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What to Do This Weekend: Cool off With Jazz in Davenport
By Catey Sullivan
This week is a jazz lover’s paradise in Davenport, Iowa, as 18 cool combos, formed throughout the United States and Australia, flock here for the 40th Annual Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival. The music goes on from (roughly) noon to 11 p.m., Thursday through Sunday, August 4-7, at four different venues... Read more
Where to Go This Weekend: Oshkosh, Wisconsin
By Catey Sullivan
Never mind O’Hare. This week, the Oshkosh Wittman Regional Airport becomes home to the world’s busiest landing strip, as roughly 10,000 planes fly in for the Experimental Aircraft Association’s Fly-In Convention, a.k.a. AirVenture 2011... Read more
Where to Go This Weekend: Clear Lake, Iowa
By Catey Sullivan
If the heat has you hankering for a lakefront escape that doesn’t involve an urban skyline, consider the waterfront charms of Clear Lake, Iowa. This weekend, the small town celebrates its titular body of water with LakeFest, which is actually a triumvirate of fests... Read more
Where to Go This Weekend: Oregon, Illinois
By Catey Sullivan
One hundred years have past since the sculptor Lorado Taft completed his monument to Chief Black Hawk, which stands on the banks of the Rock River. This week, the centennial will be celebrated at Lowden State Memorial State park in Oregon Illinois, as the annual Oregon Trail Days Festival gets underway... Read more
Where to Go This Weekend: Racine, Wisconsin
By Catey Sullivan
For more than a century, the self-made billionaire scions of the SC Johnson company, made their home in Racine, Wisconsin. The Johnson family’s Racine association started with Samuel Johnson, who moved to Racine in 1882 and, six years later, began mixing up batches of floor wax in his bathtub... Read more
Where to Go This Weekend: Bridgman, Michigan
By Catey Sullivan
Some 4,000 wine lovers are expected to temporarily double the population of tiny Bridgman Michigan this weekend, gathering at Weko Beach for the sixth annual Lake Michigan Shore Wine Festival. From 1 to 10 p.m. on Saturday, June 18, more than a dozen southwestern Michigan wineries showcase locally grown varietals... Read more
Where to Go This Weekend: Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin
By Catey Sullivan
Credit singer/songwriter pat mAcdonald (yes, that’s how the artist known for “The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades” spells his name) for creating the all-volunteer Sturgeon Bay’s Steel Bridge Songfest. Founded in 2005 to preserve the tiny town’s 80-year-old Michigan Street Bridge, the four-day weekend of concerts this year will feature more than 150 pickers, strummers, songwriters, and singers from New Zealand to Chicago... Read more
What to Do This Weekend: Relive the Civil War
Back in the day (way back, as in less than 50 years after the Revolutionary War), one William Conner and his Native-American wife built a homestead above a flood plain about six miles north of Indianapolis. A century later in 1934, Eli Lilly (yes, of the pharmaceutical giant) bought the place; in the 1970s, the property evolved into a museum and would soon begin hosting Civil War reenactments on the property... Read more