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Article: Dancing bells
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- July 10, 2000
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Dancing bells
Pewaukee ringer pushes for home to practice peals across land
By JO SANDIN
of the Journal Sentinel staff
Monday, July 10, 2000
In his mind's ear, Roland Perschon hears cascades of golden sound
pouring in stately rhythm across the fields and woods of Waukesha
County.
For now, however, the bells of Pewaukee peal only in his
imagination.
What he does actually hear once each month are the bells of
Mitchell Tower on the University of Chicago campus, one of only 40
such towers in North America where bells are hung for "change
ringing."
To indulge their musical passion, Perschon and other members of
the Change Ringers' Guild of Wisconsin drive 90 miles to the Mitchell
Tower ringers ...