Good morning.
It’s a sunny day ahead for Whitewater this Wednesday, with a high temperature of seventy-eight.
The Wisconsin Historical Society marks today in 1854 as a transportation milestone:
1854 – First Railroad Reaches Madison
On this date the Milwaukee and Mississippi railroad reached Madison, connecting the city with Milwaukee. When the cars pulled into the depot, thousands of people gathered to witness the ceremonial arrival of the first train, and an enormous picnic was held on the Capitol grounds for all the passengers who’d made the seven-hour trip from Milwaukee to inaugurate the line. [Source: Waukesha Chronicle, May 24, 1854; Wisconsin State Journal, June 1, 1924]
Google’s daily puzzle asks about the month of a moon as a people described it: “Native Americans had a name for the moon associated with the most widely grown crop in America. During what month would you see that moon?”