Postcards from a Small Town

I received my first batch of Postcards that I am creating. I hope to have a set of eight when it's all done. Four photos from Michelle and four from me. This got me thinking about what is out there already for older postcards. So here are a few that I have found on the net.

BTW - WHAT did people do before the internet! The Net has to be one of the Wonders of the Modern World.

This one is labeled "Normal school, Columbus, WI". Was the name Normal? or is this a "Normal" (typical) school? Is it still around?

Ludington Street, looking East

James Street, looking South

James Street, looking North

City Park Columbus?? Where is that??

Yummo - Dry Milk - from dehydrated cows?

Rest Haven - City Park Columbus

And here are the two I have in the works - disregard the "safezone" stuff

This looks much better live - I received them yesterday

I'll post Michelle's post card(s) once she gives me the OK to go ahead and order them. Did I mention I'll have a set of eight?

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Having Direct TV I can order HBO for four or five days so I got it to watch Recount, the story of the Florida recounting in 2000 election. DJ and I are socially liberal and financially conservative (in theory) so I was of course sitting on one side of the left side aisle during this movie. After all - I AM the poster child for freaks that managed to live past 30 (I am as surprised as anybody else).

Dj and I sat down (knowing how it ended) and were riveted for almost two hours. In MY view it all came down to when Joe Lieberman switched sides and became a Republic. BUT - I'm not here to rile people up - I mention HBO because I then switched to Showtime last night and watched The Tudors for the first time.

Anybody watch this show? I loved it. Now I have to get Season 1 from Netflix because I did not have a clue what was going on.

And don't forget - The Mole is on Monday.
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May 29th 1848 - Wisconsin becomes the 30th State in the United States.

In 1634, French explorer Jean Nicolet landed at Green Bay, and became the first European to visit the lake-heavy northern region that would later become Wisconsin. In 1763, near the end of the French and Indian Wars, "Wisconsin" was a major center for fur trading and was passed to British control. Twenty years later at the end of the American Revolution, the region came under U.S. rule and became part of the Northwest Territory.

In the first decades of the 19th century, settlers began arriving via the Erie Canal and the Great Lakes to exploit Wisconsin's agricultural potential, and in 1832 the Black Hawk War (centered around my home town Fort Atkinson) ended Native American resistance to white settlement.

Black Hawk was an interesting person. His name was really Black Sparrow Hawk and he went against customs and married only one woman (Singing Bird) and remained faithful.

For a very interesting account of what happened to Black Hawk go to Biography of Black Hawk.
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Speaking of albino deer - here are the photos Laurie took up near Little Bohemia - they are sort of FREAKING me out.

hmmmm - have I uttered the name Johnny Depp yet? There. Man - life without a movie is hard!

BTW - congrats - you guys must be REALLY bored - over 200,000 pages read!

Rod