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Article: YOU'VE COME A LONG WAY, LA CROSSE.(EXPLORE)
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- The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
- Article date:
- May 29, 2005
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Byline: Beth Gauper St. Paul Pioneer Press
LA CROSSE -- We'd been in this Wisconsin city for barely an hour, and everyone we'd met was a certified character.
In Riverside Park, Frank and Faith Rimmert and Jonathan and Barb Rimmert were decked in top hats, waistcoats and crinolines to meet the Mississippi Queen paddlewheeler, portraying the 19th-century locals who would have assembled.
"If your relatives were coming for a visit, you'd come to greet them," said Faith Rimmert, a volunteer for the La Crosse County Historical Society. "People picked up things being shipped in, or maybe you'd be looking for a servant -- you'd say, I want that person ...