Our September History Speaks program will be presented by John Harry, discussing the connection between Wausau and Stevens Point and how George Stevens brought the two communities together through the early logging industry. From the moment the pineries opened for logging interests in the 1830s, the areas now known as Stevens Point and Wausau have been linked. John Harry, a former local radio personality and PCHS board member, is the Executive Director of the Portage County Historical Society. Harry, a 2009 graduate of UW-Stevens Point, retired from his radio career at WYTE/Y106.5 in Plover in 2018 to pursue a master’s degree in public history at UW-Milwaukee, which he completed in 2021. While in graduate school, he was an intern at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and led marketing and programming efforts at the Milwaukee County Historical Society.