This is the third of a four part series that commemorates the 100th Anniversary of a company very dear to my heart, McFarlane Mfg Co. I have been a member of the team there since 2002 and when the 100th anniversary came around, I wanted to use my skills to do something special. So we interviewed special folks from around the area that did and reflected upon significant things in our area that affected the entire world. Plus, with the help of my good friend Paul Wolter at the Sauk County Historical Society, we were able to list off and discuss interesting events that happened during each period of 25 years.
What became evident to me was how many things happened during that 100 years that we take for granted today. Think about it for just a minute, today's episode follows the 25 year period that saw the assination of two major beacons of hope for our nation, numerous successful (and one near fatal) excursions to the Moon, Woodstock, the end of the Vietnam, Hair Bands. It's amazing. Hope you enjoy Part 2: 1968 - 1993.
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Rauel LaBreche:
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Welcome to part three of our series of shows entitled century of change. For those of you that haven't been listening, each of these is a retrospective view of important events that occurred within a 25 year span of time between 1917 and 2017. These were extremely formative years for our country, the state of Wisconsin, as well as Sauk County and right here in Sauk. City. No matter where you live, it doesn't hurt to just stop and think about how much can happen in 100 years, or in the case of each episode, just 25 years. Today, we're focusing on 1968 to 1990, to a 25 year period that saw the first moon landings, horrible assassinations, the only resignation this country has ever had of a serving US president, as well as the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Reagan era. On a personal note, I got married to my lovely wife and and we had our first child during the span of time. So it's a special period for me personally. So here we go. As usual, we'll start with a sound bite collage. See how many of the sound bites you can identify. And let them take you back to a different time when these bites were the bits of our lives called the news.
Part 3 Sound Bites:
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This is century of change, a series featuring the rich history of the last 100 years. I just want to do God's will. And he is allowed me to go up the mountain over and I see the promise man named Dr. Martin Luther King, the apostle of non violence in the Civil Rights Movement has been shocked to death in Memphis, Tennessee. Like some kind of ethical, unbelievable. This is the largest of people ever assembled in one place, the beautiful people. I have never obstructed justice. And I think to that I could say that in my years of public life, that I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their president said Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got therefore I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. You yell shock we've got a panic on our hands on the Fourth of July. It's the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man my calculations are correct. When this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you're gonna see some serious heading down range. Looks like a couple of the solid rocket boosters blew away from the tide of the shuttle. In an explosion, the crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger honored us for the manner in which they live their lives. We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw this morning as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and slipped the surly bonds of the touch the face of God. That's two hours ago, Allied Air Forces began an attack on military targets in Iraq and Kuwait. These attacks continue as I speak.
Rauel LaBreche:
5:08
Well, here we are with segment three. That's right. numeral three Oh, segment of the history of change in Sauk. County Sauk. Prairie, the world? Yes, this is our special third segment of the century of change broadcasts. We're happy you've joined us this morning. If you haven't been a part of the past two broadcasts, I'd encourage you to go check out the archives, we had interviews with people. So we just encourage you to go back and listen, if you haven't heard the previous shows. But today is going to be a show like no other because this time we're going we're looking at 1967 through 1992. Which it's hard to think of that as history, isn't it? Paul?
Paul Volter:
5:49
I know right? Or we're in our own era,
Rauel LaBreche:
5:52
my guest as he has been for the past two weeks is Paul Walter. He's the Executive Director of the Sauk County Historical Society. And Paul is the the holder of all things historical, right, you
Paul Volter:
6:03
are the Well, we do our parts. There's others. But yes, you are the
Rauel LaBreche:
6:07
sock county Corolla. Is that right? So and as always, we've gone through through volunteers that Paul has at the agency as well as our own research, we've been able to come up with some interesting things that have been happening since 1967, in 1992. And it makes me feel old because this is the first segment where I was alive during all years of it. So now I'm starting to feel like I'm part of the century of change.
Paul Volter:
6:34
You are, well, let's
Rauel LaBreche:
6:35
go back to the year 119 67. The circus world museum welcomed its 1,000,000th
Paul Volter:
6:41
visitor, right, not bad for eight years. They opened in 1959. That is something
Rauel LaBreche:
6:45
real real draw still is any idea how many people have
Paul Volter:
6:48
visited so I don't I don't
Rauel LaBreche:
6:51
know. Maybe somebody from circus world Museum is listening and can call us and let us know what they're at today. Right? It's like the 1 billion hamburger. People have been up there. Right? Well, then 1968 The University of Wisconsin bearable Campus opened. Right.
Paul Volter:
7:04
Right. Yeah, part of the UW system. Of course, there's no 15 institutions in that system. And originally designed for 300 students now serves more than 600 Wow, has been a little building spree there lately. Just back in October 2015, the new science building opened up just recently named after former dean plugger. So my son
Rauel LaBreche:
7:26
was there for the first two years of his college career and had really good memories, lots of wonderful faculty up there. And was there while that that science building was being built in fact, I think his class was the first class to actually have
Paul Volter:
7:39
nice, yes, sir. My mind was always the first class to leave the facility. Was
Rauel LaBreche:
7:43
thank God we got rid of them. Yeah. We'll build a new one. Yeah, here honestly. Well, then Reedsburg Not to be outdone. Reedsburg Madison Area Technical College branch opened up, right part
Paul Volter:
7:53
of the technical college system became part of the Madison Area Technical College that year as well. So another great to great institutions of higher learning here in Sauk. County. Yeah,
Rauel LaBreche:
8:06
exactly. And opportunities for people to start their degrees in usually less expensive situation, right. So and yet still have equal opportunity to get into the UW Madison if that's where you want to go from there. But then I see that was also a sad year, right in your neck of the woods because the fire that destroyed the Reedsburg Warden mill,
Paul Volter:
8:25
yeah, the Reedsburg woollen mill, it's lasted longer than the Barrow Island, woollen mill did burn in 68 on the big spectacular fires. Okay. But just sign of the times, again, changing economies and
Rauel LaBreche:
8:38
yeah, yeah, their history, while Milwaukee was the same way. We had multiple Woolen Mills there, too. I remember touring some of the Deckard Knitting Mills that were there, you know, back in the day, and I don't think any of us are still going either. So maybe, maybe so. Well, 1969. Then moving on Wisconsin Power and Light report said 4000 rural customers were serviced with power from the period of SAC hydroelectric dam. So we mean fantastic that that you think of the amount of power that is flowed through? Mr. Ryan's right. So the number of people have been served in 1970, dodge hollow Lake and Laval and woodland townships formed Lake redstone and Laval was created. So we talked a little bit about that last week. There aren't
Paul Volter:
9:20
many, they only naturally because Devil's Lake and all these others are
Rauel LaBreche:
9:24
manmade in some way. So and then we had some things happen in 1971. With anti war Vietnam War protesters. Imagine that I think there was a little bit of that going all around all over the country. So yeah, here in Wisconsin and happened as well. And then August Dearlove died in 1971, as well,
Paul Volter:
9:44
yeah, yeah. Born 1909. Here in Sauk. City was a prolific reader from an early age. In fact, he made three trips to the library every week and it'd save his money to buy books. Of course, that influenced the rest of his life. He became the writer of many books. In a you know, we all think of us for Walden west but he really wrote in a lot of genres including historical fiction poetry detective fiction science fiction biography, so
Rauel LaBreche:
10:10
yeah, Jack Burton was telling me at a trip Heritage Society how there were a series of sort of like Hardy Boys stories that he had written in in there he always talked about upper sac prairie and lower sac prairie and so there was a you know, a similarity to the the real towns right, I guess upper sac prairie was very de sac and lower sac prairie was Sauk. City in terms of recognition. So fascinating stuff when you think about all the different genres that he was able to not only write in his itself but himself, but he then he also was, was at HP Lovecraft that was really, his career was really burdened by all of this and right on it. Well, now moving right along 1972 County Board petitions just the state to build a bridge at Merrimack and we all
Paul Volter:
11:00
know what happened to that.
Rauel LaBreche:
11:02
They were not and you got a ferry. You don't need a bridge.
Paul Volter:
11:06
Right. We still have the ferry V which ended you know, the ferry is on the National Register of Historic Places. I did I actually had heard that. Yeah. Not not the vessel itself, but just the concept of the ferry
Rauel LaBreche:
11:19
is because it's been going for about right, right. I mean, I've seen that the pictures of it from early 1900s Where it's you know, three cars right horse you know, yeah thing going across. But and then let's see Island won't woollen mill dam was dynamited during its removal unbearable. So that is that this? That's the same old mill that yeah, they
Paul Volter:
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were headquartered out in the old office building. So in 73, the dam was removed, took a little bit of dynamite been built in 1911, I believe. Okay.
Rauel LaBreche:
11:49
So a little bit of a boom, right now. Okay. And then 1974 SINCLAIR hospital unbearable opened its ICU. Yeah, that's, you know, I don't know that we think about that very much. Take it for granted. Yeah, there was these intensive care units, paramedics and emergency medical. Just so many things have happened in our lifetimes that I you know, I think about my I remember my kids asked me about why didn't you just look it up on the computer dad?
Paul Volter:
12:14
Right. Those are called the encyclopedia back then. And they didn't have their hospital in there. Right.
Rauel LaBreche:
12:20
Exactly. 1975 Vietnam War ends at Sauk County soldiers died in that war. Right. And then actually, Berlin Mueller came in last week and we did another interview, he talks about the Badger Ordnance Works closing and they actually he they they did stay open, though in a ready status, right? For quite a while afterwards. In fact, they were doing a lot of engineering work that he was a part of. If you want to tune in listen to that interview, it's it's really actually pretty interesting to think about the the amount of work that they were going to do towards a potential new product line that they would be manufacturing there, but then it all kind of dried up and they will in other ways. So anyways, but then, let's see village apparent Merrimac installed water and sewer lines. Yay.
Paul Volter:
13:08
And 7670 I remember I think Lake Delton didn't install municipal water until the 90s. Really, everybody was on their own well, so getting something we take for granted again, but all these facilities and then
Rauel LaBreche:
13:21
77, the city of Baraboo received federal funds to buy the former island will woollen mill. So that then became
Paul Volter:
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game park parkland. And then when we when they did the building to us, they had to offset that that deed of gift for that land with some other parklands. So okay. So it all stayed the same, but
Rauel LaBreche:
13:41
why and then this is the one I've been leading up to. I've been waiting to talk about this because I've seen pictures of this actually, I have not heard of this. There. Were there. If you go to Maplewood nursing home in town here, there are pictures up and I think the newspaper article is reproduced as well. Of in August of 1977. An elephant got loose and entered the sock city nursing home doing a little bit of damage, right. Imagine that now what could an elephant do to nursing I
Paul Volter:
14:10
owe a lot and thank God nobody was hurt. Her name was Barbara she escaped from Carson and Barnes Circus which apparently the pair DESeq Fire Department I think brought into town for the day. Okay, and while they were setting up the tents it's unclear exactly what spooked her but she had a history of running off by the way. So she blasted out of that tent and ran about four miles through period of SAC and sock city. Through the literally through the neighborhood nursing home smashed through a window. Fortunately the occupant was out having lunch at the time and down the hall and eventually smashed away out another doorway. So the volunteer found this and I was like, I really did choose this April, April 1977. April 1, but no, it was true.
Rauel LaBreche:
14:54
Now I'm thinking maybe there was something special on the menu that day, like with peanuts or something They have to be a peanut butter sandwich. And I can see an elephant having a strong case for saying, hey there, give me the peanut butter sandwich or I'm not leaving. So well we're going to take a quick break to hear a word from our wonderful sponsors. But we'll don't go anywhere. We'll be right back with my special special guest here in our third segment of century of change. Paul Walter and I will be talking more about all the things that have happened in the last 2025 years from 1967 to 1992. So don't go anywhere here on any nine seven Max FM. It's just nuts to shop anywhere other than Macfarlanes. Your one stop True Value Hardware store power and hand tools paint, housewares cards and gift wrap small appliances, lawn and garden care grills and grill supplies, automotive repair and maintenance products, plumbing and electrical project supplies, and supplies. You get the idea get what you need in Macfarlanes True Value Hardware. It's all here under one big 200,000 square foot roof and Macfarlanes in Sauk. City one block south of highway 12 at 780. Carolina Street, and we're back here on 99 Seven Max FM boss. This is incredible. Thank you for listening, Scott O'Donnell and confirming that yet in fact, the Baraboo circus Museum, Scott says that they just they welcomed their 5 million guests in 2015. And he's guessing that now they're at 5.2 million. So that's pretty fantastic. We think about it. It really is. So 5.2 million people have trudged through there and looked at those exhibits and enjoyed the circus room world Museum and it's right here on our doorstep. Okay, so 1978 I graduated from high school. Yeah. And the berbil river flooded rock spring again. How many times does that happen? Yeah, it's
Paul Volter:
16:43
really hard to say. I mean, it's, it's, yeah, it's remarkable. The village is still there at all. But
Rauel LaBreche:
16:50
we had a friend of actually a gentleman that I know, one of his employees worked and had a house right along Rock Springs, one of the times it came through, flooded his entire basement. Basically all of its mechanicals had to replace I mean, just I can't think of you know how hard that has to be to recover.
Paul Volter:
17:05
Of course the next segment we'll talk about the big one in 2008 when when it flooded has the highest historical
Rauel LaBreche:
17:11
levels. Well then in 1979, Louisiana do foam house of tomorrow was constructed in Wisconsin the Zana do foam house
Paul Volter:
17:20
now the FOMO as of yesterday, it's gone but I remember this fine link because I was there a lot as a as a kid after it was built it was really cool. Okay, apparently started when somebody built their own foam house near the Dells and then Tom Gustl saw it and worked with that that person to say oh, we could build another one and make this an attraction so there's the help of a van we Charles van Lew offered the land near the bridge, they're going into the upper Dells, okay, that's where they cited it. And it was it was really pretty cool.
Rauel LaBreche:
17:54
And that was supposed to be a way that we would be constructing houses in the future. Yeah,
Paul Volter:
17:58
a way you know, it was obviously didn't catch on. Or we see them all over but yeah, it was it was literally built of high density foam which which we use use a lot now for spray insulation sure this was made out of that spray insulation, they have sort of a wire, they would actually actually would take a like a hot air balloon type, okay, balloon, and somehow blow that up and then from inside, spray that with the spray foam okay to about six inches thick and then when that was set, just peel the balloon off the next move it and this Susanna do is a series of kind of, like when soap bubbles when they kind of attach to each other and become, you know, connected.
Rauel LaBreche:
18:42
James geodesic foam building.
Paul Volter:
18:44
Yeah, it was it was really cool. The champagne, bad. I remember going through it they did an apple to E computer that ran everything in it was just, it was just the coolest thing that that computer could turn off and on the lights.
Rauel LaBreche:
19:00
Yeah, you know you nowadays we've got all our Wi Fi phones, our phones can turn off our house, right?
Paul Volter:
19:06
Well anywhere in the world anywhere in the world, indeed,
Rauel LaBreche:
19:09
than a 1980 The Sacani population is up to 43,004 69. So we're actually making some headway
Paul Volter:
19:15
we are after kind of lingering in the 30s 1000s for many decades where we made
Rauel LaBreche:
19:21
a big jump. So and the USDA forge research center open the 81 Perry printing opens and bear
Paul Volter:
19:28
huge plant and bear with us has different owners different names now but I'm still still printing printing away.
Rauel LaBreche:
19:35
Okay. So without printing has changed so yes, right. Right. I wonder if they're doing any 3d printing at Perry. Is that going to be there? No, no, that's becoming the new manufacturing method. I think ultimately 1982 Wisconsin dairies cooperative of bear blue is listed on the Fortune Magazine's list of 500 largest industrial organizations in the US. Yeah, and that's something
Paul Volter:
19:58
Yeah, sir. Great. Are you Agriculture and dairy heritage here
Rauel LaBreche:
20:01
but the cows must have really been just taking off with their manufacturing capability so for that to be the case and then also that year 82 which this is the year I graduated from college okay okay so I went right on got that degree right away just kind of kept going rolling while I was I was chopping up debt I figured I might as well keep going
Paul Volter:
20:20
oh what debt was there those days? Yeah comparatively job in the Dells in the summer right
Rauel LaBreche:
20:26
you take care of it. Yeah. So boom, boom, boom. So and then in 82 Baxter's hollow preserve doubled in size to become the largest Nature Conservancy private property in Wisconsin not
Paul Volter:
20:37
sure if that's still the case. Obviously the Nature Conservancy owns far more property in the bearable Hills nowadays. I think they're probably the largest landowner there maybe besides the state. But
Rauel LaBreche:
20:47
you know, shame on me. I don't know that have you been to Baxter? I
Paul Volter:
20:50
have. Yeah,
Rauel LaBreche:
20:51
I have not been up there. Yeah. Area is it so Whereabouts is it?
Paul Volter:
20:56
Well off of Highway 12 had kings corners there you go west you know just for your claim the bluff from Sauk Prairie side, turn west and then make a right in there somewhere and see
Rauel LaBreche:
21:07
I always played like I'm, I'm the dumbest person in the radio audience here. That way, I can ask the questions that they would want to ask if they were the dumbest, but you know, you can't beat me folks. I'm done. But hopefully then that helps people that are afraid to ask a question because they're like, Well, you've lived here for 39 years on Moodle know all there's so much
Paul Volter:
21:25
there's so much in our backyard that we don't go out and see. So, yeah,
Rauel LaBreche:
21:29
parfait is Glen Bray, and it's great right. Then in 1984, the Herot circus heritage marker is dedicated on the Courthouse Square in Baraboo as part of the Ringling centennial celebration, right
Paul Volter:
21:42
so the 84 was the 100th anniversary of the Ringling Brothers Circus starting unbearable. So they held a big celebration there was a big one of the big circus parades that you're the the circus parade was held unbearable. A part of that the north side of the square there is a kind of a rock retaining wall there and on top of it, they made put it set in metal markers and figurines and stuff celebrating bear booze, circus heritage and not just Ringling Brothers, but their cousin the Gomorra brothers and other smaller circuses that had some connection to barebone it's it's about half the length of the that side of the courthouse square. So it's quite a nice historical piece.
Rauel LaBreche:
22:24
Very, very, very wild. That's a I think of that too, that there was just a photography exhibit. I remember seeing a grant proposal come through for taking a bunch of photographs of the Ringling Brothers while the circus world situation I think and they were I don't know if they were trying to do something with the big parade as well. Okay, that was going to be such a rich heritage there that they were going to try to record and get some basically some drone footage okay about it looked like it would be a really neat project you know, yet another marker in the history of circus world museum. So and then another completely different side of the coin but having to do with animals again, as the International Crane Foundation moved to bear Boo in 1984. Yeah, this
Paul Volter:
23:10
should actually be moved a little farther from bear because when they have 84 is when they move to their facility that they're at now. Shady lane road, get started around 73. Okay, just in the north side of bear with the old Sally horse farm. Okay, fascinating story there between George Archibald, with a chance meeting with Ron so he at Cornell University and then coming up with the idea for ICF and where it is today is just amazing. All 15 species of crane in the world the only place you're gonna see all of them together. And the great work that they do around the world
Rauel LaBreche:
23:45
on there, consulted with by numerous countries agency, George Archibald
Paul Volter:
23:51
is always in some foreign country working to preserve crane habitat or sure something to do with well, and VCs aren't
Rauel LaBreche:
23:59
like in the Chinese culture. The cranes are a normal sub mythological bird. Yeah. In terms of the way that the revered. There's a really neat story to about, at least Moser tells about the recycling Millie's annual exam. Yeah. Oh, my goodness gracious. Now, I really am dumb. No, Millie's Antheil and how she was part of George Archibald, his entourage that went to Japan. Okay. And that's where she first got the idea for recycling. Because as they were doing there, yeah, she saw the little packages of things that I put out in the morning, right. And finally, after a couple of days asked what that was all about. And they were saying how they had kind of organized things into the different kinds of recyclables. So then she brought that information back and it turned into their plastics manufacturing or recycling as it is today with this symbol. She came up with that whole thing. But you know, it's a think of her being a representative. I mean, George Archibald obviously knew Millie's well enough to say you need to come along with us and help represent a spin off yeah, yeah, exactly. Exactly. Like kinda like Archie Bunker and a mod. Right, but much, much better for society overall. So, and then also machi valve came to purge second 1984 Did you? Do you know anything about that?
Paul Volter:
25:13
Well, just that, you know, it's the satellite facility from their main operation. But yeah, they were a big Wisconsin still are, I mean, a big Wisconsin outfit and making very precision type. You know, valves and I mean, some you don't think about valves or they're everywhere. Yeah, we have what, six of them around our heart or something.
Rauel LaBreche:
25:36
But they're always getting plugged up. Yeah,
Paul Volter:
25:39
they're making the one way for all different kinds of industries and fields. Yeah. So yeah,
Rauel LaBreche:
25:46
very much so. And I think they're one of the largest employers in the area, too. So thank goodness, they ended up coming to this area, right?
Paul Volter:
25:54
Yeah, exactly. Apparently, now. 100 probably over 175,000 square feet of floor space. This building is here.
Rauel LaBreche:
26:01
209. Okay, now, thankfully, I have that number in my head. One of those things, right? Well, also 1984 Of course, something that would be very important to those of us that are cheese curds. Holux are part of the herd herd. Herd. What is the curd herd? I think. So, the current herd would be Culvers opening. So George Culver, who was was Craig's dad had a little stand a hamburger stand that was a NW, stand at one point. In fact, that's I think that's part of why the, the root beer is so still so wonderful. They have great heritage there. But Culvers opened up their first full Culvers span. And you know, of course, the rest is butter burger history. Right?
Paul Volter:
26:42
Yeah. Over 600 stores now and probably half the states in the country. So my sister is still rooting for, you know, Western New York. Pennsylvania now but yeah, every time they get you know, to Indiana, or some of Ohio somewhere close, that's the first step is called verse.
Rauel LaBreche:
27:02
I wonder if there's a mean kind of a thing somewhere where they have like a contest for who has driven the further to get a call result right butter burger, right? So you can have like an odometer reading that you take first leave and then you get there. So Well, we're certainly happy to have culverts be a part of this community. And certainly the the amount of work that the culvert Foundation has done for the area. It's just a phenomenal thing when you think about it. Well and then in 1985, but December Blizzard paralyze the count. I don't remember that one. I would. Well, I wouldn't have been here yet. I would say Madison okay, but I wasn't here. Actually known at five. No, 85 I was out in LA. So no Blizzard there yet. We had an earthquake cert shortly after I left but right. I think we missed it. So then lower Wisconsin State revery was authorized by legislature in 1988. And 89, the Tri County the county board mandated recycling of solid waste. There you go. Thank goodness that happened. Right? Right. What if that hadn't happened in 89, how much solid waste for we have accumulated still blue. And then Kramer construction a plane attempted to open a court site black quarry at the lower narrows in 1989 1990. The county population is jumped up to 49,009 75. So we're up another 6000 people or so.
Paul Volter:
28:21
Right. And that's the same year that Sakana is officially 150 years old.
Rauel LaBreche:
28:26
I remember that. Yeah, so started in
Paul Volter:
28:29
set up as a separate unit in 1840s. county government didn't start until 1844 but was officially named and set out in 1840. So big year for us very,
Rauel LaBreche:
28:41
very big. And then in 1991 of the 1000 year old Native American garden beds at Holbert Creek were added to the National Register of Historic Places.
Paul Volter:
28:52
Now this is just outside the Dells and it's a great area where there are still intact these raised garden beds it kind of looks like you know and especially in the spring like just puddles in the woods and you're you know, kind of like what's that all about but these were where the Native Americans planted crops you know, anywhere from several 100 to 1000 years ago and made these little mounds and you know, very smartly let all that vegetable material rot down in the lower portions where the water was and then pull that up onto the garden beds as fertilizer and and keep the crops high and dry but still access that water that was in the in the ponds right next to it so
Rauel LaBreche:
29:33
interesting. So and there are there are actually remnants of that perfect
Paul Volter:
29:38
Yeah, yeah, it's still in the woods. But yeah, you can see all these here kinda like what who was digging around in here but yeah, it was all these all these kind of little ditches everywhere so interest and that's been excavated certain certain parts of an excavator and they're finding these antique or ancient grains and wow, seeds and whatnot. So yeah, get
Rauel LaBreche:
29:57
those shipped off to the seed bank right
Paul Volter:
29:59
one of Europe's Where were they keep Scandinavia somehow
Rauel LaBreche:
30:02
I saw something about that that the because of the climate things going on that they were having to consider moving some of the seeds because it right. They were they were seeing too much thawing going, I suppose so not a good situation no. Well that brings us right up to 1992 Doesn't it Marabu and Westberg boo explore consolidation. So probably
Paul Volter:
30:26
the same year the sock Perry and or sock city and Veritas thought about it again too. But that didn't happen. I
Rauel LaBreche:
30:32
can't remember that happening yet because I remember there being a big hullabaloo shortly after we moved into town we would have moved in in 1990. So so well we're we get we made it we're all the way to the end of the the next 25 year chunk of time, we're gonna take a quick break to hear another word from our sponsor. We'll be back in just a minute to give you a little inkling of what's happening in our last chapter of a century of change. Next week here on 99 Seven Max FM.
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Rauel LaBreche:
31:32
And we're back here on century of change. Thanks for joining us again this week in our third installment of the century of change. This week, we've been talking about 1967 through 1992. My guest as he has been for the past two weeks, and now we're in our third week. Paul, we're up at the top now we're going we're going downhill from here on. So I hope not in literal. Well, you know, I hope that's a good way so that we can pick up some speed here. So But Paul Walter are the executive director of the sock County Historical Museum has been with me and guiding me through this whole process. As we talk about the incredible number of changes, you know, and I have to mention to one of our listeners, Deke MacFarlane, who is a regular listener of the show, mentioned to me last week that I noted the different birthdays of the men of Macfarlanes that have been the three generations I've done. And I have forgotten to mention the women behind them. You know, behind every great man is a great woman, usually a great Roman. And, you know, there are the McFarland women that have been a part of the history to everything back to Alice McFarland, who was married to Earl MacFarlane. And then the Chuck was married to Ruby and Ruby actually still alive. Bob was married to verta verta is still alive. She's actually right, right along. Over in practice, actually, my mother in law lived together in the same apartment complex and visit nicely together regularly. And my mother in law says advert is the nicest person she's ever known. So I'm saying that verbatim, that is what she says. So I tried to get brownie points. So and then, of course, Jim and Lorna McFarlane, with Jim was Stan's dad. And but both Jim and Lorna, are deceased now, so. But that of course, you know, John, grew up in Mary Geralyn, who is again, one of the nicer people in the world and addict married Marilyn McFarlane in Maryland, and he have had several children and now grandchildren. In fact, I think all of them Macfarlanes have grandchildren except maybe Tom. So Tom married Margaret. Stan married, Cindy. I mean, there have been wonderful women throughout this course of the show in this time frame we've been talking about that have helped keep Macfarlanes going, yeah, pretty
Paul Volter:
33:49
amazing heritage. You know, I can think of, you know, you can think of some businesses have been around for more than 100 years, but in the same family. Yeah, that's pretty rare. Yeah. So yeah,
Rauel LaBreche:
33:59
to be able to keep going that strongly. And that, you know, with as many things Yeah. And so yeah, you know, and just the personalities, you know, a lot of families are ripped apart by trying to do business together. So, and that has not been the case here, thankfully, with God's blessings. So Well tune in next week, as we do our fourth and final installment with my guest, Paul Waldner, at the executive director of the Sauk County Historical Society, but next week, we're going to be talking about floods.
Paul Volter:
34:29
Yeah, like in the last 25 years, we keep having these floods of the century. We should
Rauel LaBreche:
34:33
probably start talking about Noah first and then you know, keep it all in perspective for what kind of flood were what magnitude if there's a Richter scale for floods,
Paul Volter:
34:43
so cover 93 2008
Rauel LaBreche:
34:46
And they just keep getting worse, which is the interesting thing, so and then some county increases and, you know, there there are lots of fun things to talk about. So hopefully, we might even have some interviews with some people that would be fun as well. So we hope you enjoyed This week's broadcasts and if you missed part of it, please feel free to go back to WR pq.com. And listen to the show in its entirety, as well as some of the special interviews we've done with folks throughout the time that we've been doing the show. So Jim Kirsch Dean is out there and in a full, about a half hour worth of recording and Verlin Mueller and I talked together for a while. There's some great information there as well that hopefully you find out all kinds of things that you didn't know about sock County and sock prairie and just find as interesting as I've been finding it. So thanks again for joining us here. We appreciate you taking the time out of your day to listen in our sponsors. Appreciate it too, because then you get to hear about the great services they have to offer. So come back next week, okay, and listen to the show, because we're going to wrap it up with a big bang, right. Hopefully not like the fireworks. Yeah, hopefully now the Big Bang, like the one that took down that dam. Right, right. Okay. Take care, folks. Thanks for joining us. Well, I hope you enjoyed this third installment of century of change. I hope you can join us to next week for the final segment 1993 through 2017. You know, it doesn't seem like that long ago, but a lot we take for granted today started then. It was another JAM PACKED time period. Incidentally, while we've been re airing shows from the archives, I've been working on Season Three a frame of reference, and it's shaping up nicely. Tune in next week for a bit of a preview of what's to come. And don't forget, if you have suggestions or questions, visit us at www.forsauk.com That's forsauk.com Stay well
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