 Welcome to the Sheboygan County Local History Expo. Today is May 7th, 2012. My name is Bob Harker. I work at the Sheboygan County Historical Museum as a director there. But today you're going to meet a lot of people from a lot of organizations. Now, Sheboygan County Local History Expo, but we have people from Ozaki County, County McCounty, Manitowoc County joining us for the day. And you're going to hear all about their projects. You're going to hear about the things that they've completed and the projects for the future as well. So again, welcome to the Sheboygan County Local History Expo, 2012. Welcome to the Sheboygan County Historical Society and Museum's presence here at the Local History Expo this year. I'm proud to represent us here at the museum. My name is Tamara Lang, and I serve as the Collection Coordinator and Registrar at the museum. And I'm super excited to be able to talk about the very variety of things that we do here. One of our things that we're super proud of are our full-day student education programs. We have students in grades primarily two, three, and four. They come to the museum from nine in the morning until 2.15, 2.30 in the afternoon. And they have a full-day experience focused on Native American culture, pioneers of Sheboygan County, and historic trades and occupations. We serve over 2,000 students every year from Sheboygan County and beyond, helping them to learn more about the history of the communities in which they live and play today. We also have a great program series that runs from January through October. It's our third Saturday programs. They, of course, happen on the third Saturday of every month between 10 and 3. Our next one coming up in May is going to be on one and two-room country schools. We're going to focus on the experience of the students and the teachers that were in these small schools through the 1800s and well up into the 1900s. Coming up after that, we will have programs in June on shipwrecks on Sheboygan County shores. In July, I think we're doing the Big Band Era in Sheboygan County Dance Halls. August will bring a program on the beverage industry and September will bring a program about the Sheboygan Armory and the many events that went on there. Finally, we'll wrap up this year's third Saturday season with a program in October featuring various collections and their collectors from here in Sheboygan County. Part of our other items that go on is that we have exhibits. We have four historic buildings and an additional modern building that has numerous exhibits in it, including a seasonal exhibit that changes every year. That's also where we have our Holiday Memories exhibit of Prangies Animation. At this time of the year, though, we feature always our seasonal exhibit. This year, from the beginning of April through about the 20th, 24th of October, we're featuring Sheboygan County through the 20th century. And what you see behind me is actually a panoramic mural of the actual exhibit this year. It features the highlights and the many things that happened in the 20th century that were major changes, both on an international and a national level, and those things that happened locally that impacted the residents of Sheboygan County. You'll be able to come and see. We have a nice booklet here that displays many of the various items, information for each decade, lots of different labels, just to learn more. And we go right from 1900 all the way up until 1999 for this year's seasonal exhibit. We'd love to have you come and visit us at the Sheboygan County Historical Museum. There's tons of things going on. If you're interested in finding out more, feel free to call us at the Museum 920-458-1103 or look us up on the Internet. Just search Sheboygan County Museum. Thanks. Hi, I'm Mary Rasoud, the Director of Development at the Sheboygan County Historical Research Center. Our mission is to collect and preserve the written and photographic documentation of Sheboygan County. And we estimate that we have approximately a million documents and half a million photographs in our collection. It really is a pretty incredible collection of things that span people, places, events, businesses, churches, schools. Hopefully, if you name it, we've got it. And we have something for almost everybody's interest. One of the things that we also do on a yearly basis is publish new books that pertain to history in Sheboygan County. And this year, we have published our first children's book, which is The Shadow of the Phoenix. And is a children's story about a young boy who survived the tragedy of the sinking of the ship, the Phoenix, in 1847, coming from the Netherlands. We have other novels and documentation about the sinking of that ship, but it's been really interesting to engage the children in the county in a different way about their history. This past fall, we published a book about the H.C. Prangie Company that people were really crazy about. We solicited stories from former employees and customers. And we're told some amazing stories that were more than worth preserving. And people also brought us all kinds of new photographs and other information about the Prangie Company that were very fun. We're also just at the end of the drafts of our newest book that will be out this fall in the Arcadia series, and it will be a photographic history of the city of Sheboygan. So that should be available, I think, about November in time for Christmas sales. So we hope that we will plan some kind of an event to launch the publishing of that new book on the city of Sheboygan. Hi, my name is Betsy Irvin. I'm the lead interpreter and a program assistant at the Wade House Historic Site. I'm pleased to be here to talk about what we have going on in the 2012 season. Our biggest news is we're building a new visitor center and carriage museum, which are slated to be open June 2013. But while all of that building is going on, we still have a lot of exciting programs going on this year. We have the Wade House will be open on a daily basis, the Blacksmith Shop and the Sawmill, and of course the Carriage Museum, which has over 120 different horse-drawn vehicles from 1870 to about 1915. For programming this year, we've got our Baseball Sundays again this year, where we will be playing vintage baseball, playing by the rules of 1860. In 1860, baseball was played without gloves. The ball was slightly larger than a soft ball today. So playing without gloves was a pretty hairy thing. Not a lot of protection for your hands. The bats could be pretty darn long. Sometimes you feel like you're swinging a small tree to get it out into the outfield. But our Baseball Sundays are once a month and they're a great time, so it'd be great if people would come out for that. Something we introduced last year, and we're continuing this year, is breakfast in the end. Same days that we have Baseball Sunday, people can sign up to make breakfast in the Wade House using the wood-burning stove and the open-heart fireplace. So we've got my coffee pot and my coffee grinder and some jam that we've made at the Wade House as well to kind of signify our breakfast at the end program, which we'll start early in the morning, collect eggs from the chickens, make breakfast, and then your admission with that does include the Baseball game. We also have day camps again this year. We have our Civil War Day Camp and our Pioneer Day Camp where kids will get a chance to try their hand at life in the 1860s. Our Civil War Day Camp, kids will get to come and see what it was like to be a soldier during the Civil War. They'll set up tents, they'll set up a camp. They get to do a lot of marching and drilling and a lot of skirmishing. So they have a lot of fun with that. We have historic chickens at the Wade House. That's our portable chicken coop on the end for a brooding hen with her chicks. The breed that we have this year, we introduced last year, our black javas. It's an endangered species. They were a popular bird in the mid-19th century. We also knew this year, they just came today. We will be having heritage breeds of sheep. Both the Wades and the Robinsons did have sheep so we're just bringing them back to where they were over 150 years ago. So come on out and see our sheep as well. Welcome to the table of the Manitoba County Civil War Roundtable. We are here because we have enjoyed studying the American Civil War and started an organization about 22 years ago with 14 of us. And now we have almost 100 members from this part of Northeastern Wisconsin. The purpose of a roundtable is to study all the aspects of the tragic period in American history which was the American Civil War which was fought from, as you know, from 1861 to 1865. And in a roundtable we have, there's so many different subjects that can be covered and not just battles or something like that but we also want to understand why it happened, what's the best way to study it. And along with that we do some events like our roundtable is going to have a school day in 15th of May this year where we have 300 children coming, 5th graders to an event, to a field up in Manitoba County and on a school day the kids come in and get lessons for the various topics about weapons and uniforms and medicine and sewing and whatever else that went on during that period. And then so they understand a little bit more about why it happened when they do some studying back in the schools that they attend. And then after lunch we take them out on the field and teach them some Civil War drill which is the process by which they move men around on the battlefield and then they end up doing what we call a battle. And basically they reenact a particular battle that really did happen. I sometimes wonder about the value of that because the real thing that happened in a Civil War battle was death. And of course we try to be very safe with these kids and nobody dies. So it's basically designed so they become interested in history and find out that some of the real life stories of things that happened are a lot of fun and it doesn't have to be a dry history that some people think about. It's a story about men and women who were facing unusual circumstances and managed to live through it and keep our country together. Here we were only 85 years after the Declaration of Independence and the country was coming apart at the scenes and the whole world was watching to see if this experimented democracy would work. And as a result of that, out of a population of only 31 million we had over 3 million men involved in the Civil War and unfortunately because of the battlefield death and disease 620,000 of those men never came home. They died. So it was just a tragic period in our history. I got interested, I guess, because of my great-grandfather left a little farm here in Sequoia County and went off for three years. And then I discovered that studying the American Civil War is more interesting than reading fiction books. And so my name is Dale Brasser. I was born in the metropolis of Gibbsville but I now live in Manitowoc and we're quite pleased that our roundtable has been successful as it has. My name is Amy and I'm the Marketing and Program Coordinator for the Manitowoc County Historical Society. And we operate two sites. One is Pinecrest Historical Village and that's about three miles west of I-43 and it operates pretty much a historical village about the year 1900. We actually have over 30 historic buildings and we're opening a new one this summer, hopefully in July, and it's a McAllister Farmhouse. It's an 1850s farmhouse that was located on Plank Road in Manitowoc Rapids and it's been beautifully restored. We're still working on furniture and exhibit design but it should be ready to go this summer. We actually got a lot of really wonderful events out there this year too. We've had an 1870s village fair so we're really proud to welcome Nelly Olson from Little House on the Prairie. She still kind of goes with the Historical Society circuit, traveling through villages and everything like that, talking about her memories or experiences on the show. So we're really excited for her visit. We've also added a tractor show this summer in September so a lot of really great events coming up. At our Heritage Center site we have a wonderful series called Hungry for History so we add a historical or an educational program with a catered meal. So we have six of them throughout the year and our newest one coming up is in June and it's out of Wisconsin. So a wonderful look at just some quirky things about Manitowoc County and the surrounding area. We actually have a lot of really great, you know, just programs in general coming up through the village fair, the thrushery and the Hungry for History series. We actually got a new education program too for fourth grades and second grades. So just a lot of really great things happening out the village and the Heritage Center this summer. Hello, my name is Tom Keyes. I belong to the Wisconsin Society of Mayflower Descendants. I'm a descendant of John Alden and Priscilla Mulling. We are a state organization and we have over 500 members. We have a meeting in the spring and we have a meeting in the fall. Our fall meeting is in November on the day that the Mayflower Compact was signed. We do have a series of Mayflower Silver books and these books have been put together with the genealogy. It's a certified genealogy of the first five generations of each person that came on the Mayflower. This one here is William Bradford and each of the other books are also five generations certified. The Sheboygan Falls Research Center has a complete library of these books. I believe there's 13 in number and anyone that would be interested in the Mayflower Society we have a website at MayflowerWI. That's Mayflower in Wisconsin. MayflowerWI.org. On that website is a sheet that can be sent in with your genealogy lineage and then our historian follows through with the necessary paperwork that you would need to have your lineage proven. It's a very interesting society and if you are interested in your relative that may have come over on the Mayflower, we'd certainly enjoy having you as a prospective member. Hopefully your lineage would prove out and you would be a full-fledged member and we just encourage anyone that has a possibility of Mayflower lineages to take a look at our website and to join the organization. I do have another organization that I am a member of and that is the Wisconsin Sons of the American Revolution. We are a companion society to the DNR or Daughters of the American Revolution. Here again, it's a heritage society and interesting enough would be the fact that we're looking at patriotism and what the American society has brought to us all. I don't know if you have any questions, Angie. Well, thank you for your time. Hi there, I'm Carol from Wisconsin's Ethnic Settlement Trail and I'm now known as EthnicWisconsin.org, a 501C3 not-for-profit organization that is located out at the Sheboygan County Historical Research Center in the Cole District in Sheboygan Falls. Our major focus right now is to honor the heritage of the village of Franklin, which has been named by Lakeland College interns as Franklin Settlement and the reason for that is that it's the only settlement of its kind that we know of in the United States and it's people from who are used to, they came from right near Holland or Netherlands in Europe. We are part of one of the largest, or the largest settlement of Europeans in the United States that happened in the 19th century. We started, our mission is to, is preservation and promotion of our diverse ethnic heritage and we were started because the person who instigated this was working at Old World Wisconsin and he was finding buildings, marking buildings, moving buildings and reconstructing buildings at Old World Wisconsin and he did that for a while and he started to wonder, why am I doing this? Why aren't we saving these where they come from? And then he's thought to himself, well what would I save? And he decided that the village of Franklin was the place to focus on because of the, what I just said and also because the construction of the buildings is timber frame, which is very unusual in the United States. It's simpler than half timbered buildings, which are the kind that were in Germany and the settlement started in 1847 and the building that I'm working to restore right now along with other volunteers is the Franklin House, the Franklin, yeah it's now called the Franklin House and this is a picture of it in 1909. If you have, you can get that. And it's only 100 years later and things have changed mightily. It's located right next to the Cheboygan River and it is near Lakeland College. It's directly west of Howard's Grove and on the way to Elkhart Lake and is a fun little town that has lots of interesting things about it. The gentleman who started this project is, his name is Alan Pape and he's a landscape architect and he is an artist and has done a great deal of original art that is in the hall right now. We, in the economy the way it is, we decided to do a resale shop and focusing on art and antiques and things like that and things you can reuse and we have things that we're selling that is art here that is actually reused fabrics. We're working with lace. We are trying to do, you know, make use of all kinds of things plus do new things. So it's a very interesting place. We have curious people that come to see us and we love that because it's fun to talk to them. So is that enough? I'm Carol Meyer. I am representing the Plymouth Historical Society. I am on the board of directors along with the two ladies on either side of me, Peg Stahlman and Virginia Zerke, who is our treasurer and Peg's husband and Peg are the people who founded the Plymouth Historical Society and I just think it's the most wonderful thing for Plymouth and all that we have to offer for people to see and all the things that we have coming up. Perhaps you'd like to know about our current displays first. By the way, we are open Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 10 till 2. There is no admission charge. Just we're welcome everybody to come and see. Right now we have a wonderful display on irons. We have a donation from a lady by the name of Jean Bonif who had a just unbelievable iron collection. Some of the irons were from the 1800s and it's just wonderful. We're working on and it's almost finished a display on the local railroads. We have the display on the arrowheads from around the March area that was donated by William Burjean family. We have our course always up our military display, our military dissection. What other one do we have, Peg? In our lower level, we will be opening early this summer. Our lower level which will have the plank road exhibit. We have a covered wagon here sitting on a plank road to replicate what we have done in the lower level of the museum and that we have, oh, they're all upset. We have the plank road already laid along the plank road. There is a mural of Plymouth in the 1800s, 1850s. On the other side of the plank road, we have three different stores. We will have a millinery shop, a pharmacy shop. Actually the old Pfeiffer drug store which building was just torn down this last summer and is now a parking lot. We will have some of the original things out of that Pfeiffer drug store and then we will have a general store in that lower level. We also, on the other side of the basement, we will have a larger exhibit which is the evolution of the kitchen. So it will show kitchen items from the late 1800s through about the 1940s. So there will be a lot of things there that people will say, oh, I remember that when I was a little girl or a little boy or whatever. Old cast iron stove. Have an old cast iron stove that is just in immaculate condition is very, very nice. So we would encourage you to come to Plymouth. And the other thing I could punch a little bit is on Saturday, August the 25th, we are having a Civil War band come to Plymouth. The tickets are $10 if you're a member of the Plymouth Historical Society, $12 to nine members. This band plays authentic Civil War instruments and along with the concert, we will be having a pie social. So you can come and have a cup of coffee and some homemade pie and listen to some wonderful music, Civil War era music and enjoy. I guess the band likes to interact with the folks that are and talk about their instruments. So we would encourage you to come and visit Plymouth. We're located in Belgium. Hi there, my name is Kevin Wester and I'm the Executive Director of the Luxembourg American Cultural Society and Center. We're located in Belgium, Wisconsin, just on the border of Ozaki County and Sheboygan County. And our cultural center opened in 2009. We have a museum that celebrates Luxembourg heritage and history in the United States. We have members from all over the United States as well as Europe. And we celebrate with pride our Luxembourg heritage. Many Luxemburgers came to the United States in the 19th and early 20th century, looking for a new way of life. And a lot of them settled in Ozaki County and Sheboygan County as well. Our museum is composed of a building that formerly was the Mama Hansen stone barn. It's the last Luxembourg stone barn in the state of Wisconsin. We have a research center where people come to work on research and genealogy and lots of activities as well. This year for our annual Luxembourg Fest of America in August, we're celebrating culinary Luxembourg. Leah Lindster, who is Luxembourg's top chef, is going to be with us. She's going to be cooking. She's going to be doing wine tastings and tastings of her champagne as well. So we're celebrating food this year at our annual Fest, which is held the second weekend of August. We have a parade and family, honored family exhibits, ethnic food, and we have a band coming from Luxembourg to provide music for us. So, and we do all sorts of outreach activities, not just at the cultural center, but throughout the United States. We have wine tastings. We're doing a book signing for an author that's written about Luxembourg heritage and genealogy and lots of other activities. So we're very proud of our Luxembourg heritage. We're happy to be here today with Sheboyka County. Thank you. I'm Alan Buchholz. I'm with the Ozaki County Historical Society. We, one of our major involvements is with Pioneer Village. We have 22 restored buildings near Sockville, Wisconsin, all restored, furnished. In addition to that, we are the custodians of Stony Hill School in Wabiko where Flag Day was born. We also have our archives in Cedarburg, Wisconsin, which is where all of the county history and genealogy and so forth is housed. This year, we have, I think, five major events starting in June. We have an open weekend at the village. We have a tractor show in July, a bluegrass festival in August, and Revolutionary War re-enactment on Labor Day weekend. And then a special event this year in November where, in conjunction with the Ozaki Historical Society, the Port Historic Society, the Luxembourg American Cultural Society, and Ozaki County, we're going to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War draft riots in Port Washington. And we're also going to honor all of the Civil War veterans from Ozaki County at that time. So we have lots of things going in the county and a big membership of about 500 members in our society. Hi, Usberg is a little Dutch town. It was established in 1909. And it was out on the Sock Trail Road. It was called East Usberg. And then when the railroad came through Usberg, through the place where Usberg is now, then Usberg moved up to be near the railroad. We have some publications that we have. We did a pictorial history for our centennial in 2009. And we also have another book that we did earlier that is mostly written material about Usberg. We did a, last year we did a DVD. And that is, some of it is taken from this book. So if people are interested in a DVD, they can also get something like this. It's a barrault, huh? I'll pass this on to Mary. We'd like to welcome anyone who would like to come to Usberg. It is based on a very wide history. We have a timeline in our booklet here that shows that it was Dutch people came into Sheboygan County way back in the 1800s. And as families came, they settled down in the East Usberg area. And later they did move westward due to the fact that the railroad came through town. Later on, many years later, we wanted to preserve some of this history. And a group of citizens got together and they decided they would form the Usberg Historical Society of which I am a partner and happy to help preserve history as we know it. And we have many collections of obituary binders and marriage binders and news clippings and old pictures. And we just try to keep up. And right now we're working on a, promoting our organization through Banners, which we are going to donate to our village. And hopefully they'll hang it from our light posts in town and we'll welcome all people that come to Usberg to visit to the Historical Society also, to our heritage house on 10th Street. Good afternoon. I'm Colonel Taepel from Howard's Grove and I'm here with fellow members from St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Howard's Grove. And the Lord has given us the blessing to be and celebrate 150 years of the congregation. We have a display here of confirmation albums of organizations of the church, old hymnals and pictures. And we're glad to be here and to share the blessings our congregation has had the last 150 years. I'd like to ask Mrs. Ruben Arline Hoppe to say a few words on the project that she was working with. On the project over here pertaining to the members of the generation to generation, these people have signed our incorporation of church that still have descendants at St. Paul's. That's what that is all about. And I found it very interesting to do this. I enjoyed doing it. I'd like to call on Ruben Hoppe and Ruben has a special birthday during this 2012. And let's hear from Ruben. Hello. I'm one of the oldest members still alive at St. Paul's. I'm going to be 90 years old here in November. I think there's only one or two more that have attained that age or longer that are still members of the congregation. Thank you. I'd like to now call on Mrs. Roland Ruby Schauburg. Her dear husband was our county clerk and a lifelong member at St. Paul's. Plus, he wrote some very beautiful stories for posterity. Ruby Schauburg. Hi there. I'm a part of the Historical Society at St. Paul's Church. It's very interesting. It's also very interesting today. So I'm also one of the 90-year-old people in the congregation. So, Carl. I'd like to introduce my wife Marilyn. She has been hiding lately. She's been either at our computer in the house or at the lab at St. Paul's. And she's just finished a 60-page book on the history of St. Paul's. Marilyn? I'm probably a newcomer to the group. I've only been here a little over 40 years. And it was really interesting to me to dig back into all the documents and pictures and history of the congregation to write the book. Thank you very much. We appreciate you coming here and filming the many historical groups of Sheboygan County. Hello. My name is Rick Bernstein. I'm one of two field services representatives for the Wisconsin Historical Society. I work in the southern region, which includes the southeastern part of the state, basically from Green Bay to Vernon County. And the posters that I have here today are both from Archaeology and Historic Preservation Month. This one is a photo mosaic of the Rouse Simmons. It's a shipwreck in Lake Michigan, just off the shores of Wisconsin. It's on the state coastal waters, so it's actually owned by the state of Wisconsin. And this was a photo mosaic that was taken by Tamara, one of two archaeologists that we have on staff who do our underwater archaeology program. And this was actually a series of several different photographs, a mosaic that were stitched together. And you can basically see the Rouse Simmons as it sits on the lakebed, the floor of the Lake Michigan. And you can actually, this was also called the Christmas Tree Ship. And it was sunk in December, over 100 years ago, on its way to Chicago to supply Christmas trees to that metropolitan area. And if you look closely, you can still see a lot of those logs left from when the Christmas Tree cargo. Right next to that, we have another poster. And this one of a tavern in Burlington, Wisconsin. It's one of several historic taverns that will be included in a book that the Wisconsin Historical Society Press is very soon to issue about the historic taverns of Wisconsin. This one has a Queen Anne turret. It's a historic building. But the book will feature several more, a few dozen, and have interior and exterior photos. And probably have a great story for each one of those taverns that includes in the book. The authors, Jim Drager and Mart Spelts, will be going on a lecture tour once that book has been issued. And I think that pretty much covers the two posters. This is Heritage School, which is a two-room schoolhouse built in 1876. It is located at the corner of 8th and Kentucky Avenue in Sheboygan on the south side next to the Longfellow School. In 1976, to celebrate its centennial, it was restored to its original condition and has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places. The purpose of restoring it was to create a special educational experience for fourth-grade students who study the history of Wisconsin. One of the two rooms has been made into a museum room. When classrooms come to visit, they spend time with the docent in the museum room. And then the rest of their morning, about two and a half to three hours, is spent in the classroom where they experience the school days that would have been in 1877. At the time, they used the pan and ink that would have been used in 1877. They used slates and chalk as students would have used in those days. They read stories that have been printed from 1877 readers. And of course, they dress the part which makes it even more fun for everyone. The program is open to all fourth-grade classrooms throughout Sheboygan County. We also have some classrooms visiting from Manitowoc County as well. All Sheboygan area school district fourth-grade classes visit as part of their social studies program. We have served, I believe, over 2,000 students this year. And we'll continue to do so as far into the future as we possibly can. This is the 19th year that we have been offering classes to students. We're excited that next year will be our 20th year of providing this classroom experience for fourth-grade students. I'm Darla Jean Krauss in the Random Lake Area Historical Society. I'm going to tell you a little bit what we have in our display. Random Lake is known for the young brewery. It was an operation to the 1950s or so. We have a baseball jersey. We have a picture of the team and various bottles from the brewery. The brewery is still in existence. This is a private home right now. We also have our claim to fame is ice houses. And the ice harvesting in Random Lake was done by the Orks Ice Houses in Random Lake. We have some utensils here. We also have a picture behind of the old ice houses. We had banners made when we celebrated our 100th anniversary. So welcome come to Random Lake. We have events going every month through the month of through 2012. Thank you. The Keel Area Historical Society started November 12, 1972 when a group of 10 interested citizens met at the Keel Home of Tom and Elaine Wilkins. Their concerns and goals were to preserve the history of Keel. Meetings of interested persons continued. The Society was incorporated October 30, 1973. The first public meeting was held November 7, 1973 at the Keel City Hall with 58 members present. A board of 15 directors was elected and 225 charter membership was reported. In 1984, the city of Keel was presented with a home at 3rd and Fremont streets by the Stelting Foundation of Keel. It is a home patterned after Dutch colonial architecture. The home is now under the care of the Keel Area Historical Society and the city of Keel. It has been completely decorated as close as possible as a 1900 home and is used as a museum. The historical house is listed on the state historical register as of May 14, 1997. And the house is open to visitors on the 3rd Saturday of the month 1 to 3 p.m. March through October also for special events and for prearranged tours for appointments call 920-894-2447 or 892-894-2620. And now another lady that works in our historical society is working on Civil War veterans. I'm working on the Civil War veterans and we have lots of pictures of the Civil War veterans and I've been working on stories for them when we can find them. This is Peter Jugenheimer. He was a Civil War veteran in Keel and he was a farmer after the Civil War. Jacob Casper. He was from Rantul, farmer Gutail. We have Louis Gutail. He was in the Civil War and he had a brewery in Keel with his brother Bernard Gutail and after his brother left the business he went into a business with another brother. So they were in the beer business for a long time. And we have Ferdinand Krieger, Martin Liske, Hunts Lorenzen, Jacob Molyk, Philip Mattis. That's his family and Frederick Rumpf, Philip Shuler, Fritz Thiele, and lots more. So is someone doing this as a project? Well, yeah, me. And I just got 90 pictures of Civil War vets from the Kalima County area and they were for the J.B. Reynolds Post and there's over 90 pictures and I've got about 40 of them done. I have them all figured out and I'm just looking for the obits and more stories on them. The Aviation Heritage Center of Sheboygan County was dedicated and broke ground in 2004. It was completed in 2005 and open in June of that year. I'm Dan Miller. I'm a member of the Board of Directors for the Aviation Heritage Center. The facility is dedicated to the aviation experience on all levels. We are dedicated to the history of the local area and aviation. We also run programs that are beneficial to the aviation enthusiasts. Everything from aviation visits from aircraft to movies and programs dedicated to the aviation experience and history. Part of the building, the building is divided into about three or four segments, a library, a museum and a lab-hanger complex. The museum, which is in the center of the building, is dedicated to the local aviation heritage and history, which is highlighted in the back. A lot of it stems from the early days of aviation in the 1920s in Sheboygan and then extends out to the old Kohler Airport and eventually to the new airport in Sheboygan out on Resource Drive off of Highway 23. And the building is dedicated to all those facets of history. We run a lot of different programs for the local public. One of our most successful is Movie Nights, which we run once a month every second Friday. And it's free to the public. We raise funds with donations and sales of popcorn soda and candy and the like. A lot of our memorabilia from aviation days of pass is on display at the museum, so anyone who comes out to visit can tour the museum and see all the interesting artifacts we have and all the old aviation pictures and some of the models that portray some of those periods of history. As you can see, there's a lot of that on the table here. One of the greatest stories we have at the Aviation Heritage Center concerns a pilot named Felix Wekes, who was the fifth person to solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean after Charles Lindbergh. And he was based out of the Kohler Airport. He was associated with Anton Bratz, who ran the Kohler Airport at that time. The aircraft was modified there, flew out to New York and was tested on Long Island, flew out of Roosevelt Field, I do believe, and crossed the Atlantic Ocean. Its intent was to reach Lithuania, which was his homeland. Unfortunately, the headwinds that were forecast were a lot stronger than they anticipated and the fuel was used up before they had a chance to complete their flight and the aircraft crash landed in Ireland. And that's one of the great interesting stories that takes place all at the Aviation Heritage Center. And it's an important part of our local history. A lot of people don't realize that these types of exploits took place out of Sheboygan and Kohler, but it was interesting. Another part of the history of Kohler, of the Kohler Airport was Kohler itself. Walter Kohler, who was known as the flying governor, established the Kohler Airport, bought an aircraft that was a sister ship to the spirit of St. Louis, a Monee Ryan Broome. And he flew this aircraft on his campaign for governor of the state at that time. He bought the aircraft in 1928 and used it extensively on the campaign trail. He was known as the flying governor. There's also a lot of other interesting stories that take place, and we share those with anybody who comes out to visit us. I'm a member of the Neholstein Historical Society. This is our display. It indicates our two major areas of activity in Neholstein. We have a pioneer corner museum, which we are constantly changing the exhibits on. This year we're building a one-room schoolhouse inside the museum, and this show is a number of smaller vignettes of businesses in the city during the turn of the century. It also is a little indication of the annual fundraisers that we have. We have a number of them, including an annual appraisal day, a spring luncheon and fashion show, a brat fry at Christmas time. We take our other property, a Tim House house museum, and we decorate it for Christmas and give guided tours. The Tim House was given to the society in the mid-70s, and we went through a major restoration in the mid-2000s. It's now open for tours year-round. Just a real quick thing. This is one collection we just recently acquired. It's the leaf-ring hand-carved collection. There's well over 100 similar pieces to this, and they were made in St. Anne, a little village just a few miles from Neholstein. Well, thank you for joining us on this tour through the historical societies and historic-minded communities of Sheboygan County in the surrounding areas. I'm Angie Holland from the Sheboygan County Historical Society and Museum. Thank you so much for joining us. I hope that you visit some of our historic societies and organizations that we have visited with throughout the past hour. Stop by the Sheboygan County Historical Museum. Any of the hours that were open, Monday through Friday, from 10 till 5, 3rd Saturday of every month, there's a special topic, and of course our seasonal exhibit runs from now through the end of October. Thank you very much.