Stroebe Island

June 14, 1968, Oshkosh Northwestern

I found this great description of old time life on Stroebe Island in an edition of the Northwestern newspaper, celebrating its first 100 years of existence.  As was the practice of the day, big events such as anniversaries necessitated a special edition with many stories about surrounding communities.  We saw this during the 1948 celebration of Wisconsin's statehood and again in 1953 during Menasha's centennial.  We first encountered Stroebe Island on the blog in 2014:  http://menashabook.blogspot.com/2014/09/stroebe-island.html.