Sunday, September 16, 2012
Honor southeastern Wisconsin's heritage by going to the Caledonia Historical Society's Coming Home event. This free event will feature the “new” 1840 Ruud log cabin and the Myers Museum.
The Caledonia Historical Society’s Home Coming event kicked off this morning at Linwood Park, 5900 W 5 Mile Rd. The event will run until 4 p.m. today and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. This free event will feature the “new” 1840 Ruud log cabin and the Myers Museum. The flag raising will start off the event at 10 a.m. Saturday and the day will finish with a homemade pie auction. You can take a tour of the “new” 1840 Ruud Log cabin and the Myers Museum; listen to an Appalachian storyteller, Sari Semple, portrayed by Jessica Michna. You can also:
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Honor southeastern Wisconsin's heritage by going to the Caledonia Historical Society's Coming Home event. This free event will feature the “new” 1840 Ruud log cabin and the Myers Museum.
Step back in time at the Caledonia Historical Society’s Home Coming event from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 15 and 16 at Linwood Park, 5900 W 5 Mile Rd. This free event will feature the “new” 1840 Ruud log cabin and the Myers Museum. The flag raising will start off the event at 10 a.m. Saturday and the day will finish with a homemade pie auction. You can take a tour of the “new” 1840 Ruud Log cabin and the Myers Museum; listen to an Appalachian storyteller, Sari Semple, portrayed by Jessica Michna. You can also:
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Linwood Park
5900 W 5 Mile Rd, Franksville, WI
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Sunday, September 9, 2012
You're busy, so we've compiled a list of a few items... you know, like who the football team will play next week, what the Village Board will talk about and a few area events you won't want to miss.
1. The Horlick Rebels won against the Park Panthers 33 to 12, check out the photos here. They'll face the Franklin Sabers at 7 p.m. Sept. 14 at Hammes field, 7345 Washington Ave. Great job guys and good luck playing against Franklin! 2. The Caledonia Utility District Commission meeting will be held at 7 p.m. on Monday at the Utility District office, 333 4 1/2 Mile Road. They'll discuss and possibly approve the district's 2013 proposed budget. 3. Finance Committee will meet on at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at the East Side Community Center, 6156 Douglas Avenue. One of the items they'll be talking about is purchasing laptops for village board members. 4. If you are looking for a fun events to take your kids to, check out the Caledonia Homecoming, …
Friday, October 7, 2011
Stories connect the present with the past, say Michael and Jessica Michna. Their work to keep those connections strong has made them two of Caledonia Patch's Greatest People.
Michael and Jessica Michna believe people connect with history when they can look back in time to a captured moment. Moments like those in Thompsondale, a neighborhood of summer cabins on the Root River, where bands played at a dance pavilion and residents held an annual Venetian Nights celebration. “They’d lash together canoes and hold a lighted parade along the river,” said Jessica Michna. “The dance pavilion still exists today in Armstrong Park.” Then there’s Tamarack Creek, a long-lost tributary to the Root River that now runs solely underground through Racine County residents’ basements that a farmer mentioned casually one day. “The histories of these families, of the people who lived here are so important,” Michael said. Michael is …
Thursday, September 29, 2011
The Caledonia Historical Society did an excellent job and I was happy to be a part of it.
I wanted to take the time to point out how nice the Caledonia Homecoming was last weekend. Sure the rain made things a little interesting, but eventually the sun came out and people flocked to an event that offered up some of Caledonia’s seemingly absent sense of community. Let me qualify that statement. Caledonia seems like they are absent of a sense of community because we don’t have a downtown and we have a fragmented patchwork quilt of neighborhoods and farms. So we work, we go home, we sleep, and then repeat. If we go out to dinner, we might occasionally eat at a local joint, but not often. If we shop, we might hit up a local joint, but not often. But if you have a kid playing soccer or riding a horse, we have you covered. So we don't…
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Michael Michna
10:57 pm on Sunday, September 16, 2012
My sincere thanks to everyone, participants and guests, who made this event a great success. Michael Michna, President Caledonia Historical Society more ›