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About Lost Milwaukee
Product Description From City Hall to the Pabst Theater, reminders of the past are part of the fabric of Milwaukee. Yet many historic treasures have been lost to time. Blocks of homes and apartments replaced the Wonderland Amusement Park. A quiet bike path now stretches where some of fastest trains in the world previously thundered. Today's Estabrook Park was a vast mining operation, and Marquette University covers the old fairgrounds where Abraham Lincoln spoke. Author Carl Swanson recounts these stories and other tales of bygone days. Review My favorite parts of Swanson's new local-history collection might just as easily be called "Old Weird Milwaukee": Alfred Lawson's airliner! Ice war on the Milwaukee River! Fatal steamship crash downtown! Hatpin ordinance! Drawing on articles he wrote for OnMilwaukee.com and MilwaukeeNotebook.com, Swanson unfurls these curiosities gracefully, with a friendly voice. Historical fiction writers could plumb his collection for germinal ideas for some moving stories. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "Swanson has an eye for a great story and a good eye for detail, too. His research skills are ace and he weaves a good yarn. He's been especially keen to recreate the bygone life along both banks of the Milwaukee River north of Downtown, where all sorts of activity once occurred on stretches that are now returned to woods. I love Swanson's work and that's because, in part, I think we have many of the same interests, and occasionally that means our work overlaps - we both wrote about the old Grand Theater on Holton Street, for example - but not as much as you might think. But mostly I love it because I always learn about Milwaukee history from Swanson's articles, which aren't dry or encyclopedic. Instead, they're engaging and eminently readable. OnMilwaukee.com" About the Author Carl A. Swanson explores and writes about his adopted hometown of Milwaukee. A magazine editor and author of Faces of Railroading from Kalmbach Publishing Company, Carl studied journalism at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and photography at the Woodland School of Photography. He lives in Milwaukee with his wife and three children and blogs about the city and its history at MilwaukeeNotebook.com.
