Mother Nature didn t exactly cooperate for Milwaukee s first Earth Day.
April 22, 1970, was packed full of demonstrations, clean-up efforts, speeches and performances to mark the first-ever nationwide environmental rally and teach-in. It should have been a bright, beautiful spring day.
It wasn t. Winds, hail pound state, the Milwaukee Sentinel s front page blared the next day. Actually, Milwaukee was spared the worst of it. The day was windy and mostly overcast with rain in the evening; the worst of the storms skirted the edge of the city, knocking out power in West Allis.
But the threatening skies kept down attendance at some of the inaugural Earth Day doings.
First Earth Day in Milwaukee, April 22, 1970: weather didn t cooperate
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January 26, 2021
Educator and author Martha Bergland.
You know all about Aldo Leopold and John Muir, Wisconsin-associated naturalists. You know about John Jay Audubon, the great chronicler of North American birds. But what do you know about the Birdman of Koshkonong? This Swedish settler (aka Thure Kumlien) was an ornithologist, botanist and naturalist who settled near Lake Koshkonong in 1843. He sent bird specimens to all the major museums and was the first curator of the new Milwaukee Public Museum. Kumlien deserves more recognition and Milwaukee writer Martha Bergland s new biography from the Wisconsin Historical Society Press, The Birdman of Koshkonong: The Life of Naturalist Thure Kumlien, will uncover his contributions to ornithology. Bergland will appear on Book Bites, a series of brief Facebook Live book talks from the Wisconsin Historical Society Press on the WHS Press