“We choose to go to the Moon! We choose to go to the Moon... We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”
- John F. Kennedy, American President
“I was star-struck at age nine. Having been born in the Bronx, I thought I knew how many stars there were in the night sky, about a dozen. Then you go into the dome of the planetarium and then thousands of stars come out. I just thought it was a hoax.”
~ Neil de Grasse Tyson, American Astronomer
“The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”
~ Muriel Rukeyser, American Poet
Robert Ritzenthaler and Frederick Peterson: An “Ethnographer’s Paradise” (1954)
“O, sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.”
- Roman Payne, American born Novelist
“If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.”
- Loren Eisley, American Anthropologist & Writer
Stars seem serene. Their light appears steady and constant. Constellations stay the same year after year.
The Ho-Chunk -- formerly called the Winnebago -- are members of a Siouan-speaking tribe who were established in Wisconsin at the time of French contact in the 1630s. The oral traditions of the tribe, particularly the Thunderbird clan, state that the Ho-Chunk originated at the Red Banks on Green Bay.