Good morning, Whitewater
There’s a League of Women Voters talk tonight, at 7 p.m., in the Common Council chambers on Polling Issues and Analysis from Professor Bill Mickelsen, UW- Whitewater, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science. More information on upcoming League events may be found in the January 2009 LWV newsletter.
In our schools, First semester ends today. Congratulations on half a year completed.
On this day in history in 1964, according to the Wisconsin Historical Society, an event that only America’s Dairyland could offer: “World’s Largest Cheese.”
On this date The world’s largest cheese of the time was manufactured in Wisconsin. The block of cheddar was produced from 170,000 quarts of milk by the Wisconsin Cheese Foundation specifically for the 1964 New York World’s Fair. It weighed 34,665 pounds (17.4 tons). The cheese was consumed in 1965 at the annual meeting of the Wisconsin Cheesemakers Association at Eau Claire. A replica is displayed in Neilsville in the specially designed “Cheesemobile”, a semi-tractor trailer in which the original cheese toured.