Museum has full slate of activities for 2018
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The award-winning Presque Isle
County Historical Museum in Rogers City
will open its 2018 season Tuesday, May 15.
The museum’s historical Bradley House
and the modern Hoffman Annex house
a variety of exhibits, including American
Indians, pioneering, Those Fabulous
1950s and1960s, the Hoeft General Store,
the Bertram Sisters’ Millinery Shoppe,
Calcite: The World’s Largest Limestone
Quarry, the Bradley Transportation Fleet
and the John Bunton Photography Collection.
The living room, dining room, kitchen,
bedroom, and two bathrooms are decorated
and furnished as they would have
been during different periods in the 104-
year history of the Bradley House.
During the summer season, the museum’s
exhibits, genealogical research
room, and gift shop are open Tuesday
through Saturday from 12:30-4:30 p.m.
until Sept. 14.
Museum personnel will be in Onaway
on the Fourth of July for the formal
release of the 10th book in its Local History
Book Series. “Tall Timber, Steel Rails,
and Green Pastures” by Mark Thompson,
with Gerald Micketti, is an early history
of the inland communities in the Presque
Isle County. The profusely illustrated
book contains details the histories of Posen,
Metz, Hawks, Millersburg, Hagensville,
Posen and Onaway. It also documents
many “boom and bust” lumbering
settlements, including several that are
now ghost towns.
On July 5, a special exhibit entitled
“Helping Hands” will open at the museum
with a reception to honor the many
individuals from the local area who are
involved in groups and organizations
with programs aimed
at helping others, not just locally
but around the world. In
Rogers City and the surrounding
townships there are more
than 60 groups who do everything
from funding scholarships,
crafting quilts, to knitting
sweaters and hats, to distributing
Christmas shoeboxes, to
donating money to organizations
that work in third world
countries around the globe. The Helping
Hands exhibit documents the many
groups and individuals and highlights
photos of them and their good works.
During the 2018 Nautical City Festival,
the museum will sponsor a visit by
the Schooner Appledore V from Bay City.
The picturesque tall ship will be offering
cruises, departing from the city marina.
On Friday and Saturday of festival week,
the museum in conjunction with Carmeuse
Lime & Stone, will be offering narrated
bus tours of the 106-year-old Calcite
limestone quarry—the world’s largest.
26--PRESQUE ISLE COUNTY VISITORS’ AND RESOURCE GUIDE--2018
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