I don't know if I'm covered in this state.
I can't tell you what.
It's a different mentality, man.
When you get in a fight when you're in your early 20s,
it's a different thing going through your head, right?
How old are you?
21.
You can tell you're 20 more because you have that 21-year-old
puffiness that happens.
But when you get in a fight when you're in your early 20s,
this guy's age.
All you're thinking is, all right,
I'm going to crush this guy, sleep with her,
and maybe get a burrito.
And like, doesn't...
It doesn't throw off the rest of your evening.
My age in about to get in a fight.
The only thing I'm thinking is,
all right, what's my deductible?
I don't know if I'm covered in this state.
Teach me how to be sensible.
A logical or responsible practical.
And then they show me a world
where I could be so capable.
A clinical or intellectual cynical.
There it is.
It's 7-0-8 in WRJ and Good Morning
on the Clips Morning, a Monday morning.
Glad you can join us here.
And don't forget the eclipse.
It begins.
We have 91% carpentry
in the Racine Southwest Wisconsin area.
It begins at 12.52 p.m.
Then the main event kicks in at 2.08 p.m.
and it all ends at 3.22 p.m.
Then you got to wait another 20 years.
So if you take, come up from your napping.
Oh, I was napping.
I missed the whole thing.
Well, you've got 20 more years
and you can do it all over again.
I hope you won't be napping back then.
All right, for today's sunny,
with a high air 63,
it's going to be beautiful viewing weather
for the eclipse.
I stepped out a little while ago
and I saw the sun out there
and I skipped thinking,
oh, it's just a few hours from now.
The world will be watching.
Sunny with a high air 63,
part of Clotty tonight,
low is 45.
Sunny again, tomorrow,
highs near 57 is gorgeous.
Sunny in 42 degrees now.
In Racine, don't forget baseball tonight.
It's the Brewers against the Cincinnati Reds,
in Cincinnati, 505 p.m.
WRJ and radio.
By the way, if you have a question for my next guest,
you can text me at 262-300-7445.
That's 262-300-7445.
We'll go to the Civic Media app, download it,
and just go to WRJ and text me that way.
262-300-7445.
And my guest is Mike Bino,
editor of our Wisconsin magazine.
Every two months, I can't wait.
Look at the mail and it's there.
And I just got my latest issue of our Wisconsin magazine.
It's a two-monther.
And this one is April through May.
And Mike, thanks for joining us again.
Do appreciate it.
Hey, Don, always great to be here.
Thanks for having me on again.
Now, for people that aren't familiar
with our Wisconsin magazine,
we've talked many times.
A people come in and out.
They don't hear everything.
How did they all get started and when did it get started?
Well, it's the magazine's 12 years old.
It celebrates all that's great in the Badger State.
And we tried to do that with bright brilliant color,
vivid photography on high quality paper.
You don't find very many of these magazines like this anymore,
but we think that there's maybe an opportunity
in that little bit of rarity.
And so we've been fortunate enough
to gain about 100,000 subscribers over our 12 years.
It was launched off the kitchen table
in rustic, press aisle, Wisconsin.
Way up with a woodticks are.
Right up against upper Michigan.
I personally, I'm not a uper,
but I can see them from here.
We're in the North Woods, where the muskies are.
And we put out this little magazine up here
in our small office with a Labrador at my feet.
And we depend on the readers themselves
to send us their stories about what makes their corner of Wisconsin
the coolest place to live.
It's 100% positive.
There's more than enough negativity in the world.
So we try to be the antidote to all that.
And seems to be working.
And we've been subscribing, I think, since...
I think it's issue number one.
Because our neighbor, he was in his 90s,
and we brought all our issues over to him.
And he was reading them.
All the hour was constant.
And we had issue number one.
And so we brought him all over.
And he...
You know what?
I think I could tell you where we fell in love
with our Wisconsin magazine.
We were at some kind of...
I know it wasn't a fair.
Was it in Greendale, Wisconsin?
He was somewhere.
It was somewhere in a fair or some kind of event.
And there was somebody there selling the magazine.
And I think that's where we got our very first issue.
We've only subscribed.
But it's a great magazine.
We look forward to it.
My wife used to read me the articles from...
Because it's so much better when you can sit back
and close your eyes as somebody's reading to you.
But let's talk about...
She does.
She reads me books and everything.
Not that I can't read them.
I could read them if I wanted to.
But she's the next-sent reader.
And so we're reading a book now written by Carol G.
and Forte, who is from Racine.
And she wrote about her neighborhood growing up
in this street Carlisle Avenue in Racine.
And she wrote this book.
And we're reading it.
Now I didn't grow up here in Wisconsin.
But one day, she's reading it and there was a sad part.
I'm crying.
Here's a comment down in my face.
That's how well it's written.
So it's a local author, author writing a local book
about a street that's not far from my house.
And Carol now, she's up there in age.
I think she's older than I am.
But it was nice to hear her reminisce.
And we can all relate to growing up in a house
with neighbors and different stories.
And anyway, so...
I want to talk about some of these articles in here.
You wanted to talk about the Tupperware Lady first.
I want to talk about the Frank Lloyd Wright story.
Let's talk about the Tupperware Lady,
who's been collecting Tupperware since 1960,
selling it actually.
And I was trying to do the math here.
So let me figure.
What year is 1924?
Now, 2024.
1960, hold on.
Let me do some math there.
Carry the two.
Subtract the four from the old.
You got to make that zero or ten.
So...
I think it's 6041.
Carry the one.
Carry the one.
Make it a ten.
I'm better than the math here.
So it's...
Quickly, I can figure it out.
It's 196040.
64 years.
Am I right?
Am I right?
You are right.
And that's a whole lot of Tupperware to burp.
Oh, yes.
Georgine Mulder.
This is wonderful.
She's 88 years old and in Wapan.
Okay.
And long about 1960,
she was living in Fondelac County out in the country.
And she and her husband,
Jr. had four young children.
And as she put it at that time,
she was...
They were swimming in Dr. Bells,
and she was looking for a way to supplement their...
To make ends meet.
To bring in just a little bit more money by the month.
And she talked to the...
Tupperware had just come out.
Wonderful stuff.
It's indestructible.
It lasts forever, and it really works.
It was invented by a man named Tupper,
who made these plastic containers
based on the lids of paint cans.
That will...
You hit them with a hammer and seal them down.
You know, they have that curved up sort of a...
a slot that goes around the circumference of the can.
Seals, tight, and wonderfully.
That's what he based this product on.
In all different colors, shapes, and sizes,
and everybody in the country has to have some of this
in the drawers in their kitchen.
So she decided she was going to do that
and asked the local rep,
do you think I could do this?
Have a Tupperware home party.
And the person said,
with these four children,
with their medical problems,
you probably have enough on your plate.
I don't think you should.
Well, Georgine was not to be deterred,
and she went above this person's pay grade,
went straight to Tupperware corporate in Florida,
and they said,
absolutely, you should do this.
And they were right,
because she held her first party back in 1960.
She's been at it, you know,
going on 64 years,
she's held 6,300 parties over her career.
That is a record.
She's the longest tenured Tupperware rep in the country,
and her footprints are immortalized
in concrete in the Tupperware walk of fame.
Now, we have a celebrity like this living here among us.
I mean, how can you beat that?
A new company car every other year.
She got 24 company cars.
Whoa!
She has a station wagon.
Whoa!
In the 70s.
She won.
She earned a bedroom.
Her bedroom set,
a grandfather clock,
a kitchen table with chairs.
There we are.
We've got a modified record holder
right here living amongst us,
and she's a great-grandmother,
and you got a lover.
We heard about this story
when one of the people who's written for us in the past
heard about it,
and he just said,
this story has our Wisconsin written all over it.
Get over there and see Georgine,
the Tupperware queen.
That was going to be one of my questions,
how did you find her?
And it's just somebody told you.
Yes, and we live on story tips here.
I mean, we look for unusual things people are doing.
This is really a magazine about people.
The cover says,
Wisconsin, that's a place.
But really,
it's about the people here.
The best stories in this state live in the minds
and the hearts of its people.
So yes,
if any listeners out there
want to ship us a tip,
we can give the phone number
or our email here
and have people pass that along.
That's where most of our stories come from.
Okay, what is the phone number?
Is it the same phone number I called you at?
Well, the phone number,
the phone number to give us a tip here at the station.
The tip line.
At the station.
I'm not in radio anymore.
Here in our editorial office,
the number is 715-543-2312.
That's story ideas.
Yeah, that's a deal.
We have another number we can give later
if someone wants to subscribe to.
That tip line,
this one, like,
Crime Stoppers,
it's the tip line.
You remain anonymous, no.
They'll give you a code.
Where is this walk of fame, by the way?
Before we take a break here,
where's the walk of fame?
I believe it's in Florida.
Really?
Okay, so you got to trip the Florida out of the deal, too.
Here you are.
Wow.
Don't forget to bag your food
in the Tupperware out for the trip.
I got some more questions about this when we get back.
Plus, we're going to talk about Frank Lloyd Wright
and some other issues.
Other issues.
Other stories in the issue.
There are no issues.
Yeah, this is a great issue.
Looking through it last night,
and he said, wow,
I've got to read all these stories.
Mike Thino,
editor of Aura West,
constant magazine,
my guest this morning,
gets 719.
WRGN,
hometown radio refreshed
a civic media station.
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At 721 at WRJ and talking to Mike Bino
And there were a hour of Wisconsin magazine
We're talking about the Tupperware lady
I just had a couple of questions here about
You find these photos, I guess she gave you the photos
But you're looking back in history of the photos
Is that the station wagon? She got the free station wagon I'm looking at?
That's one of them
So you're looking at 79 Pontiac was given to her in October of 78
She's there with her family, we've got the fake wood on the side of the station wagon
The fake wood vintage stuff
Look at the size of that boat
Holy mackerel
It's you, you know, we don't realize how big cars were back
Even in the 70s compared to what we have now because they're all streamlined for gas mileage
But look at that size of that monster
Whoa
Yeah, you go to take a turn in that thing and you're going to be spinning the wheel for a while
And there's something I remember but they don't have it anymore
Licensed plates were in the center
I remember gas used to fill up the gas behind the rear license plate too
Remember that used to pull down the rear plate but the gas in there
Bring on it
Yeah, and then you got that license plate off to the right there
And that's her young family then her little older family and now look at her 88 years old and looking good at 88
I got news for you
I got news you feel it's pretty good
Well, that's the Tupperware lady
I want to talk about
Let's talk about the frogs here first
There was an invasion of frogs in El Conto
How did that happen? What was that all about?
In 1952, the great frog invasion that took over El Conto
El Conto is a small town on the West Shore of Green Bay, the arm of Lake Michigan of course
In between Green Bay and Marinette
And population in 1952 was about 5,000 souls
Their El Conto was famous for the bond pickle company through the years
One spring they were visited
The town was visited
The town of 5,000 was visited by 1.75 million green leopard frogs
What happened was frogs hatch out every year in the spring
We hear them singing the various chorus from smaller ones on up to the larger ones
And this year for some reason the conditions of the water level of the Bay of Green Bay
were such that the frog eggs that these amphibians laid in those shallow marshes were nurtured perfectly
Sometimes when the water levels fall from the spring a great number of these eggs won't make it
And that's why these species lay so many because a few will hatch out
This year all of them hatched out and they all headed for El Conto
And they came crawling and hopping into town merrily
And the people would wake up in the morning and find their window wells to the windows of their basements
filled with happy frogs they'd take bucket loads of them out of there
Kids were catching them and selling them for frog eggs
But something tells me that the market was so glutted they weren't getting very much
The New Yorker magazine dispatched somebody to come and report on this
And they were talking about people unable to mow their lawns
Because in two days two days 175 million frogs crawled into that town
We have a person here, Cynthia Patterson from El Conto County, she lives there
And she told us about this, we looked it up, yeah it did happen
But what was cool was she walked around town and found people that lived through this in 1952
And got their takes on it
One fellow said we couldn't move our old desoto out of the garage
Because we would have run over so many frogs, we would have had to clean our floor for Lord knows how long
So I guess the onslaught, the amphibious invasion dwindled as fast as it came
But since 1952 nobody has forgotten 175 million frogs
Sounds like their version of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds
Are there any photographs of this?
Do they exist?
We checked online that we have not seen any photos of it, we did a lot of digging
There's plenty of newspaper clippings from around then corroborating this
But yeah, we relied on an artist to do some happy frogs for us
They look great, cheerful fellows
Boy, I talked to you off the air about the worms after it rains all these worms come out
And you can hardly walk on the sidewalk because there are worms everywhere
Imagine frogs, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit all over the planet
Imagine what that sounded like at night, rabbit, rabbit, all
Had to be deafening
It's like a horror movie
It's like a horror movie
This is what the 1980s horror movie would be like called
And there was a movie called Frogs by the way
Back in the 80s, it's the late 70s
This is what it's like, this is scary
And all of a sudden they hatched
Yeah, what are you going to say?
Was it that movie, was it an invasion of
An overwhelming number of amphibians?
Well, I'll tell you right now, hold on a second here, I forgot it
I'll tell you all about the movie, it was called Frogs
It came out in 1972 with a big cast, Ray Mulan, the Academy of World Winning Actor
A group of helpless victims celebrated birthday in an island
A state crawling with killer frogs
And the poster of it shows a frog with a hand, a human hand coming out of his mouth
Maybe it was partially based on this story
Yeah, Ray Mulan, Sam Elliott, the big cast in this film, Joan Van Arc
Wow, big cast frogs, maybe it's partially based on what happened with you guys
It only came out with it 30, 20 years later
Okay
Wow, so you never know what you're going to open up when you open up
How far is God's magazine?
This is the stuff nightmares I made out of
Coming up in just a moment here, we're going to talk about
Frank Lloyd Wright
And according to you, the last remaining
commercial building is right here in Racine
It's SE Johnson, I try to get the people on the air to talk about it
But they always say we're too busy, they're very close mouth to about it
I don't know why, well
Maybe we got the wrong person there, but we'll find out, we'll get them on the air
We'll find out, we'll get them on the air
But we'll talk about it in just a moment here
Plus something that happened at Taliesin, which was Frank Lloyd Wright's home
In Springgreen, we're going to talk about that coming up as well
That's kind of a horror story in itself
It's all happening here at WRJ in Mike Bino, who is our guest
The other power of Wisconsin magazine, we're coming up 729
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At 735 at WRJ, and I'm Don Rosen, Mike Bino, our guest from our Wisconsin magazine
More than Mike is just a moment, first news headlines
From Stuart J. Wattles, he's in our new center, keeping an eye on everything for us this morning
At this point, a flood warning
Will last all week for the Fox River in Kenosha County
The river near New Monsters is under warning until early Saturday morning
There's still modern flooding happening around some homes in the town of Wheatland
And the village of Salem Lakes
The river is expected to fall below flood stage by Friday night
With water levels continuing to recede until Sunday evening
The river is still about a foot and a half above the 11 foot flood stage
Well, it was the first bomb threat for Costco when a bank robbery
At the Chase Manhattan bank branch took effect
In a temporary police investigating what happened to see if there's a connection
There's a search still underway for a suspect the Costco was cleared out Saturday afternoon
Nothing was found a short time later
The Chase branch in the village on 39th Avenue was robbed
An image of the mass suspect has been posted online
The Walt Kagan City clerk has pleaded not guilty to more than a dozen felony counts
Janet Kilkenny was in court last week on charges including official misconduct
and misapplication of funds
It's alleged she issued liquor and gaming license credits to businesses
That were ineligible to receive them
The case remains under investigation
Kilkenny is free on bond
She's being allowed to remain on the job
And our area is the best in the state to witness the eclipse today
The path of totality is a little further south
But we're still in a good area to watch a good show
91% for that matter
There might be some cloud cover in the northern part of the region
But folks closer to the state line will likely have a clear shot at it
Things will happen about midway with a peak around 2pm this afternoon
Experts that once reminding people not to look directly at the some of that proper eye protection
Again, those times are it begins at 12.52pm
The main event kicks in at 208pm
And then it all ends at 3.22pm
Those are the stories we're keeping an eye on today
Stuart J. Wattles in our news center might be no here
You know, robberies take effect now during daytime
Because the banks are so secure
You can't rob banks at night anymore
Like they show in the old movies with James Cagney
And for Bogart, they're always robbing banks at night
Can't do that anymore
They have to do it in the daytime
Because the banks are so super secure
They can't do it
So it's a shame but that's
That's what they do
I was dating somebody once who was at a bank
Doing her deposits all of a sudden the shade came down
And she said, hey, you got my money and I didn't get a receipt yet
She's banging on the window
What she didn't know was the shade came down at the drive-through
Because the bank was being robbed inside
And she didn't know it at the time
And then the place was swarming was police
And they gave her her change in receit and she went on her way
But wow, that's scary when you're in the middle of a bank robbery
But we're talking about happier things now
We're going to talk about something
Not so happy in just a moment
Either the article here, right at home spelled W-R-I-G-H-T
Frank Lloyd Wright
We're loaded in this state with some great Frank Lloyd Wright designs
I have one just a few blocks from my house on Main Street
In Racine Sun South Main Street
We've been touring the home
And every morning, every single morning
I pass SC Johnson in Racine
Frank Lloyd Wright designed a structure
But tell us about the article on Frank Lloyd Wright
Well, absolutely a treasure in the state of Wisconsin, of course
Frank Lloyd Wright is one of the most celebrated artists in the world
Certainly the most celebrated artist
Excuse me, architect
Also an artist
Architect in the United States
More than 60 buildings
That Wright designed and constructed in the state of Wisconsin
43 of them still exist today
I'm going to jump from the history here to just a little bit of
Frank Lloyd Wright news more recent
If you're driving along highways
Own 94 between Madison and Milwaukee
You may see some signs
That are talking about the Frank Lloyd Wright Trail
Now this is something your listeners can take part in
It's a self-guided tour
200 miles long running from Racine in the southeast
To Richland Center in the west
You're going to see some of these buildings I just talked about
They've got nine sites
Among them are the SC Johnson conference center in Racine
There's a couple of homes that Wright has designed in Milwaukee
There's the Manona Terrace and Community Convention Center in Madison
Right on Lake Manona
There's a school in Springgreen
And a warehouse in Richland Center
So this is a self-guided tour
And their information on this is at Frank Lloyd Wright Trail.org
But there's a list of these different places
How you can get to them
And many of them can be toured inside
And it's a wonderful
This portion of the state we're talking about from Racine on out to Richland Center
It takes you from the flatter area around the Great Lakespace
And okay, Racine's there on Lake Michigan
But it takes you out into the driftless region
Where the glaciers never reached
So the ridge country out there is just fantastic and beautiful
And Tally Usson, okay, was built into this landscape
This beautiful driftless region that does not look three quarters of the state
Does not look like this with these ridges
And what Frank Lloyd Wright said was he was world traveler
He worked in Chicago
And he's talking about Springgreen and the driftless area
And he said every time I come here it is with the feeling there is nothing anywhere better than this
More dramatic elsewhere, perhaps more strange, more thrilling
But nothing that picks you up in its arms
And so gently, almost lovingly
Cradles you as do these southwestern Wisconsin hills
That's where Tally Usson is, the home he built in 1911
You know, they on the documentary, sorry, Tally Usson
He didn't think about this but when he built it, he wanted the home to be part of nature
To work with nature
And unfortunately it ruined part of the building
That the building materials that he used didn't quite mesh with nature
I mean the design was one thing but the actual materials didn't
Didn't work out well and part of it had to be rebuilt
But let's talk real briefly here about the history of Tally Usson
It burned down a couple of times and I don't know the year
But at the time there was a scandal because Frank Lloyd Wright had a mistress
And he moved her into Tally Usson with her two kids
And he had people working there, drafts people working on designs and so forth
And he let this gentleman go, him and his wife, he was from Jamaica
And him and his wife were let go for whatever reason, I don't know what it was, but he didn't take it well
And he took...
Go ahead
Tally Usson, yeah, it was melded into the hills out there
It was shining brown and Welsh
And he tried to build the house again in harmony with natural surroundings
Laddolites, low slung buildings
It kind of projects out from the hills there
It was built in 1911 so it was struck by fires twice
One in 1914 and another in 25
And each time Wright rebuilt
The story of talking about I believe was with his second fire
That one was set by disgruntled employee who I think was being told to leave
And yes, he set it to fire and caused some mayhem
There's some murdering going on
Hey, master of people with a machete
This killed all the workers and killed the children and the mistress, he went crazy
It's a horrible story to hear
But I never knew this happened until a few months ago when I was watching a documentary on it
Yes, that did happen
And it says something that they recovered from that and rebuilt
This beautiful compound is like 800 acres worth and it celebrates the good things that happened in this guy's life
Which was all this architecture all over the United States
You know, I went to the home here on Main Street
We had a parade of homes and that was one of the homes
So you get to go into the Frank Lloyd Wright house
Next foot three
And it wasn't comfortable with me to walk around that house
The ceilings were not that high
There were some of very high ceilings
But walking through, you had to watch out
You don't hit your head on stuff
But you know, the people of my wife is five foot something so she had no problem
But if you're over six feet tall
I noticed the house was kind of small on the inside
I mean, it's beautiful
These homes are, well, these buildings are rather rather interesting
From the outside they look like nothing else that's around them
And some of these residential neighborhoods, the Burnham Block and Milwaukee for example
Yes, flat roofs in this country
That's asking for leaks
And I've heard that there are some maintenance issues with homes constructed in this way
But they're flat to match the horizon
And when we're talking about those ceilings
They were built at another time when people in general were maybe just a little bit shorter than there today
It's interesting when you go to see some of these
Oh, Civil War, your barracks and things like that
How short the beds are
You're a modern man
You're tall
By the way, my feet do hang off my bed at home because beds are only, unless you get a concise bed
They're only six feet long beds
And when you're six foot three six foot four, your feet tend to hang off
People say, what can't you scrunch out?
I said, I like to stretch out everyone
So I don't want my feet hang off the bed
When I passed by the
The SC Johnson compound there
The Frank Lloyd, whether or the buildings were built by Frank Lloyd, right, designed by him
They have a glass tower there with lights on it, which was refurbished not too long ago
And it's lit up in the morning when I come in
I come in here about, I pass here about 20 after five in the morning and it's dark out
And I am still marvel at that place every time I pass by
And I'm just right in front of it, 16th Street
So I want to talk about your gateway picture
And I was looking at it, where is that picture? Where is that taken?
This is the gate fold
The gate fold, you're looking okay
You are looking at
From a drone perspective
You're looking at the Mississippi River
And the Great River Road, Highway 35 in Wisconsin, runs along the Mississippi
This one is showing the bluffs and there is wooded hills and bluffs near Trumplow
Perot State Park is in the distance and Bodega Point
So this is the upper Mississippi
There's islands, of course, in the middle of the Mississippi River
And from the Wisconsin side, up on the, there's very sheer bluffs along
This is one of the most pleasant drives in the state
And from up high, you can look on over in the Minnesota and see the land flattening out
But Wisconsin is very blessed to have all this water
Now you're in Racine and what can we say about Lake Michigan?
I know
They're all the way up to Door County
I am gorgeous along the Niagara Scarpment running up along that side of Lake
You get over to the other side of the state, you know, we've got the West Coast with the Mississippi River
Interestingly, that's Norwegian country over there
And the folks on that end of the state speak a little bit differently than the people on the east side along the lake
I'm kind of from there and we have long vowels in our intonation
Not so much, and they say uft over in the west
Just briefly, having grown up in Green Bay and moved away, I was in the Chicago area
Someone said, you sound like a Upright and I said, well, huh?
Upright sound, what normal?
I mean, what are you talking about with this?
I don't have an accent
It took me seven years of living away in Wisconsin when, excuse me, Chicago
When they were talking about hat bags and the white facts
And I'm on my way back to Green Bay and I tuned in a station
Hold that thought, Mike, hold that thought
You had, Tim, you're right at that thought at just a moment here at WRJ
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Mike was talking about his accent
And it was we don't have Annie. Yeah, I know
It took me seven years of living away before I finally understood what people had been telling me for years
I was heading north on in the 80s heading north on highway 43 and I tuned in a radio station
And I heard the announcer come on and say something like this
Welcome to W.A.U.N. and Al Gorma where we have the whole report
Long vowels and I thought my goodness. That's me
Well, you actually have a story in here about a Polish woman who has her own radio station and
It's a very very local. I mean it's out of her basement or wherever I'd ever store for wherever she is
But she actually has it's on page eight in case you're looking for it
But you know whenever I hear a radio story I I you know like a magnet I go to it and
So she has her own Polish language program which we used to have here. We used to have German language programming
This is back in the day of WRJN
Back in the 40s and 50s. They had the foreign language programming here
They had when I was here my first go round
We had Serbian language programming
Then they had they had German language program Polish language program you name it they had it because
You know people from the old country wanted to hear their radio shows in their own language and it's still popular today at different areas
Not here, but we still have radio stations broadcasting and foreign language my first radio station
I've never got a job that was a rock and roll station. We were number one. Now it's all Chinese
It's because it's in New York and there's a big Chinese population and it's doing very well broadcasting in Chinese
I have no idea what they're saying, but you know, that's where I used to work
But yeah, yeah, so talk about this woman to me, too. Yeah, talk about this woman
Okay, so and I'm glad you brought this up. It's a Polish native
Who emigrated to the US and she and 2016 she came to
The Nikusa area
She's got a
Deli so it's called so JB Polish and American Deli
She's not excuse me. She's in Niseta
It's on Main Street so you can go there and go to this little
Deli and you can get a sandwich and lunch. What what have you?
But it celebrates everything Polish, so there's a lot of and the color of Poland is red
There's a lot of red clothing in there
Zofia has a
Polish
Library she keeps there for people to come in and you know, take a book and you know, there's
She'll trust you bring the book back at some point
She
Came to came this way via Downers Grove stopped in a Chicago area she and her husband for a while lived there and
Her husband lestered got invited to go fishing up in Wisconsin near the Deles
Fell in love with the area because the terrain here is a lot like in Poland woods lakes
It felt so much like in the four seasons. It felt so much like Poland to her
The climate that they decided to come to the area when she found a Sunday mass celebrated in Polish at St. France
St. Francis of Assisi
She decided here's where I'm going to stay. So she's got the Deli. She turned it into Polish food
She's got the library and she set up a
Radio studio with a mic
And she produces a Polish language show and it airs on
106 FM and Adams friendship. So
All things Polish is going or going on there in the Sita and
Go out there and visit Zofia. Now when you buy some of the vinegar from her when you're gonna make your pickles
She is sure to tell you that the Polish vinegar. She's got all imported stuff. The Polish vinegar is
Stronger a little more acidic than the regular vinegar. So you need to adjust your pickle recipe if you're gonna do it right
By the way, it looks like you're the Deles
We in that area. Baraboo the Deles area with this. Yeah, it's this is this is near the Deles
This is Wisconsin River a little bit up a little bit
Downstream a little bit upstream from the Deles
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