Good morning.
It’s a windy day that lies ahead for Whitewater, but a balmy forty-seven degrees, too.
I see that the last open day for Whitewater’s compost site this season will be November 26th. Steady yourselves.
The Wisconsin Historical Society notes that on this day in 1930,
federal agents and county deputies raided Otto Matschke’s home, north of Beloit, and seized an illegal still and 300 gallons of contraband moonshine. [Source: Janesville Gazette November 19, 1930, p.1]
Had agents not raided Matschke’s home, can you imagine the risk to Beloit, to Wisconsin, and to all America? How would we have ever made it through the Depression, faced the Soviets, landed on the moon, or developed the most technologically-advanced society in human history? The alternatives, it seems, leave us only to contemplate the abyss, and wonder.
Google’s puzzle for the day has an international flavor: “The first vending machines in the United States dispensed a product that’s currently banned in Singapore. What is it?”