CATAWBA — As a professional photographer and historian, Scott Wittman has blended two passions as a researcher and visual artist who tells the stories of Wisconsin’s vanishing past.
Wittman first published “Lost Fox Cities,” to tell the stories of the era of lumber kings and paper barons in Wisconsin, and his most recent book, “Finding Dairyland: In Search of Wisconsin’s Vanishing Heritage,” was published by the History Press in April and Price County figures prominently in the book.
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