Good morning.
It’s a mostly sunny day with a high of sixty-four for Whitewater.
Whitewater’s Urban Forestry Commission meets today at 4:15 PM.
On this day in 1989 1898, Spain declared war on the United States. [Some typos are worth saving. Of all the things that might have happened in 1989, a Spanish declaration of war against the United States would be among the unlikeliest.]
Whitewater lost one of her most unusual establishments on this day in 1977:
1977 – Morris Pratt Institute of Spiritualism Moves to Waukesha
On this date the Morris Pratt Insititute, dedicated to the study of Spiritualism and Mediumship, moved from Whitewater to Waukesha. Founded in 1888 and incorporated in 1901, it was one of the few institutes in the world that instructed spiritualists. These were people “who believe as the basis of his or her religion, in the communication between this and the Spirit World by means of mediumship and who endeavors to mould his or her character and conduct in accordance with the highest teachings derived from such communication.”
Source: Wisconsin Historical Society.
We have, in these years since, soldiered on.
Google’s daily puzzle asks about a bird: “At its top rate of speed, how many times in one hour of flying time does the world’s smallest hummingbird flap its wings?”