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Summer
Summer is a very busy season (as it is in of WBNPR felt the need to include it on the
real life too!) Just as we come around the layout as well. For something not so com-
bend, there is an Air Products plant in the cor- mon, we find Al Johnson’s Swedish Restau-
ner of the layout, followed by farmland. The rant & Butik in Sister Bay. When Al Johnson
state of Wisconsin is made up of approximate- remodeled his restaurant in 1973 he added
ly 45% farmland. A field bursting with green something that would make his establishment
cabbage grows the main ingredient for almost as well-known as his food: a sod roof
Frank’s Sauerkraut. Unfortunately, ‘foreclo- with live, grazing goats! A landmark in Door
sure’ and ‘for sale’ signs dot the region, a sign County, the WBNPR has replicated the res-
of urban expansion and modern day ‘prog- taurant, goats and all.
ress.’ Just before Fall arrives, we discover a
A Milwaukee pizza institution since 1969, mishap made by the fire department. Appar-
Ned’s Pizza’s advertisement stands out. You ently they weren’t thinking clearly when they
can almost smell the melty cheese. Now to a ran their hoses over the railroad tracks and
whole other smell. A dairy farm, complete some passenger or freight train happened
with manure truck, being a common sight on along, slicing them like spaghetti noodles.
two lane roads all over the state, the members
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