Travel Today with Peter Greenberg--The Harley-Davidson Museum, Milwaukee, WI

What this episode covers

This week, Travel Today with Peter Greenberg comes from the Harley-Davidson Museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a city with ten miles of incredible lakefront and 111 locally owned downtown restaurants. The city that beer made famous is much more than that, with a great cultural renaissance and one of my all time favorite bookstores. Joining me will be Bobby Tanzilo, Editor of OnMilwaukee, with his favorite off-the-brochure locations and one special underwater secret about the city. Jim Fricke, Curator for the Harley-Davidson Museum on the wild and crazy collection of motorcycles, going back to 1903, with some real surprises. Milwaukee isn’t just about beer, they’re distilling gin, vodka, and even absinthe along the shores of Lake Michigan. Ted Perry FOX 6 Anchor, talks about his days at the University of Wisconsin and how he was once the actual mascot, Bucky Badger, for the football team, and he shares the wild story of how he got fired. Kathleen Ehley, Mayor of Wauwatosa, and a Harley rider, talks about her cross-country motorcycle rides. Also, Historian John Gurda talks about the great and little-known neighborhoods of Milwaukee.  There’s all of this and more as Travel Today with Peter Greenberg comes from the Harley-Davidson Museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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