Tag: Archives and Area Research Center
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NEW Pride Alive celebrates role of rural LGBTQ life at fairgrounds | Green Bay Press-Gazette
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GREEN BAY – It might surprise some to learn that, in decades past, Green Bay’s residents were trailblazers for LGBTQ advocacy. Residents established the first AIDS care center in Wisconsin in the 1980s and recognized same-sex marriage at one of the community’s churches in 1999, well over a decade before the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the legality…
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Reminder: Tri-annual records destruction, April 20 and 27, 11 a.m. to Noon
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UW-Green Bay and all of its employees are required to manage the records we create and use while conducting University business as a matter of state law, under Wis. Stat. Sec. 16.61. On March 15, 2022 an email was send out to operational areas regarding the upcoming Records Management collection and destruction. The collection and…
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Green Bay Campus mourns passing of retired Prof. Michael Morgan
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The Green Bay Campus mourns the loss of UW-Green Bay Emeritus faculty member Michael Morgan, who taught in the Natural and Applied Sciences unit for decades before his retirement. He specialized in plant ecology and bioclimatology. In 2014, Michael and his wife Gloria established a scholarship fund. The Morgan/Macaluso Family Endowed Scholarship in Natural Sciences…
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Stories from the Archives: The Great Peshtigo Fire event is Sept. 29, 5 to 6:30 p.m.
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Green Bay, Wis.—In recognition of the 150th Anniversary of the Peshtigo Fire, the UW-Green Bay Archives and Area Research Center is hosting the program, Stories from the Archives: The Great Peshtigo Fire. The free program will be held on Wednesday, September 29, 5 to 6:30 p.m. in the Christie Theater in the University Union on…
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Weekend of Pride: Green Bay LGBTQ+ festival starts with Napalese mural
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GREEN BAY – The more Loschue “Chue” Lo worked on a mural to honor and celebrate northeastern Wisconsin’s LGBTQ+ community, the more his first public work of art became bigger than he initially realized. A panel of judges selected Lo, a gay man from Oshkosh currently studying art at UW-Green Bay, to paint a 12-foot-tall, 24-foot-wide mural on the…
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UW-Green Bay Archives launches, ‘Our Voices: LGBTQ+ Stories of Northeastern Wisconsin’ as part of the ‘A Weekend of Pride!
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Green Bay Wis.— The UW-Green Bay Archives project, Our Voices: LGBTQ+ Stories of Northeastern Wisconsin will be formally launched as part of the upcoming Green Bay event, A Weekend of Pride!. The launch is in the form of a unique interactive exhibit highlighting the history of the local LGBTQ+ community. In addition to featuring photos,…
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Actor Tony Shahloub gets a history lesson with help from University Archives
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Next week award-winning actor and Green Bay native Tony Shalhoub will receive a family history lesson, from Henry Louis Gates Jr. on the nationally broadcast program, “Finding Your Roots.” The feature airs at 7 p.m. Feb. 9 on PBS. Celebrities on this popular genealogy show learn for the first time about powerful and personal stories…
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‘I Knew This Had to Be It’: Wisconsin man reflects on finding Curly Lambeau’s home
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A trip to the Brown County Register of Deed’s office led them to the City of Green Bay archives, which led them to Brown County Library records, which led them to the UW-Green Bay Archives and Area Research Center, and then the County Assessor’s Office. Eventually, local business man discovered the birth place of Curly…