There were many changes to Beaver Dam High School after voters passed a 2016 referendum to renovate the school, but one item that thousands of students have passed by over the years has now returned to the school. A painting of John F. Kennedy that was donated to the school after the presidentâs assassination in…
A painting thatâs more than 100 years old and once hung in a Kimmswick restaurant before being stored in various buildings around the river town has found a home. The piece, called âEarly Days on the Mississippi River,â is now hanging in the Kimmswick Historical Society museum, 6000 Third Ave. It was painted in 1914…
While the Vanderbilts of the Gilded Age are best known for expertise in railroads and social climbing, they aren’t often credited for their contributions to design. Terrazzo flooring—a Venetian technique of tossing chipped marble, granite, glass, or quartz in a cement binder that is later ground and polished—became fashionable in the United States after the…
