Six Weeks on the Road PART 2
Editor’s Note: This is the second installment in a two-part series. Part 1 was published in the April 19 issue of Numismatic News.
The beginning days of the first full week of February were busy. It started on Sunday with attendance at the ski jumping events of Iola’s 60th annual Winter Carnival on a beautiful winter afternoon, with the temperature at the freezing level and lightly falling, puffy snowflakes in the air. The ski jumping events of this three-day weekend are hosted on the grounds of the Iola Winter Sports Club, an organization dating from 1910, which in 1909 had presented the first organized ski jumping events in the state of Wisconsin. On Saturday afternoon/evening the program normally includes a Norwegian dinner featuring lutefisk and lefse, at which I’m normally one of the volunteers on the kitchen work crew, but this family-style event was once again cancelled in deference to COVID recommendations.
