- Announcer: This program is brought to you
by the combined resources
of the Wisconsin Historical Society
and Wisconsin Public Television.
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- Narrator: On "Wisconsin Hometown Stories,"
a town founded on the Mississippi river
built up by the wealth of a great pine forest,
and rebuilt after an economic collapse.
A city transformed by higher education, a medical revolution,
and the rivers that run through it.
On "Wisconsin Hometown Stories: La Crosse."
- Announcer: Principal funding was provided by
Don and Roxanne Weber;
Gail K. Cleary and the Cleary-Kumm Foundation;
Charles and Sue Anne Gelatt;
and continuing their rich history of community support,
Kwik Trip, founded in La Crosse in 1965,
and serving the needs of customers
in neighborhood stores across Wisconsin and beyond.
Additional support by Gundersen Lutheran Health System;
Dahl Automotive of La Crosse and Onalaska;
Sigurd B. Gundersen, Jr.;
Friends of Wisconsin Public Television;
and the Wisconsin History Fund,
supported in part
by the National Endowment for the Humanities.