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When I got home from walking the girls in the woods, I saw fur or feathers flying off the garage roof. I thought...WTH?? I put the girls in the house and went into the backyard to look up on the roof and this is what I saw.
The University of Wisconsin-Parkside celebrates their 50 Year Anniversary Gala on October 12th, 2018.
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Wisconsin State Fair
August 6, 2017
Trying new foods - Budweiser Pavilion Triple Threat per the description on the State Fair website: "A tower of sliders represents three Wisconsin State Fair staples, each with a special flavor twist and served on-a-stick! The Budweiser Pavilion Triple Threat includes 3 savory sliders - one Smoked Jalapeno, Bacon and Cheddar Brat Slider, one Budweiser BBQ Pulled Pork Slider, and one Bourbon Bacon Cheeseburger Slider - stacked and skewered in the Wisconsin State Fair On-a-Stick tradition."
The outbuilding, sheathed in corrugated metal panels, was probably used for a variety of purposes, often to meet demands brought about by seasonality or those generated by change in stock lifecycles etc. For example, the calf hutches in the yard- individual shelters for calves- suggests the building was used in herd maintenance. Often, calves with immature immune systems lived in a calf hutch for the first weeks of life to receive individualized care during the most crucial part of their lives.
Scholar & Donor Recognition Event. This was held on Thursday, October 23rd, 2014. The event took place in the Ballroom of the Student Center. Students were recognized and honored, as well as donors.
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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).
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These images were made during a journey down Rustic Road 32 in Marinette County on June 24, 2017.
R-32, Wisconsin’s longest rustic road, offers a 37-mile journey through several county parks and the Peshtigo River State Forest. The route features multiple species of hardwoods and conifers, along with numerous granite boulders and outcroppings. R-32 also offers vistas of the Thunder and Peshtigo rivers.
Wisconsin's Rustic Roads system was created to preserve many of the state's scenic, lightly traveled country roads. Features of Rustic Roads include rugged terrain, native vegetation and wildlife, or open areas with agricultural vistas.
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Onlookers checking out La Crosse, Wisconsin, from a viewing area atop Grandad Bluff . . . 590 feet above the city.
Larry and I stumbled upon Frank Lloyd Wright's last public building-- Monona Terrace.
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Built in 1989, this Postmodern-style apartment building is made of brown brick with a distinctive massing with multiple setbacks, curved wooden balconies, decorative metal railings, concrete block accents, a parapet with gables enclosing a low-slope roof, stoops, and a lot of plantings around the building, including vines growing up the exterior. The building is a noncontributing structure in the Mansion Hill Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.
Participants engage in unicycle sumo Sunday, July 24 during the Unicycling Society of America’s 2011 North American Unicycling Convention and Championships at the Goodman Community Center in Madison, Wisconsin.
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