Yahoo News: 'A dying community:' What a Wisconsin beer town shows about saving rural America
POTOSI, Wisconsin − It looked like a bomb had gone off in the brewery.
In the days after it closed, people ransacked the building, taking whatever they could carry, perhaps as mementos or items to sell, all signs of the bitter loss in 1972 as Potosi fell into a long economic winter. Over time, the building’s brick walls crumbled and rubble littered the ground.