

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Wis. Whoppers: Sensationalistic Storytelling, Tall Tale Tourism & Cryptid Currency in Badger State
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 16 May, 2026 at 01:00 pm (-05:00)
- **Event Description**: Join Dr. Lowell Brower, folklorist and UW–Madison professor, for an entertaining evening exploring Wisconsin’s wildest stories and legendary characters.


𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁
From ‘fish tales,’ to hodag hunts, to big-top spectacles, Wisconsin’s folkloric history is rife with self-aggrandizing legendary, self-deprecatory humor, and self-conscious fabulation. Reveling in upper-midwestern folk humor, and capitalizing on the ostensive potentials of exaggeratory legend-telling — combining the arts of master tale-tellers, carnival barkers, and down-home humorists — local municipalities, businesses, institutions, advertisers, and individual storytellers have marshalled the folkloric arts throughout Wisconsin’s history, in service of drawing attention, money, tourism, and notoriety to themselves, their products, and their discourses. And through these engaging, enticing, and often otherworldly stories, they’ve shaped both insider and outsider perspectives about what it means to be a Badger!

Operating from the premise that legends and tall tales can’t help but reveal the values, worldviews, fears, anxieties, hopes, dreams, and capabilities of their transmitters, we’ll spend some time thinking about what the stories we tell can (and the hodags we hunt) tell us about who we are.

The event is part of the Hodag Heritage Festival and is free and open to the public with seating on a first-come, first-served basis. 

This event is sponsored by the Pioneer Park Historical Complex and presented as part of the Wisconsin Historical Society History Makers Tour. The History Makers Tour is presented by Culver's and is made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, Grant Number: MA-253159-OMS-23.


𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
This event is part of the Hodag Heritage Festival


Learn more: https://wihist.org/46P3vBN
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/rhinelander/wis-whoppers-sensationalistic-storytelling-tall-tale-tourism-and-cryptid-currency-in-badger-state/200029844663633
- **Event Categories**: Art, Festivals, fine-arts
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Rhinelander
- **state**: WI
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Pioneer Park Historical Complex
- **lat**: 45.631488223363
- **long**: -89.407307003792
- **full address**: Pioneer Park Historical Complex, Martin Lynch Drive,Rhinelander,WI,United States

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- **organizer**: Wisconsin Historical Society (https://allevents.in/org/wisconsin-historical-society/12706958)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sat, 16 May, 2026 at 01:00 pm (-05:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Pioneer Park Historical Complex, Martin Lynch Drive,Rhinelander,WI,United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Wisconsin Historical Society
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** Art, Festivals, fine-arts
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Wis. Whoppers: Sensationalistic Storytelling, Tall Tale Tourism & Cryptid Currency in Badger State ?
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