21st Annual Zona Gale Celebration Friendship Village "A Celebration of Peace, Friendship and Community History"
Saturday Aug 18, 2012
Various places throughout Portage, WI
Contact Jeff Grothman: 608-742-2228 (daytime) 608-742-2946(evening)
10AM - At the REMEMBRANCE SITE, Silver Lake Cemetery, Cemetery Road off West Wisconsin Street (Hwy. 16) Bring your own seating and bug spray.
- Museum at the Portage, Peggy Amend President
- Canal Society - Gil Meisgeier
- Women's Civic League - Nancy Beasley
- other community updates
- 2012 cemetery history
9am - Noon at U.S. Post Office
The Zona Gale commemorative design will be hand-stamped on envelopes and cards brought in.
Sociey Hill District - visit Zona Gale study, rose garden and museum exhibits
100th Anniversary of Building.
Rain Location for Saturday Morning: Portage Public LibraryDate and Time
10 a.m. - Noon: Remembrance Site, Silver Lake Cemetery.
9 a.m. - Noon: U.S. Post Office
Noon - 4 p.m.: Museum at the Portage
2 p.m. - 4 p.m.: Women's Civic League ClubhouseLocation
Contact Information
Zona Gale Celebrates Friendship Village
Welcome: Jeff Grothman, Program Director
- Kelly Daniel Bleich, Randolph ... educator, poet, conservationist, musician, Zona Gale and Aldo Leopold enthusiast, artist.
- Remembering Friends
Noon- 4pm at the Museum at the Portage, 804 MacFarlane Road
Zona Gale home (1928-1938) listed on National Register of Historic Places,
2pm-4pm at the Women’s Civic League Clubhouse, 506 West Edgewater
Zona Gale home (1906-1928) listed on National Register of Historic Places. Free guided tours. Pie and ice cream on shaded lawn along Wisconsin River. Minimal charge. Music by Santas Brothers.
Zona Gale Celebrates Friendship Villa...
Saturday, August 18
Rain Location for Saturday Morning: Portage Public Library