Good morning.
Friday brings showers and thunderstorms to Whitewater, with a high of seventy. The end of the week offers 14h 42m of sunlight, 15h 48m of daylight, a moon in its first quarter, and two minutes more light tomorrow.
It’s the anniversary, from 1954, of the U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling in Brown v. Board of Education. Fifty-eight years later, America’s highest court set aside at last a separate but equal doctrine as applied to public schools.
On May 17, 1673, a great adventure begins:
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]
Google-a-Day has a question of architecture: “The north end of what footbridge is very near the magnificent baroque cathedral that is famous for the dome added by restorer Christopher Wren?”