Good morning.
It’s a warm and humid Monday for Whitewater, with a chance of afternoon thunderstorms, and a high of ninety.
There’s a meeting of the Park & Rec Board today at 4 p.m. The meeting agenda is available online. At 4:30 p.m., there’s a meeting of the Community Development Authority, with that meeting agenda also available online.
In news of the Black Hawk War, the Wisconsin Historical Society writes that on this day in 1832
On this date the armed steamboat the Warrior reached the British Band on the Mississippi where they hoped to cross the river and escape the American troops. After being guided by a Sioux Indian, the ship which held an artillery piece, dropped anchor, making the Sauk escape virtually impossible. Black Hawk attempted to surrender to the Warrior, waving a white cloth, but the crew either did not understand or did not accept the message. The ship and its men opened fire, killing a number of unprepared Indians. [Source: Along the Black Hawk Trail by William F. Stark, p. 140-141]