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Daily Bread for 5.17.11

Good morning.

Today’s forecast calls for a sunny day, with a high temperature of sixty-two degrees.

There’s a Common Council meeting tonight, at 6:30 p.m.  The session agenda is available online.

The Wisconsin Historical Society recalls that about three-hundred fifty years ago,

1673 – Jolliet and Marquette Expedition Gets Underway

On this date Louis Jolliet, Father Jacques Marquette, and five French voyageurs departed from the mission of St. Ignace, at the head of Lake Michigan, to reconnoitre the Mississippi River. The party traveled in two canoes throughout the summer of 1673, traveling across Wisconsin, down the Mississippi to the Arkansas River, and back again. [Source: Historic Diaries: Marquette & Joliet, 1673]

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