News & Events

Current Newsletter - Winter 2013

Check out the "new look" to our newsletter.
A big thank you to graphic artist, Becca Kaegi for her volunteering to give this a more professional look!

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A new home for state and local history online

The museum has been working with Wisconsin Heritage Online to make some of its material available online. Wisconsin Heritage has been improved and is now called Recollection Wisconsin. The Recollection Wisconsin program brings together more than 120,000 historical resources from across the state and provides new opportunities to discover and share community history.

Recollectionwisconsin.org provides Wisconsin residents and audiences worldwide with free access to history resources from the collections of libraries, archives, museums and historical societies across the state. Students, teachers, family history researchers and the general public can use the website to explore more than 120,000 historic photographs, postcards, maps, letters, diaries, articles, books, artifacts, oral histories and other materials from dozens of Wisconsin communities.

But this site is a place for more than just viewing digital resources. Visitors are also invited to contribute their own memories, images, knowledge and comments through a variety of social features. These new features, which incorporate social media tools including Tumblr, Pinterest and Flickr, are central to the updated vision of the program: to create opportunities for audiences to discover personal connections to the past. With the new website, Recollection Wisconsin expands on its original mission to improve access to Wisconsin’s cultural heritage by establishing a dedicated online space to foster understanding of and appreciation for community history.

New features visitors can find on recollectionwisconsin.org include:

• Share a story. Recollection Wisconsin has partnered with Wisconsin Life, an audio essay series on Wisconsin Public Radio that celebrates what makes Wisconsin unique, to collect and share stories contributed by visitors.
• Stories from Wisconsin collections. This ongoing series provides a closer look at small slices of state and local history, told through photographs and documents from participating organizations. Topics covered so far include deer hunting, grand hotels, home economics education, early bicycling culture and Welsh settlers in Wisconsin.
• Browse by category or on a map. A user-friendly browse interface enables visitors to explore collections by subject categories, such as cranberries, music or World War I, or by types of materials, such as plat maps or scrapbooks. Visitors can also use an interactive map to locate digital collections in or near their hometowns or other locations of interest.

About Recollection Wisconsin
The Recollection Wisconsin program is sponsored by Wisconsin Library Services (WiLS) in partnership with the Milwaukee Public Library, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Wisconsin Historical Society. Financial support is provided by a grant from the Nicholas Family Foundation.

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Recent Donations:

Ludwig Bauer: Mason jar
Beth Bockes: Minutes from Antigo Women’s Club, Fine Arts Department
Jane Dreiske: Piano rolls (in memory of Freida (Helmig) Wendt
Jennie Helm: Shaving kit, prayer book of Stanley Flak
Janet Larsen: Shoe lasts
Mary Lukowicz: Military items, C&NW roundhouse crew and engine picture from 1916
Karla Martinsen: Viewmaster viewer and slides
Glen & Carol Remington: Butter churn
Betty Sosnovske: Suitcase decorated with Japanese motif from Robert Sosnovske’s WWII service
Marlow Strehlow: Pocket compass used by railroad engineering crew

Monetary Donations:

James Aulik
Lorraine Fellner
James Wing
John Zwicky
Johnson Electric Coil
Langlade County Genealogy Society
Rotary Club of Antigo
Jaqueline Wahleithner Family Trust

Monetary Donations in Memorium:

For Patrick Diercks, Doris Kryka from Jim & Connie Hubatch
For Louise Schleis from Mary Schleis
For Vida Solin from Marleen Sargent
For Dora Stiglich from Dean & Polly Blazek
For Jim VanOoyen from Dean & Polly Blazek

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Highlights

Wisconsin Council for Local History

The Wisconsin Council for Local History is a state wide organization of over 370 local history groups. The Langlade County Historical Society is part of the Northwoods Region. The Council helps local groups in several ways:

1. Each year mini-grants are awarded to a number of groups. This year the Langlade County Historical Society received a grant for the purchase of archival boxes and pages for our photo collection. Curator Mary Kay Wolf is busy organizing and indexing our archives and in the near future they should be much more accessible to the public.
   
   
2. The Council, together with the Wisconsin Historical Society, organizes a number of workshops and webinars on a wide range of topics. A recent conference was held in Madison and board president Joe Hermolin attended workshops in processing archival collections, web design, and digitization. Workshops are being planned for spring and the next annual conference is scheduled for Wisconsin Rapids from October 11-12, 2013. Details on future workshops, webinars, and conferences, as well as bibliography and notes from the recent conference may be viewed on the Wisconsin Historical Society’s web site: www.wisconsinhistory.org
   
   
3. The Council manages a local history listserve where people may ask questions, seek advice, post events, and more. Join by sending an email to: localhistory@listserve.uwec.edu and type SUBSCRIBE in the body of the email.

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AVA Update

From March 13 through April 13th the AVA Gallery in the museum will be hosting
"Following the Loon' the photography of Gregory Galbraith.

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