Today I received my first official postcard from postcrossing. It is from Kim in Wisconsin and took 10 days to arrive. It is the first I've received from this state and gives quite a bit of information about the state right on the front of the postcard. Besides what can be seen on the front Kim let me know it was below freezing on the day it was sent (3/28) which is crazy considering it was in the mid to high 70s here in Las Vegas. We even had one day last week that reached 88.
Here are some more facts about Wisconsin:
-The state capital is Madison but the largest city is Milwaukee
-It is the 23rd largest state in the USA and is ranked 20th in terms of population
-The state name originates from the name given to the Wisconsin River by an Algonquian speaking American Indian group living in the area at the time of European contact. It was first recorded as Meskousing and later corrupted to Ouisconsin by the French and then anglicized and changed to its modern spelling in the early 19th century.
- The Little White Schoolhouse in Ripon held the nations first meeting of the Republican Party and is heralded as the birthplace of said party.
-Recorded temperatures vary from a high of 114F recorded in July of 1936 to a low of -55F recorded in February of 1996
-While the state animal is the badger (as seen on the postcard) the state domesticated animal is the dairy cow and the state beverage is milk. (I supposed this is where the unhappy cows come from if the happy ones are all from California)
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