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Wisconsin Hometown Stories: Manitowoc-Two Rivers premiered July 6 on WPT.
Wisconsin Hometown Stories: Manitowoc-Two Rivers follows the evolution of two cities whose culture, commerce and recreation have been shaped by neighboring Lake Michigan.
The program includes tales of shipwrecks and life-saving operations, the development and proliferation of wooden type and aluminum manufacturing, the region's participation in the World War II home front effort and the emergence and growth of new businesses in recent decades.
Teacher Resources
Teachers can select from an array of online materials
related to Manitowoc's and Two River's stories created by a teacher
committee working in cooperation with the Educational Communications
Board.
Resources
Explore articles and Web sites related
to Manitowoc and Two Rivers.
Transcript
Read the program transcript.
The
DVD for Wisconsin Hometown Stories: Manitowoc-Two
Rivers is now available.
$19.95. Explore
other videos at WPT.org.
Wisconsin Hometown
Stories is produced as a partnership of Wisconsin Public Television and the
Wisconsin Historical Society.
Wisconsin Hometown Stories: Manitowoc-Two Rivers is made possible, in part, by a principal gift from the Ruth St. John and John Dunham West Foundation Inc., and major gifts from the Francis A. and Georgia F. Ariens Fund within the Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region, Burger Boat Company, The Manitowoc Company, Orion Energy Systems, with additional funding provided by The Jane and Arthur Stangel Fund Inc., Steve and Erick Kahlenberg, Bill and Nan Webster, Amy T. Brady, Terry and Jo Growcock, Marjorie Burger Gunnell, Robert and Grace Peppard, Florence Spindler, Walt Vogl, Friends of Wisconsin Public Television, and The Wisconsin History Fund — supported, in part, by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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