This section retells the stories of those who lived and carried on business during the historical flood that crested at 25.4 feet in southwest Wisconsin and northeast Iowa on April 24, 1965. To look back at pictures from 50 years ago—
and see the flood’s devastation—is heartbreaking. To hear people’s personal accounts of sandbagging, evacuating, cleaning up and, in some cases, even transplanting their lives from what is now St. Feriole Island, demonstrates the inspiring rise of the
human spirit.