DOCUMENTS:
The Diary of Harvey Reid: Kept at Madison in the
Spring of 1861 35
HISTORICAL FRAGMENTS:
Wisconsin’s First Versifiers; Memorandum on the
Spelling of “Jolliet”; The First Edition of the
Zenger Trial, 1736; A Novel Transportation Device 64
EDITORIALS:
Introducing Ourselves; Our State Flag; The
Society and the Legislature; Nelson Dewey Park
and the First Wisconsin Capitol; Perrot State Park
and John A. Latsch; Forest Fires, Generally and in
Particular; Consolation for the Present Crisis 75
QUESTION BOX:
The Oldest Church in Wisconsin; The First Mills in
the Fox River Valley; Colonel Ellsworth’s Madison
Career; The Story of “Glory of the Morning”; The
Odanah Indian Reservation; First Exploration of
Eastern Wisconsin; A Community Changes Its
Name; How the Apostle Islands Were Named; The
Services of the Menominee in the Black Hawk War 87
SURVEY OF HISTORICAL ACTIVITIES:
The Society and the State; Some Publications 101