Get the scoop on the state's biggest summer events. Also, Lake Winnebago gets rowdy.
Wisconsin isn't all Green Bay Packers, beer and cheese curds. We find a way to fit in a bunch of other stuff, too. Like music. And some laughs. Here are few Piet Levy stories about Milwaukee's Summerfest and the Wisconsin State Fair.
All we can say, as we look out the window to see graupel (snow pellets) falling from dirty gray clouds on this late March day is, "Bring 'em on!"
► Summerfest: Cool gets, some big lineup gaps, higher ticket prices and 4 other takeaways *For subscribers*
►Oh hey der, 'Manitowoc Minute' guy Charlie Berens is headlining the Wisconsin State Fair
Whoa there Lake Winnebago, settle down.
► 'I could drive a pickup truck through': Ice shove plows into home on west shore of Lake Winnebago
My favorite photo is this man-versus-nature shot of Wade Sammons standing with a shovel in front of tons of ice invading his parent's summer home.
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Forward!
It was tough to see shuttered Shopko stores all over the state. But innovators are breathing new life into the old buildings, which now house everything from breweries to clinics for veterans.
► Shopko's bankruptcy left more than 300 stores vacant. More and more are being turned to new uses. *For subscribers*
And we've also gotten used to seeing old family farms morph into gargantuan, thousand-head herd operations. But one farm is pivoting the other way, making a business by milking a dozen cows.
► How a girl's 4-H project grew into Two Guernsey Girls Creamery, a microdairy in Freedom
Finally, the Green Bay Packers high-tech business development operation is dipping its toes into virtual reality.
This state is for the birds
Photojournalist Dan Powers captured the scene in Appleton when a couple of great horned owls generated some buzz...
I keep thinking that this "this state is for the birds" schtick will run out of steam. But bird stuff just keeps coming.
Didja know? A Wisconsin fact drop.
Is it too early to be thinking about golf? Nah. Here's an interesting little tidbit: Tiger Woods made his professional golf tournament debut in Wisconsin. This was in 1996 at the Greater Milwaukee Open held at the Brown Deer Golf Course. He tied for 60th. He got better.
Source: "Bathroom Book of Wisconsin Trivia," by Rachel Conard and Lisa Wojna.
Contact Keith Uhlig at 715-845-0651 or kuhlig@gannett.com. Follow him at @UhligK on Twitter and Instagram or on Facebook.
This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Summerfest 2022, Wisconsin State Fair, and Lake Winnebago ice shoves
