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Day 22 – Downtown Neenah
A real nice dreary, wet drizzly day today. Hooked up with my coworker, Lon, and did some shooting in Neenah. Loved the mood of the day, just wish it wasn’t drizzling. I think this is the first time I took a photo of downtown with barely any cars.
Day 21 – Neenah Skyline
This was taken on the side of Theda Clark hospital. It’s actually the first time I was over on this side. Nice view, would love to see it at night as well.
Day 20 – More Snow
Yeah, more snow! Made for a fun trip to work today.
Day 19 – Railroad Bridge
Well today was FREEZING!! I took the little hike, which isn’t far from where I parked and my eyes were watered up. I took about 15 shots or so and half of them were blurry because I couldn’t see through my frozen eye socket! I did manage to capture this sunset.
Day 17 – Appleton Waterfront
Fratellos Waterfront Restaurant is in the former Vulcan Hydroelectric Power Plant which constructed in 1909 on a portion of the stone foundation of the 1881 Kimberly-Clark Vulcan Paper Mill. The original bedrock is still visible underneath the bar windows. The Vulcan Paper Mill was constructed to manufacture book paper. Like the Hearthstone mansion, perched on the bluff above, it was wired to receive electricity from a Thomas Edison dynamo generator connected to the water wheel of the Appleton Pulp and Paper Mill. These two papermills and Hearthstone (which is open to the public as a museum) became the first buildings in the world to be lit with hydroelectricity from a central power station. In 1908 the Vulcan Paper Mill was dismantled. The Vulcan power plant generated hydroelectricity for several Kimberly-Clark paper mills, including the Atlas Mill directly east of the building. The building is an L-shaped brick structure that sits on the bank of a power channel of the Fox River. The turbine room, now the bar, housed four original 1909 electric generating devices with wooden gears. During its years of operation, until it closed in 1974, the generating capacity at the plant varied between 1,350 and 1,450 kilowatts.
Read more about the Fox-Wisconsin Heritage Parkway
Day 16 – The PAC
The Fox Cities Performing Arts Center opened its doors to the public on November 25, 2002 in Appleton, Wisconsin to rave reviews.
The new $45 million facility opened its doors only 31 months after breaking ground. Not only was the facility built in a record amount of time, but it also was able to accomplish its goal of raising the $45 million through the private contributions of over 2,700 local residents and businesses. Boldt Construction Company worked closely with Zeidler Grinnell Partnership Architects and Artec Consultants to assure that this facility was world-class in both the amenities and the acoustics it has to offer its audiences.
For more info, visit there site here.
St. Mary Parish
St. Mary Parish of Menasha, WI. From St. Mary’s website:
Even though we are two different parishes, we share one faith- the Catholic Faith! As the years have passed, so have the boundary lines of where people were “supposed” to worship. You know: St. John’s was for those of Polish ancestry and St. Mary’s was for the Germans of the area. As time passed on, so too did the barriers that separated parishes. These two parishes have been working together for many years now to be good stewards of the resources given them from the members. Whether it is time spent in prayer or worship, people giving of their talents and abilities, or everyone financially supporting the church’s needs and ministries.
If you are not currently a member of a worship community, please feel free to contact us with any questions you may have. We’d love the chance to meet you. If you are already a member of either St. John’s or St. Mary’s, we thank you for joining us in worshiping our Lord and Saviour. If you have any questions, thoughts or ideas, we’d love to talk about them with you…
Visit there site here
Day 15 – Tonka v2
Glad I took this before my Packers lost the game today. I didn’t get a chance to go out today so I went with another one of my kid’s toys. The firetruck, oh yeah!!
More from my Day 14 shoot in Menasha
Normally these stay in my archives and get worked on later. Most of these are unedited. I tend to like b&w more in the winter time. Enjoy!
Day 14 – Old George Banta Corp
Banta Corporation was a major printing, imaging, and supply chain management company of the United States, based in Menasha, Wisconsin for all of its 105 years. Founded in 1901, it was acquired by Chicago-based RR Donnelley in late 2006.
