Oostburg is a small Dutch settlement founded in the 1840's. There were more than a few little Dutch kids and windmills scattered around town.
One of Tom Every's masterpieces, "Isis", graced the corner of the Michael Kohler Center for the Arts property. Also on the property is the facade for the old Sheboygan Public Library which was a gift from Andrew Carnegie. I've noticed plaques saying the library was dedicated by Carnegie on quite a few libraries in Wisconsin.
Another architecturally related surprise was this chimney sweep in the downtown area.
On County V just outside Kohler-Andrae heading toward Sheboygan stands this handsome fellow. When I stopped to take his picture the neighboring dachshund waddled over to make friends with me. A little further down the road is a series of panels on someone's yard fence that still has me scratching my head. I just can't see the connections. Perhaps it's as simple as "I like Keystone Cop movies and Viking tales". Any interpretations?
Well, I don't know what it means, but that second panel is just creepy.
ReplyDeleteThat's a great array of finds around Wisconsin. It's great that people make the world a bit more interesting to look at.
ReplyDeleteAndrew Carnegie paid for a great pile of public libraries around the UK as well - a great many are still going in their original buildings. Dunfermline, where he comes from, has a Carnegie Hall too (only smaller than New York I'd imagine)
Good to know, I've been meaning to look up the connection between Carnegie and libraries.
DeleteGreat show of different art there but what happened to the Libuary?
ReplyDelete63 Wisconsin communities and 2 academic institutions benefited from library grants from Carnegie. Fourteen have been razed, as they are all over a hundred years old, but the one above they kept the facade as part of the garden area of the Michael Kohler Center for the Arts. I assume the building needed too much work to be feasible to keep for the Arts Center.
DeleteI think you've sealed the plan for us.....next year's Summer Adventure is already planned to be Yellowston, Grand Tetons and Glacier National Parks, but 2014 will be Wisconsin and Minnesota. You can help me dream and plan on all those trails we are going to hike in October!!
ReplyDeleteSeptember and October are the best time to visit Wisconsin and Minnesota. We'll be going to the SW corner of MN this fall, and I'm hoping maybe to hit the state parks along MN's Lake Superior all the way up to Isle Royale in August 2014. As usual what trip we take depends on when we're able to schedule time off. August is tough to get a long enough trip as I figure we'll need 14 days to do it right. Depending on where you go, perhaps we'll be seeing you!
DeleteOh my, some dutchies in the sideway kissing each other. At our airport Schiphol in Amsterdam, you can see the same couple when you are waiting for visitors arriving. When the automatic doors open the couple split in two to let your friends or relatives pass through.
ReplyDeleteThere are Carnegie built libraries all across the country. The great part is that they are all different architecture styles. Taken lots of photos of those libraries over the past years. You could make it a life's work tracking them all down. That would be a great journey.
ReplyDeleteJust planned my next camping trip later this month...where I will happen upon another Carnegie library! As if I needed something else to "collect" on my journeys...
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