Good morning,
It’s a sunny day with a predicted high of seventy-eight degrees forecast for Whitewater.
Today is also the beginning of Whitewater’s holiday events. A website describing the holiday in Whitewater is available at ww4th.com. Here’s what’s scheduled through the weekend:
Festival Schedule
Thursday, July 1st
5:00 PM
Festival Opens
– Midway by Christman Amusement Opens (Arm Bands 5PM-9PM)
– American Legion Beer Tent Opens
– Food Vendors Open
Live Music Stage
7:00PM – 8:00PM – Doctor Noize
10:00 PM Festival Closes
Friday, July 2nd
5:00 PM
Festival Opens
– Midway by Christman Amusement Opens
– American Legion Beer Tent Opens
– Food Vendors Open
Live Music Stage
6:00PM – Midnight – The Blue Olives w/ The Pipe Circus
10:00 PM
Fireworks
12 Midnight Festival Closes
Saturday, July 3rd (Kid’s Day)
12 Noon
Festival Opens
– Midway by Christman Amusement Opens (Arm Bands 12PM-4PM)
– American Legion Beer Tent Opens
– Food Vendors Open
12:00 noon – 4:00PM – Children’s petting zoo – Sponsored by Dalee Water Conditioning
1:00 PM – Minneiska Ski Show on beautiful Cravath Lake
Live Music Stage
Noon – 1:00PM – Cross Point Church Band
2:00PM – 3:00PM – EKiss O Musical
3:30PM – 5:00PM – Beyond Youth
5:30PM – 8:30PM – Saddle Brook
National Music Act!
9:00 PM – Heidi Newfield of Trick Pony – www.heidinewfield.com
12 Midnight Festival Closes
Sunday, July 4th
8:00 AM – 3:00 PM
26th Annual Car Show
10:50 AM
Whippet City Mile
11:00 AM
Whitewater’s 4th of July Parade
12 Noon
Festival Opens
– Midway by Christman Amusement Opens
– American Legion Beer Tent Opens
– Food Vendors Open
1:00 PM
Minneiska Ski Show on beautiful Cravath Lake
Live Music Stage
2:30PM – 5:00PM – Steve Meisner
5:00PM – 6:00PM – Shelley Faith
6:30PM – 7:30PM – Hours Left
8:00PM – Midnight – The Britins (Beatles Tribute Band)
10:00 PM
Fireworks
12 Midnight Festival Closes
In Wisconsin history on this date, the Wisconsin Historical Society recalls this as a day marking greater liberty for Wisconsin’s residents, since 1967. Here’s why —
1967 – Sale of Oleo Becomes Legal
On this date it became legal to purchase Oleomargarine in Wisconsin. For decades, margarine was considered a contraband spread. Sale of the butter imposter resulted in fines or possible jail terms. Oleomargarine was sold legally in Illinois and frequently smuggled into Wisconsin.
Now, at the House of Dissenting opinion, it’s butter all the way — natural, and better tasting. And yet, a state that bans margarine, of all things, is neither sensible, nor free, nor free of special interests. (The link above is to a 1981 Wisconsin Magazine of History story, entitled, “The Oleo Wars,” that’s descriptive of how controversial this issue was to some in Wisconsin.)
If butter, then bread: Wired has a story about automated bread-making entitled, “Give Us This Day Our Automated Bread,” about a 1910 innovation.
On July 1st, 1910, the “Ward Baking Company puts a fully automated bread factory into operation. The mechanized factory in Chicago churns out hundreds of perfect loaves a day, untouched by human hands.” Sliced bread came later….
Just one more ingredient needed….
Just right….
Photo of Ward Bakery from Library of Congress, Oleo from Wikipedia, and Coffee in Cup also from Wikipedia, courtesy of Julius Schorzman