In the spring of 1989, I sat down to talk with Donald “Buzz” Chamberlain and his wife Betty at their downtown Boscobel antique store. It was one of my first interviews and I was a little nervous about whether people would talk to me. I didn’t need to worry though. People were more than happy …
Gladys Pinfold Sanger spent summers as a teenager at a cottage that once stood on the Crawford County side of the Wisconsin river just west of the Boscobel bridge on highway 60. She also took toll on the bridge when she was a teenager in 1919 for a few years. In 1873, the State of …
Taking Toll and Summering on the River In Boscobel Read More »
Bridges play a vital role in connecting residents to communities in the river valley. Without a bridge, a community would likely not be able to survive. In 1947, the middle span of the Blue River bridge (County Highway T) failed, sending a tobacco trunk into the water. The bridge was built in 1904. Jack Kinney, …
The plants of the lower Wisconsin River valley have stories to tell us. Are the soils sandy, fertile or wet? Are they rare or endangered? Is the plant edible or possess special properties? Michael Nee, a retired botanist from Richland Center, wants to tell these stories by cataloguing the flora of the lower Wisconsin Riverway. …
Botanist Records the Plants of the Lower Wisconsin Riverway Read More »
The lower Wisconsin River Valley is home to numerous mound groups, but their locations are not so easy to find. That’s why I attended a tour of four mound groups. The tour was led by Mark Cupp, the president of Cultural Landscape Legacies, Inc., a organization dedicated to the education, protection and preservation of the cultural heritage of indigenous people who left their legacy on the landscape of the upper Midwest.