire shore path your project for this year. By starting now and covering a part of the trip each week, by the end of the summer you may be ready to tackle it all •see in one day. WALK While spring is a beautiful page 12 time to walk the path with
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Time Machine
Museum’s Main Street transports visitors to past By Sandra Landen Machaj CORRESPONDENT
Let’s take a walk down Main Street. Not the Main Street of today’s Lake Geneva, but Main Street as it would have appeared from 1830 to 1930. It’s a visit to a time when life was much simpler than today’s complex schedules, but physically was much harder. Our walk down Main Street begins after entering the Geneva Lakes Museum. The brick-paved Main Street with its life size displays of rooms and businesses will take you back in time. The early Pottawatomi Indian Lakeside Village that would have existed in the area prior to its settlement by the ancestors of today’s resident greets you at the entrance. In 1830, the street would not have been paved by bricks but would have most likely been dirt and in rainy season, mud, deeply rutted from the wheels of carriages and wagons. In the early 1900s the bricks would have made a better surface for the automobiles, which were replacing the horse and wagon. A stop at the farm displays reveals many of the tools used to till the land, plant, and harvest. Visitors will meet Molly the cow and Fibber the work horse. Some of the tools on display were used at Black Point a large estate, now a museum overlooking Geneva Lake. This area, according to Karen Jo Walsh, director of exhibits is currently undergoing a minor facelift with the addition of a barn wood wall where tools will be attached for display them. Businesses past Visitors can stop in at the local businesses, including the blacksmith shop, the general store, the post office, and the firehouse – complete with a 1917 fire engine. And don’t forget to check out the dentist’s office tucked into a corner of the general store. On the other side of Main Street the Victorian parlor is a delight. The Victorian era was a formal and elegant era and everything in the room emphasizes that. Moving onto the 1900s, imagine eating dinner in the elegant 1910 Edwardian dining room with its fine selection of china. It would be an elegant place to hold a dinner party
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The Geneva Lake Museum offers a chance to take a stroll back in time and experience Main Street as it appeared in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
even today. The dual kitchens display features the 1880 kitchen with its icebox to cool food and, next to it, the 1920 kitchen of two generations later with an electric refrigerator complete with compressor on top. It presents a far different look than today’s sleek stainless steel refrigerators with a separate freezer. The kitchen sink in 1920 with running water shows how far things progressed from the 1880 sink with a pump in place. The museum offers a plethora of interesting memorabilia as visitors continue to wander through. A favorite display of many is Ceylon Court. Ceylon Court was a building at the 1893 World’s Exhibition in Chicago and after the exhibition closed was purchased and moved to the shore of Geneva Lake where it served as a home for many years. The Geneva Lakes Museum is unlike most museums because all the displays are open and visitors are encouraged to walk into and touch a piece of history. Most items are displayed in an open setting, not tucked behind locked cabinets with a do not touch sign. A historic location The Geneva Lakes Museum opened in 1983 in a house at 818 Geneva Street. Always looking for ways to make the museum better, museum leaders upon learning that the 1929 Wisconsin Power and Light Building at 255 Mill Street was vacant
recognized a chance to expand. At that time the City of Lake Geneva Water Department had moved to a new facility. So museum officials approached the city about arranging for the museum to use the facility. They were successful and the Old Wisconsin Power and Light building was to become an expanded Geneva Lake Museum. By 2004 after much hard work by museum staff and many volunteers, Main Street was constructed in the space. In addition, organizers were able to create several other display rooms, a library space, a museum store and meeting rooms. An open and welcoming entrance greets visitors to the museum. In addition to displays, the museum has many programs throughout the year. The Tuesday at Two program is just that, a program each Tuesday at 2 p.m. about a historical event or place in Lake Geneva. This month’s topics include on July 5 the Geneva Lake Conservancy and Tales from a Vintage 1958 house trailer on July 12. The program on the 19th will be a talk by author Daniel Rozelle and the final July talk on the 26th will be the Camelot White House in Miniature.
students to enhance a history lesson. Another outreach program is the Antique Road Share. This program, administered by Barb Belter and Joanne Niessner, takes a few artifacts to residential facilities to stimulate conversation as residents and docents share remembered stories. The program is offered free and lasts about 45 minutes. Looking for a special place to hold a business lunch, meeting, shower or dinner? Space can be rented in one of the meeting rooms or along Main Street. Table placement can be flexible and there are endless ways to arrange them. A kitchen is available with easy access. Free parking is offered behind the museum. Tables, chairs, a flat screen television, DVD player and kitchen use are included in rental fee. With so much to take in on one visit, there is always something new to be noticed at the Geneva Lakes Museum. It might not be new to the museum but will be to visitors. The museum is open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Check the website www.genevalakemuseum.org for further information or for seasonal changes in hours. Community programs The museum, 255 Mill St., Lake Geneva, The Museum reaches out to the can be reached by telephone at (262) 248community and has programs that are brought 6060. Admission is $7, with children through to the people. The Sharing Trunks is a high school admitted without charge. Seniors program where teachers may borrow a trunk and college students with ID are charged $6. of items from a specific era to share with their Memberships are also available.
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everything just beginning to turn •WALK green and flowers from starting to bloom, page 9 the path will have a different look in summer when flowers are in full bloom. Fall with its myriad of colors as the trees turn red, orange, brown and yellow brings a different glow to the lakefront. Walking the path in winter would certainly be a different look with it covered with snow but it would be treacherous in some areas. While walking along the shore path and admiring the beautiful estates built in the late 1800s and early 1900s, remember the Potawatomi Indians who fished, hunted and also walked this trail until the 1800s and the many Indian tribes who used the trail from as long ago as 2500 BC. Remember the famous families who made Geneva Lake their summer homes, such as the Wrigleys and the Maytags, and all the early residents who went to great lengths to build on the lakeshore. The shore path has survived through all these centuries and we are the latest of those who are able to enjoy its beauty and it is now our job to preserve it for generations to come.
On a clear day shore path walkers can see for miles and this view from high on a bluff gives a panoramic view of the lake. JANET EWING PHOTO Wonders of Walworth County
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the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ arrival in America. The Columbian Exhibition introduced a variety of new products such as alternating current electricity, a variety of new foods, and the Ferris wheel. It also had on display the mounting for the world’s largest refractor telescope. With a height of 43 feet and a weight of 50 tons, the mounting was gigantic. A Hale fellow A good place to begin the story of the location and the building of Yerkes is with George Ellery Hale, a pioneer in astrophysical research. Hale came from a wealthy, philanthropic family and he and his brother were encouraged by their father, at an early age, to be inquisitive according to Dan Koehler, Director of Tourism and Special Services at Yerkes Observatory. “Mr. Hale provided the boys with tools at an early age and by the age of 14 George was interested and engaged in the sun and solar research.” Hale was hired as a faculty member by the newly formed University of Chicago about 1890. Around that time he also learned that the University of Southern California had planned to build the world’s largest refracting telescope. Two 42-inch glass disks had been cast by Mantois of Paris and had been sent to Alvan Clark and Sons in Cambridge to be polished into 40inch disks. When Hale learned the project was being abandoned due to lack of adequate funding, he approached the President of the University of Chicago, William Rainey Harper about the possibility •see of purchasing the disks and YERKES building the telescope for the page 14 University of Chicago. It would
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Above: The refractor telescope continues in use today, well over 100 years after its placement in this dome of 90 feet in diameter. The base that rotates to move the telescope is actually 75 feet in diameter and allows for the adjustment both vertically and horizontally. Top: Since 1897 this remarkable building housing the world’s largest refractor telescope has been located on the shore of Geneva Lake in Williams Bay.
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be a great way to make the new University nationally •YERKES and internationally known from and would also aid in page 13 developing a top-rate facility for Hale’s solar research. Man with the money Funding, of course, was the major obstacle so Hale and Harper approached transit tycoon Charles Tyson Yerkes about funding the project. Yerkes agreed and the disks were purchased and the polishing began a process that would take two years to complete. The next step was to find a location for the telescope, a place where the skies would be readily visible. Many people believe that the site in Williams Bay was chosen because the lights of the city of Chicago would be detrimental to viewing the skies. However, in 1890, there were not many streetlights or even home lights in the city. A far bigger problem was the smoke and haze arising from the use of coal to heat homes and run manufacturing plants. John Johnston, Jr., an attorney and real estate speculator entered the picture. He invited Hale to Williams Bay to look at some land for the site along the shore of Geneva Lake in the summer community of Williams Bay. The land was reasonably accessible by rail cars from Chicago. They determined the area possessed excellent viewing conditions both day and at night, although the land was at a lower altitude than was thought to be ideal. Johnston offered to donate 53 acres of prime lakefront land, which the university accepted. With a site, funding, and the two large disks being ground, the university was ready to move forward with construction. Construction in the remote Williams Bay area was difficult in 1895. The community was mostly summer visitors who were not there to work but to escape the heat and heavy air in the city. Building supplies needed to be brought from Chicago by train and then to the construction site on the lakeshore. Skilled craftsmen for this intricate building were also brought in to work on the project. A Roman cross In spite of the difficulties that would be inherent in construction, Henry Ives Cobb, who designed the original University of Chicago buildings, was hired to design a home for the telescope. He designed a building built in the shape of a Roman cross with a large dome at the head and two smaller domes as the arms to hold the telescopes. The building was constructed in the Greco Roman style of Roman brick and decorated with intricately carved matching terra cotta. The dome for the refractor telescope itself is 90 feet in diameter. The elevator of the dome is 73 feet in diameter and carries viewers to the correct height to observe. The telescope tube is 60 feet in length and is held in place by the 43-foot mount. The Yerkes Observatory became the site of the entire Astrology and Astrophysics Department of the University of Chicago. Some of Hale’s early work in the electromagnetic field was carried out here and continued to grow. Scientists from around the world came to study at Yerkes. Some of names and their works are known not only to those in the field but to everyday citizens. Edwin Hubble, for whom the Hubble telescope was named, received an advanced degree here. A less familiar name to most of us is Subrahmanyan Chandrsekar, for whom the Chandra Space Telescope was named. Carl Sagan who introduced many to astronomy in the 20th century is also included in the
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The mount that holds the telescope in place and directs its location is 43 feet tall. Building the observatory in the late 1800s was a triumph of engineering and logistics.
many scientists who worked and studied at Yerkes. The Yerkes campus, which grew to its current size of 77 acres, remained the center of the university’s Astrophysics Department until around 1970 when the university decided to pull the department back to the Chicago campus but that did not diminish the use of the telescopes and the site for research. Public outreach Although the entire department is no longer sequestered in Williams Bay, the site is still an active place for research. “Physics undergraduate students come out to work on special programs once a quarter,” said Dan Koehler, “and the facility is integral to the university.” Today the facility encourages public outreach. Independent projects are studied by high school students from Williams Bay. A professional development program is offered to teachers to provide them with new and innovative ways to present science
to their students. The observatory offers a variety of tours to the public. Each Saturday tours are offered at 10 a.m., 11 a.m., and noon that will take visitors through the building with a focus on the history and the architecture. Timelines of the history of the building of Yerkes line the walls along with displays of comets, galaxies, nebulae and the death of stars. The highlight of the program is the visit to the dome where the still-largest refractor telescope in the world is located. No reservations are required for the Saturday tours. A gift shop focusing on scientific photos, posters and books, meteorites and jewelry is available for purchase as souvenirs or gifts. Check the Yerkes website for current tour fees. The funds are used to support public programs. No reservations are needed for Saturday tours. Tours are also offered weekdays at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. For a program that won’t likely be forgotten, visitors are invited to take
part in one of the evening sky programs. Throughout the season the sky changes and with that there are unique looks at it through either the 40-inch refractor telescope or the 24-inch reflector telescope. The programs include a look at planets, galaxies, nebulae, and star clusters. The program lasts from 90 minutes to two hours and may be cancelled due to weather conditions. Reservations are required. Check the website for dates and contact dkoehler@ yerkes.uchicago.edu for reservations. Space is limited. The program fee for the 40-inch refractor telescope is $100 and for the 24inch reflector telescope the cost is $37.50. The facility offers programs accommodating up to 100 participants for groups including schools, scouts, churches and corporate events. The facility also offers a setting for wedding ceremonies, although not receptions. For more information visit the Yerkes website www.astro.uchicago.edu/yerkes or email at tours@yerkes.uchicago.edu, or call at (262) 245-5555.
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