Walk around the Pond - Wehr Nature Center Franklin, Wisconsin
First day of spring 2014 - short movie I put together from my walk around Wehr pond in Franklin Wisconsin.
Wehr Nature Center Wheel 'n Chip Society Franklin Wisconsin
31 January 2012, Interview with members of the Wheel 'n Chip Society at Wher Nature Center in Whitnall Park, Franklin Wi, working on preserving some endangered trees by cutting down non-native trees choking off the sunlight causing the tree stress. Wehr Nature Center Wheel 'n Chip Society Franklin Wisconsin meets on Tuesdays year round from 9-11am Anyone wishing to participate is welcome.
Where Nature Center Wheel N Chip Society 31 January 2012
Hey everybody, Today we're out here in the Wher Nature Center. Troy Chowanec, Don Warren and Jim Rick. So I understand you guys do volunteer work each week. (Don) yes, for free (Troy) Tell me about it. (Jim) Every Tuesday, it's called the Wheel 'n Chip Society. You know like you should wear a tie but its really wheel barrows and grunt work and we need to do what ever has to be done and this is one of the jobs. We meet every Tuesday at 9 o'clock so if anybody is interested they can just drop by, go to the volunteer room and be put to work. (Troy) Cool, How long have you been doing this Don? (Don) 2 years (Troy) 2 years? (Don) yes (Troy) All year long? (Don) Every Tuesday (Troy) Rain or shine? (Don) Pretty much unless it's too nasty. But there is always stuff to do. Filling bird feeders, taking down signs, pulling unwanted evasive plants, so um (Troy) Today you said you're working on what here, Preserving or restoring the (Don) We're preserving this white oak tree because it does not tolerate any shade and so we cut down trees in front so it has all the sun it wants and it grows healthy or otherwise, Check that branch out, Show how it's being held up. This big monster branch is going to die off and break because it's a sissy and needs more sun. (Jim) We're trying to reproduce an oak savannah (Don) pan the whole woods once, if Mark Berghagan, the land manager had his way, most of this woods would be coming right down. (Jim) Well, there aren't many oaks back there so (Don) Yeah, Yeah. (Jim) We're just lucky enough to have a land manager here. In the beginning we didn't have a land manager. He really knows what he's doing so he guides us. Our first director guided us before he was hired so it's really nice to have. (Don) This is for the public, we do all the hard grunt work so people like Troy Chowanec and their family can enjoy it. Otherwise the county is broke we can't have the manpower to maintain it. (Troy) Last year I was here and we did a fence along the water line, and we restored the fence down there and worked on the path. (Jim) That would be one of the jobs, chipping the trails every year. We try and work from the (Wher) nature center out and hopefully we'll get all the paths chipped. I'm working on my 30th year now (Troy) 30 Years (Don) He's like, you get the award of the year (Jim) I get my wages doubled, the wages are nothing, I enjoy it being out here the people are really nice. (Troy) How many people would you say come out on an average Tuesday? (Don) 12, about a dozen give or take (Jim) There's more when the weathers nice (Troy) Like today huh (Jim) yeah, and during the summer and spring you know it's just nice being out here. (Troy) So this is on Tuesdays at the Wher Nature Center (Jim) Every Tuesday at 9 o'clock, we meet in the volunteer room and you ask the person at the front desk Where's the volunteer room and everything happens automatically from there (Troy) Well great, so there's some good opportunities to volunteer in this area here (Jim) That is correct. (Troy) Alright Thanks!
Franklin Area volunteer opportunities.
City of Richfield Parks ~ Wood Lake Nature Center
Building House in Franklin Wisconsin
The house at 9300 S 94th Street in Franklin Wisconsin was delivered in a truck and put up on site in 1955. The neighborhood call Briarwood was mostly dirt.
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Tribal Heritage Crossing Trail (Oshkosh, WI) To Wiouwash Trail - Part 1A
In general, the Tribal Heritage Crossing Trail is a multi-use trail which connects eventually to the Wiouwash State Trail, which runs from Oshkosh, WI, to Hortonville, WI.
Originally opened in 1955, Lake Butte Des Morts causeway was in need of an upgrade due to the increasing traffic volume. The Wisconsin DOT built a eight-lane crossing by widening it to the west. The new causeway opened in July 2013 and provides increased safety and improved traffic flow.
As part of the US 41 project, the highly anticipated new causeway offers runners, walkers, bikers and in-line skaters the ability to cross Lake Butte Des Morts on a trail which connects to the WIOUWASH State Recreation trail on the north end of the Tribal Heritage Crossing Trail. The Tribal Heritage Trail provides access to fishing and kiosk overlooks for all 11 of Wisconsin's Native American Tribes with information on the natural history of those tribes.
The overlooks open a window to the water system with history that is remarkable. It is the ancestral home to Native Americans who have been here since the time immemorial. Lake Butte Des Morts is described as a vibrant river channel winding through a vast expanse of wild rice with fishing, furbearing animals and waterfowl. In the 1850's the waterway changed dramatically with an influx of new settlers and industry, including two dams on the twin lower Fox River outlets of Lake Winnebago
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Deer at Whitnall Park, Wisconsin 4/29/2016
During my hike this evening, at Whitnall Park, my path crossed with deer packs. A few times. This was the one I was able to video before my battery died.
Friday, 4/29/2016
Just Days Away - Come Soar In The Circle - - Potawatomi Trails Pow Wow
The Potawatomi Trails Pow Wow Committee
is a not for profit educational group located in Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin. The committee plans and hosts a pow-wow in Illinois, as well as many other community and Native American events. The goals of the committee are these:
To educate about Native American Cultures without the influence of other organizations and free of political affiliations.
To locate, document, and protect historical Native American sites located in and around our communities.
To preserve traditional teachings and values for the youth of our communities.
What Is A Pow-Wow?
A pow-wow is a planned social event and gathering of Native American people. It is a celebration to mark the end of a season and to welcome the beginning of a new one. It is a time and place to thank the Great Spirit for the good events of the past season and to ask continuance of these into the next. A good time is enjoyed by all. A time and place to meet old friends and make new ones. Awards and recognitions are given to the deserving. Gifts are given. Honor songs are sung. It’s a time to show-off the new dance outfits. Pow-wow times give us the chance to celebrate and reflect on Native American Heritage.
Who Participates At A Pow-Wow?
Everyone! The public is welcome. There are no spectators. When the MC announces an “inter-tribal” song everyone is welcome to dance if they choose to. Just browsing the trader booths or talking to people makes you part of the celebration.
Why Is This Called “Potawatomi Trails Pow-Wow”?
The Potawatomi Trails were established by the Native Americans who lived in this area and marked their footpaths to indicate directions. Small oak saplings were bent and tied into knots as signs to show the correct direction to travel. This pow-wow honors these people and their descendants who left these markers behind. Modern day Sheridan Road and Green Bay Road in Lake County, Illinois were built following these trails.
Red Fox Searches For Food in Franklin, Wisconsin
With long black legs and rusty red fur coat, this beautiful red fox
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Bats use echolocation signals to find prey and navigate, at higher frequencies beyond most human hearing. Using a special Bat Detector, Wehr Nature Center Naturalist and Bat Enthusiast, Howard Aprill, locates and records bat calls in real time. Follow the Night Vision camera and see how dozens of participants enjoyed a moonlit hike in Whitnall Park, in early September, to experience this unique event. Subscribe to our channel to enjoy more nature videos.
History of the socialist movement in the United States | Wikipedia audio article
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00:04:25 1 19th century
00:04:34 1.1 American utopian socialism and utopian communities
00:12:40 1.2 Early American socialism
00:20:12 1.3 Socialism's ties to labor
00:27:07 1.4 Early American anarchism
00:32:14 2 20th century
00:32:24 2.1 Early 20th century: opposition to World War I and the First Red Scare
00:54:34 2.2 1930s–1940s: the Popular Front and the New Deal
01:07:12 2.3 1950s: the Second Red Scare
01:23:09 2.4 1960s–1970s: the New Left and social unrest
01:42:52 2.5 1980s–1990s
01:49:21 3 21st century
01:49:31 3.1 2000s to contemporary times
01:56:00 4 See also
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Socialism in the United States began with utopian communities in the early 19th century such as the Shakers, the activist visionary Josiah Warren and intentional communities inspired by Charles Fourier. Labor activists—usually British, German, or Jewish immigrants—founded the Socialist Labor Party in 1877. The Socialist Party of America was established in 1901. By that time, anarchism also established itself around the country while socialists of different tendencies were involved in early American labor organizations and struggles which reached a high point in the Haymarket affair in Chicago which started International Workers' Day as the main workers holiday around the world (except in the United States, which celebrates Labor Day on the first Monday of September) and making the 8-hour day a worldwide objective by workers organizations and socialist parties worldwide.Under Socialist Party of America presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs, socialist opposition to World War I led to the governmental repression collectively known as the First Red Scare. The Socialist Party declined in the 1920s, but nonetheless often ran Norman Thomas for President. In the 1930s, the Communist Party USA took importance in labor and racial struggles while it suffered a split which converged in the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party. In the 1950s, socialism was affected by McCarthyism and in the 1960s it was revived by the general radicalization brought by the New Left and other social struggles and revolts. In the 1960s, Michael Harrington and other socialists were called to assist the Kennedy administration and then the Johnson administration's War on Poverty and Great Society while socialists also played important roles in the Civil Rights Movement. Socialism in the United States has been composed of many tendencies, often in important disagreements with each other; it has included utopian socialists, social democrats, democratic socialists, communists, Trotskyists and anarchists.
The socialist movement in the United States has historically been relatively weak. Unlike socialist parties in Europe, Canada and Oceania, a major social democratic party never materialized in the United States and the socialist movement remains marginal, almost unique in its powerlessness among the Western democracies. In the United States, socialism brings considerable stigma, in large part for its association with authoritarian communist regimes. A June 2015 Gallup poll revealed that 47% of respondents would vote for a socialist President while 50% would not. Willingness to vote for a socialist President was 59% among Democrats, 49% among independents and 26% among Republicans. An October 2015 poll found that 49% of Democrats had a favorable view of socialism compared to 37% for capitalism. According to a 2013 article in The Guardian: Contrary to popular belief, Americans don't have an innate allergy to socialism. Milwaukee has had several socialist mayors (Frank Zeidler, Emil Seidel, and Daniel Hoan). In 1920, Socialist Party presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs won nearly 1m [million] v ...
Our Miss Brooks: Conklin the Bachelor / Christmas Gift Mix-up / Writes About a Hobo / Hobbies
Our Miss Brooks is an American situation comedy starring Eve Arden as a sardonic high school English teacher. It began as a radio show broadcast from 1948 to 1957. When the show was adapted to television (1952--56), it became one of the medium's earliest hits. In 1956, the sitcom was adapted for big screen in the film of the same name.
Connie (Constance) Brooks (Eve Arden), an English teacher at fictional Madison High School.
Osgood Conklin (Gale Gordon), blustery, gruff, crooked and unsympathetic Madison High principal, a near-constant pain to his faculty and students. (Conklin was played by Joseph Forte in the show's first episode; Gordon succeeded him for the rest of the series' run.) Occasionally Conklin would rig competitions at the school--such as that for prom queen--so that his daughter Harriet would win.
Walter Denton (Richard Crenna, billed at the time as Dick Crenna), a Madison High student, well-intentioned and clumsy, with a nasally high, cracking voice, often driving Miss Brooks (his self-professed favorite teacher) to school in a broken-down jalopy. Miss Brooks' references to her own usually-in-the-shop car became one of the show's running gags.
Philip Boynton (Jeff Chandler on radio, billed sometimes under his birth name Ira Grossel); Robert Rockwell on both radio and television), Madison High biology teacher, the shy and often clueless object of Miss Brooks' affections.
Margaret Davis (Jane Morgan), Miss Brooks' absentminded landlady, whose two trademarks are a cat named Minerva, and a penchant for whipping up exotic and often inedible breakfasts.
Harriet Conklin (Gloria McMillan), Madison High student and daughter of principal Conklin. A sometime love interest for Walter Denton, Harriet was honest and guileless with none of her father's malevolence and dishonesty.
Stretch (Fabian) Snodgrass (Leonard Smith), dull-witted Madison High athletic star and Walter's best friend.
Daisy Enright (Mary Jane Croft), Madison High English teacher, and a scheming professional and romantic rival to Miss Brooks.
Jacques Monet (Gerald Mohr), a French teacher.
Our Miss Brooks was a hit on radio from the outset; within eight months of its launch as a regular series, the show landed several honors, including four for Eve Arden, who won polls in four individual publications of the time. Arden had actually been the third choice to play the title role. Harry Ackerman, West Coast director of programming, wanted Shirley Booth for the part, but as he told historian Gerald Nachman many years later, he realized Booth was too focused on the underpaid downside of public school teaching at the time to have fun with the role.
Lucille Ball was believed to have been the next choice, but she was already committed to My Favorite Husband and didn't audition. Chairman Bill Paley, who was friendly with Arden, persuaded her to audition for the part. With a slightly rewritten audition script--Osgood Conklin, for example, was originally written as a school board president but was now written as the incoming new Madison principal--Arden agreed to give the newly-revamped show a try.
Produced by Larry Berns and written by director Al Lewis, Our Miss Brooks premiered on July 19, 1948. According to radio critic John Crosby, her lines were very feline in dialogue scenes with principal Conklin and would-be boyfriend Boynton, with sharp, witty comebacks. The interplay between the cast--blustery Conklin, nebbishy Denton, accommodating Harriet, absentminded Mrs. Davis, clueless Boynton, scheming Miss Enright--also received positive reviews.
Arden won a radio listeners' poll by Radio Mirror magazine as the top ranking comedienne of 1948-49, receiving her award at the end of an Our Miss Brooks broadcast that March. I'm certainly going to try in the coming months to merit the honor you've bestowed upon me, because I understand that if I win this two years in a row, I get to keep Mr. Boynton, she joked. But she was also a hit with the critics; a winter 1949 poll of newspaper and magazine radio editors taken by Motion Picture Daily named her the year's best radio comedienne.
For its entire radio life, the show was sponsored by Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, promoting Palmolive soap, Lustre Creme shampoo and Toni hair care products. The radio series continued until 1957, a year after its television life ended.