Every bank keeps a ledger. Ours records better things: new drinks, town news, and the occasional story worth telling twice.
On November 27, 1882, five brothers from Baraboo staged their first show in Mazomanie, a few blocks from our counter. Two years later they had a circus. In 1907 they bought Barnum & Bailey.
Read the entry →A Beatles tribute, a lawn packed edge to edge, and a Mazomanie summer night done right. Next up at Mazo Live: Sharp Dressed Men on August 22, and the Birddog Blues Band closes the season September 26.
Read the entry →A folder of 2008 clippings from the Wall Street Gallery, a village that reawakened, and the people who did the waking. Also: a chief named Walking Iron, and the first show the Ringling Brothers ever gave.
Read the entry →Every coffee adds a regular to the line behind you, and the line follows exactly where you walked. That is the problem. The back office computer has been waiting since 1997.
Read the entry →Five locks, one watchman, and a needle that whispers when you are close. What waits behind the big door does not go in the newspaper. Ask the tellers.
Read the entry →Four teller windows, one espresso machine, and the morning line forming the way it always has. Downstream of the creek, as usual. Read the fine print.
Read the entry →One runs the town in 1855. One floats the creek. Finding them is the first level. The ducks are friends.
Read the entry →We rebuilt our website from scratch, and we may have hidden a few things in it. A word of advice: old bank buildings reward the curious.
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