Good morning.
It’s a mild day for Whitewater, with mostly sunny skies and a high of seventy-one.
Whitewater’s Community Development Authority meets today at 1 PM.
Today’s a vital day in our history, as it’s the day that Brown v. Board of Education was decided.
On this day in Wisconsin history, in 1673,
Joliet and Marquette Expedition Gets Underway
On this date Louis Joliet [also spelled as Jolliet], Father Jacques Marquette, and five French voyageurs departed from the mission of St. Ignace, at the head of Lake Michigan, to reconnoiter 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 via Wisconsin Historical Society.
From NASA, a video on that agency’s Aqua satellite and its instruments:
Google’s daily puzzle asks about food: “What do you call a cluster of fruit on the world’s largest herb?”