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Fascinating history. April 28 at the Lussier Center on Lake Farm Road in Madison (barely).

Self-described journalist, author and fisherman Bill Stokes talks about WWII prisoner-of-war camps in Wisconsin at the Dane County Historical Society's annual m...eeting at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, April 28 at the Lussier Family Heritage Center, 3101 Lake Farm Road, Madison. The meeting is free and open to the public. See more

I'm calling on Senate Republicans to follow the lead of the Assembly and remove Yom Kippur from the Legislature's session calendar. Despite the fact that the As...sembly removed the high holy day from the calendar, Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald refused to consider the resolution when the Senate met the next day. See more

Please join fellow history buffs for a lecture, book signing and the annual meeting of Historic Madison Inc. on Tuesday, Nov. 27 at Union South, 1308 W. Dayton St. The free gathering is 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on the second floor. Stuart Levitan will join us to discuss his new book, which chronicles the Madison in the turbulent 1960s.

Please join us at the HMI annual program on Tuesday, November 27, at Union South. Stuart Levitan will speak about Madison in the 1960s. Doors open at 6:30pm. Check the Today at the Union board inside the entrance for the room.https://bit.ly/2DN8dE9

Join HMI's president Mark Gajewski for a stroll around the Square Sept. 11 and learn about the look and feel of Capitol Square during the Depression. Meet in front of the Veterans Museum (30 on the Square, of course, wasn't there yet.) at 6:30 p.m. The event is free and open to everyone.

Reminder: Susan Apps-Bodilly is the speaker at DCHS' annual meeting Sunday beginning at 1:30 p.m. at the Goodman Community Center, 149 Waubesa Street on Madson'...s East Side. She'll be talking about her book, 'One-Room Schools: Stories from the Days of 1 Room, 1 Teacher & 8 Grades." if you have one-room school experiences, please come and share! See more

In May, 1943, Gov. Walter Goodland signed legislation creating the Wisconsin Retirement System, after first vetoing the bill and then receiving a lecture from t...wo of the women who cleaned the Capitol. Ingeborg Sidwell and Catherine Conlin are pictured among their colleagues 10 years earlier in this photo by Angus McVicar. (WHS 17258) See more

Join the Dane County Historical Society and the Friends of the Sun Prairie Museum from 12 to 4 p.m. on the afternoon of Saturday, May 12, for a hop through history at the circa 1864 Charles G. Crosse House, 115 E. Main St., Sun Prairie. The event is free to all lovers of history!

Reminder: fly over to Barnes & Noble on Saturday, buy a copy of Michael Edmonds' book, "Taking Flight: A History of Birds and People in the Heart of America," and part of the proceeds will go to the Dane County Historical Society.

DCHS will be hosting a fundraiser bookfair at Barnes and Noble West in Madison on Saturday, April 14th! Come out and support us and hear local author, Michael Edmonds present on his newest book, "Taking Flight: A History of Birds and People in the Heart of America" at 1:30pm!

Saturday 3/10/18, 10 a.m.: "The Verona Leper Colony", a presentation by Jesse Charles, at the Verona Senior Center, 108 Paoli St., Verona. Many of us have hea...rd the story of a past "Leper Colony" in Verona. It's one of those things you might hear from a friend of a friend who knew a guy whose grandfather swears it's true...but is it? It sounds almost like an urban legend; no one around today claims to have seen it firsthand, but there are so many stories you can't help but wonder...is it true? Our presentation March 10 at the Verona Area Senior Center, 108 Paoli St, Verona, looks to answer that question - and maybe pose a few more. We have collected oral histories from the last several decades, looked through Dane County records, examined aerial photographs, and uncovered newspaper clippings from the 1800's that are all pieces of this puzzle. These pieces will for the first time be presented together on a timeline that sheds light on the "colony" and the people who lived there just a few generations ago. The meeting is free and all are welcome.