At the REMEMBRANCE SITE, Silver Lake Cemetery, Cemetery Road off West Wisconsin Street (Hwy. 16) Bring your own seating and bug spray.
Saturday Aug 20, 2011
Various places throughout Portage, WI
Contact Jeff Grothman: 608-742-2228 (daytime) 608-742-2946(evening)
2011 Cemetery Self-Guided Tour (bus ride available)
Sociey Hill District - visit Zona Gale study, rose garden and museum exhibits
Two exciting presentations of Civil War Remembrances!
Date and Time
Location
Contact Information
Zona Gale Celebrates Friendship Village
10am – Noon
Welcome: Jeff Grothman, Program Director
Kelly Daniel Bleich, Randolph ... educator, poet, conservationist, musician, Zona Gale and Aldo Leopold enthusiast, artist
Museum at the Portage, Peggy Amend, President, Portage Historical Society
Women’s Civic League - Welcome
At the U.S. Post Office, 215 West Conant Street
9am-Noon
The 2010 Zona Gale commemorative design will be hand-stamped on envelopes and cards brought in. Design by George Staudenmayer.
At the Museum at the Portage, 804 MacFarlane Road
10am – 4pm
Zona Gale home (1928-1938) listed on National Register of Historic Places,
1:30 pm
Civil War in Song, Presentation by Robert O'Halloran
2:30 pm
Civil War Battlefields - Where Portage Regiments fought, Presentation by Michael Stewart
At the Women’s Civic League Clubhouse, 506 West Edgewater
2pm-4pm
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.
Zona Gale Celebrates Friendship Villa...
Saturday, August 20th