Special Collections & Archives
McIntyre Library
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
By June 2, 1921 the Second Ward School Parent-Teacher Association raised $600 to build two bathhouses at Boyd Park. PTA helped raise money to build dressing rooms for …

Words and memories by Brad Mueller
Image: Half Moon Lake, by Aaron Carlson
Growing-up on the Eastside Hill, and in Eau Claire generally, provided truly special opportunities for summertime childhood activities and adventures. I remember a special …

Words and memories by Brad Mueller
The classroom windows were fitted with black-out curtains-which I suspect were leftover from World War II. The black-out curtains were used to darken a classroom to show …

Last week at the monthly steering committee meeting, during public comments, the committee heard a proposal from a former neighborhood resident to support a fence running along the top of the Eau Claire river bank …

A big crowd stood in the snow to watch 117 youths ski down the wooden slide, soar through the air, land on the side of the hill and come to a skidding stop far out on the flat. Hosted by the neighborhood’s newly formed Hilltoppers Ski Club, it was Eau Claire’s first major ski jumping tournament for juniors and the site was the South end of the Forest Hill Cemetery grounds.