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Round Barn

Date: 11 25 1961
Description: View of a round barn along Highway K. Farm equipment and another farm building are on the left. Fields and hills are in the background.
Photograph

Birch Trees in a Backyard

Date: 05 11 1963
Description: A backyard view of the Hoeser residence at 200 Prospect Street. A small birdhouse and several birch trees are visible.
Photograph

Boat in Canal

Date: 08 04 1962
Description: A boat in the Fox River Canal, headed up river. This particular lock, the Ripide Croche Lock, is located just north of Wrightstown.
Photograph

Horseback Riding Meet

Date: 10 06 1963
Description: Men and women with horse trailers gather beneath Castle Rock. The group gathered there for a western-style horseback riding meet.
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 1-6

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Description: We've at least been able to conserve something if it's only the idea of conserving for conservation's sake
But the community interests ought to come fir...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 33-46

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Description: The Little Bluebirds — has anyone expressed it better
than Judy Garland singing
. . . why, oh why, can't I
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 55-61

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Description: Way back in the soft center of hard times
did not their resistance to change in the sentiment
make some sense

What could take the place of the...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 62-69

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Description: The arrangements

Somebody takes care of it:
planning the details, announcements,
transportation,
setting the tone,
fitting all the likel...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 85-90

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Description: 200 years this tree grew here and so did I
We were raised here and brought up young ones
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 97-102

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Description: The measure of solitude fades in the ripples
and there are more prizes than there are fish
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 139-147

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Description: Around the corner: the geography of childhood
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 161-165

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Description: Please listen to the great owl
Please listen to the education

Please learn how to save hard things
for the easy way
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 166-177

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Description: There are Gothic ways the light comes drifting through a forest
clothes fit, things pad themselves
stone rests on stone and legends long persist,
...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 201-206

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Description: Even the slow, dry, hungry engines,
digging
what would be the best of times,
cannot help but leave behind them
a restlessness unchanging as bef...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 207-215

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Description: The log who was made King of Logs is here entombed
eight round, ten long

For his design, the strengthened forest
capriciously outgrew them all...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 235-241

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Description: New land cut out by real imaginary lines
based in older spirit courses
lay and bedrock, flight of birds and pointed feet
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 289-296

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Description: In the letter was the hope that you were well
For shorter hours
A newer coat
And Grace when there was any Grace to tell
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 325-333

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Description: White horses, white fences that money can't buy
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 351-358

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Description: The boss says —
The center is —

Good workmen then served two masters
One a man, the other a craft

A fine-edged tool biting life-long in...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 436-443

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Description: You don't have to pay if you can prove that the fun you had was clean

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