When we first moved to the Milwaukee area, people talked about the "witch" on Beach Drive, which is located on a dead end drive on Lake Michigan. The "witch of Fox Point," Mary Nohl created wonderful works of art, animals, people, dinosaurs, etc. out of cement. She would haul buckets of water from the Lake, and people assumed she was strange, weird, witch-like. Now that she has passed, there has been a movement to make her home a museum, but the neighborhood is resentful and doesn't want the traffic that goes with a museum on a dead end road near the lake. She has finally gained her notoriety and the respect she deserved as an artist. I took a ride there the other day, where you drive so very close to the lake. It was a beautiful day and brought back many memories of driving with my frightened children, who bought into the whole witch idea as children.
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