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April 2016
Something I put together. These are a couple photos I took of a sandbar along the Wisconsin River just after spring's high waters receded. Taken west of Madison, WI.
Note: Click on to zoom-in and see all the fine details.
Image from the bishop's Visitation to St. Thomas Church, Neenah-Menasha, Wisconsin on sunday, April 21, 2013.
Sgt. 1st Class Valerie Wiciak, of the Wisconsin National Guard, greets her daughter following a concert August 12, 2017 in Waunakee, Wis. Approximately 70 current and former members of the band gathered to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the 132nd Army Band. (Wisconsin National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Alex Baum)
Photos of the University of Wisconsin Badgers beating the University of Texas-El Paso Miners 37-26 at Camp Randall Stadium on Saturday, September 22.
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️ Wisconsin Concrete Park — Price County’s Folk‑Art Landmark
The Wisconsin Concrete Park is an outdoor sculpture environment in Phillips, WI, created by self‑taught artist Fred Smith beginning in 1948. It contains more than 200 life‑size and larger‑than‑life concrete-and-glass figures depicting local history, legends, and American heroes.
🎨 Origins & Artist: Fred Smith (1886–1976)
• Smith was a Price County native, a lumberjack, tavern owner, farmer, and dance‑hall musician.
• At age 63, in 1948, he began building the sculptures that would become the Wisconsin Concrete Park.
• He used wooden frames wrapped in mink wire, covered them with hand‑mixed cement, and decorated them with broken glass, bottles, and found objects—often donated by visitors.
• His subjects ranged from local acquaintances to mythic and historical figures such as Ben Hur, Abraham & Mary Lincoln, Sacajawea, and Paul Bunyan.
Smith’s work is considered one of America’s most unique folk‑art environments, a Northwoods counterpart to places like the Dickeyville Grotto or the John Michael Kohler Arts Center’s preserved environments.
🗿 The Sculpture Environment
• Over 200 concrete figures, many arranged in elaborate tableaux.
• Themes include:
• Logging and Northwoods life
• American history and frontier mythology
• Local characters and personal stories
• Horses, wagons, animals, and heroic scenes
• The use of colored glass gives the sculptures a jewel‑like quality in sunlight.
The park is recognized as one of the Seven Man‑Made Wonders of Northwest Wisconsin.
️ Preservation & Ownership
• After Smith’s death in 1976, the Kohler Foundation purchased the site to ensure its preservation.
• It was later gifted to Price County, which maintains it today through the Forestry & Parks and Tourism departments, with support from the Friends of Fred Smith, Inc.
• Restoration is ongoing due to the fragility of concrete folk art in Wisconsin’s climate.
️ Visiting the Park
Location: N8236 State Highway 13, Phillips, WI 54555
Features & Amenities
• Open 24/7, best viewed in daylight.
• Picnic area, parking, restrooms, trails, and information area.
• Historic Smith home on site, with a seasonal Countryside Artists Gifts & Gallery.
• Educational/programming building available for reservation.
• Pet‑friendly (leashed; pets not allowed inside buildings).
from Copilot
Tracy Gest, Miss Wisconsin 2005, when she visited my local show, the Stimmung Stunde, to play "Stille Nacht" on the piano. That rendition will be included in the TKPN Podcast Christmas Special 2006.
Built in phases between 1911 and 1959, this Prairie and Organic Modern-style house and office were designed by Frank Lloyd Wright to serve as his family residence and studio, with two fires leading to substantial reconstruction of the house in 1914 and 1925. The house, which is named “Taliesin”, Welsh for “Shining Brow” or “Radiant Brow”, referring to the hill upon which it is situated, is a long and rambling structure with multiple sections built at different times, with the building serving as a living laboratory for Wright’s organic design philosophy, as well as growing with Wright’s family, wealth, and business. The house sits on a hill surrounded by fields, but is notably located below the top of the hill, which Wright saw as being such a significant feature of the landscape that it should remain untouched by the house’s presence. The house’s westernmost wings served as the home of livestock and farm equipment, as well as a garage, later becoming housing for the Taliesin Fellowship, where aspiring architects apprenticed with Frank Lloyd Wright. The central wing served as the Frank Lloyd Wright studio, where Wright and his apprentices and employees worked on projects for clients, as well as where Wright often met with clients. The eastern wing served as the Wright family’s residence, and was rebuilt twice, in 1914 and 1925, after being destroyed by fire, and is overall the newest section of the complex, though some portions of the west and central wings were added after the main phase of construction of the residence was complete.
The house is clad in stucco with a wooden shingle hipped and gabled roof, with stone cladding at the base and on piers that often flank window openings, large casement windows, clerestory windows, outdoor terraces and balconies, stone chimneys, and glass french doors, all of which connect the interior of the building to the surrounding landscape. The interior of the buildings feature vaulted ceilings in common areas, stone floors, stone and plaster walls, decorative woodwork, custom-built furniture, and multiple decorative objects collected by Wright during his life. The exterior of the house has a few areas distinctive from the rest of the structure, with a cantilevered balcony extending off the east facade drawing the eye towards the surrounding landscape from the living room of the residence, next to a large set of glass doors that enclose the living room and adjacent bedroom from a shallower cantilevered terrace, while to the west of the residence, and south of the central wing, is a landscaped garden, which rests just below the crest of the hill.
The building was the full-time home of Wright from 1911 until 1937, when Wright began to spend his winters at Taliesin West in Phoenix, Arizona, due to the effects of the Wisconsin winters on his health. For the rest of Wright’s life, the house was the summer home of Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship, and following his death, the house was deeded to the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, which operated and maintained the house as a museum and the home of multiple programs until 1990. Since 1990, the house has been under the stewardship of the nonprofit Taliesin Preservation Inc., which operates the house in conjunction with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. The building is a contributing structure in the Taliesin Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1976. Taliesin was one of eight Frank Lloyd Wright buildings listed as The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2019. Today, Taliesin is utilized as a museum, offering tours and interpretation of Frank Lloyd Wright’s life and work.
Badger fans, I guess, walking towards Camp Randall on Regent Street in Madison Wisconsin on a football game day
A South Shore Line train makes its way along the sole remaining Wisconsin interurban line. East Troy Electric Railroad.
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
The Tenney Building was constructed in 1929
in the Art Deco style. It was designed by Madison architects Law, Law and Potter.
Built in phases between 1911 and 1959, this Prairie and Organic Modern-style house and office were designed by Frank Lloyd Wright to serve as his family residence and studio, with two fires leading to substantial reconstruction of the house in 1914 and 1925. The house, which is named “Taliesin”, Welsh for “Shining Brow” or “Radiant Brow”, referring to the hill upon which it is situated, is a long and rambling structure with multiple sections built at different times, with the building serving as a living laboratory for Wright’s organic design philosophy, as well as growing with Wright’s family, wealth, and business. The house sits on a hill surrounded by fields, but is notably located below the top of the hill, which Wright saw as being such a significant feature of the landscape that it should remain untouched by the house’s presence. The house’s westernmost wings served as the home of livestock and farm equipment, as well as a garage, later becoming housing for the Taliesin Fellowship, where aspiring architects apprenticed with Frank Lloyd Wright. The central wing served as the Frank Lloyd Wright studio, where Wright and his apprentices and employees worked on projects for clients, as well as where Wright often met with clients. The eastern wing served as the Wright family’s residence, and was rebuilt twice, in 1914 and 1925, after being destroyed by fire, and is overall the newest section of the complex, though some portions of the west and central wings were added after the main phase of construction of the residence was complete.
The house is clad in stucco with a wooden shingle hipped and gabled roof, with stone cladding at the base and on piers that often flank window openings, large casement windows, clerestory windows, outdoor terraces and balconies, stone chimneys, and glass french doors, all of which connect the interior of the building to the surrounding landscape. The interior of the buildings feature vaulted ceilings in common areas, stone floors, stone and plaster walls, decorative woodwork, custom-built furniture, and multiple decorative objects collected by Wright during his life. The exterior of the house has a few areas distinctive from the rest of the structure, with a cantilevered balcony extending off the east facade drawing the eye towards the surrounding landscape from the living room of the residence, next to a large set of glass doors that enclose the living room and adjacent bedroom from a shallower cantilevered terrace, while to the west of the residence, and south of the central wing, is a landscaped garden, which rests just below the crest of the hill.
The building was the full-time home of Wright from 1911 until 1937, when Wright began to spend his winters at Taliesin West in Phoenix, Arizona, due to the effects of the Wisconsin winters on his health. For the rest of Wright’s life, the house was the summer home of Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship, and following his death, the house was deeded to the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, which operated and maintained the house as a museum and the home of multiple programs until 1990. Since 1990, the house has been under the stewardship of the nonprofit Taliesin Preservation Inc., which operates the house in conjunction with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. The building is a contributing structure in the Taliesin Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1976. Taliesin was one of eight Frank Lloyd Wright buildings listed as The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2019. Today, Taliesin is utilized as a museum, offering tours and interpretation of Frank Lloyd Wright’s life and work.