News
We would like to Welcome
new Friends of Hawthorn Hollow Board members
Joy Wolf and Tom Schleif.
Tom Schleif
Executive Director
Kenosha History Center
| Tom Schleif is a native of North Central WI. He received a BS in Anthropology with an emphasis in archaeology from UW Oshkosh. He has done archaeological work in Wisconsin and on the coast of Massachusetts. Previous museum experience included Curator of Exhibits at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum and Executive Director of the Marathon County Historical Society Museum, both in Wausau. He spent over 25 years organizing events in the Wausau, WI area, started two Blues Festivals and organized and ran one of the largest living history festivals in the northern part of the State. He also spent 10 years working in the computer multi-media field and produced interactive displays for the Field Museum in Chicago and an award-winning piece for the Marathon County Historical Museum on the history of the lumber industry in the Wisconsin River Pinery. |
Joy Wolf, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Geography
University of Wisconsin-Parkside
Joy Wolf's research interests are biogeography, restoration ecology, disturbance ecology, specifically fire and exotic invasion and its impact on native plant community and soil processes in response to anthropogenic changes in land use; research includes the ponderosa pine and mixed-conifer old-growth forests in North Rim of the Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, montane grasslands in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, riparian corridors in central Arizona and Great Lakes Basin, and several diverse communities in Wisconsin including the oak savanna, maple-beech forests, and ephemeral ponds.
The Original Pike River School Bell is now installed in the attic of the 1906 School. The bell is fully operational and rung by pulling the rope that hangs down through the ceiling in the schoolhouse cloakroom. The "period dressed" teachers ring the bell to start the re-enactment school days for Kenosha County third graders.
The One-Room Schoolhouse program, as part of Kenosha County Historical Society's Living History Learning Project - funded by the Elizabeth J. Riley Charitable Trust of Kenosha - has experienced enthusiastic enrollment here at Hawthorn Hollow.