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The Museum Gift Shop is only open when the
Museum is open,
Memorial Day to Labor Day
Some of our publications are on sale during the winter at
Spies Public Library
940 1st Street
Menominee MI 49858
The following Historical Materials are
available as indicated in the listings.
Two New Books by Menominee County Authors
Darwin Adams and Ross Parcels have just published
books that give us insights from a local perspective into two
different American wars, the Civil War and WWI .
In "Escaping Quantrill's Trap", Adams traces the
experiences of his great-grandfather, John Adams, an Oneida Indian
who had to hide his Native American identity as
"Indians" were not welcomed into the military forces during the
Civil War.
He fought on the often neglected Kansas-Missouri front.
The inclusion of many personal comments
and reports , footnotes and photographs add much to this
carefully researched indexed war history.
Parcels became intrigued after reading the
listing of deaths of 33 men, 9 from Menominee County, on one date,
July 31,1918.
"Onward Toward Hell" tells of those Menominee Soldiers of
National Guard Company L , and what they faced
on Hill 212 in France.
Also covered is the home front - the burning of German books -
and waiting for news of "their boys", and
finally the Homecoming.
A third essay reports the burial practices of WWI
and the returning of bodies home. Many pages of photographs ,
personal quotes and extensive notes add greatly to this book
Both of these books can be purchased from
Aurora Books
625 1st St
Menominee, MI 49858
www.aurorabookshop.com
"MICHAEL J. ANUTA"
A Three Century Man
An Autobiography
Edited by Janet Anuta Dahlquist
$20.00
Available now at
Aurora Book Store
625 1st St.
Menominee or from
Janet Anuta Dalquist
1130 Quincy Cove Rd.
Houghton MI 49931
Add $4.95 for S&H
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Much of Michael J. Anuta's story was told
in news clippings during the celebration of his 100th
birthday and shortly after his death in 2004. This
autobiography includes stories of his people, the East
Prussians from Russia, his early childhood on a farm in
Pound, Wisconsin, logging, adapting from farm to city
life in Milwaukee, railroad and depot history, early
marriage, his struggles for formal and self-education,
his contributions to his community, efforts to gain
recognition in the legal profession, his leisure
activities, and his commitment to family. Readers will
find how the tourist lodge was conceived, why the sand
hills disappeared, how the Bay Jammer came to be, why
the local house of ill-repute was closed, the scenes
behind the poison murder case, and how "The Purple
Dragon" got her name. Anuta details his involvement in
church, Scouting, Masonry, Rotary International, the
Menominee Historical Society and museum, his hunting
lodges and friends, bears and bee-keeping. Few knew how
much he enjoyed the hard physical labor of working on
the land. He considered himself a three-century man:
conceived in the 19th century, born and lived
most of his life in the 20th and died in the
21st. His community involvement was extraordinary; his
private life no less so. |
In
1976 members of the Menominee County Historical
Society recorded "snippets of history" that were
aired on radio station WAGN each evening after the
news. This was their contribution to the Michigan
Bicentennial Celebration.
A wide variety of historical information was
gathered from the sources found in the Historical
Museum that was then housed in the Washington
School.
Topics covered the industries, clubs, government,
early Indian, fur trading and lumbering heritage.
They were not professionally recorded or digitized,
so vary somewhat in quality. They are a good cross
section of information about Menominee County.168
of these five minute tapes have now been preserved
on a CD in a MP3 format, playable on a computer or
MP3 Player.
Copies of the CD complete with an index can be
purchased at Spies Library for $10.
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