Above: Badger High School U.S. history teacher Jeff Schmidt (second from right) fires a cannon with assistance from Civil War re-enactors (from left) Ken Monroe, Dennis Brennan and Greg Bochniak and Dan Lezhowicz (right). The re-enactment group came to Badger Sept. 28) to demonstrate a Civil War era cannon and other memorabilia to U.S. history classes. (Michael S. Hoey photo)