2025 Season Theme: Hearth & Home

When 24-year-old New Englander Juliette Kinzie traveled the winding corridor of the Fox River to Portage, Wisconsin, in 1830, everything was brand new to her urban Eastern senses.

Diverse cultural backgrounds were represented here: Indigenous, Metis, French Canadian, and a variety of other Old World ethnicities. Juliette’s words reflect how insight and understanding came from sitting around another’s hearth and observing the daily rhythms, traditions, and values of home life. The glow of each culture’s hearth and home experience reflected sparks of individuality, springing from the embers of shared human experience.

Join us in 2025 as we cultivate our own insights and understanding by exploring Hearth & Home in history.

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Audio/Visual Includes:
Drone Footage by Tim Hatfield
“Gathering Wild Rice, on the Fox river, Wisconsin, by the Winnebago Indians” 1861/1869, by George Catlin, National Gallery of Art.
“Arkansas Traveler” by Nat Keefe & Hot Buttered Rum, YouTube Audio Library
“White River” by Aakash Gandhi, YouTube Audio Library
Wisconsin Dells Singers and Dance Troupe of the Ho-Chunk Nation