Up-to-the-minute television pictures of death and horror falling from the sky have dominated news programs from the other side of the world lately. They are hard to watch. It’s not easy to sit in our living room and witness huge buildings crumble and people die – as is happening thousands of miles away.
With that in mind, perhaps the following story about something falling from the sky in the Muscoda area will be welcome. It happened during December, 1976 and was first carried in “The Wall Street Journal” newspaper.
The story was about the popularity of “Twinkies”, those spongy little cakes with the center filled with soft and sweet gook. The small popular treat was what some people needed to help them start their work -day.
The company that makes them was shooting for a 7-billion sales mark during that year and the story made mention of Muscoda, Wisconsin
Rochester Community College in Rochester, Minnesota, sponsored a three-day “First Annual International Twinkie Festival.” It included a Twinkie Treasure Hunt, a Twinkie Sculpture Contest, and a Twinkie Derby, in which students raced Twinkies equipped with toothpick axels and wheels.
As the Grand Finale, students launched a Twinkie, with 300 helium-filled balloons attached. It became a truly historic Twinkie, the first one to pierce the stratosphere. It fell to earth near Muscoda, Wisconsin some 120 miles southeast of Rochester.”
It was found the following May by the late Carter Wilkinson on a farm south Muscoda, perhaps as he was hunting for morel mushroom.
Carter was a long-time school bus driver in the Riverdale District and may have told the his young passengers about his unusual find.
With that in mind, perhaps the following story about something falling from the sky in the Muscoda area will be welcome. It happened during December, 1976 and was first carried in “The Wall Street Journal” newspaper.
The story was about the popularity of “Twinkies”, those spongy little cakes with the center filled with soft and sweet gook. The small popular treat was what some people needed to help them start their work -day.
The company that makes them was shooting for a 7-billion sales mark during that year and the story made mention of Muscoda, Wisconsin
Rochester Community College in Rochester, Minnesota, sponsored a three-day “First Annual International Twinkie Festival.” It included a Twinkie Treasure Hunt, a Twinkie Sculpture Contest, and a Twinkie Derby, in which students raced Twinkies equipped with toothpick axels and wheels.
As the Grand Finale, students launched a Twinkie, with 300 helium-filled balloons attached. It became a truly historic Twinkie, the first one to pierce the stratosphere. It fell to earth near Muscoda, Wisconsin some 120 miles southeast of Rochester.”
It was found the following May by the late Carter Wilkinson on a farm south Muscoda, perhaps as he was hunting for morel mushroom.
Carter was a long-time school bus driver in the Riverdale District and may have told the his young passengers about his unusual find.
