Good morning. Easter Sunday in Whitewater will be windy with a high of 51. Sunrise is 6:30 and sunset is 7:25 for 12 hours 55 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 89 percent of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1621, the Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth, Massachusetts on a return…
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Daily Bread, Holiday
Daily Bread for 1.1.26: Happy New Year
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. New Year’s Day in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 17. Sunrise is 7:25 and sunset is 4:31 for 9 hours 6 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 95.3 percent of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation takes effect in Confederate territory. New Year…
Holiday, Music
Monday Music: The Houston Jazz Orchestra Performs O Holy Night
by JOHN ADAMS •
Holiday, Music
Monday Music: Charlie Parker Plays White Christmas
by JOHN ADAMS •
Art, Daily Bread, Holiday, Wisconsin
Daily Bread for 12.6.25: Creating the World’s Tallest Glass Tree in Williams Bay
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 30. Sunrise is 7:11 and sunset is 4:20 for 9 hours 9 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 96 percent of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1884, the Washington Monument is completed. Creating the world’s tallest glass tree:…
City, Daily Bread, Holiday
Daily Bread for 12.5.25: Whitewater’s Christmas at Cravath Begins Tonight
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 27. Sunrise is 7:10 and sunset is 4:20 for 9 hours 10 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 99.3 percent of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1775, at Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Christmas…
Daily Bread, History, Holiday
Daily Bread for 11.27.25: Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation, 1863
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Thanksgiving in Whitewater will be windy with a high of 32. Sunrise is 7:01 and sunset is 4:23 for 9 hours 21 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 43.2 percent of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1924, the first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is held in New York…
City, Daily Bread, Holiday
Boo! and Relax! — Scariest and Most Reassuring Things in Whitewater, 2025
by JOHN ADAMS •
Here’s the nineteenth annual FREE WHITEWATER list of the scariest, combined this year for the first time with the most reassuring, things in Whitewater. (In 2024, the scariest and most reassuring things in the city appeared in separate posts.) (The 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 editions…
Animals, Holiday
Friday Bat and Rat Blogging
by JOHN ADAMS •
Holiday, Music
Monday Music: Halloween Trio No. 3
by JOHN ADAMS •
Holiday, Music
Monday Music: Halloween Trio No. 2
by JOHN ADAMS •
Holiday, Music
Monday Music: Halloween Trio No. 1
by JOHN ADAMS •
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Happy Easter
by JOHN ADAMS •
Daily Bread, Holiday
Daily Bread for 12.25.24: Merry Christmas
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning.
Christmas in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with a high of 36. Sunrise is 7:24 and sunset is 4:26, for 9 hours, 2 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 26.8 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1968, Apollo 8 performs the first successful Trans-Earth injection (TEI) maneuver, sending the crew and spacecraft on a trajectory back to Earth from Lunar orbit.
Midnight Christmas Mass at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris:
Owl surprises Virginia family by perching atop Christmas tree: