Viewers are treated to tour of Wisconsin in this episode of Jack Douglas’ America! Douglas opens the episode, “Away In Wisconsin,” addressing the audience. A quick montage of shots show viewers a river, rolling hills of dairy land farms, Winnebago Indians performing a traditional dance, and a descendants of Swiss immigrants. A badger runs around its enclosure at the Milwaukee Zoo (01:23). At the city of Racine (01:51), viewers see modern architecture on display in the city’s buildings, included some designed by Frank Lloyd Wright like the Johnson Wax Building. The episode then shows the capital building in Madison (02:07), Milwaukee, and the famous Milwaukee County War Memorial Center designed by Eero Saarinen (02:30). The glass domes of the Horticulture Conservatory in Milwaukee’s Mitchell Park dominate the horizon (03:10). Inside the “Show House” dome (now called the “Show Dome”), viewers see summer flower gardens on display. People relax on a sandy beach of Lake Michigan at Terry Andrae State Park in Sheboygan (04:08). The city of Green Bay sits on the Fox River as it meets Lake Michigan (04:40). The quiet park that is home to Nicolet Memorial (04:57) is just outside Green Bay. Members of the Green Bay Packers train next to the stadium as local citizens watch the practice (05:25). Near Baileys Harbor is small Scandinavian wooden chapel (06:06). In Little Norway (06:32), located in Blue Mounds, viewers see a living museum of Norwegian culture. A young woman in traditional Norwegian costume shows off beaded work (07:27), wooden wedding spoons, a wooden lock jewel box, and an ale bowl. A small model of a Viking ship is also on display. Little Norway also features a small storage house called a Stabbur house, a log cabin used by women who herd cattle (09:19), and a garden gnome. The next stop is at the Alpine Café in New Glarus, WI (09:55). Large rocks sit on the roofs of the Swiss buildings at New Glarus. Men and women play music in a parade celebrating their Swiss heritage; a swiss flag thrower performs in the parade. A music group plays a traditional song for the audience (11:18). At Greenbush, WI is the Old Wade House State Park; the episode shows the old house and inn (12:25). Inside the restored building is a hutch chair, an old pitcher, and two women showing how the Wade family retreived water from a well inside the kitchen. The episode also shows old bedroom furniture and other antique furniture on display at the Wade House. At White Birch Lake, two men walk down to their fishing boat (13:58); they catch a 26-lb musky. Next, the film goes to Craft Mart near Sister Bay, WI. Here, a woman weaves fabrics on an old weaving loom. The next stop is at Circus World Museum in Baraboo, WI. People walk across a bridge to see the carnival exhibits (15:02); visitors see the operations of loading circus cars on and off of train cars. The episode shows a France Bandwagon and an old chain-driven MAC truck from the 1920s that was used by the Bailey Brothers. Elephants perform a brief show for the audience (16:43). Near Hayward, Chippewa harvest wild rice from their canoe (17:05). At History Land, two lumberjacks demonstrate sawing logs. A man throws a hatchet at a target (18:10), and two other men compete in a log roll on the water. Also on the water, men engage in a game of canoe jousting. Next, viewers are taken to Fort Dells in the Wisconsin Dells (19:20). Visitors walk on a hanging bride, take a ride in a stage coach, and are delighted when their train is held up by the outlaw Black Bart. Chief Edward Cloud of the Winnebago tribe plays a drum while his four sons perform a traditional dance (20:08). Passenger boats take people on a tour through the upper dells (20:37), passing Witches Gulch, and motoring through narrow waterways. A Duck boat drives down a dirt road (21:37), then splashes into the Wisconsin River, taking visitors on a ride through the Wisconsin Dells. There is a scenic shot of Wisconsin’s rolling landscape. The film concludes back at New Glarus (22:45), where three men play a song on the large ornate wooden alpine horns.
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