Stories from across Wisconsin you may have missed.
Green Bay: Centuries-old Bible returned to family of original owner.
After more than 50 years, it took a former Eau Claire detective just a few months to solve the case of the lost Bible. The Bible, which is more than a hundred years old, will soon be owned by the direct descendants of the original owners. The original owners were a prominent Green Bay couple who moved to Wisconsin after the Civil War. According to a report in the Green Bay Press-Gazette, the Bible has been owned by Kristine Ray and her family for about 50 years. She said it was most likely purchased by her father when he bought the contents of a storage unit in the 1970s. The Bible’s original owners, Michael and Mary Sutton, had their names engraved on the cover. Ms. Ray contacted the newspaper in late August hoping to get help locating the Suttons’ family. On July 31, Todd Johnson, a retired Eau Claire detective, received a message from his daughter with a link to the story and got to work. He found a link to a retired special education teacher from Green Bay and now the Bible is on its way home. Full story
Madison: The UW-Madison men’s and women’s ice hockey teams play at Wrigley Field.
Fans of the Wisconsin Badgers hockey team, both the men’s and women’s teams, should plan a visit to Chicago for early next year. The University of Wisconsin men’s and women’s hockey teams will play a doubleheader at Wrigley Field on Jan. 4 as part of a Big Ten event featuring the top two men’s and women’s teams from last season. BadgerExtra reported that Big Ten Commissioner Tony Petitti announced “The Frozen Confines: Big Ten Hockey Series” at Wrigley Field yesterday. The Badger women will face Ohio State in a rematch of the last two NCAA championship games, and the men will face defending champion Michigan State. The order of the games has not yet been determined, but start times are 4:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. All games will be broadcast on the Big Ten Network. Tickets will be available on the Cubs website starting Aug. 30. Full story
Oshkosh: One-woman show tonight at the Oshkosh Public Library.
If tragedy plus time equals comedy, then Kelli Dunham has experience in both. Kelli brings her one-woman show, Second Helping, to the Oshkosh Public Library under the dome tonight at 7 p.m. A Wisconsin native, Kelli is a former nun, nonbinary nurse, and storytelling comedian. Second Helping tells Kelli’s story of losing two partners back-to-back to cancer, followed by an unfortunate incident involving an exploding knee surgery that caused her to make different choices. Oh, and somewhere in her story, she was a nun. The show is described as part stand-up, part sit-down tragedy, with love and bodily fluids in the spaces between. Further details
