June 12, 2025 • 15 mins
Flag Day is a national holiday, celebrating the United States flag every June 14th. But did you know it started in Wisconsin? We learn the history with Dave Janik, President of the Waubeka, Wisconsin-based National Flag Day Foundation, as well as discuss the annual celebrations in town commemorating Flag Day and discover the often under-the-radar Americanism Center Museum that you can visit in town any time of year.
Plus, a busy mid-June weekend is in store. Along with Flag Day, we have events around the state to share from Milwaukee's Lakefront Festival of the Arts to Door County's Steel Bridge Songfest. A 5-minute Weekend Preview begins this episode ahead of our conversation with Dave Janik. All in this episode of the State Trunk Tour Podcast!
Plus, a busy mid-June weekend is in store. Along with Flag Day, we have events around the state to share from Milwaukee's Lakefront Festival of the Arts to Door County's Steel Bridge Songfest. A 5-minute Weekend Preview begins this episode ahead of our conversation with Dave Janik. All in this episode of the State Trunk Tour Podcast!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And welcome to the State Trunk Tour podcast. You hat
another episode here. I'm Eric Paulson, your head tour guide
for running around the state and doing some fun road trips.
Today we're talking about a little bit of what's going
on for this weekend, which is both Flag Day on Saturday,
Fathers Day on Sunday. It's a big weekend for dairy
breakfasts and other dairy events because it's June Dairy Days,
(00:21):
June Dairy Month two and this weekend's events. First of all,
we'll do a little rundown of those because there's a
lot going on this weekend across the state. Start in Milwaukee,
Downtown Milwaukee the Lakefront Festival of Art right there on
the Lakefront at the Milwaukee Art Museum, always a blast
that runs Friday through Sunday. If you love food and
exploring our farm lands, and who doesn't, Wisconsin's agricultural tourism
(00:42):
initiatives are now making bus tours available, including this weekend
in Manitak and Fondelac counties. They're called Discovering Wisconsin. Doesn't
have anything to do with Discover Wisconsin, the TV show
which I help co host. By the way, they're called
Discovering Wisconsin Agricultural Tourism motor coach to tours. That's a mouthful.
You can find out more at wyagtourism dot com. We
(01:05):
have more about it on State Trump tour dot com too.
Also Friday, the US Army celebrates its two hundred and
fiftieth birthday and that's gonna happen in Madison at the
Wisconsin State Capital in a ceremony. You're welcome to join. Hillsboro,
the Czech capital of Wisconsin, in the beautiful driftless area
along Highways thirty three, eighty and eighty two have their
Bonfire music and art festival that starts actually Thursday and
(01:27):
runs through Saturday. This weekend, Wisconsin Rapids the Rafters are
hosting the Fondelac doc Spiders at winter Field. That's the
cool baseball stadium where they'll in some seating areas. They'll
actually have drinks they can float to you. You got
to see it to believe it. Wisconsin Rapids also has
Bluegrass at the Lake with live bluegrass music Thursday through Saturday.
(01:48):
Minacua is embracing the summer water fun with its annual
Antique Classic boat show. That's happening Friday and Saturday. Eagle
Rivers Up North Beer Fest is also upon us this weekend.
Always a good time. Green County is busy all weekend.
Newglari says Polka Fest Friday and Saturday. The County seat
of Monroe takes to the skies with the Monroe Balloon
in Blues featuring hot air balloons and cool blues tunes.
(02:11):
A very cool family fun activity in green Bay takes
place Friday through Sunday. The National Railroad Museum, along with
the Green Bay Children's Museum, is hosting Paul Patrol Paul Palooza.
You can explore the museum and enjoy train rides and
meet with first responders and Chase Marshall, Sky and Rubble
from Paul Patrol. They'll be there. You can find out
(02:31):
more at Nationalararmuseum dot org or on green Bay dot com.
That's discovered green Bay's website. Now we are in the
middle of Junedairy Month, as I mentioned, and some dairy
fun events include Ford Atkinson's Dairy Day at the Mouseum.
There's that museum along US twelve and Highway eighty nine.
Dairy Days in Stephens Point. Gilman has June Dairy Days
(02:52):
Friday through Sunday, and another June Dairy Days is happening
along with a rodeo parade in Richland's Center on Saturday.
Tons of counties across the state have their dairy Breakfast
celebrations too on Saturday. Dane County, Manitowac, Washington, Kenosha, Lafayette, Vernon, Walworth,
Polk and Pierce Counties, and who knows what else. There's
a ton of them going on. Dori County as busy
(03:12):
as usual this weekend, but unusual is the annual roofing
of the Goats parade, which happens as they march the
goats down Highway forty two and Sister Bay on their
way to the grass roof of L. Johnson's Swedish restaurant
Great Pancakes, Great Swedish Meatballs. They hang out in munch
on the roof all summer long. Also right near where
Highway fifty seven ends it begins at the Minchell Park
(03:34):
domes in Milwaukee. Always say from grass under the domes
to grass on top of the roof if you're traveling
Highway fifty seven end and plus in Sturgeon Bay where
forty two and fifty seven converge. Music lovers can enjoy
steel Bridge Songfest and Steelbridge Day, which returns for Saturday
performances in Sturgeon Bay's Martin Park. And of course you
can enjoy strolls on the two bridges spanning the waters
(03:55):
in downtown Sturgeon Bay, including that legendary steel Bridge that
dates back to nineteen thirty served as the only vehicle
connection to the northern Door Peninsula for nearly fifty years.
Also Rhubarb Fest that hits New London all day Saturday,
so he's swen to try and spell rhubarb. And not
too far away in Montello is the annual Gilbert Brown
car Show. Expect some grave Digger references. Art fairs this
(04:18):
weekend include the Art Fair on the Courthouse Lawn in
Rhinelander and Art Spire in Lacrosse. Chipewa Falls has the
Liney Lodge and their annual summer kickoff party takes place
ten to six on Saturday. New beer releases from their
Pilot Brewery and plenty of food trucks. A lot of
people were saying, hey, they're not brewing line and Google's
beer much there anymore. Well, the main brewery right now
(04:39):
is not active, but they do have that Pilot Brewery
in the Liney Lodge and that will be in full force.
That's right along how we won twenty four on the
north end of downtown Chipwa Falls. Now, of course, Saturday
is Flag Day, a celebration of old glory that takes
place every June fourteenth, and this year nice that it's
happening on a Saturday. One of the best places to
celebrate Flag Day is where it all began in Wabaca, Wisconsin.
(05:01):
It's a tiny hamlet next to Fredonia, which is also
a tiny hamlet right off Highway fifty seven and County
A and Ozaki County, a little northwest of Port Washington,
a little bit north of We're I forty three viewers off.
We'll dive into the story of flag Day's creation, the
very cool museum you can visit events around Flag Day
in town and more with David Janek, who's the president
of the National Flag Day Foundation. We'll get to that
(05:24):
right after this. All right, welcome back, and now joining
me is David Janik, who is president of the National
Flag Day Foundation. And Hello, David, thank you for joining
me today.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Well, hello, Eric, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
So yeah, it's so fascinating that Flag Day was invented
created if you will, first observed here in Wisconsin and
in the little burg of Wabaca. Can you, first of
all just kind of take us through the origins of
it from you know, starting in eighteen eighty five.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Sure, sure, I'm gonna step back just a little bit further.
Oh Okay, June fourteenth of seventeen seventy seven, the second
Continental Congress of the United States gave birth to our flag,
stating that old Glory was going to be stars and stripes.
And that's where it all started. So then we fast
(06:17):
forward to eighteen eighty five when doctor Bernard's Segrin, a
nineteen year old school teacher, was teaching school at Stony
Hill School right here in Wabaca. And on June fourteenth
of eighteen eighty five, he set a bottle on his
desk and put a then thirty eight star flag in
that bottle and asked his students to write an essay
(06:38):
on what the flag means to them. And that started.
That started Segren's lifelong mission of creating a national holiday,
making June fourteenth flag Day.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
And that is because the first flag was commissioned on
June fourteenth, dating back Tollent and the students were they
doing it? Were they writing with pen and paper in
eighteen eighty five or was it like chalk on tablets?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Well, I'm thinking it was inquells.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Yeah, probably it looked like calligraphy. I'm sure it was
pretty cool stuff. So Wabaca is where Flag Day all began.
It became a national holiday, I believe in the nineteen
tens somewhere.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
What happened is through Segrein's efforts. In nineteen sixteen, President
Woodrow Wilson issued a proculation saying that June fourteenth is
Flag Day across the nation. So it took a later years, yeah,
and then later Chegrun passed away before this happened. But
(07:42):
in nineteen forty nine, President Harry Truman signed an Act
of Congress making Flag Day a national holiday.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Oh okay, So I went from proclamation to national holiday.
And it was always about a thirty year span. It
upgraded every thirty years.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yeah. And then, of course, to finish the history, on
June fourteenth, two thousand and four, the one hundred and
eighth United States Congress passed House Resolution six' six 's
two Recognizing Ozaki county as the birthplace Of Flag.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Day oh very, nice And, wabaca specifically Within Ozaki county
is that birthplace At Stoney Hill. School it gets celebrated
every year with a parade In, wabaca which usually takes
place as close To Flag day as, possible but because
it fell on A saturday this, year they actually did
the parade this Past. Sunday but it's always a good
(08:32):
time and absolutely And i've been to that parade. Now
first of, all this Coming, saturday they are doing something
At Stony Hill school where it all, began because the
school is still there and it's really beautiful the way
they preserved.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
It, yes the school is handled by The Ozaki County
Historical society and they have done a wonderful drive. Job
they have upgraded the, school restored. It they run a
program there every year as. Well it's complete with an
appearance By Bernie segrean himself and a nice little, program
(09:05):
a marine band and a little bit of community. Spirit it's.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Wonderful that's. Great so you can check that out In
wabaca on this Coming saturday amongst all of the weekend
activities going. On but a great place to stop In,
wabaca And i've done this before When i've attended the
parade in previous, years is to check out The National
Flag Days foundation headquarters and, museum which is an amazing.
Place take us through.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
That, well we purchased a school that we used to
be part of The Ozaki county School system and we
remodeled that school into three museum. Rooms we have a military,
museum we have a what we call The Wabaca Comrace.
Museum back in the late eighteen, Hundreds wabaca was a,
(09:53):
mecca a mecca of. Industry and then we have a
museum dedicated to Doctor. Siegert and these museums are maintained
by our. Volunteers they are fully stocked with people's memorabilia
that they've brought in and loaned or donated to The
Flag Day. Foundation and there is history in the military
(10:18):
museum that will bring tears to your. Eyes and there
is history in The commerce center that'll just make you, go,
MAN i never knew. That you, know we have a
building in town called The Button, factory and you, say,
well what was that? About and we have buttons that
were made at the button factory in our museum and
they were made from clamshells from The Milwaukee.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
River they're absolutely, beautiful, nice they held up, right they
last well, obviously, yeah man. So and then also in
that museum you have a every version of The United
states flag that was ever created that is.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Correct we have The avenue Of flags and there are
twenty seven official versions of The United states flag from
its birth till present, day fifty stars and everyone is
on display with a story of the states that became
states of The, union that created those new, stars and
the time period and who also donated those flags for our.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Display and it wasn't that long ago we had forty
eight stars on the. FLAG i, mean our grandparents and
great grandparents grew up with fewer than fifty stars on
the flag in many.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Cases, well that was a magnificent story you just brought,
up because in our program this year that we had Last,
sunday a local, Clergyman Dan, nenning reminded us that In
july of nineteen sixty we got our fiftieth. Star And
i'm standing there with my sister and we decided that
(11:48):
she was a before fifty stars AND i was just after.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Fifty, stars and you're just going to keep reminding her
of that aren't.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Yet that's, right all, right.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Little brothers for that's. Awesome so as president of The
National Flag Day, foundation then what do you get to
do throughout the, year BECAUSE i mean this is the
museums open all year, Round.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Yes it, is and we do run tours all year
by request our phone numbers on our website and you
can come through our website with emails or phone calls
and we'd love to host your group at our. CENTER
i personally do a lot of those. TOURS i just
did one for The abay group out Of, germantown And
(12:33):
i've got another group this week coming through On, thursday
and we go through the museums and we go through the,
history and we'll go through the Flag avenue Of. Flags
and we also have a large meeting, room The American,
room which is a refurbished area used to be the.
Gymnasium now it's a large group. Room it's beautiful and
(12:53):
it's just something we love to show.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
People that's. Awesome and you can contact Them Nationalflag day
dot com and the number is two six two four
eight three twenty five seventy. Six their address is forty
two Hundred Valley View drive In wabaca if you want
to put it in YOUR, gps and if you're on
a road trip one of The State Trunk tour road,
trips the nearest state highway Is highway fifty. Seven get To.
(13:15):
Fredoni you just turn left or, west depending which direction
you're coming From COUNTIES a AND. H you just keep
following that and you'll find the trailblazer signs that will
take you To, wabacus just a couple miles away and
a great drive in a beautiful rural part Of Ozaki.
County it sure.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Is and don't forget to see the program On saturday
At Stony, hill our new Town Shairman Christ jadick'll be
giving a speech up.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
There g any relation just a little bit by little.
Prob all, Right, well you can see all the JAT
x when you go there To, wabaca and make sure
you check out The National Flag Day foundation And Americanism
museum and just enjoy the glory Of Flag. Day there's
plenty of signs and flags up In wabaca remind you
that it was the birthplace Of Flag, day which we
(14:03):
celebrate This. Saturday, david thanks so much for joining me
today on the. Podcast, eric thanks for having me our
thanks again To David janek of The National Flag Day.
Foundation make sure you go and check out that museum.
Sometime it's a very short drive From milwaukee and easy
to get to from pretty much. Anywhere Again Nationalflag day
dot com if you want to find out. More in,
(14:23):
fact there's photos of the museum we visited there On
state Trunk tour dot. Com be sure to explore our
drive in movie guide for this weekend all the venues
around the state that are. Open there's a couple for,
sale by the, way and we'd love it if you
were able to get your hands on one of those
things and reopen. Them drive in movies are so much.
Fun we also have that extensive guide to drive in
burger stands across the, state over thirty five of, them
(14:43):
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And welcome to the State Trunk Tour podcast. You hat
another episode here. I'm Eric Paulson, your head tour guide
for running around the state and doing some fun road trips.
Today we're talking about a little bit of what's going
on for this weekend, which is both Flag Day on Saturday,
Fathers Day on Sunday. It's a big weekend for dairy
breakfasts and other dairy events because it's June Dairy Days,
(00:21):
June Dairy Month two and this weekend's events. First of all,
we'll do a little rundown of those because there's a
lot going on this weekend across the state. Start in Milwaukee,
Downtown Milwaukee the Lakefront Festival of Art right there on
the Lakefront at the Milwaukee Art Museum, always a blast
that runs Friday through Sunday. If you love food and
exploring our farm lands, and who doesn't, Wisconsin's agricultural tourism
(00:42):
initiatives are now making bus tours available, including this weekend
in Manitak and Fondelac counties. They're called Discovering Wisconsin. Doesn't
have anything to do with Discover Wisconsin, the TV show
which I help co host. By the way, they're called
Discovering Wisconsin Agricultural Tourism motor coach to tours. That's a mouthful.
You can find out more at wyagtourism dot com. We
(01:05):
have more about it on State Trump tour dot com too.
Also Friday, the US Army celebrates its two hundred and
fiftieth birthday and that's gonna happen in Madison at the
Wisconsin State Capital in a ceremony. You're welcome to join. Hillsboro,
the Czech capital of Wisconsin, in the beautiful driftless area
along Highways thirty three, eighty and eighty two have their
Bonfire music and art festival that starts actually Thursday and
(01:27):
runs through Saturday. This weekend, Wisconsin Rapids the Rafters are
hosting the Fondelac doc Spiders at winter Field. That's the
cool baseball stadium where they'll in some seating areas. They'll
actually have drinks they can float to you. You got
to see it to believe it. Wisconsin Rapids also has
Bluegrass at the Lake with live bluegrass music Thursday through Saturday.
(01:48):
Minacua is embracing the summer water fun with its annual
Antique Classic boat show. That's happening Friday and Saturday. Eagle
Rivers Up North Beer Fest is also upon us this weekend.
Always a good time. Green County is busy all weekend.
Newglari says Polka Fest Friday and Saturday. The County seat
of Monroe takes to the skies with the Monroe Balloon
in Blues featuring hot air balloons and cool blues tunes.
(02:11):
A very cool family fun activity in green Bay takes
place Friday through Sunday. The National Railroad Museum, along with
the Green Bay Children's Museum, is hosting Paul Patrol Paul Palooza.
You can explore the museum and enjoy train rides and
meet with first responders and Chase Marshall, Sky and Rubble
from Paul Patrol. They'll be there. You can find out
(02:31):
more at Nationalararmuseum dot org or on green Bay dot com.
That's discovered green Bay's website. Now we are in the
middle of Junedairy Month, as I mentioned, and some dairy
fun events include Ford Atkinson's Dairy Day at the Mouseum.
There's that museum along US twelve and Highway eighty nine.
Dairy Days in Stephens Point. Gilman has June Dairy Days
(02:52):
Friday through Sunday, and another June Dairy Days is happening
along with a rodeo parade in Richland's Center on Saturday.
Tons of counties across the state have their dairy Breakfast
celebrations too on Saturday. Dane County, Manitowac, Washington, Kenosha, Lafayette, Vernon, Walworth,
Polk and Pierce Counties, and who knows what else. There's
a ton of them going on. Dori County as busy
(03:12):
as usual this weekend, but unusual is the annual roofing
of the Goats parade, which happens as they march the
goats down Highway forty two and Sister Bay on their
way to the grass roof of L. Johnson's Swedish restaurant
Great Pancakes, Great Swedish Meatballs. They hang out in munch
on the roof all summer long. Also right near where
Highway fifty seven ends it begins at the Minchell Park
(03:34):
domes in Milwaukee. Always say from grass under the domes
to grass on top of the roof if you're traveling
Highway fifty seven end and plus in Sturgeon Bay where
forty two and fifty seven converge. Music lovers can enjoy
steel Bridge Songfest and Steelbridge Day, which returns for Saturday
performances in Sturgeon Bay's Martin Park. And of course you
can enjoy strolls on the two bridges spanning the waters
(03:55):
in downtown Sturgeon Bay, including that legendary steel Bridge that
dates back to nineteen thirty served as the only vehicle
connection to the northern Door Peninsula for nearly fifty years.
Also Rhubarb Fest that hits New London all day Saturday,
so he's swen to try and spell rhubarb. And not
too far away in Montello is the annual Gilbert Brown
car Show. Expect some grave Digger references. Art fairs this
(04:18):
weekend include the Art Fair on the Courthouse Lawn in
Rhinelander and Art Spire in Lacrosse. Chipewa Falls has the
Liney Lodge and their annual summer kickoff party takes place
ten to six on Saturday. New beer releases from their
Pilot Brewery and plenty of food trucks. A lot of
people were saying, hey, they're not brewing line and Google's
beer much there anymore. Well, the main brewery right now
(04:39):
is not active, but they do have that Pilot Brewery
in the Liney Lodge and that will be in full force.
That's right along how we won twenty four on the
north end of downtown Chipwa Falls. Now, of course, Saturday
is Flag Day, a celebration of old glory that takes
place every June fourteenth, and this year nice that it's
happening on a Saturday. One of the best places to
celebrate Flag Day is where it all began in Wabaca, Wisconsin.
(05:01):
It's a tiny hamlet next to Fredonia, which is also
a tiny hamlet right off Highway fifty seven and County
A and Ozaki County, a little northwest of Port Washington,
a little bit north of We're I forty three viewers off.
We'll dive into the story of flag Day's creation, the
very cool museum you can visit events around Flag Day
in town and more with David Janek, who's the president
of the National Flag Day Foundation. We'll get to that
(05:24):
right after this. All right, welcome back, and now joining
me is David Janik, who is president of the National
Flag Day Foundation. And Hello, David, thank you for joining
me today.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Well, hello, Eric, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
So yeah, it's so fascinating that Flag Day was invented
created if you will, first observed here in Wisconsin and
in the little burg of Wabaca. Can you, first of
all just kind of take us through the origins of
it from you know, starting in eighteen eighty five.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Sure, sure, I'm gonna step back just a little bit further.
Oh Okay, June fourteenth of seventeen seventy seven, the second
Continental Congress of the United States gave birth to our flag,
stating that old Glory was going to be stars and stripes.
And that's where it all started. So then we fast
(06:17):
forward to eighteen eighty five when doctor Bernard's Segrin, a
nineteen year old school teacher, was teaching school at Stony
Hill School right here in Wabaca. And on June fourteenth
of eighteen eighty five, he set a bottle on his
desk and put a then thirty eight star flag in
that bottle and asked his students to write an essay
(06:38):
on what the flag means to them. And that started.
That started Segren's lifelong mission of creating a national holiday,
making June fourteenth flag Day.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
And that is because the first flag was commissioned on
June fourteenth, dating back Tollent and the students were they
doing it? Were they writing with pen and paper in
eighteen eighty five or was it like chalk on tablets?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Well, I'm thinking it was inquells.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Yeah, probably it looked like calligraphy. I'm sure it was
pretty cool stuff. So Wabaca is where Flag Day all began.
It became a national holiday, I believe in the nineteen
tens somewhere.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
What happened is through Segrein's efforts. In nineteen sixteen, President
Woodrow Wilson issued a proculation saying that June fourteenth is
Flag Day across the nation. So it took a later years, yeah,
and then later Chegrun passed away before this happened. But
(07:42):
in nineteen forty nine, President Harry Truman signed an Act
of Congress making Flag Day a national holiday.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Oh okay, So I went from proclamation to national holiday.
And it was always about a thirty year span. It
upgraded every thirty years.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yeah. And then, of course, to finish the history, on
June fourteenth, two thousand and four, the one hundred and
eighth United States Congress passed House Resolution six' six 's
two Recognizing Ozaki county as the birthplace Of Flag.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Day oh very, nice And, wabaca specifically Within Ozaki county
is that birthplace At Stoney Hill. School it gets celebrated
every year with a parade In, wabaca which usually takes
place as close To Flag day as, possible but because
it fell on A saturday this, year they actually did
the parade this Past. Sunday but it's always a good
(08:32):
time and absolutely And i've been to that parade. Now
first of, all this Coming, saturday they are doing something
At Stony Hill school where it all, began because the
school is still there and it's really beautiful the way
they preserved.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
It, yes the school is handled by The Ozaki County
Historical society and they have done a wonderful drive. Job
they have upgraded the, school restored. It they run a
program there every year as. Well it's complete with an
appearance By Bernie segrean himself and a nice little, program
(09:05):
a marine band and a little bit of community. Spirit it's.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Wonderful that's. Great so you can check that out In
wabaca on this Coming saturday amongst all of the weekend
activities going. On but a great place to stop In,
wabaca And i've done this before When i've attended the
parade in previous, years is to check out The National
Flag Days foundation headquarters and, museum which is an amazing.
Place take us through.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
That, well we purchased a school that we used to
be part of The Ozaki county School system and we
remodeled that school into three museum. Rooms we have a military,
museum we have a what we call The Wabaca Comrace.
Museum back in the late eighteen, Hundreds wabaca was a,
(09:53):
mecca a mecca of. Industry and then we have a
museum dedicated to Doctor. Siegert and these museums are maintained
by our. Volunteers they are fully stocked with people's memorabilia
that they've brought in and loaned or donated to The
Flag Day. Foundation and there is history in the military
(10:18):
museum that will bring tears to your. Eyes and there
is history in The commerce center that'll just make you, go,
MAN i never knew. That you, know we have a
building in town called The Button, factory and you, say,
well what was that? About and we have buttons that
were made at the button factory in our museum and
they were made from clamshells from The Milwaukee.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
River they're absolutely, beautiful, nice they held up, right they
last well, obviously, yeah man. So and then also in
that museum you have a every version of The United
states flag that was ever created that is.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Correct we have The avenue Of flags and there are
twenty seven official versions of The United states flag from
its birth till present, day fifty stars and everyone is
on display with a story of the states that became
states of The, union that created those new, stars and
the time period and who also donated those flags for our.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Display and it wasn't that long ago we had forty
eight stars on the. FLAG i, mean our grandparents and
great grandparents grew up with fewer than fifty stars on
the flag in many.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Cases, well that was a magnificent story you just brought,
up because in our program this year that we had Last,
sunday a local, Clergyman Dan, nenning reminded us that In
july of nineteen sixty we got our fiftieth. Star And
i'm standing there with my sister and we decided that
(11:48):
she was a before fifty stars AND i was just after.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Fifty, stars and you're just going to keep reminding her
of that aren't.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Yet that's, right all, right.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Little brothers for that's. Awesome so as president of The
National Flag Day, foundation then what do you get to
do throughout the, year BECAUSE i mean this is the
museums open all year, Round.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Yes it, is and we do run tours all year
by request our phone numbers on our website and you
can come through our website with emails or phone calls
and we'd love to host your group at our. CENTER
i personally do a lot of those. TOURS i just
did one for The abay group out Of, germantown And
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i've got another group this week coming through On, thursday
and we go through the museums and we go through the,
history and we'll go through the Flag avenue Of. Flags
and we also have a large meeting, room The American,
room which is a refurbished area used to be the.
Gymnasium now it's a large group. Room it's beautiful and
(12:53):
it's just something we love to show.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
People that's. Awesome and you can contact Them Nationalflag day
dot com and the number is two six two four
eight three twenty five seventy. Six their address is forty
two Hundred Valley View drive In wabaca if you want
to put it in YOUR, gps and if you're on
a road trip one of The State Trunk tour road,
trips the nearest state highway Is highway fifty. Seven get To.
(13:15):
Fredoni you just turn left or, west depending which direction
you're coming From COUNTIES a AND. H you just keep
following that and you'll find the trailblazer signs that will
take you To, wabacus just a couple miles away and
a great drive in a beautiful rural part Of Ozaki.
County it sure.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Is and don't forget to see the program On saturday
At Stony, hill our new Town Shairman Christ jadick'll be
giving a speech up.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
There g any relation just a little bit by little.
Prob all, Right, well you can see all the JAT
x when you go there To, wabaca and make sure
you check out The National Flag Day foundation And Americanism
museum and just enjoy the glory Of Flag. Day there's
plenty of signs and flags up In wabaca remind you
that it was the birthplace Of Flag, day which we
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celebrate This. Saturday, david thanks so much for joining me
today on the. Podcast, eric thanks for having me our
thanks again To David janek of The National Flag Day.
Foundation make sure you go and check out that museum.
Sometime it's a very short drive From milwaukee and easy
to get to from pretty much. Anywhere Again Nationalflag day
dot com if you want to find out. More in,
(14:23):
fact there's photos of the museum we visited there On
state Trunk tour dot. Com be sure to explore our
drive in movie guide for this weekend all the venues
around the state that are. Open there's a couple for,
sale by the, way and we'd love it if you
were able to get your hands on one of those
things and reopen. Them drive in movies are so much.
Fun we also have that extensive guide to drive in
burger stands across the, state over thirty five of, them
(14:43):
and a number of other fun and quirky stops you
can make on your road trips Across wisconsin what we
like to call a state trunk. Tour make sure you
follow us On, FACEBOOK x And, instagram all with The
State Trunk tour. Handle thanks again for. Listening we'll talk
again soon on The State Trunk tour. Podcast, remember pick
a road and go
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