Westby is a small town nestled in the rolling hills of Vernon County. Each May, Westby celebrates the town’s Scandinavian heritage with the annual Syttende Mai festival. The 47th Annual Celebration will be held May 15 – 17th, 2015. At Syttende Mai, prepare to...
“The best thing that we’re put here for’s to see; The strongest thing that’s given us to see with’s A telescope. Someone in every town Seems to me owes it to the town to keep one. In Littleton it may as well be me.” Robert Frost...
May brings thoughts of summer to Driftless Wisconsin. It also brings the opening of Wisconsin historical attractions throughout the region. In turn, these fascinating sites open our understanding of the new frontier that beckoned our ancestors to Driftless...
We had arrived home after our vacation when we first saw it standing on the western horizon; a shaft of light rising skyward from where the sun had just set. The Driftless area, with a topography sculpted from earth by water over time, generally needs no further...
We know about deep time in the Driftless Region. Because the landscape was never smoothed by glaciers or filled with drift, the older rock layers are there for us to read and explore. Along with the ancient landscape, we enjoy the darkest skies in southern Wisconsin....
Did you know that the Round Barns of Vernon County, Wisconsin are the highest concentration of round barns in the world? While there were only 17 left at last count, not that long ago the number was nearly double that. Of course, some of the round barns of Vernon...
