Reminder: Bay View Tragedy Commemoration, Sunday, May 6—features Larry Penn and John Gurda

May 3, 2012

REMINDER:  Bay View Tragedy relives deaths of 8-hour day marchers in 1886

May 6th Ceremony marks Wisconsin’s most historic labor incident

126th Anniversary Commemoration

Bay View Tragedy

 

3 p.m., Sunday, May 6, 2012

Bay View Rolling Mills Historical Marker Site

S. Superior St. and East Russell Ave., Milwaukee

 

WLHS LogoOutdoor Ceremony

Stephanie Bloomingdale, Secretary-Treasurer, Wisconsin State AFL-CIO

Larry Penn, Folksinger

Re-enactment of 1886 incident

Milwaukee Public Theatre and Milwaukee Puppet and Mask Theatre

 

Open Discussion 4 p.m. Club Garibaldi

Featuring John Gurda, Milwaukee Historian, moderator

 

GREAT PHOTO / VIDEO OPPORTUNITIES

 

Huge Puppets will help reenact the 1886 event, accompanied by some 20 volunteer actors, with signs and costumes of the 1886 era.  More than 400 persons attended last year’s event.

 

See Press Release.  Click here.

Sponsored by the Wisconsin Labor History Society, an affiliate of the Wisconsin Historical Society.

The event is funded in part by a grant from the Wisconsin Humanities Council, with funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views expressed in this project do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment of the Humanities.
The Wisconsin Labor History Society is dedicated to preserving and telling the stories of workers and their unions in Wisconsin.  The Society is endorsed by the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO and is affiliated with the Wisconsin Historical Society.
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