CULTURE, CURDS AND CHEESY CHATTER [April Newsletter]

Volume 14, Issue 3Download PDF

REMINDER DATES:

  • April 12 Cleanup indoors at Center
  • April 14 Board of Directors at 5 at the Center
  • April 26 Outdoor Cleanup at NHCC Campus
  • NHCC Opens for the year on May 1, 10 a.m.

Cheesemaker’s wife turns 101 years young on April 10th!

Eleanor Klemm and her husband Wilbur Klemm (deceased) lived, and made cheese at the Decatur Swiss Cheese Co-op, in partnership with the late John Frehner. Fast forward…. Master Cheesemaker, Steve Stettler, and Decatur Dairy work with the Co-op as a team, making and marketing award winning Cheese, located near Brodhead, WI


Stirring the kettle, With President Jim

We are looking for stories! To our readers, far and wide, if your company has unique information to share about your organization, please forward to us. Just a note, information that has been published in a copyrighted format cannot be used. We need the information directly from you! Looking forward to hearing from you.

– Until next issue, Jim


Director Donna’s Monthly April Report:

Happy Spring!

We are soon approaching our 26th season at the National Historic Cheesemaking Center Museum and Green County Welcome Center. Guests and visitors can be assured that CDC procedures and State of Wisconsin Guidelines for Opening Public Facilities are in place to maintain a safe and healthy environment while touring the Museum and Imobersteg Farmstead Cheese Factory.

Assistant, Deb Briggs, and I are anxiously awaiting Saturday, May 1st when we open the doors and welcome our volunteers and visitors this year. Hours will be Thursday through Sunday from 10 am to 3 pm. Guided tours are scheduled at 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.daily.

We anticipate the spirit of traveling will heal our morale. Our staff and volunteers are looking forward to seeing you face to face, mask to mask, where “Cheese is Our Culture!”

In closing, I want to express my sincere gratitude for the support of our organization through your annual memberships, memorial and monetary donations, and the many ways you allow us to grow each year. A special “thank you” to the NHCC Executive Board for their continuing guidance.

Your Director, Donna


The National Historic Cheesemaking Center is a tribute to those who have gone before…and is dedicated to the hard work and sacrifices of all those in the dairy industry who have made this area of southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois internationally famous.
The unique center recalls the rich heritage of the area and is illustrative of the lively cheese industry which still flourishes today.