Kishwauketoe visit
On September 3rd members of the group met at Lynne Railsback’s home in Williams Bay to lunch before taking a walking at the Kishwauketoe preserve in Lake Geneva.
Joining us was the author of the Kishwauketoe book, James Killian, as well as Harold Friestad, one of the stewards responsible for the preserve.
Afterwards the group headed to the preserve to learn about about its history and, of course, look at all the beautiful native plants.
The start of the walk. The clouds that were threatening to rain cleared up for us.
All the various yellow prairie flowers were in full bloom alongside the goldenrod.
The purples of ironweed and lobelia, as well as the pink of native hibiscus could be seen here and there. Pale Indian plantain and compass plant towered above.
The lake was full of boats celebrating Labor Day weekend as we talked over sandwiches, salad and deviled eggs- complete with Sandy’s pictures of the chickens who provided the eggs!
Recently a group of artists received an ASBA grant to create brochures for Kishwauketoe in order to help visitors identify native plants on their walk. Some of those artists are also members of the Reed-Turner group. We all received copies of the late summer brochure to aid us in identifying what we saw, along with the help of some preserve staff who accompanied us on the walk.
The story of Kishwauketoe is about how of a community worked to protect and restore nature over allowing more commercial development.
Thank you again to Lynne for organizing this outing and hosting lunch for everyone! We are all willing and able to sit in your backyard at anytime.
You can read more about the preserve on their website: