Ozaukee Living local
  • Home
  • Stories
  • Events
  • About Oz

Once upon a time...

You can get OLL stories delivered weekly if you subscribe here.

​Photo by Eric Curtin

Whistle Stop Poems and the Poet of Saukville

9/16/2016

0 Comments

 
Picture
This past spring, Saukville Library Director, Jen Gerber, and friends of the Oscar Grady Library, came together to republish a long-lost book by one of its residents, Bill Harrington, who was dubbed "The Poet of Saukville" by the Ozaukee Press, upon Harrington's death on April 1st, 1949.  

The book, entitled Whistle Stop Poems, was written under the name Harrington Williams, and published in 1947 by the Ozaukee Press, where Harrington worked as a Sports Editor, just two years before Harrington died of a sickness he acquired while serving in the Navy in 1921.  

On Saturday, September 24th, at 2:30, the Oscar Grady Public Library invites the public to a poetry reading from Whistle Stop Poems at the Ozaukee County Pioneer Village in Saukville.

Attendees are encouraged to listen to poems, or even to grab the mic and read one themselves.  Light refreshments will be provided. Copies of the book will be available for purchase for $10, with proceeds of the book sale to benefit Saukville’s Oscar Grady Public Library programming.

Born in Milwaukee in 1903, Harrington was the son or Mr. and Mrs. Peter Harrington of Saukville.  He attended Marquette University, but quit his studies to join the U.S. Navy in 1921, where he served in the South West Pacific.  It was while he was doing rescue work during the great Japanese earthquake of 1923 that he was stricken with apoplexy, and was discharged from the service in 1925.  After a long period of hospitalization in Veteran's hospitals, he returned to Saukville and began a career as a sports writer for the Ozaukee Press.

Pioneer Village is located at 4880 County Rd I in Saukville.  For more information, visit 
http://www.oscargradylibrary.org.

0 Comments

    Archives

    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    April 2014

    Categories

    All
    Art
    Beer Garden
    Belgium
    Camps For Kids
    Cedarburg
    Citizen Action
    Classes
    Classes For Kids
    Community Events
    Concert Series
    Dance
    Dinner
    Fall Fun
    Family Fun
    Farmers Market
    Farms
    Festival
    Fireworks
    Fish Fry
    Fundraiser
    Grafton
    Health
    History
    Holidays
    Lake Michigan
    Live Music
    Local Food
    Mequon
    Milwaukee
    Newburg
    Night Life
    Open Mic
    Orchestra
    Outdoors
    Pancake Breakfast
    Parade
    People In Our Neighborhood
    Port Washington
    Reading
    Recipes
    Restaurant
    Run/Walk
    Saukville
    Sheboygan
    Shop Local
    Storytime
    Survey
    Theatre
    Thiensville
    Waukesha
    Workshop

    RSS Feed

Published By:

Picture

Why We're Here, by the Avett Bros.:

And they will pay us all in fame, though that is not why we came, and if it compromises truth, then we will go.  We came for salvation.  We came for family.  We came for all that's good, that's how we'll walk away.  We came to break the path; we came to cheer the sad; we came to leave behind the world a better way.

Contact Us

mary@ozaukeelivinglocal.com

Join our mailing list today!  One email newsletter a week, every Friday, with everything you need to know about what's happening in Oz.  
Subscribe Now
  • Home
  • Stories
  • Events
  • About Oz