Hello Easy Walkers, Rollers and Paddlers!
Jennifer and I have been planning some easy walks with multiple League of Women Voters groups in southeastern Wisconsin. Stay tuned as a quarterly pattern of walk/rolls emerges for each season.
Upcoming events:
June 7 2pm starting at Racine Heritage Museum (free),
Racine Abolitionists and Joshua Glover Underground Railroad Story
Join us during Juneteenth month for a walk/roll about a Lake Michigan story of freedom. Dr Karen Lemke, interleague liaison for the Lake Michigan League of Women Voters and co-author of "Easy Walks and Paddles in Milwaukee," co-leads an easy walk/roll which begins at the Racine Heritage Museum and visits some of the historic markers recognizing Racine's history of community members supporting the abolishment of enslavement in the 1800s. Joshua Glover was a formerly enslaved person who was working in Racine when bounty hunters had him arrested and jailed in Milwaukee. Abolitionists in Milwaukee broke him out of jail and a network, the Underground Railroad, helped him escape to Canada, where a park in Toronto also recognizes his story. Join us for this easy walk/roll on paved surfaces and in a non-fully-ADA-accessible museum (free admission). https://
June 10th: Karen Lemke will be leading a walk/roll during the Vision Zero Summit event at the Central Branch of Milwaukee Public Library, free. Visit the event website for more details.
June 22 Solstice Walk in Firefly Grove Park in Tosa (Troll Park) event with Ozaukee/Washington County League of Women Voters along with members from the Milwaukee County League and Sheboygan County League. Free, but registration requested here:
June 22 Wauwatosa's Troll Park: https://www.lwvozaukee.org/content.aspx?page_id=4091&club_id=986869&item_id=2962662 |
| Troll Sculpture in Firefly Grove Park in Wauwatosa. "Wauwatosa" means Firefly in local Indigenous language. |
Aug 16 "We Are Water" event, easy walk to the art festival in McKinley Park hosted by Milwaukee Water Commons
Check out this article about Easy Walks and Paddles in MKE Lifestyle magazines. Flip to page 36 of the online edition.
