Good morning.
Whitewater will have a mostly sunny Thursday with a high of thirty-three. We’ll have 11h 30m of sunlight, 12h 27m of daylight, with three minutes’ more light tomorrow.
The Landmarks Commission is set to meet at 6 PM tonight.
On this day in 1876, Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone.
In Wisconsin history, on 3.7.1811,
Increase Allen Lapham [is] Born
A pioneer naturalist and noted author, Increase Allen Lapham was instrumental in establishing the Milwaukee public high school program. He was one of the founders of Milwaukee Female Seminary in 1848 and served as president of the State Historical Society from 1862 to 1871. Lapham came to Milwaukee in 1836 to serve as chief engineer and secretary for the Rock River Canal Company. He was one of the first authors and map makers in Wisconsin. Among approximately 80 titles in his bibliography, most notable was his Antiquities of Wisconsin, the first book length investigation of Wisconsin’s Indian mounds. Lapham also served as chief geologist for Wisconsin from 1873 to 1875. He founded many educational, civic, and scientific organizations in Wisconsin. You can see many of his writings, letters, maps, and drawings, at Turning Points in Wisconsin History by typing “Lapham” into the search box. [Source: Dictionary of Wisconsin Biography, SHSW 1960, pg. 221]
Google-a-Day asks a question about India: “What two northernmost territories of India lie 1,100 km southeast of Calcutta? (In alphabetical order)”