Harley riders stream in from all over town. | Photo: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Harley riders stream in from all over town. | Photo: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

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Harley 105th: Day Three

Milwaukee got a little sampler of what the Harley-Davidson 105th Anniversary Celebration would bring on Wednesday, and day two gave us the H.O.G. party at Miller Park.

Day three? Milwaukee truly goes HOG wild.

Today is the first of two days of the main celebration grounds for the Harley party: the Roadhouse at the Lakefront with the Foo Fighters and Three Days Grace starting at 7:00 p.m., and the Summerfest grounds with a lot more bands performing there.

How about this list: ZZ Top, the Black Crowes, Los Lonely Boys, War, Foghat and a just-married American Idol finalist, Amanda Overmyer.

Blind Melon even headlines a street part on East North Avenue that ends a full day of music.

Read more below this series of links:
Day Three
The Updated Schedule
Marriage in Hog Heaven
Idol Finalist Honeymoons by Playing H-D Festival
Harley Riders Close NYSE
Day Two Archive
Day One Archive

And there's lots more to do all over Milwaukee and Southeastern Wisconsin today as part of the weekend-long festival.

Including getting married.

Yes, married.

That's what Annick Coussement and Geert Van Gusegnem did as they traveled from Antwerp, Belgium to get married in front of the Harley-Davidson museum.

They met two years ago at a H.O.G. meeting in Antwerp, and they credit Harley with bringing them together.

Just as it caused the current itinerary for the honeymoon of American Idol finalist Amanda Overmyer, who just got married last week.

"There ain't no better way to spend your honeymoon, I guess," says Overmyer, than to share it with 100,000 Harley riders like her.

She's just married Casey Taylor, whom she's known for two years, and they're spending days five through nine of their nuptials in Milwaukee as she performs at a number of Harley-Davidson functions this weekend.

The events are causing a number of different places around the Milwaukee area to change their parking policies.

Roads like Brady and Water Streets are not allowing cars to park in certain locations, giving bikers exclusive parking privileges around particular gathering spots near bars and restaurants.

People may want to try the City of Milwaukee web site to see rules near their home.

Harley even spread its party from Milwaukee to New York City. People at the Miller Park H.O.G. event took part in a remote closing of the Stock Exchange by "ringing" the bell using V-rod muscle engines and horns.

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