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When I was a teenager in the late 1950s “Holy Week,” which ran from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday and included Maundy Thursday and Good Friday was a very special

My previous two columns were devoted to accounts of the impact of the great Spanish Flu Epidemic of 1918—which extended through 1919 and the first four months of 1920—in Lake Geneva. While researching how the great Spanish Flu Epidemic impacted Lake Geneva, I read issues of the two Lake Geneva newspapers, the Lake Geneva Herald and the Lake Geneva News, which merged in April 1919 following the death of the Herald’s editor, John E. Nethercut, and the issues of the newly merged newspaper, also called the Lake Geneva News, from April 1919 to April 1920. As I noted in my two pr...

In my previous column, I reviewed the impact of the great Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918 in Lake Geneva focusing on the Flu’s impact in 1918. The great Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918, however, extended throughout the year of 1919 and the first three months of 1920. 1919 and 1920 were significant years in Lake Geneva’s history. Although the impact of the great Spanish Flu epidemic dominated much of the news in 1919 and early 1920, other developments competed with the Flu for space in Lake Geneva’s newspapers, most notably the return to Lake Geneva of residents who had served in the ...