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The grassroots uprising against Scott Walker and his Republican majority in the legislature began 11 months ago in the snows of 2011. Appropriately enough, it snowed in Madison today, the day 1 million signatures are being turned in to recall Gov. Scott Walker -- along with Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch and four state senators, including Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald. A heartfelt "thank you" to everyone who helped make this possible -- with a special shoutout to Lori Compas, without whose efforts Fitzgerald would not have been recalled.
United Wisconsin called this the most participated-in recall effort in American history. It's not hard to see why. The successful drive to recall Democratic Gov. Gray Davis in California, which eventually propelled Arnold Schwarzenegger into office, drew less than a quarter as many signatures relative to state population.
In the first heady days of the Walker revolution, his supporters dreamed of his being nominated the GOP vice presidential candidate and perhaps president someday. Now, a year later, he's looking at the ashes of his political career. Poetic justice for the man who became Milwaukee County Executive following the recall of the previous incumbent. Funny, he wasn't talking about out-of-state recall support back then. He was talking about the will of the people. Now he's facing the wrath of the people.
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.
Bagley, Wisconsin is a small town located near the Mississippi River in western Grant County, to the south of the Wisconsin River and Prairie du Chien.
The day was very foggy in the morning, with threats of rain, but opened up to the most gorgeous day just before we hit the water.
Metra #178 "Village of Prospect Heights" sits in front of the private #553 coach at the Kenosha, Wisconsin depot.
February 24th, 2008.
Sophomore Isaiah Lewis intercepts a pass intended for Wisconsin tight end Jacob Pedersen Saturday at Spartan Stadium. The Spartans defeated the Wisconsin Badgers 37-31. Matt Radick/The State News
Along the flat plains of SW Wisconsin arise sandstone buttes that were most likely islands in Glacial Lake Wisconsin during the Ice Age, 12,000 and more years ago. Due to some harder rock at upper levels on these buttes they did not erode to the level of the rest of the area. They are a somewhat unexpected and interesting sight to see whilst driving along Interstate highway 90 in the area.
Last Thursday, I took the LOOONG way to the grocery store. I was out and about with the camera for a couple of hours before heading up Hwy 60 to the Piggly Wiggly in Sauk City.
Northwestern heads to the locker room.
Photos from the October 12 football game between the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Northwestern University at Camp Randall Stadium. The Badgers won big, 35-6.
Built in 1893 and sold to the Mt. Vernon Telephone Co. in 1914 after the bank moved to a newer building.
Originally constructed as a Queen Anne-style house circa 1885, this building was expanded and converted into a Streamline Moderne or Art Moderne-style structure by architect Lawrence Monberg in 1945-1946 to house the medical practice of the Quisling Brothers, whom were doctors. The building is one of three notable Art Moderne-style buildings designed by Monberg for the Quisling family, whom were prominent physicians of Norwegian descent in Madison during the mid-20th Century. The building has been expanded several times with additions that match the original materials and forms of the building, but lack much of the same ornament and details found on the original section of the building. The clinic opened at the location in 1935 in the former house, and enclosed the house’s front porch and modified the interior to house offices. The style of the building evokes the “ocean liner” ships and “stream liner” trains of the era.
The building features buff brick cladding, long ribbons of windows with orange brick panels between them, stone fins that accentuate the building’s horizontality, with the second-floor windows on the front facade being narrower than those on the first floor. The building’s corners are rounded, softening the appearance of the structure, which is echoed in the “porthole” circular window next to the entrance door, decorative oversized aluminum handles at the original front entrance, which sits below a curved concrete canopy with circular openings, a curved corner, and aluminum lettering spelling “Quisling Terrace” atop the canopy, with a quarter-circle stoop and steps below. The front of the building includes light wells for the basement and brick planters, which echo the appearance of the rest of the building. The main massing of the original building is two stories in height with a smaller and deeply setback third floor with curved corners and few windows, with the entire building capped with a low parapet and low-slope roof. An addition built in 1964 to the southeast of the building is taller than the original structure, standing five stories tall, and matching the buff brick cladding and curved corners of the original building on the front, but with simpler details, with less complex canopies, less variety of trim, and a boxier overall form, which seems to mimic the nearby Edgewater Hotel and Quisling Towers. The addition has been heavily modified with window openings enlarged and metal railings added to create balconies for the apartment units that now occupy the building. The interior of the building has been fully modernized and renovated, leaving very few historic character-defining features, but has allowed for full preservation of the exterior of the building.
The building is a contributing structure in the Mansion Hill Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. In 1998, after the Quisling Clinic had closed, the building was threatened by demolition for a new building, but was saved by a local developer, whom converted the clinic in a historic preservation adaptive reuse project into affordable housing for people making below area median income. The renovation fully reconfigured and altered the interior, which had been renovated multiple times since the 1940s, and enlarged window openings on the rear and side facades to add small balconies outside many of the apartment units. The building today remains in use as an apartment building, known as Quisling Terrace, after the family that built the building.
A Madison, Wisconsin landmark that has been doing business at this Monroe Street location since 1942, Mallatt's Pharmacy (or is it Mallatt?) seems to have a cavalier attitude toward punctuation, judging from their signs. But they're all business when it comes to theatrical makeup and costumes. They're the place to go for all your Halloween needs. How did a pharmacy find itself in this unique position? Check out my blog Letter from Here. (Best viewed in Original size to see what's going on with Uncle Sam's metamorphosis.) Or, better yet, daylight.
Deer hunting season is important in Wisconsin. To people who live here it is a skill sport and a source of wild game for the table. (Unlike some places, Wisconsin does not allow venison to be sold in grocery stores or restaurants.) Deer hunting is also an economic entity-tourists buy hunting licenses and stay in Wisconsin to hunt.
This art display was seen at Sheboygan's John Michael Kohler Art Center. I shot from different points of view in order to capture the viewpoints of both the hunter and the hunted. In #2 and # 3 the eyes of each element tell a story in themselves.