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Curio
Reports of Thomas Edison’s experiments with electric lighting cropped up frequently in newspapers starting around 1878. As a result, gas stock values fell and public anticipation for a cheaper means of illumination grew. On New Year’s Eve 1879, Ediso
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Curio
Long-time Sun Prairie residents will remember the flying saucer that stood at the corner of West Main and Hart Streets from 1974 until 1983. The Finnish-designed structure was the signature piece of the Galaxy Plaza. The out-of-this-world building be
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Letter From The Editor
As you open this issue, you may, like me, be waiting to see the first stubborn signs of spring: the crocus, early daffodil, or skunk cabbage. Like these early spring ephemerals, each of the articles in our Spring issue has in common an individual or

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