The Queen of Folk Art and the Deep Sea Diver
Pictured above are Max and Mary Nohl in 1919, long before he became a legendary salvage diver, undersea adventurer and the inventor of SCUBA, and long bfore she became a noted folk artist…
The Hawksian Woman
Rosalind Russell, Lauren Bacall and Katherine Hepburn epitomized the tough, self reliant women
seen in the films of Director Howard Hawks. What few people knew was that they were all portraying a version of Howard's Mother, Helen Hawks. It all started in Neenah, Wisconsin...
The First Autos and Auto Races on the Planet
Wisconsin sponsored and hosted the first auto race in history. It’s also the home of the first auto in the world, the first combustible engine and the professional racetrack in the USA.
QWERTY and the invention of the Typewriter
Lillian Sholes of Milwaukee became the world’s first professional typist.
