Good morning,
Whitewater’s forecast calls for a partly sunny day, with a high temperature of fifty degrees.
Whitewater’s Community Development Authority and Tech Park Board will meet today, at 4:15. The agenda is available online.
The Wisconsin Historical Society recalls that on this day in 1887,
1887 – Georgia O’Keeffe Born
On this date Georgia O’Keeffe was born in Sun Prairie. She studied at the Chicago Art Institute from 1904 to 1905. In 1907 she relocated to New York to study at the Arts Students League with William Chase. In 1926 she unveiled her now famous flower paintings. She received much of her artistic inspiration from her surroundings in New Mexico, where she settled permanently in 1946. O’Keeffe was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977. Georgia O’Keeffe died in 1986 in Santa Fe. [Source: Wisconsin Women: A Gifted Heritage]
