This fascinating summer lecture brings fresh insight to one of Bayfield’s most important early...
JMB Program – Unearthing Captain R.D. Pike: New Research, New Stories
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JMB Program – Women of the Apostle Islands
The history of the Apostle Islands is full of unforgettable women. Some were Ojibwe storytellers,...
JMB Program – Bayfield’s Old Time Recreation
Dennis McCann explores old-time recreation and entertainment in Bayfield, Wisconsin. From...
JMB Program – Colonel Isaac H. Wing
Step back into Bayfield’s turn of the 20th century with a fascinating presentation on one of...
JMB Program – Silent Mooring – The Watercolor Legacy of Leonard Anderson
Dr. Alicia Peters delivered a presentation involving immersive research into her granduncle's...
JMB Program – Trails & Towns Before Washburn
Amorin Mello joined us for a fun afternoon of exploring maps and stories about Ancient Trails and...
JMB Program – Bayfield – The Harbor City Historic Waterfront to 1927
In this John Matthew Black presentation, Bob Nelson explores the earlier evolution of Bayfield’s...
JMB Program – Pureair Sanitorium
For decades Bayfield’s Pureair Sanatorium was a beautiful lakeside refuge from a deadly disease....
JBM Program – Sand Island: It Was a Different Time!
Bob Dahl talks about the life and times on Sand Island covering the years from roughly 1955 –...
JMB Program – William Dalrymple & the Bayfield Transfer
Mary E. Carlson tells the story of William F. Dalrymple's grand plan to turn Bayfield into a major...
JMB Program – The Bayfield State Fish Hatchery
This video provides a fascinating look into the early days of the Bayfield State Fish Hatchery,...
JMB Program – The Viking Way
Dean Rau tells the story of his phenomenal journey across the North Atlantic where he traced the...
JMB Program – The Life of RD Pike
Dan Wilczek walks you through some of the life and times of Robinson Derling (R.D.) Pike. RD Pike...
JMB Program – A. Booth & Sons Packing Company
Presented by Bob Nelson. This JMB presentation is a condensed biography of Bayfield’s largest ever...
JMB Program – Florantha Thompson Sproat – La Pointe and Beyond
Bob Mackreth talks about the life and times of Florantha Sproat and her adventures at La Pointe on...
JMB Program – On The Hill – The Hauser Story
For over 100 years, five generations of Hausers have kept the Superior View Farm thriving and...
JMB Program – Building Blocks of America – Quarries of the Apostle Islands and South Shore
For over 30 years, brownstone quarries on the Apostle Islands and the South Shore were busy...
JMB Program – The Cadottes – A Fur Trade Family on Lake Superior
The Great Lakes fur trade spanned two centuries and thousands of miles, but the story of one...
JMB Program – With All Hands: The Loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Historian Thom Holden provides some fascinating details about the building of the Edmund...
JMB Program – Shipwrecks and Stories of Wisconsin’s South Shore
Learn about the different types of ships common to Lake Superior in the late 1800's and early...
JMB Program – On the Streets of Bayfield – Part 4 of 4
Enjoy this final installation of our 4-part video series as Mary Carlson covers the impact of...
JMB Program – On the Streets of Bayfield – Part 3 of 4
Learn about the development of downtown Bayfield from the late 1800's through today in this...
JMB Program – On the Streets of Bayfield – Part 2 of 4
Learn about the development of downtown Bayfield from the late 1800's through today in this...
JMB Program – On the Streets of Bayfield – Part 1 of 4
Learn about the development of downtown Bayfield from the late 1800's through today in this...
JMB Program – A Stroll Back in Time – Part 4
Dan Wilczek continues the popular "Stroll Back in Time" series chronicling historic buildings,...
JMB Program – History of Bayfield Baseball – 1903 – WWII – Part 2
Travel back in time to small town America and the age of community baseball, when teams and fans...
JMB Program – Ace Fireballers – Early Bayfield Baseball – Part 1
Baseball was all the rage in 1878 Bayfield. The Harbor City's fast-ball players formed teams and...
JMB Program – Apostle Islands Folklore and “Fake”-lore
Is it true there was a ghost in that lighthouse? And what's the deal with those pirates I've heard...
JMB Program – German Prisoners of War in Bayfield – A Little Known Story
It’s a little known but fascinating chapter of Wisconsin - and Bayfield - history. In 1945, the...
JMB Program – The Islander – Coming of Age in the Apostle Islands
Bob Dahl recounts his childhood growing up on Sand Island with stories from his recently published...
JMB Program – CCC Role in Reforesting Bayfields Cutover
Learn about logging, forestry and the work of the Civilian Conservation Corps to reforest the...
JMB Program – A Stroll Back in Time – Part 3
Dan Wilczek continues to lead us back in time on a tour of early Bayfield. Part 3 focuses less on...
JMB Program – A Stroll Back in Time – Downtown Bayfield through History – Part 1
Who would you meet and what would you see when strolling downtown Bayfield 100+ years ago? Special...
JMB Program – Booth & Sons Packing Company – Bastion of Bayfield’s Fishing Industry
Late 1800’s – early 1900’s commercial fishing history featuring Alfred Booth Packing Company on...
JMB Program – Bayfield’s Role in the Westward March of Logging
A history of the logging frontier beginning on the east coast of the U.S. to the Pacific Northwest...
JMB Program – A Stroll Back in Time – Part 2
This is a continuation of "A Stroll Back in Time, PART 1," providing a virtual stroll down...