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Rob Novak, coordinator at Old World Wisconsin’s new Brewing Experience and Brewhouse, transfers boiling hops into a strainer that drains into a copper trough called a coolship. Brewing at the new facility, which opened in June near Eagle, is done over a fire with beer fermented in wooden half-barrels.
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Chalet Cheese Cooperative north of Monroe is the only plant in the U.S. that makes Limburger cheese. The co-op, established in 1885, annually makes about 100,000 pounds of the cheese, known for its pungent smell but creamy texture.
Randy Lincoln, who built an illuminated clock for the front his barn, looks on as State Journal photographer John Hart takes a picture of the clock. Located in the Jefferson County hamlet of Kroghville, the clock was built from scratch and keeps accurate time.
Seen here in June, Nick DePerry shovels fresh ice into a tub filled with whitefish caught just hours before on Lake Superior. After fish arrive at Red Cliff Fish Co. in Bayfield County, they are weighed without ice then covered in new ice before being filleted or cut into chunks. The facility, owned by the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, can process thousands of pounds of fish a week.
Shane Wyzlic lives in far northern Wisconsin and has taken two trips to help the people of Ukraine. This backpack he used for his personal items includes patches from the Ukraine Army, left, and Ukraine Special Forces. His work included shuttling medical supplies into Ukraine and bringing refugees into Poland.
Mary Burns, who lives just south of Mercer, has used a high-tech loom to create dramatic images of women who have advocated for and protected water. Upper left is Monica Lewis-Patrick of Detroit, who is known throughout the environmental justice community as "The Water Warrior" for actively engaging in the struggle for access to safe, affordable water for under-resourced communities.
Sister Priscilla Wood, director of the Office of Arts and Cultural Heritage at Sinsinawa Mound Center, is seen here in July in the 500-seat Queen of the Rosary Chapel. Located in the rotunda constructed in 1964, the building also includes a 500-seat auditorium and two museums, and is among the properties the sisters want to sell.
Sandhill cranes settle in for the night in the shallows of the Wisconsin River in early November just yards from Aldo Leopold's famed shack near Baraboo.
Margot Peters spent a lifetime reading and writing. The Lake Mills author surrounded herself in her final days at Rainbow Hospice Care in Johnson Creek with some of her favorite books. Peters died in June. She was 89.
In May, visitors used a telescope installed in 1879 to see the star Arcturus during one of the free public observing days at Washburn Observatory at UW-Madison. The observatory had been closed since the pandemic, but began hosting events earlier this year.
General Washburn's Escape Alley winds through downtown Memphis, Tennessee, and in 2019 part of it was painted with murals. This section of alley is also used by the Rendezvous, a nearby barbecue restaurant, for outdoor seating in cooler months. Washburn served in Memphis during the Civil War, but would go on to become the governor of Wisconsin.
Photos: The On Wisconsin images of 2022
A pair of bald eagles fly over the Wisconsin River in Prairie du Sac last week. The river attracts hundreds of eagles from around the state who use the open water to feed.
Pete Schlicht, left, and Jeb Barzen watch for bald eagles at Black Hawk Bluff, an eagle roosting site just outside of Prairie du Sac.
Jason Mathe, 28, of Oshkosh, crosses a metal bridge Wednesday that had just been installed to span an expansion crack on the west side of Lake Winnebago near Oshkosh. Christmas trees are used to help those traveling on the ice easily find the bridges, which can be moved frequently by fishing clubs around the lake as conditions constantly change.
Eddie Bryant, general manager at the 300 Club in Green Lake, shows the inner workings of one of 12 string pin-setting machines at the bowling center.
Photographer Alessandra Sanguinetti at the Humbird Hotel Bar & Grill. She's been coming to Wisconsin since 2014.
Alessandra Sanguinetti approaches the Big Street Bar & Grill while pursuing photo possibilities in Humbird, a small rural community about 20 miles north of Black River Falls.
America’s Black Holocaust Museum is on the ground level of a new mixed-use building at the corner of West North and Vel R. Phillips avenues and is helping revive Milwaukee's Bronzeville neighborhood.
One of the exhibits at America’s Black Holocaust Museum includes displays about slave ships. Other exhibits focus on Jim Crow, reconstruction, Africa and the civil rights movement.
In this image taken from the Wolf River Cam in Shiocton, a walleye swims past the lens of one of the cameras that livestreams migrations of fish. Every species in the river eventually makes an appearance on the camera including, later this month, monstrous sturgeon.
The crowds grew quickly at Saturday's Dane County Farmers' Market on Capitol Square. The market had been held since April 2020 at the Alliant Energy Center.
Amos Mayberry of Snug Haven Farm near Paoli had a pile of carrots to sell Saturday at the Dane County Farmers Market.
Shane Wyzlic lives in far northern Wisconsin and has taken two trips to help the people of Ukraine. This backpack he used for his personal items includes patches from the Ukraine Army, left, and Ukraine Special Forces. His work included shuttling medical supplies into Ukraine and bringing refugees into Poland.
Visitors use a telescope, that was installed in 1879, to see the star Arcturus during one of the free public observing days at Washburn Observatory at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wis., Wednesday, May 18, 2022. AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL
Eric Barber and daughter Madeleine, 5, look through the historic telescope that was installed in 1879 at Washburn Observatory. Free public viewing sessions will be held beginning at dusk every Wednesday during June, July and August.
Visitors at Washburn Observatory take in the views from a balcony around the dome as they wait for the sky to darken Wednesday.
Historian Robert Montgomery stands in General Washburn's Escape Alley in downtown Memphis, Tennessee. Gen. Cadwallader C. Washburn, who commanded Union troops in the city, escaped the Confederate army through the alley in 1864 during the Civil War, eight years before being elected Wisconsin's 11th governor.
Timm Zumm, president the Friends of the Lower Wisconsin Riverway, explores the river with his dog, Bowie, near Spring Green. A study has found more than half a dozen Wisconsin rivers, including the Lower Wisconsin, could become suitable habitat for invasive carp if climate change is not slowed.
Eric Snyder, crane program associate for the Aldo Leopold Foundation, watches migrating sandhill cranes from a blind along the Wisconsin River. Sandhill cranes gather on this stretch of the river north of Baraboo each fall and are attracted by the shallow water, sandbars and adjacent farm fields.
Sandhill cranes settle in for the night in the shallows of the Wisconsin River just yards from Aldo Leopold's famed shack near Baraboo.
Rob Novak, brewmaster at Old World Wisconsin’s new Brewing Experience and Brewhouse, works inside the new attraction at the cultural history site in Eagle, Wis. Tuesday, June 7, 2022. JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
Rob Novak, brewmaster at Old World Wisconsin’s new Brewing Experience and Brewhouse, works inside the new attraction at the cultural history site in Eagle, Wis. Tuesday, June 7, 2022. JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
Margot Peters spent a lifetime reading and writing. The Lake Mills author surrounded herself in her final days at Rainbow Hospice Care in Johnson Creek with some of her favorite books. Peters died Saturday. She was 89.
Zaitun Eid, of Virginia, takes in “Soul of the River,” an outdoor photo exhibit on the Wisconsin Dells river walk. The images, created by Wisconsin Dells native and professional photographer Joseph Leute, tell the story of the local people and their relationship with the Wisconsin River.
Peter Baker, a longtime resident of the community of Lake Ivanhoe in Walworth County, walks along the shoreline of the lake he first visited as a 10-year-old in 1965. Founded in 1926 as a resort by African American residents from Chicago, the development, no longer a resort, is now a collection of about 60 homes. On Saturday, the property’s past was recognized with the installation of a marker from the Wisconsin Historical Society.
One of the spiders used in "The Giant Spider Invasion," a movie produced in central Wisconsin, is the centerpiece of a new exhibit at the Merrill Historical Society. Bill Rebane, right, directed the movie, and Brandon Johnson, left, is curator of the exhibit that opened Saturday and is scheduled to run for the next year.
Aliens ride a flying saucer carried by a tractor Saturday in the annual UFO Day parade in Belleville. An estimated 2,000 people gathered along West Main Street to watch the event that began in 1987 after mysterious lights were spotted west of the village.
Randy Lincoln rarely stops tinkering. He not only built and installed this clock on his barn, but he also restores cars, has built guitars, plays drums in a band and is known to scour the land at times with a metal detector.
Unimpressed with barn quilts, Randy Lincoln built his own clock, which he installed on the front of his 112-year-old barn in western Jefferson County. He is seen here tinkering on the clock via a platform he constructed in the barn's hayloft.
The mechanical components of a clock built for $400 and installed by Randy Lincoln keep time at Lincoln’s property in Kroghville.
Bartender Mike Scheffer pages through a high school year book at the Big Street Bar & Grill in Humbird as Alessandra Sanguinetti frames an image inside the establishment of a bison mount above the front door.
Nick DePerry shovels fresh ice into a tub filled with whitefish caught just hours before on Lake Superior. After fish arrive at Red Cliff Fish Company they are weighed without ice, then covered in new ice before being filleted or cut into chunks. The facility at this time of the year processes between 10,000 and 15,000 pounds of fish per week.
Joe Newago Jr., left, loads freshly caught lake trout and whitefish from his boat in Bayfield into his pickup truck along with crew member Tim Opatik.
Tim Opatik helps guide the Mackenzie May into the Bodin Dock in Bayfield last month. The boat had been fishing between Madeline and Michigan islands and harvested around 700 pounds of whitefish and lake trout.
Sister Priscilla Wood, director of the Office of Arts and Cultural Heritage at Sinsinawa Mound Center, in the 500-seat Queen of the Rosary Chapel. Located in the Rotunda constructed in 1964, the building also includes a 500-seat auditorium and two museums.
Working to the secure future of the Dominican Sisters of Sinsinawa and the order’s home at Sinsinawa Mound Center, Sister Quincy Howard, an urban planner, pauses in the resting place of members who’ve died since its founding in 1847. With few women entering the congregation, Sinsinawa is being downsized.
Three buildings totaling more than 300,000 square feet are being sold at Sinsinawa, in southwestern Grant County. If the buildings are not sold to a buyer that aligns with the Dominican mission, they will be removed. About 110 people live and work on the 450-acre campus, but by 2023 that number will be reduced to about 30.
Stained glass windows rim the Queen of the Rosary Chapel on the campus of the Sinsinawa Mound Center.
For the purposes of his book, John Bates searched for lakes that were at least 30 acres and surrounded by publicly owned land. However, some, like Sandy Beach Lake in Iron County, included a boat ramp, beach and campground.
John Bates lives just south of Mercer along the Manitowish River. For many of his trips in search of wild lakes, which included multiple portages, he used this 21-pound Kevlar canoe.
John Bates spent nearly four years exploring northern Wisconsin in search of wild lakes. The result is this 240-page book published in late 2021 by Manitowish River Press.
Mary Burns is hoping to create 30 images of women who have advocated for and protected water. Upper left is Monica Lewis-Patrick of Detroit, who is known throughout the environmental justice community as "The Water Warrior" for actively engaging in the struggle for access to safe, affordable water for under-resourced communities.
Mary Burns, seen here in her Manitowish River studio near Mercer, explains the process of a jacquard loom, which can help her create detailed weavings with only a few colors of thread.
Dave Ferron, a commercial real estate broker with Cushman & Wakefield Boerke, explores the signature rotating bar of The Gobbler Theater in Johnson Creek. Constructed in 1969, the former supper club underwent a more than $2.4 million renovation to transform the building into a music venue. The property is now for sale after its owner died.
A mural painted in one of the signature windows of the Gobbler Theater echoes its performance history in Johnson Creek.
The Gobbler Theater in Johnson Creek opened in 1969 as the Gobbler Supper Club, a restaurant and nightclub that drew customers from around the region. The building was designed by famed architect Helmut Ajango.
The remodel of the former Gobbler Supper Club added a stage and high-end sound and light systems. The venue drew well-known country acts from around the country, but the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2021 death of owner Dan Manesis forced the business to close. It's now for sale for $1.6 million.
At Muddy Waters Bar & Grill in Shiocton, customers can watch Milwaukee Brewers baseball or the livestream of migrating fish in the Wolf River. For the past 14 years, Wolf River Cam has been using multiple underwater cameras to capture the action on the river that at this time of the year features spawning walleye and sucker. In a few weeks, sturgeon will begin their migration.
Rob Novak, coordinator at Old World Wisconsin’s new Brewing Experience and Brewhouse, transfers boiling hops into a strainer that drains into a copper trough called a coolship. Brewing at the new facility that opens Wednesday near Eagle is done over a fire with beer fermented in wooden half-barrels.
Barry Adams covers regional news for the Wisconsin State Journal. Send him ideas for On Wisconsin at 608-252-6148 or by email at badams@madison.com.
