The Spirit of Wittenberg Still Sings

This mural was created by

Wittenberg Elementary and Middle School Students.

Elementary and Middle School students spent months studying local and Wisconsin history as well as its flowers and wildlife. With the direction of Connie and Tim Friesen, artists from Lakewood, WI, a mural was created, painted, and mounted on the south wall of the Middle School on Webb Street. Notice the portrait of Rev. Homme and the symbols of the bear and eagle clans of the Ho-Chunk Nation. This was completed in the Spring of 2006.

Unfortunately, severe deterioration of the underlying veneer, despite regular protective coating, forced us to take down the mural in 2014. Nonetheless, we remember the day of the the dedication of this mural when hundreds of school children sang with gusto "Now We're Wittenberg, Not Carbanero"

"Now We're Wittenberg, Not Carbanero"
Lyrics and Music by Andrea Nelson

Thunder, sky and eagle clans and clan of the bear,
The Ho-Chunk were already there.
Then from Norway came a pastor,
Homme was his name,
His care for young and old to share.

Chorus: Now we're Wittenberg, not Carbanero,
That is how our village began.
Now we're Wittenberg, not Carbanero,
Homme's shining star in the new land.

To wilderness extreme came settlers in a steady stream,
The Germans and the Norskies and the Poles.
Some Germans opened stores
while the others did their chores
As they logged and farmed to carry out a dream.

Chorus