Good morning.
It’s a mostly sunny day, with a high of thirty-three, for Whitewater today.
On this day in 1946, Churchill delivered his ‘Iron Curtain’ speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. The full text of the speech is online at Fordham University.
At the Wisconsin Historical Society website, an odd tale about a woman once famous in Wisconsin:
1935 – Elizabeth “Baby Doe” McCourt Dies
On this date, the controversial wife of Horace (H.A.W.) Tabor, silver mine owner during the 19th century Colorado gold and silver booms, died. Born Elizabeth Bondeul McCourt in Oshkosh, Wisconsin in 1854, she was first married to Harvey Doe, Jr. of Oshkosh but in 1880 divorced him on the grounds of adultery. She then moved to Colorado where she married Leadville’s silver king, Horace Tabor. Despite great wealth, she died penniless and alone in Leadville: she froze to death in a cabin near the famous Matchless mine, which in its heyday had produced $10,000 worth of silver ore per day. Elizabeth and Horace are the subject of an American opera, “The Ballad of Baby Doe”. [Sources: http://www.babydoetabor.com/]
Here’s a Google daily puzzle just right for adventurers: “You’re at the intersection of Tai Mo Shan Road and Route Twisk searching for a mountain to hike. How many feet high is the nearest park’s highest peak?”