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December 31: Years Ago…


December 31: Years Ago…
‘Years Ago’ is a compilation of newsy tidbits as published in the Crawford County Independent & Kickapoo Scout on this week ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty or sixty years ago.
TEN YEARS AGO
DECEMBER 30, 2010 – Prairie du Chien’s 10thannual Carp Fest is rapidly on its way to becoming a major regional New Year’s Eve tradition. The initial push to drop the carp at midnight on New Year’s Eve came from Tom and Cathy Nelson. The couple watched a peach lowered in Savannah, Georgia at midnight New Year’s Eve during a vacation there. The Nelsons decided if they could drop a peach in Georgia, then, by God, the river folks in Prairie du Chien could surely drop a carp. So at midnight on December 31, 2001 it happened and it’s been happening ever since. Last year, Carp Fest drew 2,500 people…  ....

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