PROGRAMS
John Matthew Black Series
The Bayfield Heritage Association’s John Matthew Black Program Series is generously sponsored by the Apostle Islands Historic Preservation Conservancy.
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Past Programs
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...
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...
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...
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...
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