On the way to Door County from Little Compton we decided to drive through Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
I was born and raised in Sheboygan.
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- Beach and birds
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- The Jetty near North Point
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- Lakeshore looking to wharf with lighthouse
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- North High School – built when I was a kid
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- End Park
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- Side view of the house
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- End Park, across the street from my house, my grade school, Washington Elementary, was the other side
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- The old house. When I was young, the front was a screen porch where we would sleep outside, occasionally until winter
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- Urban Middle School, was the high school built by WPA, became middle school when North was built
While I was in high school, I worked as a janitor at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center. The job was much more than janitoring. I helped set up shows, was the projectionist of films, including the Ingmar Bergman festival, and was able to attend some fabulous parties. Ruth Kohler, the reigning ED for the last 50 years, also taught me how to drive a manual transmission (so that I could drive the van to Chicago to pick up art).
Steve and Ruth
The JMKAC has become a world-class regional arts center:
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- The entrance – new from when I was there
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- The Old Kohler Home – now exhibit space and offices
Things have changed and grown from when I was there, some 35+ years ago. Perhaps the most important is the installation of amazing bathrooms, custom-designed by artists at the Kohler (K of K, USA) facilities.
It may be disquieting to some, randomly walking into men’s, women’s, and family bathrooms. But it is worth it. We used the “knocking first protocol” to ensure that the facilities weren’t in active use.
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- Women’s
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- Men’s
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- Women’s room with cast bathroom utensils
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- Women’s
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- Women’s
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- Women’s
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- Men’s
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- Men’s
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- Family
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- Men’s
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- Women’s
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- Women’s room with cast towel
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- Men’s
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- Men’s
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- Family
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- Men’s
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- Family room where Sheboyganites contributed sentences and artists added images
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- Men’s
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- Men’s
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- Women’s
wow! I have always found Kohler Village enchanting and its history remarkable! Bill and I often stopped there for lunch when traveling to and fro to Milwaukee! Where you lived and grew up in Sheboygan is lovely. It was a town that took care of you and your parents for which, with their talents and abilities, George and Barb gave back a hundred-fold.