Manitowoc and Two Rivers – From Ship to Shore
In this episode of Discover Wisconsin, Mariah and Eric explore the wonders of Manitowoc and Two Rivers from sunken ship to stunning shore. Eric begins by learning about the history and industry of the rivers that flow through Manitowoc and Two Rivers. After exploring the Rogers Street Fishing Village in Two Rivers, he heads to Burger Boat Company to see what the historic company is up to today. He also meets up with some kayakers to do some paddling on the Manitowoc River.
Both the Manitowoc River and the East and West Twin Rivers eventually flow into Lake Michigan, which offers beauty and exploration above and below the surface. At the Wisconsin Maritime Museum in Manitowoc, Mariah talks with a marine archaeologist about the shipwrecks in the area, and the different ways visitors can learn about, and access the wrecks. She also joins a group of standup paddle boarders at the Manitowoc Marina and takes in an amazing view of the city from the water.
Back on land, Eric explores the Historic Washington House in Two Rivers, and learns how to make the perfect ice cream sundae in the city where it was invented. We also get to know local producers at Pine River Dairy, who have been manufacturing butter in the area for more than 75 years. Eric then heads to Manitowoc’s Pinecrest Historical Village for their annual Pinecrest Plates event, which brings in local farmers and fantastic food for people to enjoy.
And you can’t visit Manitowoc and Two Rivers without spending time on the coast. Mariah flies a kite on the pristine Neshotah Beach in Two Rivers, wanders the beautiful grounds of West of the Lake Gardens, and goes bird watching at Woodland Dunes Nature Preserve. There is so much beauty to be experienced in Manitowoc and Two Rivers and countless ways to do it – from ship to shore!
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Around the Corner with John McGivern | Program | Manitowoc (#711)
[Latest Airdate: July 5, 2018]
[Original Airdate: March 8, 2018]
Manitowoc is a city on the eastern shore of Wisconsin, north of Sheboygan and south of Green Bay that John McGivern LOVES! No, we mean it.
Visits to the Wisconsin Maritime Museum and exploration of the SS Badger were the beginning of his enchantment. Then he was introduced to beach glass, reminisced with an Evergleam Christmas tree collector, and explored Jagemann Stamping and Briess Malt and Ingredients Co. He had a Diet Coke with Kathie at the Stage Door Pub, made a belt at Leatherwerks and checked in to Dead by Dawn --- not sure that he would ever check out! But the cherry on the top was provided by Beerntsen's Confectionary and Cedar Crest Ice Cream! Yum! What's not to love?
Fair warning to those in Manitowoc: Don't be surprised if some day there's a Manitowoc mailbox with John's name on it. By being so inviting, you asked for it, Manitowoc!
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Lake Michigan from Silver Creek Park, Manitowoc Wisconsin
Lake Michigan from Silver Creek Park, Manitowoc Wisconsin
A Walk Around Manitowoc - My Hometown
I can remember my mom taking me downtown on a Friday night or a weekend night back in the late 50's-early 60's, and the downtown was like Bedford Falls from It's A Wonderful Life or Santa Rosa from Hitchcock's Shadow Of A Doubt. A bustling downtown, with buses packed and crowded streets filled with townies burning holes in their pockets with Friday paychecks. At Christmas time the streets would all be lit up and decked out. It seemed like everyone went to church on Sundays or be considered an outcast. The top amount of tax dollars went into education, and I think it probably still does from the look of the schools. The Lake Michigan Car-ferry still comes in twice a day. When I lived there, several car ferries came in each day. Now its more of a tourist boat than an actual working train-car ferry shortening the trip around Lake Michigan. Ships are still made there but mostly Luxury yachts from Burger Boats. Now... the ship yards are making huge sky wind mills. The Aluminum company left town (they shall go nameless) in search of cheaper labor in Mexico. Large Cranes and hotel refrigerators are still made there, and I will come upon in my travels all over the world that reminds me of where I came and who I am. The Manitowoc I grew up with is slowly disappearing and being replaced by a new Manitowoc, mostly out by the freeway. I am almost positive old downtown Manitowoc will one day see another heyday. But as for now, commerce is out on the fringe of the city limits.
This film is about capturing that old Manitowoc before it's gone and something new takes its place. And it will, and its all good.
Manitowoc was a great place to grow up in.
Food in the Garden 2014: The Great Lakes
The Great Lakes region was integral to the War of 1812, a front for several naval and land conflicts such as the assaults on Ft. Meigs and the Battle of Put-in-Bay. Once referred to as the Eden of the West, the Great Lakes region included hundreds of miles of untamed wilderness, rolling rivers, and dense forest encompassing modern day New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan. The region was home to the Chippewa, Ottawa, and Iroquois tribes, who valued the waterways as a means of life. With the increasing demand for elbow room, European-Americans began to extend their reach westward into relatively unfamiliar territory with the hope of thriving off of abundant, fertile land. With them came exotic and—in some cases—invasive species never before seen in the region such as apples, peaches, swine, and other fare that would come to define the region. How did the introductions of new plant and animal species affect the cultural foodways of the people who lived there and continue to live in the region today?
200 years later, this region is the cultural center of the Midwest with over 32 million people living along the lakes. Although early settlements have come and gone, many heirloom seeds native to this region have stood the test of time and there is an ever-present effort to preserve them, not only for consumption but for their cultural significant as well.
Panelists: Jodi Branton, National Museum of American Indian; Rick Finch, interim director of the Glenn Miller Birth Place Museum and former site manager of Fort Meigs: Ohio’s War of 1812 Battleground; and Tim Rose, geologist at the National Museum of Natural History and cider maker with Distillery Lane.
National Museum of American History, September 18, 2014
HmongWisdom : Beautiful Wild Flowers in Wisconsin ( Hmong / Hmoob Nature )
Wildlife Nature: Beautiful Wild Flowers Blooming in the summer time at Franklin Woods Nature, Produced by Dr. Douglas Vuechue Doua Vue. ( Nature / Wildlife / Flowers / Summer / Paj / Beautiful Flowers )
Fat Bike Beach Ride - Empire, Michigan
Fat bike beach ride from the Empire Village Beach to the Sleeping Bear Dune. At about 4.5 miles north of Empire the beach became too rocky to ride and I had to turn around. Along the way I pass the North Bar Lake outlet and bottom of the Lake Michigan Overlook on the Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive.
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Chase Waterfalls at Willow River State Park
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Fonferek Falls - Green Bay, Wisconsin
Behind the frozen falls
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Outdoor Wisconsin | Program | #2822
[Original Airdate: June 7, 2012]
Dan Small fishes for walleyes and saugers on Lake Pepin near Redwing, Minn. with pro-angler Glenn Vinton. Deb Wolniak visits the gardens at The American Club in Kohler for a tour or the gardens, and learns about the design and history of the gardens and how they became what they are today. Judy Nugent learns how to identify and control the invasive species, garlic mustard, from Marci West.
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Maribel Caves Park Tartarus Cave
On 6/12/08 most of Manitowoc County received in the range of 4-5 inches of rain in about a three hour span of time. This video of water flowing out of Tartarus is from 6/13/08 in the afternoon. Water flowing out of Tartarus is rare sight to see these days since the current water table is much lower now!
Mini van sized meteor caught on camera
A METEOR the size of a mini-van has been captured on camera across the midwest skies of the US.
The fireball was recorded on a US police officer’s dashcam as it shot through the sky.
The meteor appeared at around 1.25am Monday over Lisle, Illinois, and was seen by hundreds of people before landing in Lake Michigan, according to reports.
Lisle police officer James Dexter was on routine patrol near Interstate 88 when he saw “a giant green-lighted orb” streaking across the sky, The Chicago Tribune reported.
He made sure his dash camera had captured the fireball, then told other officers on patrol.
“It looked like the beginning and then the end of a firework that doesn’t explode. It was just a large, green orb that suddenly appeared with a trail, and then it flashed out, and then it disappeared in a streak across the sky,” Mr Dexter said.
American Meteor Society operations manager Mike Hankey said the rock was the size of a mini-van and was travelling at a speed of about 72,000km/h.
The American Meteor Society, which monitors meteor showers, said it had received more than 380 reports of sightings Monday.
“The fireball was seen primarily from Illinois and Wisconsin, but witnesses from Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Iowa, New York, Kentucky, Minnesota and Ontario (Canada) also reported the event,” the society said on its website.
The society said preliminary information from witness reports suggested the meteor ended its flight in Lake Michigan between the shores of Sheboygan and Manitowoc, Wisconsin.
Around the Corner with John McGivern | Program | Delavan (#607)
[Latest Airdate: November 9, 2017]
[Original Airdate: February 16, 2017]
Delavan is completely unique, especially for the Around the Corner crew. This the only downtown we've ever been to that is defined by brick streets, a water tower and circus statues. Delevan is home to our only cookie jar museum, the one and only Bradley's department store and the only company we've been to that produces tubes used to artificially inseminate poultry and cattle. In Wisconsin, this is home to the only school for the deaf and the largest percentage of Latinos. For John, only Delavan will be remembered as the place that provided his craziest interviewee and his shortest... (Lois Stritt, you're the short one. Rafael Hernandez, you're the crazy one, but you both already knew that, right?) Yep. Only in Delavan. And we loved it!
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#12, Part 1,...Stute Springs & Homestead!, Kettle Moraine State Forest!
This is Part 1, This is the hike beginning from the roadway parking area to the actual remnants of the Stute Family Homestead dating back to the 1800's
Part 1 is basically focused on the old hometead site. Due to time restraints,...I'll have to present this in 2 parts. Part 2 will be the hike from the homestead site up to Big Hill as it was called by the local people! Sunday was a day of rest, When friends & relatives would visit the Stute family. They would take them on a walk to the top of Big Hill With an elevation of 1050 feet & covered with hardwood trees that towers above the cropland valley below. On this trek to the Big Hill, I'll be showing footage of some of the farm land that was used to raise crops!
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Sonoma Creek Enhancement - digging new channels
Work is underway creating new channels to allow water to flow in and out of the Sonoma Creek project.