MILWAUKEE — Milwaukee’s Puerto Rican Festival has come a long way from where it started.
Long before the festival had stages at Henry Maier Festival Park or nationally known performers, there was a small park under the 35th Street Bridge, one food vendor and an idea.
Yussef Morales-Colon, founder and event director of the Puerto Rican Festival of Wisconsin, says the idea started taking shape while he was working in Spanish-language radio…