June 30, 2018

Family Fun Before the Fourth is operated by Community Fun Events, Incorporated, a non-profit organization comprised of volunteers dedicated to organizing Mequon and Thiensville's premiere summer family fun and entertainment attraction.

This event is paid for entirely through sponsorships from area businesses and service organizations, the City of Mequon and the Village of Thiensville. 

Parade at 10:30 A.M
Free Ice Cream in Park After Parade! 
Spectacular fireworks at dusk!

By Joe Queenan in The Rotarian 

The last time I broke bread with my former college roommate Chris, we dined in a nondescript Italian restaurant on the outskirts of Philadelphia. A few months later, Chris would succumb to kidney failure, heart failure, and a bevy of other illnesses. 

Also in attendance that evening were two of my childhood friends, Joe and Richie, and Richie’s wife, Mary. Mary had been taught to cook by Richie’s mother, and each time I ate at her house it was like going back 50 years to the glorious era when Mrs. Giardinelli held sway over the kitchen. Chris had met Richie and Mary only that morning when they unexpectedly showed up with mops and buckets and volunteered to clean his house from top to bottom, taking eight hours to do so. Because of his illness, his house was a wreck.

“You don’t even know Chris,” I told Richie, marveling at their generosity.

“We know you,” he replied.

Museum of Wisconsin Art
April 14–July 29, 2018

Nestled deep in the woods near Kewaskum, in Wisconsin’s lush Kettle Moraine, sits Daniel Gerhartz’s studio. Inside, it feels as though you have stepped back in time to the grand manner painting of the Gilded Age. Canvases finished and unfinished line the walls. Paints, brushes, and a palette flank an enormous wooden easel; overstuffed chairs, props, and luxurious fabrics await the next model.

Gerhartz, born in Kewaskum in 1965, practices a form of Realism that traces its origins to the great figurative and portrait painters of the late nineteenth century.