While driving down I-94, maybe after a day of work or heading to a Brewers game, you’ve surely seen the array of tombstones lining both sides of the freeway near American Family Field.
The rows turn from the uniform white gravestones of military veterans in the General George Wood National Cemetery to the personalized burials in three of Milwaukee’s Jewish cemeteries.
David Schultz has lived in the Story Hill neighborhood for over 40 years, but he first started thinking about the cemeteries in 2016.
“The reason I found out about it was that my company was doing an environmental impact statement for the…I-94 reconstruction project,” says Schultz. “And they made a big point of talking about how they weren’t going to disturb any of the cemeteries, because that happened when they built the freeway the first time. And I thought that was very interesting. I wanted to know more about it.”…