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Shepherd Express writer Martin Hintz is
tireless, turning out innumerable articles and over 100 books. His latest, Forgotten Tales of Wisconsin, is a grab
bag of often amusing true stories from the Badger State. Some of them will be
familiar to students of the state’s history, such as Ed Gein’s grave robbing,
the anti-draft riots of the Civil War and the bomb that tore through a
Milwaukee police station in 1917, allegedly the work of Italian anarchists. But
who knew that pink lemonade was invented here? Or that the last sighting of a
passenger pigeon in the wild occurred in Babcock, Wis., in 1899? If a Wisconsin
version of trivial pursuit existed, Forgotten
Tales would be the book to study.
Martin Hintz talks about his new book at Boswell Book Co., 7 p.m., June 16; and at Next Chapter Bookshop, 7 p.m., July 14.
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