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Dan Rather at Steady:

If their national convention didn’t motivate Democrats to register, volunteer, donate, and vote, perhaps the prospect of a widespread voter suppression plan at the hands of the Republican Party will. Just listen to Marc Elias, one of the foremost election lawyers in the country, who recently said that the “Republicans are building an election subversion war machine.” Last week, Elias began working with hundreds of lawyers and thousands of volunteers already teamed up with the Harris campaign to combat the Republican voter suppression effort. He will focus on recounts and post-election litigation.

This is not a new tactic for the MAGA right, but in this election cycle, “the other side is more organized, more ruthless, and more prepared [than ever before],” Elias told Rolling Stone magazine. Here’s the Republican playbook, according to The Brennan Center for Justice. “Over the last 20 years, states have put barriers in front of the ballot box — imposing strict voter ID laws, cutting voting times, restricting registration, and purging voter rolls.” But this election cycle, new MAGA tactics seem even more insidious — including delaying or refusing vote certification. So if someone in, say, Georgia doesn’t like the election results, Republican officials could question the count, seriously slowing down or stopping the process of announcing results. That’s a very big deal. The 2024 pre-election period has already seen dozens of lawsuits filed in 25 states by Republicans trying to manipulate or change laws to, among other things, make it easier to challenge ballots and voter eligibility and to deny election certifications.

In an investigation of local election boards, Rolling Stone found 70 pro-Donald Trump conspiracy theorists working as election officials in key counties in battleground states. Since 2020, Republicans have refused to certify results at least 25 times. I know I may sound like a broken record saying Donald Trump is an existential threat to American democracy. But he is, and this is a terrifying example of his cult leader-like ability to get others to do his undemocratic bidding. At an Atlanta rally, he recently called out pro-Trump members of the Georgia State Election Board as “pit bulls fighting for honesty, transparency, and victory.” Seriously. In 2020 he primed the voter suppression pump before the election, knowing he was likely to lose the race, and then promoted the “Big Lie.” Hundreds of lawyers, dozens of lawsuits, and an insurrection later, he still lost, but all those efforts laid the groundwork for a more organized Republican push, or perhaps putsch is a better word. Fortunately the Republicans aren’t the only ones gearing up for this battle. The Harris campaign has assembled the largest Democratic legal team ever to protect voting rights. It is 10 times larger than the 2020 team. Ten times.

[...] The Democrats’ voter protection program is focused on eight battleground states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, and four states of interest: Florida, Maine, Minnesota, and Virginia. Their pre-election efforts are two-fold: First, protecting voters’ ability to register to vote while also having unfettered access to the ballot box. They are doing this by fighting all the legal challenges Republicans are launching. Second, they are educating voters. All of this is a serious shift in how elections are run in this country. “The expansive new Democratic legal team, and the opposing group at the Republican National Committee, is a reflection of the legal arms race that is the new reality of American elections since Mr. Trump’s election victory in 2016. The battle over whose votes count — not just how many votes are counted — has become central to modern presidential campaigns,” explained Nick Corasaniti of The New York Times.

The Democrats are learning to fight the battle to ensure that the votes from this election are counted properly to ensure that a repeat of 2020 doesn’t happen.

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Content warning: This story includes references to death by suicide.

Evan Hansen was born to play football. A strong, rambunctious kid, he started playing sports year-round as early as he could. “He was very selfless, always willing to sacrifice himself for the betterment of the team,” says his father, Chuck Hansen. As a fearless linebacker at Wabash College in Indiana, the young player made 209 tackles in his first three seasons, and was hit far more than that during games and practices. Two days after winning the second game of his senior year, Evan died by suicide.

Searching for an explanation, Chuck Hansen pored through his son’s internet search history. One query popped out: “CTE.”

CTE stands for chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a neurodegenerative brain disease that causes symptoms like memory loss, depression, and emotional dysregulation. Since 2005, it has been linked to head trauma and to contact sports like football, where brains can get knocked around during tackles and collisions. In 2016, the National Football League acknowledged that the sport was linked to CTE after many retired players were diagnosed posthumously by researchers at the Boston University CTE Center.

Given the NFL-centered media coverage throughout the mid-aughts, “people have this impression that CTE is a disease of former NFL players,” says Julie Stamm, a clinical assistant professor of kinesiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “But it’s not just a disease for professional athletes.”

Yet until recently, few studies focused on athletes like Evan, who never played professionally and died before developing age-related brain changes. (In older players, it can be challenging to separate signs of CTE from other kinds of neurodegeneration.) The Hansen family knew that Evan had only been diagnosed with one concussion in his 14 years of football—none since starting college. And although they knew that he’d had trouble doing schoolwork and experienced a bout of depression his junior year, his mental health seemed to have stabilized with therapy and medication.

While Evan’s search history suggests he suspected that these issues were signs of CTE, the disease can’t be diagnosed without examining the brain posthumously. So, like many other families seeking answers for unexplained changes in their loved ones’ behavior, the Hansens donated Evan’s brain to the Understanding Neurologic Injury and Traumatic Encephalopathy (UNITE) Brain Bank, run by the Boston University CTE Center.

Ann McKee, the center’s director, chose 152 of them to study. All were contact sports athletes who died under the age of 30, many by suicide or unintentional drug overdose. And as McKee’s team reported in August in JAMA Neurology, 41 percent of them already had CTE. One of them was Evan. Like him, of those diagnosed, most had only played sports at a high school or college level.

This study reveals that young, amateur athletes aren’t spared from the brain damage that comes with contact sports, even if they quit before going pro. And studying early-stage CTE in young, otherwise healthy brains, McKee says, “may give us clues as to how the disease is triggered.” To her, the takeaway is clear: “We need to reduce the number and the strength of head impacts in contact sports. If we don’t, we’re going to face consequences like this.”

McKee, who is also the director of neuropathology for Veterans Affairs Boston, began studying the brains of former NFL players 15 years ago. She couldn’t believe what she saw: big lesions in the crevices of the brain, dotted with abnormal protein clusters. A huge Packers fan, McKee has watched a lot of football games. But, she recalls, until then, “it never occurred to me that they were damaging their brains, because you don’t see it on the field. They’ve got the helmets. They look invincible.”

Researchers now know more about what is happening to the brain beneath the helmet. The jostling of the brain tugs at neural tissue, placing cells and blood vessels under stress. Tau proteins, which stabilize the scaffolding that gives neurons their structure, fall off when a cell is stressed. These fallen proteins pile up inside the cell, “a sort of toxic clump,” as McKee describes it. Eventually, the pileup overwhelms and kills the cell, leaving neurofibrillary tangles, which appear as ominous dark smears under a microscope. These tangles, which also appear in Alzheimer’s disease, make it harder for neurons to communicate with each other, causing memory problems.

Meanwhile, injured blood vessels compromise the sacred blood-brain barrier that normally protects sensitive neural tissue from irritating molecules flowing through the rest of the body. The resulting irritation causes inflammation, which induces more tau clumping, initiating a downward spiral of neurodegeneration.

To screen the donated young athletes’ brains for CTE, the researchers looked for tau, as well as signs of larger-scale problems like inflammation, hardening or deterioration of blood vessels, and changes to white matter, which contains the connections between neurons. They also interviewed the donors’ loved ones to learn more about their behavior and cognitive symptoms while they were alive. All of them had experienced issues like memory loss, depression, and impulsive behavior.

Of the 152 brains examined, 63 were posthumously diagnosed with CTE. The vast majority were still in early stages of neurodegeneration, but three of them—one belonging to a former NFL player, one to a college football player, and one to a professional rugby player—had reached the third of CTE’s four stages. Notably, another brain with CTE belonged to a 28-year-old women’s collegiate soccer player—the first case of its kind.

The youth of these players also allowed the research team to rule out aging as the cause of the damage. Aging, as well as high blood pressure, cardiac disease, and other neurodegenerative problems, can all damage brain tissue. But in the sample used for the new study, all of the athletes died between the ages of 13 and 29. “These are pristine, beautiful brains,” McKee says.

The fact that so many of the donors’ families had noticed mood and memory changes—regardless of whether their child was ultimately diagnosed with CTE—might be an artifact of the study’s sample pool. Families were simply more likely to donate to the brain bank if they had noticed unusual behavior in their child. But McKee says this also suggests that some of the symptoms experienced by these young athletes are not always caused by CTE, but may still reflect the aftermath of head trauma. Chris Nowinski, a study coauthor and CEO of the nonprofit Concussion Legacy Foundation, remembers struggling with chronic symptoms after the concussion that ended his pro wrestling career in his twenties. In cases like his, concussion-related problems like sleep impairments, or the difficulties of coming to terms with life as an injured or retired athlete, are likely the root cause of the mental health issues—not necessarily tau pathology.

The new study’s results build upon a mountain of evidence connecting contact sports to CTE. One 2017 study of 202 deceased football players found that 87 percent had CTE, including 110 of the 111 brains belonging to retired NFL players. Other studies revealed that CTE is more prevalent in athletes than non-athletes, and is specifically tied to experience playing contact sports, not one-off traumatic brain injuries. Ongoing studies are developing ways to diagnose CTE while people are alive, in the hopes of finding ways to intervene while the disease is still in its earliest stages.

A common misconception is that a one-time impact can lead to neurodegeneration. The real problem is getting hit in the head over and over, for years and years. “A tennis player who had five concussions is not going to get CTE,” says Nowinski. “There’s something about getting hundreds or thousands of head impacts a year. That’s what triggers it, whether you have concussion symptoms or not.”

Like many kids in the United States, Evan Hansen started playing tackle football in third grade. “He was in his 14th year of football, a senior in college, when he died,” says his dad. The number of years he played, and the age he was when he started facing regular blows to the head, likely contributed to developing CTE, according to McKee’s findings. When he signed his son up for football, Hansen recalls, “It was just pure ignorance. I didn’t know what I didn’t know.”

While his son’s diagnosis wasn’t made until after his death, Chuck Hansen suspects that Evan’s fear of the disorder, and what it meant for his future, weighed on him heavily. “I believe that he thought he had CTE, and had never talked about it,” Hansen says. “Maybe he thought it was a terminal thing that would only get worse, and that there was no hope.”

While there is no medical treatment for CTE yet, McKee and Nowinski recommend that young athletes focus on seeking treatment for individual mental health symptoms, like insomnia or depression. The Concussion Legacy Foundation runs a HelpLine for those who are struggling with post-concussion symptoms, or who are worried about CTE. The Hansen family also started a foundation to promote mental health awareness and CTE research, and to fund scholarships for medical students.

But CTE is preventable. Small changes to practice drills and gameplay could make a huge difference for young athletes, says Nowinski. The playbook for prevention is simple: Reduce the number of hits to the head, and reduce the strength of those hits. Most happen during practice, so by reducing the number of drills involving head impacts and choosing ones that are less likely to cause high-magnitude blows, coaches can spare their players unnecessary danger. “You can’t get rid of CTE in tackling sports,” adds Nowinski, “but you can get rid of most cases of CTE.”

Reducing the length of each game and the number of games per season can minimize the likelihood of head injuries, and banning brain-jostling events, like fighting in hockey or heading in soccer, can make games safer, he continues. Perhaps most importantly, youth sports leagues can raise the age at which kids are first exposed to preventable head impacts. “With tackle football before 14, the risks are not worth the benefits,” Nowinski says. “You don’t become a better football player from playing young.” In one case study reported by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, transitioning from tackle to flag football would reduce a young athlete’s median number of head impacts per season from 378 to eight.

But, Nowinski points out, there is no central governing body in charge of youth sports leagues, leaving it largely up to individual coaches to make changes to their practice drills and recruitment strategies. “The opportunity is right in front of our faces,” says Nowinski. “I remember being told how much football makes you a leader. But right now, on this issue, there’s a black hole of leadership.”

McKee doesn’t think that parents should take their kids out of sports—far from it. “We just need to change the rules and our thinking about these games, so that CTE isn’t a consequence of playing contact sports,” McKee says.

And for young athletes concerned about CTE, she urges them to seek help for mental health symptoms, build personal support systems, and keep moving forward with their lives. “Individuals like Evan need to be seen, because in all likelihood, we can treat their symptoms and help them feel less hopeless,” she says. “It’s not a time to despair. It’s a time to come in, be evaluated, and be treated.”

If you or someone you know needs help, call 1-800-273-8255 for free, 24-hour support from the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. You can also text HOME to 741-741 for the Crisis Text Line. Outside the US, visit the International Association for Suicide Prevention for crisis centers around the world.

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Wood Engraving Wednesday

Abigail Rorer

I have long been a fan of the work of Massachusetts wood engraver, letterpress printer, and book artist Abigail Rorer (b. 1949). A former student of Barry Moser and inspired by the work of Leonard Baskin, Rorer is a part of what I call the Pioneer Valley School of artists, an interconnected group of artists and artisans who live, work, or trained in the Connecticut River valley region of western Massachusetts, centered in the Amherst/Northampton area.

I am particularly interested in Rorer's attention to detail, precision of mark making, and her fine lines, all of which are evident in this lovely engraving of a Javan Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus). The original, signed print is one of several prints included in the Wood Engravers' Network (WEN) 2022 Printers Bundles sent in the fall to WEN members along with that year's issue of the society's journal Block & Burin. An over 20-year run of both the journal and the bundles was recently donated to Special Collections by Wisconsin WEN member Tony Drehfal.

I selected this print to post not only because Rorer is one of my favorite wood engravers, but also because the rhinoceros is my very favorite mammal (they are exquisite and beautiful!) and it pains me how endangered all species of rhinos are around the world. This print may become among last visual representations of this magnificent being before it is erased from our planet, or more hopefully, it may be one of the images that marks the revival of Rhinocerotidae.

View more posts on work by Abigail Rorer.

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View more posts with wood engravings!

-- MAX, Head of Special Collections

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WMF Wisconsin's Fund-a-thon ends May 31st, 2024

Founded in 1972 as Women's Medical Fund, Inc., WMF Wisconsin has supported Wisconsin residents in paying for abortion care for over 50 years. A 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, WMF Wisconsin also educates and organizes for abortion access.

The Center for Reproductive Rights currently lists Wisconsin as Hostile towards abortion rights.

Wisconsin law generally prohibits abortion at twenty weeks post-fertilization and post-viability. The state has not repealed its unconstitutional ban on D&X procedures. Pregnant people who seek abortion care must undergo a mandatory twenty-four-hour waiting period, biased counseling, and an ultrasound. Wisconsin also limits public funding for, and private insurance coverage of, abortion. Wisconsin law generally requires that a parent, legal guardian, adult family member, foster parent, or judge consent to a minor’s abortion.

Wisconsin’s targeted regulation of abortion providers (TRAP) laws include requirements related to facilities, permanently enjoined admitting privileges, transfer agreements, and reporting. Wisconsin law restricts the provision of abortion care to physicians and restricts providers from using telemedicine for the provision of abortion care. Providers who violate Wisconsin’s abortion restrictions may face civil and criminal penalties.

With just four abortion clinics in Madison, Milwaukee, and Sheboygan servicing the entire state, the demand is too high to keep up with.

For those who are able to travel in the state, they face long (and potentially snowy) drives, expensive gas bills, and hotel stays. Others may have to leave the state entirely.

Though the Sheboygan, our northernmost clinic, re-opened in December 2023, many in our state are forced to travel long distance. Here’s how far our community members need to drive to their closest Wisconsin clinic:

Hayward, Wisconsin – 5 hours to Sheboygan

Rhinelander, Wisconsin - 3 hours to Sheboygan

Holmen, Wisconsin – 2 hours to Madison

Nekoosa, Wisconsin – 1hr 45 min to Madison

Green Bay, Wisconsin – 1 hour to Sheboygan

Your donation to WMF Wisconsin helps ensure not only that the cost of an abortion is covered, but the costs of child support, gas, and lodging are paid, too.

Donate directly to the Fund-a-thon here

Buy WMF Wisconsin's official merch here

Your tax-deductible contribution helps Wisconsin residents exercise their legal right to obtain safe and affordable abortion care. Donating to WMF Wisconsin is a generous act of community care, meeting the needs of our neighbors with love and compassion. WMF is a volunteer-led organization, and every dollar makes a difference.

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For those unaware, the city of Farmington Hills, MI used to play host to a huge food court once called Tally Hall (that much later spawned a band baring the same name) surrounded by a small strip mall called Hunter Square in the 1980s. The food court blew away anything that passes for mall food courts today. A man named Marvin Yagoda (I once worked for his uncle Herman at a dank sports bar in Southfield called McVee's) started putting in co-operated rides and love testers in the mall. Then he started getting old, rustic machines, fortune tellers, and other oddities gathered into a small center section of the food court right next to the Sanrio store.

Tally Hall eventually closed up....and it's memories still thrive on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/12156072137/

Some remnants of Tally Hall still persisted: Anita's Kitchen, The Honey Tree, and one was Marvin's Coin-operated menagerie, which he was able to set-up in a separate business in the 90s called Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum....filled with pinball games, video games, odd animatronics, and many mind-bogglers.

Marvin sadly passed away in 2017.

The city of Farmington Hills is now talking about demolishing the entire building and relocation may be near next to impossible.

My post is by-far not-the only one here on Tumblr making mention of this, but at least I can boast that I was there from the beginning (and not someone who hitched a ride by way of the band Tally Hall) back in the 80s.

Anyway, if anyone cares to sign the online petition-and upon completion they either request a donation or a chance to spread it on the more popular (eww) social media sites- here it is: https://www.change.org/p/save-marvin-s-marvelous-mechanical-museum

So, if anyone cares enough for another roadside attraction for weirdos (much like House on the Rock in Wisconsin or the Coral Castle in Miami) to survive, please take the time to sign.

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Coats and cold at Madison's first Pride Parade

Earmuffs and mittens featured at Madison’s first Pride parade. Out of all the recordings of Pride celebrations in UW Archives’ Nothing to Hide collection, only one features marchers and spectators alike donning winter coats to keep out the cold. Madison’s first Pride Parade was held in 1989 on the coldest May 6 on record, with a high temperature of only 38 degrees and light snow falling the previous night. Undeterred by the cold, over 7000 people attended the march and rally. The event was organized by the newly formed Gay And Lesbian Visibility Alliance (GALVAnize for short). It featured speeches by David Clarenbach, the author of Wisconsin’s first-in-the-nation 1982 gay rights law, Ricardo Gonzales, Madison Alderperson and the first openly gay Latino elected official in the nation, and Tammy Baldwin, then serving as a member of the Dane County Board of Supervisors and just about to graduate from University of Wisconsin Law School. 

Nothing to Hide was a community access television program focusing on LGBTQ+ issues produced by David Runyon that ran on WYOU in Madison from 1981-2001. One of the longest-running LGBTQ+-centered televisions shows in the nation, the episodes are an invaluable resource documenting Madison’s rich LGBTQ+ history. The tapes were donated to the UW-Madison Libraries and are now housed at the UW Archives; they are currently being digitized and described. The end goal of the project is to make the collection of more than 700 episodes available to the public.

This speech is just one of the many unique events that would go unrecorded if they were not documented by Runyon and preserved in the UW Archives. Do you have memories of David Runyon or the Nothing to Hide program? Interested in contributing to the continuing documentation of Madison’s rich LGBTQ+ history? We would love to hear from you! Contact either Cat Phan at catherine.phan@wisc.edu or Jean Chrysanthemum at verger@wisc.edu.

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Chester is celebrating his second Gotcha Day with me on December 8th! To celebrate 2 years with my favorite nemesis I'd like to try to raise money for a local parrot rescue, Center for Animal Rehab and Education in Waukesha, Wisconsin. I've personally never adopted from them, but I've gone in to look at birds and purchased toys from their storefront. My mom briefly volunteered for them before life got too hectic.

For those who don't know I ended up with Chester through a client at the clinic. She had owned Chester for 25 years. As she was getting older and having health issues she had less time for him, she was in and out of the hospital often. Chester became extremely aggressive due to this and she became unable to handle him at all. She was at her wits end and considering euthanasia. Doc talked to me and I agreed to give Chester a home if the client was willing. She was extremely thankful and very sad to lose her friend.

Chester does not like me. If it weren't for the fact that I feed him I'm pretty sure he'd kill me in his sleep. However, he loves Joey and also loves to go to his grandma's house to spend time with her flock and in her aviary.

I set a goal of $100 and started us off with a donation of $25. Any money over the goal will also go to CARE. Please don't feel any pressure to donate, especially since I know December can be a tight month for people financially. Thank you to anyone who does donate or even just shares this post. I'll post updates with how much money we've raised and let you guys know when I mail out the check!

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National Carousel Day 

Find a local fair or amusement park, or a designated carousel and have some old-fashioned fun. Or, stay home and watch the hit musical, “Carousel”.

When we think of carousels, we think of the beautifully designed horses, with golden metal poles mounted down the center and accompanied by circus music. Since the early 1800’s, carousels are all about the children, laughing as they go round and round and have been a huge part of American history.

While there are many designs to carousels, the idea of a carousel has been around for centuries before America even existed. So, to observe the fine-tuned history of carousels, Carousel Day is a day just for that! So strap in and enjoy the ride on an American pastime.

Learn about Carousel Day

The purpose of Carousel Day is to honor this incredible invention. This is one of the most instantly recognizable fairground and amusement park rides. A carousel, which is also known as a merry-go-round, is a sort of amusement ride, which consists of a circular platform that rotates and has seats for riders. Traditionally, these seats would be wooden horses or other animals. However, we have seen different themed carousels pop up over the world.

Some of the world’s most magical carousels can be found at:

The Musée des Arts Forains at the Pavillons de Bercy in Paris

Wisconsin’s House on the Rock

Jane’s Carousel in Brooklyn, New York

The Stoomcarrousel in Efteling, Netherlands

These carousels are special for different reasons. Jane’s Carousel is housed in a glass box, providing amazing urban views of New York. The Stoomcarrousel, on the other hand, is a much older carousel, which celebrates steam power. It was built in 1895, and it traveled around many places until an amusement park in Efteling purchased it in 1956. These are just a few of the incredible carousels you can find all over the world, and so we definitely recommend doing a bit of digging online. You will be amazed by some of the stunning and magical carousels that are situated around the world.

History of Carousel Day

In order to understand the history of Carousel Day, we need to understand the history of the carousel. One of the first conceptual designs for a carousel was in 500 A.D. in the Byzantine Empire, which depicts baskets, carrying riders, suspended from a central pole.

This was an activity that needed excellent horsemanship and skill. In fact, the word carousel comes from the word ‘garosello,’ which is Italian, and the word ‘carosella,’ which is Spanish. It means ‘little battle.’ This was used by crusaders as a description of the combat preparation exercises and games that were played by the Arabian and Turkish horsemen during the 12th century.

There were carousels being created and operated at a number of different gatherings and fairs in England and Central Europe in the early 18th century. However, it was not until the 1840s when Franz Wiesenoffer created the first merry-go-round in the United States in Hessville, Ohio. Unfortunately, though. He did not patent the design, and so he’s not officially credited as the creator.

Then, Bette Largent, President of the National Carousel Association, and carousel historian, Ronald Hopkins founded National Merry-Go-Round Day in 2014. Also called Carousel Day, it was formed to honor William Schneider of Davenport, Iowa who, due to patenting the carousel in 1871, is considered the official inventor of the modern carousel by the U.S. Patent Office.

The National Carousel Association, operating since 1973, aims to keep carousels running and preserve their history in the United States. Since then, the NCA tracks the history of carousels all around the United States in its census. The NCA is a non-profit organization and accepts donations to help keep carousel history alive.

The NCA also has a census, a giant data collection of carousels all over North America, keeping track of vintage and modern carousels, as well as repairing old carousels to keep them functioning. Every year, the NCA hosts a convention called The New England Carousel Revolution, where people travel around in buses all over the New England area to check out vintage carousels in parks, museums, and boardwalks.

How to celebrate Carousel Day

According to the NCA census, there are hundreds of registered carousels in the United States. In fact, chances are there is a carousel hiding your neighborhood just waiting to be discovered. Celebrate this holiday with a visit to your local fair by checking the national census on the NCA’s webpage.

Also, check your local area for county fairs or amusement parks and head on out there. If you’re interested in learning more about the history of your local carousel, find out by contacting your local directors and asking them about it. Take your kids to the local fair, or if you don’t have kids, ride one yourself. Go out there and have fun!

If you’re looking for a way to celebrate Carousel Day from the comfort of your own home, why not watch the film Carousel? This is a 1956 musical movie, which is based on a musical from 1945 that had the same name.

A lot of critics have stated that this musical contains the most beautiful songs that have been created by Rodgers and Hammerstein. For those who are unaware, Rodgers and Hammerstein refer to a duo of the lyricist-dramatist Oscar Hammerstein II and composer Richard Rodgers. The story is about a handsome, macho, and rough-talking carousel barker, called Billy Bigelow, and an innocent and young mill worker, Julie Jordan.

The plot is one of the most serious storylines found in a musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein, as you go on a journey of love and heartbreak. It is a great film to watch, and it has received a lot of positive reviews, so why not celebrate Carousel Day by getting the popcorn in and watching this movie?

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Lark at Kohl in Madison, WI

When it comes to Madison student apartments near campus area, Lark at Kohl is one of your best selections. The aforementioned apartment recently fascinated many people because of its unique presence in the city. Apart from that, the above-mentioned place is pet-friendly. All you have to do is check out their pet policy. Moreover, the building is also lively. For instance, you can get lost in your work in the study room or club lounge and be given exciting services later. Then, when you snap out of it and realize you’ve spent many hours on a project, they’ll get you a fresh coffee.

Madison, WI

At present, you can find the best pre-scheduled events online. As such, you can also browse Eventbrite. By means of their famous travel portal, you can see that there will be Dean's Cup 2024 this coming Friday, November 15, 2024, at around 7:00 in the evening at Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center. Moreover, the Madison, WI Speed Dating for Singles Ages 20s/30s at The Rigby Pub is scheduled on Wednesday, November 13, 2024, at around 8:30 PM at The Rigby Pub. Lastly, you can opt to attend the 2024 Election Symposium on Friday, November 22, 2024, at around 9:45 AM at Discovery Building, DeLuca Forum.

University of Wisconsin–Madison Arboretum in Madison, WI

Have you been to University of Wisconsin–Madison Arboretum? If you’re looking for a tourist spot in Madison, WI area these days, you can research about University of Wisconsin–Madison Arboretum as soon as possible. Moreover, it is interesting to note that the Arboretum is an extension of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is used by students and researchers focusing on ecological restoration. While it is not a park, thousands of people visit the Arboretum each year to enjoy its seasonal beauty. Last but not least, your cooperation will help protect the Arboretum’s plants, wildlife and the ongoing research projects.

Pink flamingos flock to Bascom Hill for UW-Madison's 'Fill the Hill' fundraiser

One of the stimulating news reports this year in Madison, WI is about pink flamingos. As stated on the news, pink flamingos are back on Bascom Hill as UW-Madison celebrates its annual "Fill the Hill" fundraiser. Moreover, the Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association joined Wake Up Wisconsin Friday to talk about the event. Furthermore, leaders said it all started as a prank in 1979, and it has now been transformed into a fundraiser supporting scholarships, research, and campus initiatives. Lastly, for each donation, another flamingo lands on the hill. By the way, have you come across with this story in the past?

Link to map

University of Wisconsin–Madison Arboretum 1207 Seminole Hwy, Madison, WI 53711, United States Head east on Arboretum Dr toward Wingra Creek Bike Path 62 ft Turn left onto S Mills St/N Wingra Dr Continue to follow S Mills St 0.2 mi Turn right onto Erin St 0.2 mi Turn left onto S Park St 0.2 mi Turn right onto US-151/W Washington Ave 0.4 mi Continue straight onto W Washington Ave 0.2 mi Turn left onto N Bedford St Destination will be on the left 0.1 mi Lark at Kohl 102 N Bedford St, Madison, WI 53703, United States

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Lark At Randall in Madison, WI

If you’re in the process of looking for the best UW Madison student apartments area, Lark at Randall is one of your best options. In addition, the said apartment complex recently attracted a lot of attention due to its unique presence in the city. Besides, the said place is pet-friendly. They have their pet policy, too. The building is also bustling. In that case, you can get lost in your work in the study room or club lounge. Moreover, when you snap out of it and realize you’ve spent the last six hours on a project, they’ll get you a fresh coffee. In other words, you’ll feel invigorated later on.

Madison, WI

These days, you can find the best pre-scheduled activities online. With that, you can also browse Eventbrite. Through their famous travel portal, you can see that there will be Madison, WI Speed Dating for Singles Ages 20s/30s at The Rigby Pub on Wednesday, November 13, 2024, at around 8:30 PM at The Rigby Pub. Second, the Old-Fashioned Aces - Sugar Maple Concert Series is scheduled on Friday, November 22, 2024, at around 8:00 PM at The North Street Cabaret. Lastly, you can opt to attend the 2024 Election Symposium on Friday, November 22, 2024, at around 9:45 AM at Discovery Building, DeLuca Forum.

University of Wisconsin–Madison Arboretum in Madison, WI

One of the popular places in Madison, WI is University of Wisconsin–Madison Arboretum. Because of its spectacular tourist spots, you can choose to visit the place. If you’re searching for a tourist attraction in Madison, WI area at present, you can study University of Wisconsin–Madison Arboretum as soon as possible. It is interesting to note that the Arboretum is an extension of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is used by students and researchers focusing on ecological restoration. While it is not a park, thousands of people visit the Arboretum each year to enjoy its seasonal beauty. Lastly, your cooperation will help protect the Arboretum’s plants, wildlife and ongoing research projects, including others’ safety and enjoyment.

UW Homecoming Blood Drive kicks off on campus

There are many inspiring news reports in Madison, WI location at present. In a recent news article, the topic was about a blood drive. Basically, it was mentioned in the news that UW-Madison's Homecoming Week continues with a blood drive. Well, starting Tuesday and running through Thursday, people can donate blood at the Nicholas Recreation Center from 11:00 in the morning to 5:00 in the afternoon. Moreover, the organizers said in a statement that, “This event offers you the opportunity to make a life-saving contribution to those in need within our community.” Lastly, the drive is part of the Big Ten’s conference-wide competition, “The We Give Blood Drive.”

Link to map

University of Wisconsin–Madison Arboretum 1207 Seminole Hwy, Madison, WI 53711, United States Head east on Arboretum Dr toward Wingra Creek Bike Path 62 ft Turn left onto S Mills St/N Wingra Dr Continue to follow S Mills St 0.4 mi Turn left onto Drake St 0.3 mi Turn right onto S Randall Ave 0.6 mi Turn left onto Monroe St Destination will be on the left 276 ft Lark at Randall 1423 Monroe St, Madison, WI 53711, United States

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What Can You Put in a Dumpster?

But there are masses of policies as to what you could and might’t throw into a municipal dumpster. Throwing such things as whole tires or unsafe substances into a dumpster is unlawful and will get you fined. And in case your dumpster is a apartment, you may be breaking your settlement by placing positive things inside the trash. Efficient dumpster rental los angeles ca – your trusted partner for seamless waste disposal!

So even in case you suppose you’re assured, it’s first-rate to comb up for your information of dumpster rules before you throw something questionable away. Scroll all the way down to analyze what you could and might’t throw in a dumpster.

What Can You Throw in a Dumpster?

You can throw almost any non-dangerous waste or junk into a dumpster. That includes:

1. Alkaline Batteries

In every nation except California, ordinary batteries (like AAA, AA, C, D, button mobile, and nine Volt) can pass within the dumpster. However, you can recycle batteries in case you’d like by bringing them to your municipality’s recycling middle. You also can use Earth911’s Recycling Search to look for centers in your region.

Many people might also recall that they were required to recycle unmarried-use batteries for many years. That’s due to the fact alkaline batteries have been synthetic with mercury, that is toxic to the surroundings, till the mid-Nineteen Nineties.

Alkaline batteries now fall underneath federal and state requirements for household unsafe waste (in each country except California), and it’s ok to place them in a dumpster.

2. Construction & Home Improvement Debris

Almost all production waste may be thrown in a dumpster. This includes:

Asphalt

Bathroom furniture

Brick

Cabinetry

Concrete

Countertops

Drywall

Flooring

Lumber and wooden substances

Siding

Stone

Subfloor materials

Tiles

However, if your materials are particularly heavy, you can want to hire a in particular strengthened dumpster.

Three. Drained Appliances

A drained washer and fridge

Most appliances like washers, dryers, and AC units can go right into a dumpster, however with one very essential caveat: they need to have all hazardous fluids and additives drained first. If you need to throw them out without draining them, you’ll should rent a expert.

The same rule applies to fridges — they have to be absolutely drained of freon before they can cross right into a dumpster, so it’s often easier to simply pay to have them hauled away.

4. Electronics

In most service areas, you can throw man or woman household electronics in a dumpster. However, if you’re cleansing out an workplace or have a large quantity of electronics to get rid of, you’ll probable have to recycle them as e-waste.

There are 25 states with electronics recycling legal guidelines:

California

Connecticut

Hawaii

Illinois

Indiana

Maine

Maryland

Michigan

Minnesota

Missouri

New Jersey

New York

North Carolina

Oklahoma

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

South Carolina

Texas

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

Washington

West Virginia

Wisconsin

How to Donate or Recycle e-Waste

You can sustainably dispose of electronics at your local e-waste recycling center, or you may seek advice from one of the many workplace deliver and electronics brands that provide in-shop and mail-in options for recycling antique electronics. Stores and types that receive recycled electronics consist of:

Amazon

Apple

Best Buy

Canon

Dell

Epson

Hewlett-Packard (HP)

LG

Office Depot

Office Max

Samsung

Sony

Sprint

Staples

Vizio

Xerox

It’s also constantly quality to bear in mind donating your electronics — even though an object is damaged. Some charities companion with tech specialists to reap items for elements and use them to refurbish electronics. The charities then use the refurbished electronics to benefit neighborhood communities, either through donating them without delay or with the aid of reselling them and putting the finances in the direction of an excellent motive.

Goodwill’s Reconnect Partnership, Human-I-T, and The Wireless Foundation are all splendid locations to donate antique or damaged electronics for a great reason.

Five. Empty Aerosol Cans

Aerosol cans (like hairspray, non-stick cooking spray, etc.) are safe to throw in a dumpster best in the event that they’re empty. If an aerosol can is even partially complete, it may explode.

6. Household Junk

Garbage bags on a residential street

You can placed any household junk that’s nonhazardous in a dumpster. The EPA defines family risky waste as any product that “can trap fireplace, react, or explode underneath certain situations, or which are corrosive or toxic.”

Examples of nonhazardous family junk encompass normal trash, fixtures, backyard materials like shingles or siding, construction debris, and maximum home equipment.

If you’re now not certain whether some thing is unsafe, you could take a look at the EPA’s household hazardous waste page to research extra.

7. Wooden Furniture

Wooden furnishings is almost constantly applicable to throw into a dumpster. This means wood chairs, tables, shelves, cabinets, and different furniture items that are made totally of timber are safe to send to the landfill.

However, fixtures that is upholstered — couches, armchairs, and many others. — are concern to distinctive regulations that fluctuate from location to location. Scroll down to the “upholstered fixtures” phase of this web page to learn more.

8. Yard Waste

Dead leaves and backyard waste on a lawn

Junk from nature isn’t technically rubbish — it turned into there first, after all — however things like sticks, leaves, brush, hurricane particles, and different environmental flotsam to your yard is okay to throw in a dumpster.

Graphic displaying what you can put in a dumpster, including electronics, backyard waste, alkaline batteries, family home equipment, and family junk.

What Can’t You Throw in a Dumpster?

It’s very essential to understand what can’t be thrown in a dumpster. Some of those objects can be relatively risky, whilst others can truely net you a charge for fallacious waste disposal from your authorities or your dumpster condo agency.

Be sure to keep away from these items when the use of a dumpster for disposal.

1. Adhesives

Glue, epoxy, and different adhesives are not allowed in dumpsters considering they are able to bind different substances to the dumpster walls.

2. Asbestos

If your private home has asbestos, many stuff that would in any other case be allowed in a dumpster (like preservation debris, roof tiling, and so on.) can not be positioned in a dumpster considering that they're considered infected.

Anyone whose residence consists of asbestos should lease a certified contractor to carry out all waste removal professionally.

3. Contaminated Soils and Absorbents

Given that dangerous materials are not allowed in a dumpster, it follows that some thing infected with hazardous substances — like infected soil, mulch, and many others. — additionally can't be installed a dumpster.

To eliminate infected soils and absorbents, contact your state EPA or look up your nearest family hazardous waste drop-off middle.

4. Hazardous Materials

Various bottles and bins retaining hazardous cloth like insecticides and motor oil.

All dangerous substances must be disposed of by using professional unsafe waste collectors. This includes commonplace family substances like insecticides, motor oil, car fluids, freon, asbestos, and many others.

To dispose of family hazardous substances, contact your country EPA office and ask for the place of the nearest family risky waste drop-off middle.

Five. Household Cleaning Fluids

Though empty cleaning deliver bottles may be recycled, the real answers internal those bottles need to no longer be thrown in a dumpster.

If you want to eliminate household cleansing fluid, first take a look at the label for any precise disposal commands. If none are furnished, the American Cleaning Institute indicates considering the characteristic of the chemical in query for guidance on a way to do away with it. For example, laundry or dish detergent are usually drained thru plumbing after use, so it's far generally secure to pour them down the drain blended with walking water.

6. Hot Water Tanks

You can’t placed warm water tanks into a dumpster, because the empty area within the hot water tank can acquire dangerous gases and may subsequently explode.

If you’re removing a warm water tank, it’s typically because you’re changing it with a brand new one, so touch the new water organization to peer if the man or woman turning in the brand new unit can choose up your vintage heater even as they’re at your house.

Otherwise, you could touch a professional junk hauler or your neighborhood waste control facility and inquire about curbside pickup to your hot water tank. Premium rent a dumpster los angeles – affordable, timely, and tailored to your project needs!

7. Ink & Resins

Printer ink, pen ink, and resins can damage and stain dumpsters and landfill equipment. Therefore, they're not allowed to be thrown away in dumpsters. Most office supply stores have drop-off recycling programs for those items.

Eight. Medical Infectious Waste

A medical waste trash can with biohazard label

Medical infectious waste is defined as any cloth used in medicinal drug or anything that has come into contact with bodily fluids. This consists of:

Animal carcasses or body components

Dialysis waste

Hospital blood baggage

Human blood or blood-soaked fabric

Unused or expired capsules and prescriptions

Used needles and sharps

Most clinical family waste, like bandages or gear used to treat an damage that didn’t require a physician’s care, are not taken into consideration scientific infectious waste. This category is maximum applicable to doctor’s places of work and scientific laboratories in place of homes.

If you do locate your self in possession of valid scientific infectious waste, you can contact your state EPA or fitness organisation for guidance on how to cast off it.

9. Non-Alkaline Batteries

Unlike household batteries, which fall below federal requirements for household dangerous waste, many other varieties of batteries are very poisonous to the environment and have to never be thrown in a dumpster.

Batteries that must never cross in a dumpster encompass:

Car batteries

Computer batteries

Lead-acid batteries

Lithium ion batteries

Rechargeable batteries

Silver oxide batteries

You can discover in which to recycle your batteries by means of calling your nearby municipal waste authority or using Earth911’s Recycling Search device.

10. Oils, Fuels, and Propane Tanks

Various gas and fuel boxes

Any flammable fabric like propane tanks, gas, oil, or fuel honestly can not be thrown right into a dumpster. Improperly casting off especially combustible materials is a critical protection threat and illegal in maximum regions. Contact your nearby fire department or unsafe waste collector to find out how to do away with flammable gadgets nicely.

11. Paint and Lacquers

Paint, lacquer, paint thinner, and wooden stain aren't allowed in dumpsters because they regularly contain lead or mercury. Empty paint cans, however, are allowed — as is dry latex paint (as long as it’s wrapped in a plastic bag.)

Empty, dried paint cans may be recycled with different metals to your ordinary recycling bin.

12. Undrained Appliances

You can’t placed a fridge in a dumpster unless it's been completely drained of the refrigerant it contains. Though refrigerators themselves are not toxic, freon is, and the penalty for freeing it into the surroundings may be upwards of $25,000.

Though it’s possible to empty freon from a fridge, most of the people favor to contact their nearby waste management authority or a personal waste elimination business enterprise and time table a professional choose-up.

Thirteen. Whole Tires

A line of car tires

Whole tires are not allowed in landfills because the hollow space on the center of a tire can lure methane gasses when it receives buried by using other garbage. The methane will motive the tire to really “waft” to the surface of the landfill, pushing aside different rubbish and probably rupturing the protective liner that maintains the landfill from polluting the surroundings.

You can cast off a tire via bringing it to an automobile elements shop or nearby recycler to be became rubber mulch.

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Weston to host blood drive

Appointments are highly encouraged for this Sept. 19 event.

WESTON – The village will host a community blood drive in mid September in an effort to ensure local patients in Wisconsin hospitals receive the blood products they need. The blood drive will be held from noon to 5 p.m. Sept. 19 at the Weston Municipal Center, 4747 Camp Phillips Road in Weston. Those who donate will receive free entries into a sports package sweepstakes, and Taylor Swift ERAS…

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An election denial group is planning to create what one of its founders calls “a dropbox surveillance reality show” by donating “AI-driven” cameras to sheriffs in Wisconsin and other states to livestream drop boxes and remotely monitor people voting.

While WIRED found no evidence that the group has been able to recruit sheriffs or others to implement their scheme, local officials in charge of running elections in Wisconsin are concerned that round-the-clock surveillance could spur potential voter intimidation.

The “dropbox surveillance reality show” initiative is being led by Catherine Engelbrecht, who heads up the Texas-based True the Vote group, which has pushed election conspiracies for over a decade. This year, the group rolled out technology to allow anyone to file mass voter roll challenges. And last week, it launched a new app that will allow election deniers to post photos and videos from polling locations on November 5 suggesting evidence of election fraud.

But drop boxes, where voters can return their ballots, are a particular point of concern for Engelbrecht and her cofounder Gregg Phillips. The pair were behind the data provided to the debunked conspiracy film 2000 Mules, which alleged—without evidence—that so-called “mules” were used to stuff ballots into drop boxes ahead of the 2020 election, swinging the vote in favor of Joe Biden.

The distribution company behind the film earlier this year issued an apology and withdrew the film from circulation, after Engelbrecht and Phillips admitted to a judge in Georgia that they had no evidence to back up their claims.

Now, True the Vote is again boosting claims that drop boxes will be used to conduct widespread voter fraud ahead of the 2024 election, and their solution is to put cameras on those locations and let anyone watch 24/7 online. Wisconsin is a key swing state in the upcoming election: Biden won the state by 1 percent in 2020, after Trump had taken the state in 2016. In 2020, more than 500 drop boxes were set up in 430 communities across the state, but a 2022 ruling said unsupervised drop boxes outside of clerks offices were not legal. That ruling was overturned last July, and within days, Engelbrecht began speaking about monitoring drop boxes in Wisconsin.

“In 2020 and 2022, we learned more than we could have imagined about ballot drop box monitoring,” Engelbrecht said in a newsletter to supporters that WIRED reviewed. “Our plan involves AI-driven cameras and real-time livestreaming. We have tested the tech for over a year. We have our own data center, so the livestream cannot be ‘disappeared.’”

It’s unclear what exactly Engelbrecht means when she says “AI-driven,” and True the Vote did not respond to repeated requests for comment about this aspect of their project.

Phillips, in a post on Truth Social that has since been deleted, wrote that they were implementing a “a dropbox surveillance reality show.”

Engelbrecht first hinted at her plans in July, telling Christian nationalist prophet Lance Wallnau on his podcast that “there will be cheating” and that True the Vote would be “working with sheriffs to identify areas that sheriffs would be willing to allow us to grant them camera equipment that they can monitor and we can livestream.”

Engelbrecht has also said the group is looking to roll out drop box monitoring in multiple states, and mentioned Michigan as a possible location, though most of her focus appears to be on Wisconsin.

In her interview with Wallnau, Engelbrecht added that she was working with “three influential sheriffs” in Wisconsin, though she didn’t name them.

WIRED contacted two dozen sheriffs from Wisconsin’s largest counties, but did not find a single one who was going to be part of the monitoring effort. Engelbrecht and Truth the Vote did not respond to multiple requests for comment from WIRED to name the sheriffs who have agreed to be part of the program.

“True the Vote has reached out to the Sheriff's Office regarding ideas as they relate to election integrity and possible law violations,” deputy inspector Patrick R. Esser, from the Waukesha County Sheriff's Department, tells WIRED. “True the Vote proposed the idea of donating cameras to the sheriff's office to monitor election sites, however, the obstacles associated with that idea made it impractical.”

While most sheriff offices WIRED contacted did not respond to requests for comment, a number, including offices in Buffalo County and Polk County, said they had not even heard about the drop box initiative. “I was unaware of the plan and will not be participating,” Sheriff Mike Osmond from Buffalo County tells WIRED. “I am not sure if they are legal or not but do not have interest in implementing such a program.”

In her newsletter this week, Engelbrecht signaled that the group may have been unsuccessful in recruiting enough sheriffs, writing that they would provide cameras to “sheriffs where possible, other individuals where necessary.”

It’s also not clear that sheriffs would even have jurisdiction over the drop boxes because they are county officials and elections are not run by county officials in Wisconsin.

"We're a little different than some states,” says Ann Jacobs, chair of the Wisconsin Elections Commission, which is responsible for administering elections in the state. “In Wisconsin our elections are actually run at the municipal level. So we have 1,850, approximately, municipal clerks who run municipal elections.”

In the wake of the Supreme Court decision in July, the Wisconsin Electoral Commission put in place guidance for clerks on how to implement drop boxes. “The guidance does not prohibit livestreaming of ballot drop boxes, and there is no such prohibition in Wisconsin law,” Riley Vetterkind, the public information officer for the Wisconsin Electoral Commission tells WIRED.

However, if such monitoring interferes with voting, then that could result in criminal charges that carry penalties of up to six months in prison.

“It really depends on what they do with the information that they glean, and my hope is that they're not going to go out and attack voters, although I suspect that's exactly what's going to happen,” says Jacobs.

The claims made in the 2000 Mules conspiracy film centered on voters who placed more than one ballot in drop boxes. However, Jacobs points out that voters in Wisconsin are permitted to place more than one ballot in a drop box if they are doing so for a disabled or infirm family member, which could lead to tensions with drop box monitors should confusion about that allowance occur.

It is also unclear where these cameras would be located, given that they would need to be in situ permanently to provide 24-hour coverage. “What they can't do is go and just attach a camera to, you know, a city of Milwaukee library and focus it on a drop box,” says Jacobs. “I suppose in some places, maybe they could figure it out, but I don't think there's many places that I can think of where that would actually work.”

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Wood Engraving Wednesday

DALE KENNEDY

Happy first day of March 2023! We can almost see the light of spring at the end of this season’s awkward winter tunnel. To reflect how we feel about when and where we are, we present this surreal March wood engraving by Minneapolis wood engraver and printmaker Dale Kennedy from the 2020 calendar of the Wood Engravers’ Network (WEN). In a 2015 oral history interview conducted by Betty Bright for the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, fellow wood engraver and WEN member Bill Myers (who we posted about in the fall) said this about his friend:

Dale Kennedy, who is a noted wood engraver, has a very broad following, including in England. He is a surrealist and he does these tiny, very intricate, very fascinating, out of the subconscious, engravings, which are hell to print because of a lot of fine lines that can fill with ink easily and an expanse of black surface that must be filled with ink. . . . [He} has fallen in love with the iron hand press because it doesn’t hum, doesn’t plug in; it’s totally retro.

Yeah, we can relate to that.

Our copy of the calendar is a donation of WEN member and Wisconsin resident Tony Drehfal.

View more posts from the 2020 WEN Calendar.

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Hazel Bernice Harvey Peace (August 4, 1903 - June 8, 2008) was born in Waco, Texas to Allen H. and Georgia Mason Harvey. She graduated from the Fort Worth Colored High School (I. M. Terrell High School) in Fort Worth in 1919. She obtained her BA in Education at Howard University and began her teaching career at I. M. Terrell High School in 1924. She received an MA from Columbia University and did postgraduate studies at the University of Wisconsin, Vassar College, Hampton University, and Atlanta University. She married Joe Peace of Fort Worth (1938-59).

The Fort Worth public libraries often excluded African American patrons. When she started a debate team at I.M. Terrell High, she checked out books from local universities to encourage her students to read and help the debate team members prepare for debate competitions.

She was a life member of the Texas State Teachers Association and edited the Texas Standard. She was active in numerous civic groups in the Fort Worth area and was a member of Baker Chapel AME Church. She held the positions of teacher, debate team coach, counselor, dean of girls, and vice principal. After retiring, she served as director of student affairs at Bishop College. She taught at Paul Quinn College, Huston-Tillotson College, and Prairie View A&M University.

The Fort Worth Central Library named its youth center in her honor. The University of North Texas School of Library and Information Sciences established the Hazel Harvey Peace Professorship in Children’s Library Services. She received an honorary doctorate of humanities from Texas Wesleyan University. She was a torchbearer in Fort Worth for the 2002 Winter Olympics.

She instructed the trustee of her estate to sell her properties and donate the monies to Howard University, Texas Wesleyan University, the Fort Worth Public Library Foundation, and Our Mother of Mercy Catholic Elementary School.

The city of Fort Worth opened the Hazel Harvey Peace Center for Neighborhoods and the Fort Worth Independent School District opened Hazel Harvey Peace Elementary School. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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St. Mary's hospital, 2320 N. Lake dr., was recently honored as the oldest public hospital in the state of Wisconsin. The institution was established in 1848, the same year that Wisconsin became a state, by the Sisters of Charity and named St. John's infirmary. Originally occupying a rented frame building, it was moved to a two story house on Jefferson st. in 1852. The building was cold and damp and in winter icicles hung so thickly from the ceilings that the sisters called it their "crystal palace." In 1857, the city donated three acres of land to the Sisters of Charity for a new hospital building, to be used for patients with infectious diseases. The land was far enough removed from the center of population to prevent the spread of the diseases. The same year work was begun on the 55 bed, three story, cream brick building pictured above. The water tower, a familiar Milwaukee landmark, didn't come into the picture until 1873. The five story, cream brick building which, with additions, still houses the hospital, was opened in 1910. (Picture and information from the local history collection of the Milwaukee public library.)