Subject: "Nothing is Sacred"
From: "Jack Berndt" <[email-masked]>
To: "Cuca" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 09:06:08 -0500

Well, indeed there was a Centennial in 1954, but was to celebrate the 100th birhday of the Sauk Fire Dept. Note attachments. Included in the three day celebration was a pageant put on by the Sauk Men's Club, called Nothing is Sacred. Check out the cast of players. Ralph Marquardt was the narrator. Unfortunately, no script - just a general story outline, so perhaps is a copy somewhere yet... I've never come across it at Tripp & we do have a few of the Marquardt's donated items in our collection. If the script is found, would love to get a copy made for our museum archives. These old time "pageant performances" are a great piece of Sauk Prairie history - going all the way back to the classic 1914 Sauk City Pageant, of which we do have an original script copy, along with those great pageant photos hanging at Sauk Library & in Derleth room.  

I scanned the front page of the STAR with the VuPoint Magic Wand. The newspaper is 21+" in length - try doing that with a typical flatbed scanner! Simply rolled it down the paper, one line at a time... works slick for these kind of tasks. 1954 was an eventful year in local history - Joe Must Go, new Sauk City Auditorium, Polio cure on the wings, 100th Anniversary of Sauk Fire Dept....