Polk County Links

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Here are my Polk County links:

The official Polk County web site, which includes the county tourism page.
The Village of Balsam Lake web site
The City of St. Croix Falls web site
The City of Amery web site
The Balsam Lake Area Chamber of Commerce web site
The Polk County Fair web site
The Polk County Museum web site – the museum is located in the old county courthouse in Balsam Lake.
The Gandy Dancer State Trail page on the Wisconsin DNR web site. This trail begins in St. Croix Falls and continues north to Superior.

Barron County Links

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Here are my links for Barron County:

The official Barron County web site
The City of Barron web site
The City of Rice Lake web site
The Rice Lake Chamber of Commerce web site
The Rice Lake Tourism web site
History of the Turkey Store Company and Jennie-O from the Jennie-O web site

Sheboygan County Links

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Here are my links for Sheboygan County:

The Sheboygan County official web site
The City of Sheboygan web site
The City of Sheboyan Tourism web site
The Sheboygan Brat Days web site
The Tourism Alliance of Sheboygan County web site
The Sheboygan County Chamber of Commerce web site
The City of Sheboygan Falls web site
The Lakeland College web site. The main campus of Lakeland College is located in Plymouth, just outside of the city of Sheboygan.
The Village of Elkhart Lake web site
Elkhart Lake’s Road America web site
The Sylvanus Wade House web site from the Wisconsin Historical Society
The Johnsonville Brats web site. The company is located in Sheboygan Falls.
The Gesangverein Concordia Sheboygan web site. Gesangverein Concordia is a mixed voice German choir.

Dunn County Links

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Here are some links for Dunn County:

The official Dunn County web site
The City of Menomonie web site
The University of Wisconsin Stout web site
The Red Cedar State Trail – Wisconsin DNR web page
The Dunn County Historical Society web site
The Greater Menomonie Area Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Center web site

Cadott Photos

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Here are some photos from the “First Tapping” event of the Wisconsin Maple Syrup Producers Association on the morning of Saturday March 14, 2015. We arrived just before the ceremony at 10:00 am; it was a long drive from Madison to Cadott. Alice in Dairyland did the first tapping, though in fact most of the trees had already been tapped because the sap had started to run the previous week.

They no longer use buckets for collecting the maple sap; instead there is plastic tubing that is connected to a vacuum system which makes things a lot easier. The event was held in Cedric Boettcher’s sugar bush and afterward there was a pancake brunch at his nearby farm.

: The blue tubing is for the vacuum system that collects the sap

: Our host, Cedric Boettcher and his grandsons

: Alice in Dairyland reading the governor’s proclamation

: Alice doing the first tapping with an auger

: Alice and some of the dignitaries

: If you’re at a farm in Wisconsin, there will be cows nearby

: Cadott is at 45 N latitude, so it is halfway between the Equator and North Pole

: Historical marker at the site of the original trading post in what is now Cadott

Chippewa Falls Photos

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We visited the Chippewa County courthouse on Saturday afternoon March 14, 2015. We left Cadott around 12:30 and made it to Chippewa Falls about 20 minutes later. So we had some time to walk around and take a few photos before heading to Eau Claire.

The Chippewa County courthouse is very nice; it was built in 1951. It’s not very fancy; it’s more functional than anything else, but it’s in good shape and obviously well maintained.

: The veterans memorial in front of the courthouse

: One of the front entrances

: Detail of the stone work on the courthouse

: Looking along the front of the courthouse

: The courthouse and the veterans memorial

Dane County Links

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Here are my links for Dane County. There are a lot of them!

The official web site for Dane County
The City of Madison web site
The City of Monona web site
The City of Middleton web site
The City of Sun Prairie web site
The City of Fitchburg web site
The City of Verona web site
The Village of Shorewood Hills web site
The Village of Cottage Grove web site
The Village of Cross Plains web site
The Village of Maple Bluff web site
The Village of Waunakee web site
The Madison Metro Transit web site
The Military Ridge State Trail – Wisconsin DNR web page
The Badger State Trail – Wisconsin DNR web page
The Capital City State Trail – Wisconsin DNR web page
The Glacial Drumlin State Trail – Wisconsin DNR web page
The Greater Madison Convention & Visitors Bureau
The University of Wisconsin – Madison web site
The official University of Wisconsin Athletics web site
The UW Soil Science web cam from King Hall
The Midvale Community Lutheran Church in Madison web site
The St. Luke’s Lutheran Church in Middleton web site
The Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Madison web site
The Blackhawk Church web site
The Luther Memorial Church in Madison web site
The Crazylegs Classic 8 K race
The Middleton Good Neighbor Festival web site
The Wauktoberfest web site
The Mount Horeb Summer Frolic web site
The Madison Lakes Ice Summary web site

Madison Photos

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I visited the Dane County courthouse on Monday March 23, 2015; I took the bus downtown on my lunch hour. We had a late season snow storm overnight so there were several inches of snow on the ground. I took some photos of the courthouse and the State Capitol building as well as a few of the City-County Building which is where the county courthouse was located before the new courthouse was constructed. In fact the only time I’ve ever been a participant in a court proceeding was in the City-County building. I attended Juvenile Court when the guy who stole two wheels from my car was sentenced back in 2001.

: The Wisconsin State Capitol from Hamilton Street

: The Dane County courthouse facing Hamilton Street

: Dane County courthouse from Hamilton and Wilson streets

: The courthouse from Wilson Street

: Nathan Dane historical marker

: Looking up Hamilton Street toward toward the capitol

: The courthouse main entrance

: The City-County Building used to house both the city and county offices.

: View of the Capitol from Martin Luther King Boulevard

: Dane County built new courthouse and public safety buildings

: All of the city offices and some of the county offices are still here

Mauston Photos

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These are the photos that I took of the Juneau County courthouse and Justice Center on Saturday March 14, 2015. It was a beautiful day, though it was getting a little late in the afternoon. This was our last stop after visiting three other county courthouses that afternoon, so we were a little tired and looking forward to getting back to Madison.

The courthouse complex is very nice, and I like the look of the courthouse building. Even the disabled access ramp at the back of the courthouse fits in with the overall architecture. The one regret I have is that I didn’t realize how polished the stone was at the Veterans Memorial; it actually picked up the reflection of the buildings across the street. I should have stood a little to one side.

: The Juneau County Veterans Memorial

: One of the courthouse entrances

: The Juneau County courthouse

: The west entrance to the courthouse

: The Juneau County Justice Center

: The Juneau County Justice Center

: The south side of the courthouse building

: The Justice Center’s courthouse annex entrance

: The old 1861 coastal defense gun

: The Juneau County courthouse

: Orland S. Loomis memorial plaque

Black River Falls Photos

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These are my photos from our visit to Black River Falls on Saturday March 14, 2015. There are just photos of the Jackson County courthouse. We would have stopped by the Sand Creek Brewing Company, but it was closed; they do not open on Saturdays until May.