If you have watched television series like “Grey’s Anatomy,” and especially “New Amsterdam,” you will have seen open-heart surgery hundreds of times. It is so commonplace that you might think little of it, but, as.
According to historian David Miles, “the worst thing that ever happened to the bridge” was when two large ships — the Missouri and the Illinois — tried to go under the bridge at the same time.
On the arc of one cul-de-sac a quietly elegant home with an earthy feel almost fades into its wooded landscape on the west bank of the Milwaukee River. This is the house that well-known MIlwaukee architect Elmer A. Johnson designed and had built for his family in the 1950s.