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<p>[QUOTE="leeg, post: 3922781, member: 17073"]Thanks all!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1034082[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>For these reasons, and especially because the interest his visit (Jean Nicolet) created was never permitted to die or to be lost, the state is under deep obligations to the people of Green Bay for causing the tercentennial of Nicolet’s visit to be adequately observed.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1034083[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p> This was done in a variety of ways: Through the issuance by the Post Office Department of a special commemorative three cent stamp, bearing Edwin W. Deming’s painting of Nicolet’s landfall; by a visit to Green Bay on August 9, 1934, of President Franklin D. Roosevelt; by a Fox River Valley parade on the opening day, July 7, and the religious observances on July 5. Of special educational significance was the historic pageant, Under Three Flags, given first August 14 and thereafter repeated twice each week till Labor Day. The text of the pageant was prepared by Dr. Louise Phelps Kellogg assisted by Dean Susan B. Davis, both of Madison, and the verses appearing in the pageant book are by Mrs. Sara Kimball Carhart, of Milwaukee. Mr. Lehr Knowles, of Fostoria, Ohio, was the producer. The actors were local talent of Green Bay, some of whom, it is said, impersonated their own ancestors.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1034084[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>In 1929, just a decade after their founding, and in their ninth year of NFL membership, the Packers were national champions, with an unbeaten, once-tied record. They repeated in 1930 and ’31, as the first ‘Triple Champions’ in league history, a feat matched only by Vince Lombardi’s powerhouses of the 1960s. Here are the 1929 champs. From the Neville Public Museum, Otto Stiller Collection. Courtesy of Wisconsin Pictorial History, p. 154.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Harold T. I. Shannon, of the Green Bay <i>Gazette</i>, was general manager of the Tercentenary, Incorporated, of which Governor A. G. Schmedeman was honorary president and Mrs. Arthur Courteney Neville and Mayor John V. Diener, of Green Bay, were honorary vice-presidents.</p><p><br /></p><p> The participation of the churches, Catholic and Protestant, in the Green Bay celebration, suggests that a significant religious movement is associated in the minds of Wisconsin people with the beginnings of our civilization<b>. . .</b></p><p><br /></p><p> Green Bay’s deep-seated conservatism paid off in the 1930s. The Great Depression came late to the area, thanks to cautious leaders who weren’t caught with too big a lead off base. Unemployment caused suffering, but hometown agencies took care of their own and the city never had to resort to bread lines and soup kitchens. The tone of the area press was so determinedly cheerful it’s hard to tell at a distance in time how tough things really were, but the worst was apparently over by 1935.</p><p><br /></p><p> At the very bottom of the depression Green Bay had enough bounce to observe the 300th anniversary of the landing of Jean Nicolet. The 1934 Tercentennial, born in the fertile imagination of Harold Shannon, culminated in a visit by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. However, the summer-long celebration, while an artistic success, was a financial failure.</p><p><br /></p><p> A newspaper survey at the time revealed that although Green Bay was primarily a paper center with 20 percent of the labor force engaged in papermaking, it also had more than 100 other industries. It was the world’s largest cheese manufacturing and shipping center; the biggest wholesale and jobbing market north of Milwaukee; and was second only to Duluth, Minnesota as a western lake port. It also boasted the world’s largest pickle factory.”<b>1</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>1</b> <b><i>Articles of General Interest</i>, Wisconsin Anniversaries. By Joseph Schafer, <i>Superintendent</i> Historical Society of Wisconsin. Chapter 1, p. 3-5, 7-8. Kellogg Bank is pleased to present this limited edition copy of <i>Green Bay: A Pictorial History</i>. . .We gratefully acknowledge the work of Jack Rudolph, author of this book, for his commitment to this publication. . .Officers, Directors, and Staff of Kellogg Bank, 1934. Chapter 7, p. 154, 156, 158-159.</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Still more to follow.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="leeg, post: 3922781, member: 17073"]Thanks all! [ATTACH=full]1034082[/ATTACH] For these reasons, and especially because the interest his visit (Jean Nicolet) created was never permitted to die or to be lost, the state is under deep obligations to the people of Green Bay for causing the tercentennial of Nicolet’s visit to be adequately observed. [ATTACH=full]1034083[/ATTACH] This was done in a variety of ways: Through the issuance by the Post Office Department of a special commemorative three cent stamp, bearing Edwin W. Deming’s painting of Nicolet’s landfall; by a visit to Green Bay on August 9, 1934, of President Franklin D. Roosevelt; by a Fox River Valley parade on the opening day, July 7, and the religious observances on July 5. Of special educational significance was the historic pageant, Under Three Flags, given first August 14 and thereafter repeated twice each week till Labor Day. The text of the pageant was prepared by Dr. Louise Phelps Kellogg assisted by Dean Susan B. Davis, both of Madison, and the verses appearing in the pageant book are by Mrs. Sara Kimball Carhart, of Milwaukee. Mr. Lehr Knowles, of Fostoria, Ohio, was the producer. The actors were local talent of Green Bay, some of whom, it is said, impersonated their own ancestors. [ATTACH=full]1034084[/ATTACH] [B]In 1929, just a decade after their founding, and in their ninth year of NFL membership, the Packers were national champions, with an unbeaten, once-tied record. They repeated in 1930 and ’31, as the first ‘Triple Champions’ in league history, a feat matched only by Vince Lombardi’s powerhouses of the 1960s. Here are the 1929 champs. From the Neville Public Museum, Otto Stiller Collection. Courtesy of Wisconsin Pictorial History, p. 154.[/B] Harold T. I. Shannon, of the Green Bay [I]Gazette[/I], was general manager of the Tercentenary, Incorporated, of which Governor A. G. Schmedeman was honorary president and Mrs. Arthur Courteney Neville and Mayor John V. Diener, of Green Bay, were honorary vice-presidents. The participation of the churches, Catholic and Protestant, in the Green Bay celebration, suggests that a significant religious movement is associated in the minds of Wisconsin people with the beginnings of our civilization[B]. . .[/B] Green Bay’s deep-seated conservatism paid off in the 1930s. The Great Depression came late to the area, thanks to cautious leaders who weren’t caught with too big a lead off base. Unemployment caused suffering, but hometown agencies took care of their own and the city never had to resort to bread lines and soup kitchens. The tone of the area press was so determinedly cheerful it’s hard to tell at a distance in time how tough things really were, but the worst was apparently over by 1935. At the very bottom of the depression Green Bay had enough bounce to observe the 300th anniversary of the landing of Jean Nicolet. The 1934 Tercentennial, born in the fertile imagination of Harold Shannon, culminated in a visit by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. However, the summer-long celebration, while an artistic success, was a financial failure. A newspaper survey at the time revealed that although Green Bay was primarily a paper center with 20 percent of the labor force engaged in papermaking, it also had more than 100 other industries. It was the world’s largest cheese manufacturing and shipping center; the biggest wholesale and jobbing market north of Milwaukee; and was second only to Duluth, Minnesota as a western lake port. It also boasted the world’s largest pickle factory.”[B]1[/B] [B]1[/B] [B][I]Articles of General Interest[/I], Wisconsin Anniversaries. By Joseph Schafer, [I]Superintendent[/I] Historical Society of Wisconsin. Chapter 1, p. 3-5, 7-8. Kellogg Bank is pleased to present this limited edition copy of [I]Green Bay: A Pictorial History[/I]. . .We gratefully acknowledge the work of Jack Rudolph, author of this book, for his commitment to this publication. . .Officers, Directors, and Staff of Kellogg Bank, 1934. Chapter 7, p. 154, 156, 158-159.[/B] Still more to follow.[/QUOTE]
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