Good morning.
Whitewater’s Tuesday will be sunny and cold, with a high of five degrees.
The city’s Urban Forestry Commission meets this afternoon at 4:15 PM.
On this day in 1964, a milestone for Wisconsin:
1964 – World’s Largest Cheese
On this date The world’s largest cheese of the time was manufactured in Wisconsin. The block of cheddar was produced from 170,000 quarts of milk by the Wisconsin Cheese Foundation specifically for the 1964 New York World’s Fair. It weighed 34,665 pounds (17.4 tons). The cheese was consummed in 1965 at the annual meeting of the Wisconsin Cheesemakers Association at Eau Claire. A replica is displayed in Neilsville in the specially designed “Cheesemobile“, a semi-tractor trailer in which the original cheese toured. [Source: American Profile, December 16, 2001]
The tractor-trailer used to transport and display the world’s largest cheese at the 1964 World’s Fair held in New York. The 34,591 pound cheddar was made in Denmark, Wisconsin by Steve Siudzinski. It occupied only a portion of the trailer, with a general dairy exhibit in the rear. The trailer was donated by Highway Trailer of Edgerton.The cheese, following its two year stint at the World’s Fair, was purchased by the Borden Company.
From Google-a-Day, a football question: “What NFL player (Redskins and Broncos) held onto his record as the all-time interception leader until he retired?”