How one man changed Somerset...
RIVERS EDGE featured by Charles KURALT on CBS NEWS and in a cover story by LIFE Magazine
It was 1972 when CBS correspondent Charles Kuralt put Somerset on the map with a national news broadcast about the budding tubing business…
Kuralt had been filming a segment in Prairie Du Chien, Wis., and told said at he’d stop by the fledging Apple River tubing business on his way into Minneapolis “to see what the tubing craze was all about.”
Kuralt would come back to the riverside restaurant 19 times over the next several years, including in 1990 to celebrate Alice Raliegh’s 50 year anniversary in the restaurant business.
“She was one of the rare, generous people of this world,” Kuralt said in a letter to the family. “Everybody loved her, and I among them...”
On July 3, 1972, in front of an estimated 52 million people, the segment ran during the Evening News with Walter Cronkite. Somerset, and the businesses within it, immediately felt the impact.
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