Category Archives: History

Sussex 4-H Club

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Retrospect: The Lisbon 4-H Club of 1950: Where are they now? By Fred Keller Sussex Sun, Posted: July 23, 2008 Betty Manke Riemer, a charter member of the Sussex-Lisbon Area Historical Society, recently came up with a 58-year-old photo of a 1950 meeting of the Lisbon 4-H Club. The 4-H movement was very strong in those days, with many clubs… Read more »

Milwaukee and Wisconsin Garage Bands

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  Milwaukee and Wisconsin Garage Bands   The second installment of the Radio Ready regional power pop compilation series takes us to Wisconsin, a land more known for football, cheese and beer than infectious pop tunes, yet the 14 tracks contained within the grooves of this LP showcase groups from Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay and Kenosha during a period of… Read more »

Wisconsin Recording Studio Locations [City] and Record Labels

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    Part of our new Depot Museum music exhibit consists of records, 45s and LPs [a few 78s] from nearby recording studios by local musicians/bands. However, we also include others from many different Wisconsin locations; here are most of those areas [Note: Most are not represented in our collection].   Wisconsin Recording Studio/Pressing Locations “Sauk City”, “Eau Claire”, “Appleton”, “Racine”,… Read more »

We Return band

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  We Return Band The beginning of Peace Valley Connection was actually kind of a union of people from three Sussex Hamilton bands that were going through some changes due to members graduating and other changes. The most well known and accomplished group was “We Return” formerly known as the “The Reason Why.” The members of this group included Steve… Read more »

Suzy Hart and the Heartbeats band, Sussex, Wisconsin

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Suzy Hart and the Hart Beats [Heartbeats] August 2011 – Hart, Lorraine H. “Suzy” (Nee Steffen) Age 92 years. Formerly of Sussex. Beloved wife of the late Earl E. Loving mother of Carol (Walter) Zeck, Gregory (Kristine), Michael, and the late Judith Bliss. Proud grandmother of Tammy, Kip (Jackie) and Kevin Bliss and Scott (Lisa) Hart. Devoted great-grandmother of Ryan,… Read more »

The Grindstone Band

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  The Grindstone Band The beginning of Peace Valley Connection was actually kind of a union of people from three Sussex Hamilton bands that were going through some changes due to members graduating and other changes. The most well known and accomplished group was “We Return” formerly known as the “Reason Why.” The members of this group included Steve Fuller,… Read more »

The Underground Secret Fortress, Sussex, WI.

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The Underground Secret Fortress, Wisconsin From: Black Belt TheatreOn Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 7:34 AM, <noreply@bandcamp.com>To:Mike Reilly Today at 12:18 PMHi Mike,It’s our drummer’s basement. Steve Adams,of Sussex, Member of Black Belt Theatre, drummer, http://www.blackbelttheatre.com, https://www.facebook.com/blackbelttheatre, Former member of TVT recording artists Bender: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bender_(band)  and https://www.facebook.com/bendermusic . Uses home recording studio known as:”The Underground Secret Fortress”.

Thee Radicals band

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  Thee Radicals Band Mike Truttschel: Mike Reilly, this is a very cool thing that you are doing to preserve musical memories for a lot of us. I’m adding some photo albums to my FB page of my previous bands “The Reason Why” and “We Return.” You are welcome to use any of those as well. One other band that had… Read more »

Tom Leipzig, musician

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  Tom Leipzig Tom LeipzigNice memory walk Mark… It was a great time for me and being associated with some very talented people (as many of the same kept up thier music interests and still “have it” to enjoy)! Tom LeipzigI was a drummer and back up singer in my day… Not as good as the rest of the players… Read more »