qVisionaries, researchers, curators, and volunteers launched a massive preservation initiative to salvage fast-disappearing immigrant and migrant architecture. Dozens of historic buildings in the 1970s were transported from various locations throughout the state to the Kettle Moraine State Forest. These buildings created a backdrop against which twenty-first-century interpreters demonstrate nineteenth- and early twentieth-century agricultural techniques and artisanal craftsmanship.q --Back cover.The DNR campaign to repair its negative public opinion had some success, but Voigt could only offer the assistance of his staff to the Society for negotiating ... the focus of the negotiations between the DNR and the Society from the outright purchase that Chapter 84 of the Laws of Wisconsin had authorized in 1967. ... Don Mackie, the Societya#39;s staunchest supporter at the DNR, left his position in January.
Title | : | Creating Old World Wisconsin |
Author | : | John D. Krugler |
Publisher | : | University of Wisconsin Pres - 2013-07-19 |
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