Category: Picture of the Day

Picture of the Day for August 29, 2022

Children have started to make their return for the new school year, but not too many will have their lessons taught in a one-room schoolhouse. This schoolhouse was built in 1915 for the Fairview school district in the Town of Tripp, Bayfield County, Wisconsin. In 1952 it was moved to the Port Wing to serve as the music room for the old South Shore School until that school was replaced by a new building. The Fairview school then traveled a few blocks and served as a law office. It made a fourth move in 2016, more than a 100 years after being built, to the Oulu Heritage Center where it now serves again as a one-room school for classes in the summer.

Fairview Schoolhouse

Fairview Schoolhouse

Picture of the Day for August 24, 2022

Even on a cloudy day with a brief rain shower, it is always a fun time to visit a lighthouse, although you might not want to be riding top side of the boat in the rain. After a three year delay in getting the third order lens from the Paris, the Devils Island Light was finally lit on the new 82 foot tall steel cylinder in 1901. External braces were added in 1914 as high winds at the exposed location caused enough motion of the tower to extinguished the lamp so more support was needed.

Devils Island Light

Devils Island Light

Picture of the Day for August 21, 2022

People might take a boat ride on a nice Sunday summer afternoon around the Apostle Islands in Wisconsin, including Long Island even though it is no longer an island, but is now part of a peninsula that stretches nearly eight miles out into Lake Superior, creating a natural breakwater for Chequamegon Bay. At the end of Long Island is the Chequamegon Point Lighthouse, which is a  square, white steel room sitting on steel legs and is topped by an octagonal lantern with a red roof that was first lit in 1897.

Chequamegon Point Lighthouse

Chequamegon Point Lighthouse

Picture of the Day for August 20, 2022

The hippodrome was an ancient Greek stadium for horse racing and chariot racing. But under the roof of the hippodrome at Circus World in Baraboo, Wisconsin, the race was moving from various musical instruments to play a musical medley called “Stairway to Gilligan’s Island”. Some of the novelty instruments include a pneumatic air calliope used on Barnum & Bailey Circus, Deagan Organ Chimes, rub chimes, sleigh bells, Deagan Una Fon, Gavioli Band Organ, as well as bottles and bells.

Circus World Music Show

Circus World Music Show