[1] Harry H. Anderson, “Recreation, Entertainment, and Open Space: Park Traditions in Milwaukee County,” in Trading Post to Metropolis: Milwaukee County’s First 150 Years, ed. Ralph M. Aderman (Milwaukee: Milwaukee County Historical Society, 1987), 255-323.
[2] Mary Alice Koehne, “A Spring of Flowers—Gardens Make Lots of Scents,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
[1] The park was renamed Borchert Field in 1927 after the death of the Brewers’ owner, Otto Borchert. Jim Nitz, “Borchert Field (Milwaukee),” Society for American Baseball Research, last accessed May 24, 2013.
[2] Nitz, “Borchert Field (Milwaukee).”
[3] “Borchert Field One of Four Parks Which Lured City’s Baseball Fans,” Milwaukee Journal, section
[1] Paul Calhoun, “Lure of the Ring” Milwaukee Magazine (August 1995): 56.
[2] Ellen Langill and Dave Jensen, The Greater Milwaukee Story (Milwaukee: Milwaukee Publishing Group, 1996), 43-44.
[3] Pete Ehrmann, “Remembering Boxing’s Fantastic, and Illegal, Return to Milwaukee,” OnMilwaukee.com, April 28, 2014, accessed June 1, 2014. The rules, according to local
[1] Boys & Girls Club of Greater Milwaukee: 100th Anniversary, 1887-1987 (Milwaukee: Boys and Girls Club of Greater Milwaukee, 1987), 2-3, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Archives, Milwaukee; Plymouth Congregational Church, undated photograph, Historic Photo Collection, F.P. Zeidler Humanities Room, Milwaukee Public Library, Milwaukee Public Library Digital Collections, accessed December 26, 2013; “About Us,” Boys & Girls
[1] John Gurda, Milwaukee: A City of Neighborhoods (Milwaukee, WI: Historic Milwaukee Inc., 2015), 175. Reflecting the contested character of neighborhood boundaries in Milwaukee, Google Maps shows the western portion of the southern boundary of Brewer’s Hill along Pleasant Street, excluding the Schlitz complex campus. See Google Maps, accessed September 14, 2017.
[1] Thomas C. Cochran, The Pabst Brewing Company: The History of an American Business (New York: New York University Press, 1948), 42.
[2] This brewery was also commonly known as the Owens Brewery. Owens and his associates sold the brewery in 1864 to M. W. Powell and Company, who abandoned it in 1880 as lager became
[1] John Gurda, The Making of Milwaukee (Milwaukee: Milwaukee County Historical Society, 1999), 15, 26-38, and 48-53; Robert W. Wells, This Is Milwaukee (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970), 48-49. For a capsule summary of the bridge conflict, see Matthew Prigge, “Bridge Wars!” Shepard Express, April 7, 2014, http://shepherdexpress.com/article-23073-bridge-wars_-a&
[1] John Gurda, The Making of Milwaukee (Milwaukee: Milwaukee County Historical Society, 2008), 26-38.
[2] Gurda, The Making of Milwaukee, 37.
[3] Bayrd Still, Milwaukee: The History of a City (Madison, WI: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1948), 22-23, 98-99; Gurda, The Making of Milwaukee, 35.
[1] Joe William Trotter, Jr., Black Milwaukee: The Making of an Industrial Proletariat, 1915-45, 2nd edition (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2006), 21-24; Patrick D. Jones, The Selma of the North: Civil Rights Insurgency in Milwaukee, reprint edition (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010), 19; John M. McCarthy, Making Milwaukee Mightier: Planning
[1] Rick Fields, How the Swans Came to the Lake (Boston, MA: Shambala Publications, 1992), 119-129. This entry was first published on July 6, 2018 and updated September 9, 2019 and June 17, 2022.
[2] For more information, see Milwaukee Zen Center website, last accessed July 11, 2017.
[3] Milwaukee Mindfulness Practice Center website, last accessed July 11, 2017. “Thich Nhat Hanh,
[1] Richard Harris, “Building Regulations and Building Codes,” in Encyclopedia of American Urban History, ed. David Goldfield (Charlotte: University of North Carolina, 2007), 102-105; Richard Harris, “Building Regulations,” in Encyclopedia of Urban America: The Cities and Suburbs, ed. Neil Larry Shumsky, vol.1 (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1998), 104-105.
[1] H. Russell Austin, The Milwaukee Story (Milwaukee: The Journal Company, 1946), 39.
[2] Goodwin Berquist and Paul C. Bowers, Jr., Byron Kilbourn and the Development of Milwaukee (Milwaukee: Milwaukee County Historical Society, 2001), 1-16; John G. Gregory, History of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Chicago, IL: S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1931), I: 136-38;
[1] Robert F. Flahive, “Cardinal Stritch College: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow,” (Ph.D. diss., Marquette University, 1973), 3. This entry was originally posted on May 21, 2018 and updated on June 1, 2023.
[1] North Callahan, Carl Sandburg: His Life and Works (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1987), xiii.
[2] Philip R. Yanella, The Other Carl Sandburg: A Portrait of the Radical Sandburg Before His Glory Days in the Pantheon of Popular Writers (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1996), 9-10, 11-13; Penelope Niven,
[1] Various spellings of “Quarlls” are found in different sources; this spelling used here is understood to be the one used by Caroline Quarlls Watkins and descendants. Julia Pferdehirt, Caroline Quarlls and the Underground Railroad (Madison, WI: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2008), 2 and e-mail message to author from Kimberly Simmons, June 24, 2015.