Good morning.
Whitewater’s Wednesday will be warm, with a high of sixty-nine, and a chance of thunderstorms.
The city’s Landmarks Commission meets this morning at 8 AM.
The Wisconsin Historical Society notes today as an anniversary along our path to statehood:
1818 – Wisconsin Becomes Part of Michigan Territory
On this date, the land encompassing current-day Wisconsin was made part of the Michigan Territory, representing one step in Wisconsin’s path to statehood. Wisconsin was a part of the Northwest Territory from July 13, 1787-May 11, 1800; the Indiana Territory from May 1800-February 3, 1809; and the Illinois Territory from February 3, 1809-April 18, 1818. The Territory of Wisconsin was formed July 4, 1836.
Someone knowledgeable about Indonesia (I’m certainly not one of those people) would have a leg up on today’s Google puzzle: “In the Indonesian town famous for the dish “soto banjar,” there is also a famous market that is humanly impossible to walk over. What substance makes it impossible to walk over?”
With a hat tip to the Huffington Post, how ’bout the best view in the solar system? —