It’s a rainy Wisconsin day, but here’s someone who doesn’t mind getting wet.
H/t Huffington Post.
Monthly Archives: August 2011
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 8.2.11
by JOHN ADAMS •
It’s thunderstorms ahead for Whitewater today, with a high temperature in the lower nineties.
There’s a Common Council meeting tonight, at 6:30 p.m. The meeting agenda is available online.
The Wisconsin Historical Society marks this day in 1832 as the end of the Black Hawk War:
On this date the defeat of Black Hawk and his followers at the Battle of Bad Axe, ended the Black Hawk War. Black Hawk led the American troops northward while the rest of the Indians constructed rafts and canoes to facilitate an escape over the Mississippi river. The plan was successful initially but eventually General Atkinson realized the ruse. In the battle, women, children and the elderly hid behind rocks and logs and American soldiers often could not or did not differentiate between warriors and the women and children. Atkinson sent Wabasha and his Sioux warriors, enemies of the Sauk, after the approximately 150 members of the British Band that made it to the Western bank of the Mississippi. The Sauk, “escaped the best they could, and dispersed“, but only 22 women and childern were spared. Black Hawk escaped, but the Battle of Bad Axe marked the end of the war. [Source: Along the Black Hawk Trail by William F. Stark, p.142-153]
Public Meetings
Landmarks Commission
by JOHN ADAMS •
Laws/Regulations, Liberty, Planning
Plant a Garden, Go to Jail for 93-Days?! Reason’s Nanny of the Month for July 2011
by JOHN ADAMS •
Food trucks, baggy pants, but the winner involves trying to ban vegetables in a front yard. Oak Park, Michigan’s city planner, Kevin Rulkowski, tried (but ultimately failed) to ban a front-yard vegetable garden on private property.
What’s funny-sad is his attempt to justify the ban through his limited understanding of the word ‘suitable,’ coupled with a dimwit’s confidence that a dictionary definition (even if correctly understood) settles a public policy debate. It’s a telltale sign of not being able to see the forest for the trees, and it’s just about every mediocre bureaucrat’s recourse at one time or another.
Beautiful Whitewater
Beautiful Whitewater
by JOHN ADAMS •
A hazy morning in August –
Music
Monday Music: Miles Davis – New Rhumba from Birth of the Cool
by JOHN ADAMS •
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 8.1.11
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning.
It’s a warm and humid Monday for Whitewater, with a chance of afternoon thunderstorms, and a high of ninety.
There’s a meeting of the Park & Rec Board today at 4 p.m. The meeting agenda is available online. At 4:30 p.m., there’s a meeting of the Community Development Authority, with that meeting agenda also available online.
In news of the Black Hawk War, the Wisconsin Historical Society writes that on this day in 1832
On this date the armed steamboat the Warrior reached the British Band on the Mississippi where they hoped to cross the river and escape the American troops. After being guided by a Sioux Indian, the ship which held an artillery piece, dropped anchor, making the Sauk escape virtually impossible. Black Hawk attempted to surrender to the Warrior, waving a white cloth, but the crew either did not understand or did not accept the message. The ship and its men opened fire, killing a number of unprepared Indians. [Source: Along the Black Hawk Trail by William F. Stark, p. 140-141]