Good morning, Whitewater.
Friday in town will be mostly sunny with a high of seventy-nine. Sunrise is 5:21 and sunset 8:36, for 15h 14m 59s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 97.4% of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Independence holiday festival opens today at 5 PM. We’ll have fireworks in the city tonight later tonight at 10 PM.
L. Prang & Co. print of the painting “Hancock at Gettysbug” by Thure de Thulstrup, showing Pickett’s Charge. Restoration by Adam Cuerden. Via Wikipedia.
Washington, D. C., July 4 — 10:30 A. M.
The President announces to the country that news from the Army of the Potomac, up to 10 P.M. of the 3d, is such as to cover that army with the highest honor; to promise a great success to the cause of the Union, and to claim the condolence of all for the many gallant fallen; and that for this, he especially desires that on this day He, whose will, not ours, should ever be done, be everywhere remembered and reverenced with profoundest gratitude.
(Signed) A. Lincoln
On this day in 1919, Milwaukee gets an airport:
1919 – Milwaukee County’s First Airport Established
On this date one of the earliest publicly owned airports in the United States was established. Use of the airport ceased when the need for more space resulted in the purchase or Hamilton airport, now Mitchell Field. [Source: History Just Ahead: A Guide to Wisconsin’s Historical Markers edited by Sarah Davis McBride, p.39]
Here’s Puzzabilty‘s Friday game, concluding this week’s series:
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This Week’s Game — June 29-July 3
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One Nation, Divisible
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Get out your red, white, and blue-ray for this week’s filmfest. For each day, we’ll give you a series of clues, each of which leads to a word. You must drop one letter out of each of these answer words and put them together (in order), adding spaces as needed, to get a movie title that includes a word evoking the July 4th holiday—a different such word every day.
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Example:
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“We hold ___ truths to be self-evident” / “Fourscore and seven years ___” / composer of The Merry Widow / public defamation, legally / uninhibited part of the psyche
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Answer:
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The Eagle Has Landed (these / ago / Lehar / slander / id)
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What to Submit:
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Submit the movie title and the smaller words (as “The Eagle Has Landed (these / ago / Lehar / slander / id)” in the example) for your answer.
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Friday, July 3
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