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Maritime Speaker Series

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Maritime Speaker Series has four monthly programs Dec. 8, Jan. 5, Feb. 2 and Mar 2, 2017. The evening programs begin at 7 p.m. at the Sturgeon Bay museum and are free of charge with a non-perishable food donation requested. Call (920) 743-5958 for more information.

Steve Selvick will offer up a program on the history of Selvick Tugs. The tugs have been a fixture on Sturgeon Bay’s waterfront for nearly 50 years and Steve will talk about his and the rest of his family’s involvement with the company.

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Great Lakes/Great Books Club

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Write On, Door County is partnering with DCMM to present a monthly book club discussing works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that have the Great Lakes as their setting or subject matter. The group will meet on the first Thursday of every month, November through May, at 10:30 am at the Door County Maritime Museum in Sturgeon Bay.  If you would like to participate in the Great Lakes/Great Books Club, call the museum at (920) 743-5958.

This selection for this month is Ashes Under Water: The SS Eastland and the Shipwreck that Shook America by Michael McCarthy.

ashes-under-waterIn 1915, Chicago commuters were horrified to see the SS Eastland, a massive Lake Michigan steamship, flip over while tied to its dock. More than eight hundred poor factory workers and their children drowned. Twenty-two whole families perished. The nation cried out for justice. Drawing on previously unpublished evidence from the National Archives, Ashes Under Water is the untold story of a mysterious industrial atrocity and how the prosperous, guilty Eastland owners tried to shift the blame to the whistleblower and one true hero on the ship, Engineer Joseph Erickson, a working class immigrant. Against all odds, an attorney down on his luck at the time then stepped in to save him: Clarence Darrow, the future legal star. A national tragedy, Chicago politics, corrupt businessmen, a courtroom drama – all woven into one spellbinding narrative.

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Great Lakes/Great Books Club

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Write On, Door County is partnering with DCMM to present a monthly book club discussing works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that have the Great Lakes as their setting or subject matter. The group will meet on the first Thursday of every month, November through May, at 10:30 am at the Door County Maritime Museum in Sturgeon Bay.  If you would like to participate in the Great Lakes/Great Books Club, call the museum at (920) 743-5958.

This selection for this month is The Bone House by Brian Freeman.

imagesHilary and Mark Bradley are trapped in a web of suspicion. Last year, accusations of a torrid affair with a student cost Mark his teaching job and made the young couple into outcasts in their remote island town off the Lake Michigan coast. Now another teenage girl is found dead on a deserted beach. . . and once again, Mark faces a hostile town convinced of his guilt.

Hilary is determined to prove that Mark is innocent, but she’s on a lonely, dangerous quest. Even when she discovers that the murdered girl was witness to a horrific crime years earlier, the police are certain she’s throwing up a smoke screen to protect her husband. Only a quirky detective named Cab Bolton seems willing to believe Hilary’s story.

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Great Lakes/Great Books Club

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Write On, Door County is partnering with DCMM to present a monthly book club discussing works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that have the Great Lakes as their setting or subject matter. The group will meet on the first Thursday of every month, November through May, at 10:30 am at the Door County Maritime Museum in Sturgeon Bay.  If you would like to participate in the Great Lakes/Great Books Club, call the museum at (920) 743-5958.

This month’s book is Ship Captain’s Daughter: Growing Up On the Great Lakes by Ann Michler Lewis.

ship captain's daughter

Ann Lewis’s childhood was marked by an unusual rhythm. Each year the thawing and freezing of the Great Lakes signaled the beginning and end of the shipping season, months of waiting that were punctuated by brief trips to various ports to meet her father, the captain.

With lively storytelling and vivid details, Lewis captures the unusual life of shipping families whose days and weeks revolved around the shipping industry on the Great Lakes. The book is enhanced by the author’s vintage snapshots, depicting this bygone lifestyle.

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Maritime Speaker Series

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We are currently in the process of booking our 2017 Maritime Speaker Series!  Please save the date and check back soon for more details.

Maritime Speaker Series has four monthly programs Dec. 8, Jan. 5, Feb. 2 and Mar 2, 2017. The evening programs begin at 7 p.m. at the Sturgeon Bay museum and are free of charge with a non-perishable food donation requested. Call (920) 743-5958 for more information.

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Great Lakes/Great Books Club

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Write On, Door County is partnering with DCMM to present a monthly book club discussing works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that have the Great Lakes as their setting or subject matter. The group will meet on the first Thursday of every month, November through May, at 10:30 am at the Door County Maritime Museum in Sturgeon Bay.  If you would like to participate in the Great Lakes/Great Books Club, call the museum at (920) 743-5958.

This month’s book is Water Music: The Great Lakes State Poetry Anthology Published by the Poetry Society of Michigan

 

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Mike Peters will be at the museum for a presentation on his fascinating time crewing the tall ship Baltimore.

Pride-of-Baltimore-II-in-Inner-Harbor

Maritime Speaker Series has four monthly programs Dec. 8, Jan. 5, Feb. 2 and Mar 2, 2017. The evening programs begin at 7 p.m. at the Sturgeon Bay museum and are free of charge with a non-perishable food donation requested. Call (920) 743-5958 for more information.

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Free Kids Day

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Free admission to the Door County Maritime Museum for children 12 and under with an accompanying paid adult. Begins Sunday, January 29, and continues on Sundays through the end of March.

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Free Kids Day

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Free admission to the Door County Maritime Museum for children 12 and under with an accompanying paid adult. Begins Sunday, January 29, and continues on Sundays through the end of March.

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Free Kids Day

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Free admission to the Door County Maritime Museum for children 12 and under with an accompanying paid adult. Begins Sunday, January 29, and continues on Sundays through the end of March.

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Free Kids Day

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Free admission to the Door County Maritime Museum for children 12 and under with an accompanying paid adult. Begins Sunday, January 29, and continues on Sundays through the end of March.

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Free Kids Day

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Free admission to the Door County Maritime Museum for children 12 and under with an accompanying paid adult. Begins Sunday, January 29, and continues on Sundays through the end of March.

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Great Lakes/Great Books Club

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Write On, Door County is partnering with DCMM to present a monthly book club discussing works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that have the Great Lakes as their setting or subject matter. The group will meet on the first Thursday of every month, November through May, at 10:30 am at the Door County Maritime Museum in Sturgeon Bay.  If you would like to participate in the Great Lakes/Great Books Club, call the museum at (920) 743-5958.

This month’s book is Ship Captain’s Daughter: Growing Up On the Great Lakes by Ann Michler Lewis.

ship captain's daughter

Ann Lewis’s childhood was marked by an unusual rhythm. Each year the thawing and freezing of the Great Lakes signaled the beginning and end of the shipping season, months of waiting that were punctuated by brief trips to various ports to meet her father, the captain.

With lively storytelling and vivid details, Lewis captures the unusual life of shipping families whose days and weeks revolved around the shipping industry on the Great Lakes. The book is enhanced by the author’s vintage snapshots, depicting this bygone lifestyle.

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Maritime Speaker Series

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Mike Peters will be at the museum for a presentation on his fascinating time crewing the tall ship Baltimore.

Pride-of-Baltimore-II-in-Inner-Harbor

Maritime Speaker Series has four monthly programs Dec. 8, Jan. 5, Feb. 2 and Mar 2, 2017. The evening programs begin at 7 p.m. at the Sturgeon Bay museum and are free of charge with a non-perishable food donation requested. Call (920) 743-5958 for more information.

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Free Kids Day

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Free admission to the Door County Maritime Museum for children 12 and under with an accompanying paid adult. Begins Sunday, January 29, and continues on Sundays through the end of March.

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Free Kids Day

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Free admission to the Door County Maritime Museum for children 12 and under with an accompanying paid adult. Begins Sunday, January 29, and continues on Sundays through the end of March.

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Free Kids Day

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Free admission to the Door County Maritime Museum for children 12 and under with an accompanying paid adult. Begins Sunday, January 29, and continues on Sundays through the end of March.

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Free Kids Day

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Free admission to the Door County Maritime Museum for children 12 and under with an accompanying paid adult. Begins Sunday, January 29, and continues on Sundays through the end of March.

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