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First St. in Wausau; "Wisconsin for Kennedy" with B.J. Hollars, 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Peking Restaurant, 221 Scott St. in Wausau All events are free to attend.
The Wausau Holiday Parade will begin at 6:30 p.m. Dec. 6 at Marathon Park and travel to The 400 Block in downtown Wausau. Over 75 floats are expected to participate.
The Mistletoe Market Craft & Art Fair is set to have 100 handmade craft booths including gifts, holiday decor, florals, bath and body products and jewelry. Youth under 16 get in free if ...
The Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum is located in Wausau, Wisconsin. It is best known for its annual "Birds in Art" exhibition, which exhibits contemporary artistic representations of birds. The annual exhibition has been held beginning the week after Labor Day since the museum's founding in 1976. [2]
Yawkey was a co-owner of a firm in Saginaw, Michigan, before moving to Wausau to purchase large tracts of land for lumber. He later owned numerous local businesses, was a member of the Wisconsin Legislature, [3] and led the Wausau Group, which invested in new businesses like paper mills around Wausau as pine timber dwindled. [4]
Wausau (/ ˈ w ɔː s ɔː / ⓘ WAW-saw) is a city in and the county seat of Marathon County, Wisconsin, United States, along the Wisconsin River. As of the 2020 census , it had a population of 39,994. [ 4 ]
The Marathon County Public Library - Wausau Headquarters. The Marathon County Public Library (MCPL) is a consolidated county library with nine locations in Marathon County, Wisconsin, U.S.A. Its headquarters are in Wausau. The library has its origins in the Wausau Free Public Library, which was founded in April 1907.
The origins of the name "Wausau Pilot and Review" are in a handful of interrelated 19th-Century newspapers in Wausau, Wisconsin. The Wisconsin River Pilot, established in 1865 by 18-year-old Valentine Ringle, of German descent (also founder of the German-language Wausau Wochenblatt 1876-1887), and reflected Ringle's Democratic political leaning.