Having outgrown the basement of Temple Bāne Jeshurun, the mission moved to an old house at 507 Fifth Street in 1900. It was simply called āThe Settlement.ā Programs expanded as space and resources didāthe building was busy from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00…
Wilson Place Mansion in Menomonie, Wisconsin, was once the home of James Huff Stout (1848-1910), a lumber baron, longtime state senator, and philanthropist. He is best known for founding the Stout Institute, now the University of Wisconsin-Stout. According to local tradition, Stout…
WisconsināsĀ Stout InstituteĀ is a major landmark of educational innovation in state history. With its emphasis on creativity as well as vocational preparation, the school was greatly influenced by the Arts and Crafts Movement, then a major force in artistic, cultural, and progressive political…
The young men who lived and worked at Camp 657 were typical of Civilian Conservation Corps enrollees throughout the country during the 1930s. The first enrollees were between 18 and 25 years of age, were unmarried and physically fit, and were willing to allot most of their earnings to their families. In 1937, with the CCCās popularity growing, Congress expanded the age range to 17 to 28 and later extended enrollment to World War I veterans.
Free As Well WaterIn 1894 Adolph Schoenman of Plain, Wisconsin, published a booklet extolling the virtues of the Babcock butterfat test. In a parable explaining its benefits, an astonished Farmer Jones exclaims, āIsnāt that a dandy little machine, though? I suppose, of…
The āRealā InventorAlthough Stephen M. Babcock has been immortalized for his work on theĀ butterfat testĀ that received his name, it was not really his idea. The Babcock test was originally conceived by the forgotten man of the dairy industry, Frederick Garland Short. Short,…