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Visit the Native American stone-working site Silver Mound near Osseo, Wisconsin's first "export business." The large hardened sandstone hill has been used as a Native American stone quarry for the last 12,000 years. Historian Harry Miller talks about Vinnie Ream Hoxie, a Wisconsin sculptor whose works grace the capitols of both Madison and Washington, D.C. Another story contrasts Iowa County's House on the Rock with The Rock in the House in Fountain City. See how Wisconsin's brownstone was quarried by immigrants and shipped on Lake Superior to fill the demand for the fashionable urban brownstones. And, ending with rock of a different sort, travel to Waukesha, where legendary musician, inventor and innovator Les Paul was born and where he was inspired in his contributions to rock music, including multitrack recording and the invention of the solid-body electric guitar.
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