road trip to THERESA WISCONSIN

most who know me best know i have a toasted bagel that i put a slice of tomato on cheese and put it in the toaster oven to broil to perfection. so after breakfast, i administered
the monthly flee and heart worm meds., playing with bella and shayna, cage them and meet my good friend lisa.


lisa d. and i headed out to theresa, wi. to visit the WIDNER CHEESE FACTORY. they make my favorite brick cheese.
WE SAW
Cheesemakers dip the curd for Brick cheese by hand.
Cheesemakers pour curd into forms for Brick cheese.
Pressing the curd with bricks....and many other steps that are done later in the day.

near by was the summer home of Solomon Juneau, Founder of Milwaukee: the history of this home and theresa are interesting so here is the facts:
Solomon Juneau, a French Canadian, was born at L'Asumption, a small village near Montreal, Canada on August 9, 1793. A French trader, Juneau was named an authorized agent when the American Fur Company established a Trading Post in Milwaukee in 1818. He soon saw a future in Milwaukee and purchased the land between the Milwaukee River and Lake Michigan, platted it, and named it Juneau Town. He became the first postmaster and the first president of the Village of Milwaukee and in 1846 was elected the first mayor of the City of Milwaukee.
During his many trips between Milwaukee and Green Bay as a buyer for the American Fur Company, he was attracted to an Indian camping ground located on the east branch of the Rock River which was to become our village. Juneau established a Trading Post here in 1833 naming it Theresa in honor of his mother. In 1820 he married the granddaughter of Menomonee Indian Chief Ah-ke-ne-po-way and the couple had seventeen children, three dying in early youth. In 1847 he built this home, and it was used as a summer home until 1852 when he moved his family here from Milwaukee. Juneau had platted the village south of the Rock River in 1848, and was engaged in many business pursuits here. He had purchased the water rights and built a dam earlier to provide water power for his saw and grist mills. He also operated a general merchandise store and kept trading furs with the Indians.
Juneau's retirement to Theresa was short lived however, as his wife died in 1855 and he died a year later while making an Indian payment for the U. S. Government at the reservation at Keshena.
Some 700 Indians including Chiefs Oshkosh, Corrow, Larriet, and Keshena marched with his funeral bier to the burial grounds at the Keshena reservation. Later the body was returned to Milwaukee and buried at Calvary Cemetery.
The last home of Solomon Juneau was saved as a historical shrine by Joseph Gottwald, a forward-looking Theresa resident, who purchased it in 1932 when it was to be torn down, and later sold it to the village who moved it to the present site. The house stands some 200 feet from its first location and has the original clapboard siding. The windows have not been altered and the hand-carved spindles in the railing in the upstairs hall are as they were when the house was built in 1847.

... and of course you know i love Chinese food, so we stopped at a Chinese buffet for lunch.

i headed to teach my usually summer school classes at USM.

A GREAT DAY WAS HAD!