Looking Back (2023)

Archives staff/volunteers/interns/guest historians put together a lot of great blogs in 2023; please take a moment to check out these local history topics by clicking on the blog titles or photos. Click below to navigtae to the following sections of this page.

People | Places | Society | Built Environment | Events

People

• The Candy Kid: La Crosse's Own Ed Konetchy

• Neighbors Making History: Ford Sterling

• Neighbors Making History: Charles Horton

• Neighbors Making History: Lorraine DeWood

• Neighbors Making History: Simon Markle

Places

• The Founding Sisters of St. Francis Hospital

• The Legacy of St. Francis Hospital

• La Crosse's Snow Bowl, or "The Alps of the Mississippi"

Society

• Birth Control Providers and Limitations in 1930s Wisconsin

• La Crosse YMCA: The First 140 Years

• The Tillman Bros.: Cabinet Makers, Undertakers, and... Weathermen?

• History of the American Legion Roy L. Vingers Post 52

• The La Crosse Housing Authority, 1946-1985

• John Gund's Empire

 

Built Environment

• Port-A-Potties are Really Mobile Outhouses

• Stinkytown and the Flies

• The Oldest Extant House in La Crosse

• Architecture Styles and Revivals: Overview

• Architecture Styles and Revivals: The Greek and Roman Revivals

• Architecture Styles and Revivals: The Gothic Revival

• Architecture Styles and Revivals: The Exotic Revival

Events

• Hmong Diaspora Exhibit

• 1932 George Washington Bicentennial Celebration

• Surf's Up! The Beach Boys in La Crosse