Good morning.
Saturday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 83. Sunrise is 5:27 and sunset 8:15 for 14h 47m 24s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 77.4 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s professional journalism site, WhitewaterWise, has been admitted to the Milwaukee Press Club. It’s a well-deserved addition to the oldest continuously operating press club in North America. Bloggers are not journalists (we’re modern-day pamphleteers), but one needn’t be (or wish to be) a watchmaker to appreciate having a watch. Whitewater benefits from professional journalism. (See from 2023 Professional Journalism Returns to Whitewater.)
Whitewater WindUp meets this morning at 9 AM to select the winner of their first startup competition. Best of luck to all the finalists.
On this day in 1804, Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of the French by the French Senate.
On this day in 1863, the Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi, when after nearly three weeks spent encircling Vicksburg, Mississippi, Union forces had bottled up their enemy inside the city and prepared to attack it. Seventeen different Wisconsin regiments were involved in the assault that began the next day (8th, 11th, 12th, 14th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 20th, 23rd, 25th, 27th, 29th, and 33rd Wisconsin Infantry regiments and the 1st, 6th and 12th Wisconsin Light Artillery batteries as well as the 2nd Wisconsin Cavalry).
The building designed to limit catastrophe: