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From the Great River Road to Eau Claire, the western half of the state offers much for travelers.

Head west to explore three overlooked Wisconsin travel spots Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Video: Aerial view from a drone of the Mississippi River and Great River Road Replay Video UP NEXT If you want a little taste of the mountains on a getaway, you have to head west. But not as far as you think.  "Who says Wisconsin doesn’t have mountains?” my mom marveled as we traveled down Highway 14 along the bluffs that tower above the Mississippi River.   We were actually in Minnesota, but her point held. Not 20 minutes before we had been driving along the blu...

Congress has yet to pass legislation recognizing Juneteenth as a Federal holiday, a long past-due gesture for a day so important to U.S. history.

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

This article was originally published in the Finger Lakes Times.  Former Seneca County Historian Betty Auten in her March 1985 newsletter wrote about how Mrs. Permelia Story of Hector barged into the White House and met with President Lincoln! As I pursued my research, I found some similarities and some noteworthy differences in Gary Emerson’s article in the October 2008 Journal of the Schuyler County Historical Society. Both accounts leave little doubt that Story managed to meet with President Lincoln for a good two hours. I will leave it up to the reader of this article to decide if...