Wisconsin 2023-2024 Regular Session

Wisconsin Assembly Bill AJR52 Compare Versions

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4	4	2023 ASSEMBLY JOINT RESOLUTIO N 52
5	5	May 25, 2023 - Introduced by Representatives STEFFEN, BEHNKE, KITCHENS, MACCO,
6	6	SCHMIDT, SHELTON, SORTWELL, JOERS and MURPHY, cosponsored by Senators
7	7	COWLES, JACQUE, WIMBERGER and MARKLEIN. Referred to Committee on Rules.
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9	9	Relating to: honoring 2023 as the 100th anniversary of the Green Bay & De Pere
10	10	Antiquarian Society.
11	11	Whereas, the Green Bay & De Pere Antiquarian Society was founded in 1923
12	12	by Jessie Hurlbut Buchanan and a small group of women from Green Bay and De
13	13	Pere dedicated to retaining the early history of Brown County; and
14	14	Whereas, these women, concerned about the auctioning and loss of provincial
15	15	artifacts and heirlooms from inside one of Wisconsin's earliest French fur trader
16	16	homes, the “Roi-Porlier” Tank Cottage, united to preserve the site for public viewing
17	17	to the present day, including acquiring a table owned by President Zachary Taylor;
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19	19	Whereas, for their efforts and the preservation of Tank Cottage, the Green Bay
20	20	Press-Gazette celebrated the Antiquarians as “the group of remarkable women who
21	21	dedicated themselves many years ago to the protection and restoration in Green Bay
22	22	of some of the most important historical buildings in the Middle West”; and
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40	40	Whereas, following their preservation of Tank Cottage, the Antiquarians were
41	41	instrumental in furnishing and decorating the Cotton House, the Baird Law Office,
42	42	the Hazelwood Historic House, and the Fort Howard Hospital Museum; and
43	43	Whereas, the group was legally incorporated on May 15, 1934, with the purpose
44	44	“to hold, to purchase, and acquire real estate and antiquities; and to perpetuate the
45	45	history of the locality surrounding Green Bay, and the State of Wisconsin”; and
46	46	Whereas, in 1957, members of the society created the first annual Green Bay
47	47	& De Pere Antique Show and Sale, which raised funds for the society's local grant
48	48	program, which continues each year to this day; and
49	49	Whereas, to date, the grant program has gifted nearly $800,000 to many local
50	50	historical museums and societies for the preservation and restoration of historic
51	51	artifacts and sites, including Heritage Hill State Historical Park and Green Bay's
52	52	Old City Stadium, the first home of the Green Bay Packers; and
53	53	Whereas, in December 2006, the Antiquarians initiated a one-year, $1.3
54	54	million community-wide fundraising campaign to protect 69 appraised items from
55	55	an out-of-state auction house, including rare artworks and a photograph of
56	56	President Abraham Lincoln and his son Tad, personally signed “A. Lincoln and son,”
57	57	one of two known to exist; and
58	58	Whereas, the group has continued as one of the nation's oldest member-based
59	59	philanthropic historical preservation organizations; and
60	60	Whereas, 2023 will mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Green
61	61	Bay & De Pere Antiquarian Society, continuing in their mission to retain and
62	62	safeguard artifacts with national and regional historical importance to Wisconsin's
63	63	first European settlement through its local support; now, therefore, be it
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91	91	Resolved by the assembly, the senate concurring, That the Wisconsin
92	92	Legislature declares October 4, 2023, as Green Bay & De Pere Antiquarian Society
93	93	Day, honoring their outstanding service and generous role in the preservation,
94	94	restoration, and perpetuation of the history of Brown County and the State of
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