Kenosha

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Another Week: Number 68

Another Week: Number 68

The 2024 solar eclipse as experienced at Petrifying Springs in Kenosha — plus chicken burgers, ‘The Blue Gardenia’ (1953) and Rudy Mancuso’s ‘Música’ (2024).

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Fusion: Kenosha live music, performing arts venue

Fusion: Kenosha live music, performing arts venue

Live music in Kenosha is nothing new. The city has long supported a roster of bar bands that rock out on a small stage while patrons and bartenders shout over them to converse or place orders. What's new — over the past year or so — is a Kenosha venue called Fusion,...

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More activities as cancer treatments drift into past

More activities as cancer treatments drift into past

While putting the video together for this blog post, I was really surprised to see just how much we have been doing lately. A year ago we were just starting out with our weekly visits for treatments and doctors appointments. It’s hard to believe that that is all behind us. I feel like things are starting to get back to normal.

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Video: Pierogi making and Petrifying Springs

Video: Pierogi making and Petrifying Springs

The last treatment of chemo really affected my digestive tract and I think I finally got my system working the way it should. My next treatment is the last of A/C, then I move onto the 12 weeks of Taxol. I am excited to be done with the A/C and ready to move forward.

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Video: My head shaved after 2nd chemo

Video: My head shaved after 2nd chemo

I wasn’t sure what I was going to do when my hair started coming out. I thought that maybe Mark and I could tackle it on our own with a pair of clippers borrowed from my sister Marianne. Then last week I received a phone call from my sister Kim who works as a nail technician at a salon.

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First week of chemotherapy: Wig selection

First week of chemotherapy: Wig selection

Last week, besides beginning chemotherapy, I had my appointment for my wig fitting at Lucia’s Wigs with The Salon in Kenosha. Melissa Simon is the wig specialist there and she is such a kind and compassionate person. She is very knowledgeable about dealing with cancer patients and wigs. Melissa had me try on a few, and then took out a couple of catalogs to look through. I ended up picking one out of catalogs.

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Amy Czerniec and the dog that broke her heart

Amy Czerniec and the dog that broke her heart

(Above: Amy, circled, at launch event for Y-LinK: Young Leaders in Kenosha.) Amy called me around 12:30 on Monday afternoon. I wasn't surprised that she was crying, but I did not anticipate exactly what triggered it. "That damn dog," she sobbed. "How do they know?"...

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Tornado in Kenosha, Wisconsin: January 7, 2008

Tornado in Kenosha, Wisconsin: January 7, 2008

As people all over the world have heard, there was some frightening tornado activity in Kenosha, just a few short miles from here, on the afternoon of January 7. I received a lot of calls and emails from co-workers, friends, and family, but happily I had nothing to...

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The grace of Elizabeth Edwards

Back in October of 2004, my wife Amy was working at the Maidenform store in Pleasant Prairie's Prime Outlets shopping center. One morning — October 21st, to be exact — Amy phoned home to tell me that there was some unusual activity in...

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Kenosha HarborMarket: Farmer’s market on the lakefront

Kenosha HarborMarket: Farmer’s market on the lakefront

Last Saturday — and then again today — we visited the Kenosha's HarborMarket. My dad used to take me to Kenosha's Farmer's Markets when I was a kid. He made the best dill pickles I have ever tasted. We would go to the grocery store to get the vinegar, the salt, the...

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Simmons Island Beach House, Kenosha, Wisconsin

Simmons Island Beach House, Kenosha, Wisconsin

Kenosha, Wisconsin — The Simmons Island Beach House, on the Lake Michigan shore of Kenosha's Simmons Island Park, was designed in the Tudor Revival style by architect Chris Borggren and built in 1934. It was added to the...

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Coast Guard Station Kenosha, 1866 lighthouse

Coast Guard Station Kenosha, 1866 lighthouse

Kenosha, Wisconsin — At left, Coast Guard Station Aids to Navigation Team (STANT) Kenosha. At right, the 1866 Kenosha Southport Light. Both are situated on Simmons Island and are seen here across the water of Kenosha's...

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Kenosha: Holiday Inn Express on the harbor

Kenosha: Holiday Inn Express on the harbor

Kenosha, Wisconsin — The Holiday Inn Express (now the Best Western Harborside Inn & Kenosha Conference Center) at the west end of Kenosha's harbor. The dramatic lighting in this photo is completely natural. Dark rain...

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Washington Park Velodrome flood, Kenosha

Washington Park Velodrome flood, Kenosha

Kenosha, Wisconsin — Floodwater fills Kenosha's Washington Park Velodrome (a.k.a. "Washington Bowl"). Pike Creek runs through the clearing in the distance. It and many other local waterways flooded in June 2000.[includeme...

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Flooded Washington Bowl photo, Kenosha

Flooded Washington Bowl photo, Kenosha

Kenosha, Wisconsin — A resident snaps a photo of flooding at the Washington Park Velodrome (a.k.a. "Washington Bowl"). Pike Creek runs through the clearing in the distance. It and many other local waterways flooded in June...

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Spanish-American War cannon, Kenosha

Spanish-American War cannon, Kenosha

Kenosha, Wisconsin — Cannon from the Spanish-American War (1898) in Eichelman Park, pointed out toward Lake Michigan. A 1939 photo of the same cannon can be found in the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections.[includeme...

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Rexall: Mayer Drugs, downtown Kenosha

Rexall: Mayer Drugs, downtown Kenosha

Kenosha, Wisconsin — Landmark downtown Mayer Drugs sign at the northeast corner of 6th Avenue and 56th Street. The Rexall drugstore itself is long gone, but the sign remains. [includeme...

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Boat House Pub & Eatery, Kenosha, Wisconsin

Boat House Pub & Eatery, Kenosha, Wisconsin

Kenosha, Wisconsin — Back view of the Boat House Pub & Eatery at 4917 7th Avenue, one of several Kenosha restaurants located on the city's Lake Michigan harbor — in this case the Simmons Island Marina small boat harbor....

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Sledding at Petrifying Springs (Rosebud!)

Sledding at Petrifying Springs (Rosebud!)

Kenosha County, Wisconsin — Sledding on Hole 17 of Petrifying Springs Golf Course. American film director, writer, actor, and producer Orson Welles, who directed Citizen Kane (1941), was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin in 1915,...

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Metra train station, Kenosha, Wisconsin

Metra train station, Kenosha, Wisconsin

Kenosha, Wisconsin — Commuters arriving by train at Kenosha's Metra rail station via the Union Pacific/North Line. Kenosha is the north end of the commuter train line, which begins at Chicago's Ogilvie Transportation...

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Feeding Lake Michigan gulls

Feeding Lake Michigan gulls

Kenosha, Wisconsin — A man feeds bread to Ring-Billed Gulls at Pennoyer Park on Lake Michigan. Please don't do this. Quoting from the article linked above:   The rapidly expanding ring-billed gull population has led to...

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Mail Pouch Tobacco ghost sign

Mail Pouch Tobacco ghost sign

Kenosha, Wisconsin — A West Virginia Mail Pouch Tobacco ad, discovered during remodeling in the 5600 block of 6th Avenue. It has since been re-covered. [includeme...

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Yee’s Oriental Inn, Kenosha, Wisconsin

Yee’s Oriental Inn, Kenosha, Wisconsin

Kenosha, Wisconsin — The vintage neon sign of Yee's Oriental Inn (5034 6th Avenue), an Americanized Chinese restaurant that has been here since about 1955 serving chop suey, chow mein, sub gum, egg foo young, and other...

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One Sweet Dream, Don Gill’s, Kenosha

One Sweet Dream, Don Gill’s, Kenosha

Kenosha, Wisconsin — A series of buildings in the 5000 block of 7th Avenue, seen at dusk. The white building here is Grand Central Records and Tapes, but when I was a teen in the 1970s, the brown building to its right was a...

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One sweet planting

One sweet planting

Kenosha, Wisconsin — A decorative planting tucked into the space between two buildings in the 5000 block of 7th Avenue.

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Culture in Kenosha

Culture in Kenosha

Kenosha, Wisconsin — An album cover — Eugene Ormandy conducting The Philadelphia Orchestra in Ferde Grofé's Grand Canyon Suite — is seen with other debris across from taverns on 52nd Street....

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My feet in the bathtub

My feet in the bathtub

Kenosha, Wisconsin — We had a deep, old clawfoot bathtub in that apartment on 5th Avenue. In lucid dreaming, there’s an exercise that involves finding your feet or your hands as a first step in establishing your identity and...

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Little Europe folk waiters

Little Europe folk waiters

Kenosha County, Wisconsin — Signage depicting a waiter and waitress in traditional dress at the Little Europe Schnitzel House Bohemian restaurant along I-94's East Frontage Road. [includeme...

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Blessed Virgin Mary

Blessed Virgin Mary

Kenosha, Wisconsin — Sign displayed outside the convent of St. Casimir Church on Washington Road: "Blessed Virgin Mary, please pray for us," flanked by two American flags. [includeme...

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St. George / St. Elizabeth rectory

St. George / St. Elizabeth rectory

Kenosha, Wisconsin — Founded in 1849 as a largely German parish, St. George Catholic Church merged with St. Casimir in 1996 to form St. Elizabeth Parish. The parish rectory, seen here, is located at 4804 7th...

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St. George / St. Elizabeth Catholic Church

St. George / St. Elizabeth Catholic Church

Kenosha, Wisconsin — Founded in 1849 as a largely German parish, St. George's Catholic Church merged with St. Casimir in 1996 to form St. Elizabeth Parish. The church, erected in 1875, is seen here facing 8th Avenue adjacent...

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Big Star Drive-In restaurant

Big Star Drive-In restaurant

Kenosha, Wisconsin -- Big Star Drive-In, at 1500 Washington Road, is a favorite fast food restaurant among locals for its retro car-hops, hamburgers, cheeseburgers, onion rings, milkshakes, etc. Big Star is only open...

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Boat House Pub & Simmons Island Marina

Boat House Pub & Simmons Island Marina

Kenosha, Wisconsin — The lights of the Boat House Pub & Eatery, a harborside restaurant, seen from the 50th Street bridge, with the boats and boat slips of the Simmons Island Marina on Lake Michigan below.[includeme...

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