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“Migration & Community Building”
www.hillsboro_museums.com/images/early_threshing_1890s-4.jpg
Migration
• Migration is people moving from one place to another.
• How many of you have moved before?– It may have been house to house, one town to
another or maybe a new state.
Push-Pull & Counter-stream
• What may have “pushed” people (including yourselves) to move from one place to another?
• Often people migrate (move) because some difficulties “push” them to leave.
• At the same time the hope for a better life “pulls” people to a new country or region.
• Has anyone ever moved back to a place you once left?
That's Counter-stream
• Counter-stream is when people leave a country or a region and then come back.
• What are some instances that you can think of where people left an area only to return?
• Discuss these ideas of push, pull and counter-stream with a partner. Then read together pages 67-71 on “Migration.”
Assignment
• Each of you will need to have completed an “entrance ticket” to get into class tomorrow describing what push, pull and counter-stream mean to you.
Ethnic Groups
• What are ethnic groups?• What ethnic groups make up the residents of
Black River Falls?
• How did these groups get here?
• Do you know your ethnicity?
Reasons Ethnic Groups Came
• Obviously our community has a rich history of the Ho-Chunk nation living here.
• Ethnic Europeans came to this region early on for the fur-trade. In the 19th century people came for what the land offered them.........farming and lumbering.
Wisconsin’s Past and Present: A Historical Atlas by the Wisconsin Cartographers’ Guild (1998)
•Wisconsin ethnic groups
What does this map show of ethnic patterns in our county?
What is it not showing?
The Cut-over
• Cut-over? What is that?
• Northern Wisconsin land that was cleared by loggers. Farming was then tried on “worthless” stump filled land.
• What takes place in this region now?
Image ID: 10565Collection Name: Hand-Book for the HomeseekerWebsite: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullRecord.asp?id=10565&qstring
Image ID: 3724Collection Name:Website: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullRecord.asp?id=3724&qstring
Farming built Community
• Jackson County, as well as much of Wisconsin, was a farming community. With the technologies of the 1800s, for all the work to get done on all the farms, people came together to help one another out.
• Husking and threshing in particular were events where people worked together.
• Coming together to help.... build community!• What is the common feature of the following
pictures?
Husking in 1903
Threshing in Black River Falls, 1897
www.wisconsinhistory.org
Image ID: 28955Collection Name: Charles Van Schaick: Photographs and Negatives, ca. 1880-ca. 1940Website: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullRecord.asp?id=28955
Image ID: 1896Collection Name: Krueger CollectionWebsite: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullRecord.asp?id=1896
House and Barn Raisings
“The gathering took on the ‘character of a festival, for during the work stories had been told, adventures related, and everybody served with food and refreshments, which, in all, makes a house raising an “institution” among pioneers in America, much heralded, cheerfully attended, and long remembered by the participants’.”
quote from “Social Life in Wisconsin” by Lillian Krueger
Image ID: 32219Collection Name: Place FileWebsite: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullRecord.asp?id=32219&qstring
Husking and Shredding, 1919
Threshing in Cassville, 1905
www.wisconsinhistory.org
Image ID: 31816Collection Name: Frank W. Feiker Photographs: 1910-1950Website: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullRecord.asp?id=31816&qstring
Image ID: 23682Collection Name: McCormick-International Harvester Website: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullRecord.asp?id=23682&qstring
The common thread between them all?
People working together.
Coming together = Community
What happens as time moves on?
Threshing in Wisconsin - 1928
Image ID: 9247Collection Name: McCormick-International HarvesterWebsite: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullRecord.asp?id=9247&qstring
Threshing in Dane, 1950
Harvesting and Threshing in 1954
Image ID: 8472Collection Name: John Newhouse Photographs: 1945-1974Website: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullRecord.asp?id=8472&qstring
Image ID: 24611Collection Name: McCormick-International HarvesterWebsite: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullRecord.asp?id=24611&qstring
Image ID: 4330Collection Name: McCormick-International Harvester Website: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullRecord.asp?id=4330&qstring
Image ID: 12436Collection Name: McCormick-International HarvesterWebsite: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullRecord.asp?id=12436&qstring
Isolating the Farmer
• Gathering to harvest no longer needed
• Farm machinery isolates the farmer
• Rituals are lost• Sense of community diminishes
How do we get back community?
How do we get back community?
Independence Day Celebrations
http://www.riverfestlacrosse.com/
Through Festivals!
Festivals begin to become the way to keep community alive.
Image ID: Collection Name:Website:
La Crosse Winter Festival (1922)
Image from William J. Fitzpatrick’s book Official Souvenir View Book Out-Door Winter Carnival, Lacrosse, Wisconsin, January 25-28, 1922Website: http://murphylibrary.uwlax.edu/digital/lacrosse/LaxWinterCarnival/00090008.htm
The Winter Festival becomes Oktoberfest in the 1960sThe Winter Festival becomes Oktoberfest in the 1960s
http://www.oktoberfestusa.com/
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Celebrating the End of World War I in West Salem
1923 Dairy Parade in West Salem
From Leonard’s Dream by Errol Kindschy (1981)
Centennial Celebrations
From Leonard’s Dream by Errol Kindschy (1981)
Birth of Community Festivals
Town Festival Inaugural Event
La Crescent, MN Applefest 1949
La Crosse Oktoberfest 1961
Westby Syttende Mai 1969
Warrens Cranfest 1972
West Salem June Dairy Days 1974
Sparta Butterfest 1984
Festivals from around our area.
The festivals around our area are our way of bringing back community and preserving our history. The two forms of history they preserve are....
1. Ethnic preservation 2. Agricultural preservation Enjoy the pictures of some of these
celebrations and determine if they are ethnic or agricultural in nature
Postmodern Community:“Festivals in Rural Towns”
Heritage is still emphasized in many large
and small communities.
More festivals and other ways to keep community alive
Involvement by groups such as the Lions Club, 4-H, Ladies Aide, Scouts, etc. help to keep the sense of community alive.
Website: http://www.ruralexperiences.com/RS/images/Whitehall%20.1.JPG
Syttende Mai in Westby
http://www.westbywi.com/Syttende%20Mai.html
CranFest in Warrens
Sparta Butter Fest
http://www.cranfest.com/
www.spartabutterfest.com
Memorial Day Pow Wow in Black River Falls
Arcadia Broiler Days
Eleva Broiler Days
http://www.trempealeaucountytours.com/arcadia_broiler_dairy_days.htm
http://www.trempealeaucountytours.com/eleva_broiler_days.htm
Viroqua Wild West Days
www.viroqua-wisconsin.com/attractions/
Tomah Super National Truck and
Tractor Pull
http://www.tomahtractorpull.com/
117th La Crosse Inter-State Fair
www.lacrossetribune.com
Alma– Music & Arts Festival
Independence– Independence Days
Whitehall– Beef & Dairy Days
Blair– Cheese Fest
Bangor– Fun Days
West Salem– Garland Days
La Crosse– Deke Slayton AirFest, RiverFest, Winter Rec Fest
Onalaska– Sunfish Days
Holmen– Corn Fest
Cashton– July 4th
Leon– Gator Days
Ettrick– Fun Days
Galesville– Apple Affair
Pigeon Falls– Memorial Celebration
Trempealeau– Catfish Days
Celebrations still continue to unite community members.
Norske Nook Restaurant in Osseo.
Whether Norwegian, Polish, Native American, Old Stock American… the importance of community is still alive in the large and small communities of Western Wisconsin.
Show what you know!
Project Choices
1. Show a festival. Explain the festival’s origin. Does it show a community’s ethnicity, its agricultural history, or is it an economically motivated festival? Explain how it builds community.
a. This project will be presented in a minimum 5 slide PowerPoint.
Show what you know!
Project Choices
2. Bring in an artifact that shows your own ethnicity.
a. Write a one page description of its personal meaning to you and your family.
Also, show how it is used to show your ethnicity.
b. You will give a two minute presentation of your artifact.
Note: You will NOT read your description during presentation. It can be used as a
guide.
Show what you know!
Project Choices
3. Develop a poster showing a minimum of 3 aspects of your ethnicity. This poster must
be visual...NOT A REPORT! It must be no smaller than a sheet of large construction paper.
a. You may draw the pictures, cut out pictures from a magazine, download pictures, (Check w/ Ms. Sankey before printing any pictures.)
b. It may be a collage.
c. Check w/ me if ?'s on what you can do.
Show what you know!
Project Choices
4. Develop a poster showing how you or how your community of BRF builds community.
a. Once again, same requirements as the other poster choice.
b. Minimum of 3 aspects of how community is built.
Show what you know!
Project Choices
5. Research the area known as the cut-over. Describe its history; show its present.
a. This project must be approved by me before beginning.
b. We will discuss the format in which you will present your work.
GOOD LUCK AND GET TO WORK!
PowerPoint Lesson Prepared by:
Mr. Dutton7th Grade Social StudiesBlack River Falls Middle School
