Good Morning, Whitewater
There are no public meetings scheduled for the City of Whitewater today.
At Washington School today, there is a scheduled Souper Bowl event from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. (“Come enjoy 4 different kinds of soup. Benefits will go towards the Whitewater Food Pantry”) and a 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Sock Hop (“Come enjoy a evening of fun and dance. Sponsored by P.A.T.T.”).
At the High School, tonight, at 7:30 p.m., it’s Inspecting Carol, the spring play (“Spring play Inspecting Carol performed tonight! Reserve tickets online via the Drama club web page or stop at the auditorium box office. Call 262-472-8178 for box office hours.”)
In Wisconsin history on this date, according to the Wisconsin Historical Society, in 1950 “in a six-hour speech delivered before the U.S. Senate, Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy claimed he had the names of 81 U.S. government officials actively engaged in Communist activities, including “one of our foreign ministers.”
A six hour speech — so far removed from American custom that it speaks, itself, to something aberrant in the speaker.
Yet, for all that, I can think, for example, of at least one politician in our small city capable of speaking longer still…