This digital exhibit is provided by guest curator Autumn Wolter, intern at the Richard I. Bong Veterans Historical Center in Superior, Wisconsin. View the full digital collection at https://content.mpl.org/digital/collection/BVHC. Richard (Dick) Ira Bong, America’s Ace of Aces, was born on September 24, 1920 in Superior, Wisconsin to Carl and Dora Bong. He was their firstborn… Read More…
In honor of Hmong Heritage Month 2021, we’re pleased to celebrate and share several Hmong collections shared by Recollection Wisconsin and our partner organizations. Hmong Heritage Month began in 2004 as an opportunity for Wisconsinites to reflect on the many sacrifices that the Hmong, or Hmoob, people have made in service to our country and… Read More…
Located in Superior, Wisconsin, the Richard I. Bong Veterans Historical Center preserves and honors the memory of Major Richard I. (Dick) Bong and all veterans of World War II and subsequent conflicts, and provides educational resources for the Twin Ports area community and beyond. A native of Poplar, Wisconsin, Major Bong was known as America’s… Read More…
The most recent ingest of the Recollection Wisconsin collection into the Digital Public Library of American is complete and we’ve surpassed 600,000 historical photos, documents, and other resources in the collection! Among the additions this quarter are these two new collections: Listening to War brings together first-person accounts of veterans and civilians in Wisconsin during… Read More…
by Laura Jones, UW-Milwaukee SOIS My name is Laura Jones, and as a budding Library and Information Science graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, I was itching to get my hands on some materials in order to practice the skills and theories I’ve learned throughout my coursework. After the cancellation of several summer internships… Read More…
Veterans Day means a lot to me. It’s a day I take to reflect on my past and remember my experiences in the Army. When I look back, the main things I recall are the people I served with, the connections we made, and our experiences together. The past loses its meaning when we forget… Read More…
My name is Briana Fiandt and I’m the Curator of Collections at the Richard I Bong Veterans Historical Center in Superior, WI. I am the site supervisor for this summer’s CCDC program and I’m so excited about the project that we have undertaken. The Bong Historical Center is a museum dedicated to telling the stories… Read More…
In February I had the opportunity to speak at a meeting held by the Milwaukee County Genealogical Society to present Recollection Wisconsin as a resource for researchers and to explain our current Listening to War project. I opened the presentation with a story about my most vivid memories of Iraq and how this image helps… Read More…
This is a photo of me taken on February 10th, 2003, in Kitzingen Germany, Larson Barracks. I am 21 years old, it is two days before my 22nd birthday, and I have been married for two months. I will arrive at Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait on my 22nd birthday at 1am. I… Read More…
We’ve been on the road this fall, promoting Recollection Wisconsin and our projects that champion digital stewardship of local history resources –- Curating Community Digital Collections (CCDC) and Listening to War: Digitizing Wisconsin’s Wartime Oral Histories. Here’s a recap of our adventures! We rolled into La Crosse, Wisconsin on October 24th for the 2018 Wisconsin… Read More…
