While Northern Sky Theater’s “We Like It Where?” plays to audiences this Thursday and Saturday at Peninsula State Park, a celebration based on the musical’s inspiration will be occurring over 120 miles away. This weekend, Winneconne residents and visitors will be celebrating Sovereign State Days, a four-day reminder of the time over 50 years ago when the village seceded from the state after it was left off the map. Jordan Dunham helps organize Sovereign State Days and says he has enjoyed the extra attention Northern Sky Theater has helped bring to the relatively unknown story.

Dunham says Northern Sky Theater and the musical’s writers, Corrie and Stephen Kovacs, did a great job involving the village in the process, which included a read-through performance at its local high school.

Learn more about Sovereign State Days in Winneconne by clicking here