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More
Than a Game
Surprising sports stories from Wisconsin's history are featured. Spotlighted
are a Sheboygan pro basketball team that became a charter member of the
NBA, the University of Wisconsin-Madison boxing program that was a national
power until tragedy struck; baseball on the Bad River Indian Reservation
near Ashland; and girls' basketball, highly popular in the 1920s until
it was banned.
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Our
Towns
Wisconsin has a long history of "intentional" communities, planned for
various reasons. See the stories of the Swiss enclave of New Glarus, lumber
town Drummond, the federally designed Greendale and Lake Ivanhoe, started
as a resort area for African Americans.
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River
& Road
This look at life on and along the Mississippi River touches on the steamboat
era, river pearls that were a boom business and the locks and dams that
changed the face of the river. Parts of the Gesell Photo Collection are
used throughout the show, and they show work and play on the river in
the late 1800s.
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Camp
Co-op
When Wisconsinites couldn't get what they needed, they'd roll up their
sleeves and do it for themselves, forming cooperative businesses. From
farm supply stores to the utilities that electrified the countryside,
co-ops have played a big part in Wisconsin's history. And viewers might
be surprised how many products today are made by co-ops.
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The
Power of Water
Water has the power to heal, to sustain life and to enliven lands and
communities. How we use water has shaped our history.
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School
Days
From one-room schoolhouses to the University of Wisconsin System, Wisconsinites
have long pushed for educational opportunities that were open to all,
some of which became nationally honored.
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Passing
Through
Itinerants once moved through the state on regular circuits, entertaining,
playing sports, working, teaching and preaching. Meet as interesting a
set of characters as any who ever traveled the state.
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Let's
Go Bowl!
Wisconsin loves to bowl, and has done it well. Stories include Wisconsinites
who brought fame to the game, a Madison woman who was the first female
to bowl 300 and African-American bowling leagues.
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Car
Show
Wisconsin significantly contributed to the nation's car culture with classic
race cars, some of the first auto production plants and one of the first
roads dedicated to the automobile.
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Big
Ideas
Wisconsin has percolated many ideas that later became models for national
action in government and other progressive programs.
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Best of Wisconsin Stories
This compilation contains the best-loved and most-requested
segments from the first Wisconsin Stories series.
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Making
History
Meet hosts Tracy Will and Debbie Kmetz. Stories include the 1940 state
cornhusking championships, an 1878 experiment with steam-driven carriages;
how hops made Wisconsin famous; country music star Pee Wee King.
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The
H.H. Bennett Studio
The story of Bennett, the photographer who helped make the Wisconsin Dells
an international tourist destination, and how the State Historical Society
of Wisconsin turned his studio into a historic site and museum.
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Coping
With Cold
Learn about the record storms, the deepest snows and the coldest temperatures
in state history in "News From the Past," a historical newscast.
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Civil
War at Home
Experience the role that Wisconsin and its people played in the War Between
the States.
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Ports
of Call
A journey through Wisconsin's a rich maritime history: from wooden ships
to the mammoth roll-out of WWII war ships.
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We're
Rockin'
An eclectic mix of "rocky" stories, from an ancient Native American stone-working
site to a sculptor profile, from the House on the Rock and The Rock in
the House in Fountain City to rock music pioneer Les Paul.
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In
the Mail
Tales of creative mail delivery, the ways a small post office makes a
community, how the parcel post opened rural Wisconsin to catalog goods,
and what happened when a package of limburger cheese mailed from Monroe
to an Iowa town resulted in a taste "trial" that made national news.
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Native
Journeys
A look at aspects of Native American culture in Wisconsin, featuring a
"Rosetta Stone"manuscript of the Ojibwe, the story of the Sandy Lake tragedy
of 1850 and the history and evolution of the sport of lacrosse.
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Frozen
Asset
Intrepid Wisconsinites harvested it, used it to freeze and cool food,
to make the state's beer famous, to keep homes cool, to play on, and to
make money.
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Really
Big Stuff
How Wisconsin built a reputation for making huge, one-of-a-kind industrial
machinery. Includes journeys to Allis Chalmers in West Allis, which made
giant equipment like the turbines for the Hoover Dam, and Bucyrus International
in South Milwaukee, home to massive steamshovels and mining draglines.
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