Good morning.
It’s a beautiful Sunday ahead for Whitewater: sunny, with a high of eighty-one, and winds from the northwest at 10 to 15 mph.
I posted earlier (see, Happy Memorial Day 2012) on a film about the Honor Flight program to take veterans to Washington, D.C. for a visit in recognition of their service. The premiere of a film about the program is this Saturday, August 11th at Miller Park. There’s good news about that premiere: it’s sure to be a huge success, with only two-thousand tickets still left:
Stars and Stripes Honor Flight was aiming big with plans for its Field of Honor event on Saturday — meant to bring together thousands of veterans as well as feature the world premiere of the organization’s documentary — but news of the ticket sales are making the event even bigger.
With 30,393 tickets sold as of late Friday afternoon, the event is on par to beat the Guiness Book of World Records for a movie premiere attendance — which is currently at 27,022 for a soccer film in Brazil, according to a press release from the group.
Tickets are available by phone (414-902-4000) or on the Web or visiting brewers.com/fieldofhonor.
On this day in 1963, America, Britain, and the Soviet Union signed a treaty “banning nuclear tests in the atmosphere, outer space and underwater.”
The Wisconsin Historical Society records this day in 1825 as one of peaceful discussion:
1825 – Council Held at Fort Crawford
On this date a great council of Native Americans and white settlers began atPrairie du Chien. For days prior to the event, canoe-loads of attendees converged from all directions and included members of the Sioux, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Chippewa, Ottawa, Potawatomi, Iowa, Sauk, and Fox tribes. The purpose of this gathering was to promote peace among the tribes and to establish boundaries for their territorial claims. [Source: The History of Wisconsin, Vol.I: From Exploration to Statehood, by Alice Smith, p. 122]
Google’s daily puzzle asks about construction safety: “The first U.S. construction site that required workers to wear a particular safety item was the Hoover Dam. What was the safety item and which site was the second to require it?”