Author: Lee Matz

During a historic year for sports in Milwaukee, the Milwaukee County Historical Society unveiled its 2018 feature exhibition, “Back Yard to Big Leagues: Milwaukee’s Sports and Recreation History.” Exploring Milwaukee’s exciting and extensive sports and recreation history, the exhibit will be on display until April 27, with a smaller version through the summer. “With the Bucks coming up on their 50th anniversary and opening the new Arena, and both the Brewers and Admirals also approaching their 50th anniversaries, we decided to do a comprehensive look at sports and recreation,” said Ben Barbera, Curator at the Milwaukee County Historical Society....

The Women’s March Anniversary Day of Action was held in Milwaukee on January 20, highlighting the work that women of color have made over the past year in creating transformative social change in the city. The 2017 Women’s March was the largest single-day protest in U.S. history. The event was in protest to the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States, and took place a day after his inauguration. On its Second Anniversary, local women joined their sisters again around the nation and the world. Thousands gathered at the Milwaukee rally in downtown, and later marched...

“All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.” – Edmund Burke Hundreds of area residents attended the 34th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Celebration at Uihlein Hall of the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts on January 14. Milwaukee and Atlanta are the only cities to have celebrated Dr. King’s Birthday annually since 1984. “The theme for this year is ‘Take a Stand for Truth and Justice.’ These words were spoken by Dr. King in 1967, and they are certainly timeless,” said Paul Mathews, President and CEO of the Marcus Center....

Throngs of people dashed over the icy shore of Lake Michigan to dive into its frigid waters on January 1, brushing aside historically low temperatures. A number of East Coast cities canceled their Polar Bear Plunges, including Kenosha and Chicago closer to home, due to an Arctic weather blast. The freezing temperatures, hovering at 1° by noon in Milwaukee with a windchill of -14°, did not stop area residents from participating in the annual Bradford Beach event. Hundreds of people stood along the ice encrusted coastline to cheer along those making the plunge, who afterwards sought heat from the...

“The Soldiers Home is critical to understanding Wisconsin’s important place at the beginning of veteran patient care. This project is about more than preserving the brick and mortar of buildings, it’s about renewing the legacy of these buildings and returning them to the veterans who they were uniquely designed to serve.” – Jim Draeger, Wisconsin State Historic Preservation Office Alderman Michael J. Murphy, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, and developer Kalan Haywood were among the coalition participants at a special press announcement on December 6, where the first part of a $600,000 grant was handed out for the restoration of...