Good morning.
Wednesday brings a day of decreasing clouds and a high of fifty. We’ll have 13h 48m of sunlight, 14h 48m of daylight, with a waxing gibbous moon.
Downtown Whitewater’s Board will meet this morning at 8 AM.
On this day in 1898, Spain declared war on the United States after rejecting America’s ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba.
So what’s it like to play with fourteen German Shepherds? It’s like this:
On 4.24.1977, Whitewater lost a mysterious, spooky, and odd institution:
1977 – Morris Pratt Institute of Spiritualism Moves to Waukesha
On this date the Morris Pratt Institute, 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: Morris Pratt Institute]
We’re still getting over it.
Google has Alps on the brain: “What term is given to the border between the Central Alps and the Southern Limestone Alps?”