Local Features

The Bindlestiff Who Went North


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This week on A Northwoods Moment in History , local historian Gary Entz takes us back to 1905 and tells us the story of a bindlestiff named Frank Lamperer, who benefitted from the kindness of the people in Rhinelander. Before President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal of the 1930s established the first social safety net, people down on their luck often had no option but to roam the countryside, usually under dangerous conditions, in search of work wherever it might be available. For people with no
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