Tuesday, September 16, 2025 – 7 pm Learn of the vision Jerry Reinhard had in 1959, building greenhouses and a floral shop on top of the hill in Sister Bay. Opening in 1960, Jerry built a unique business that remains vital and much-loved today. Fred and Joy Lang, owners since 1989, will share stories about
Tuesday, August 19, 2025 – 7 pm Heidi Orsted and Caroline Ault reprise the story of Beach Road families that was first told in a Sister Bay Stories program over 20 years ago by Caroline’s mother, Mary Alice Gustafson. Heidi and Caroline share tales of early settlers along the road, plus their own special memories
Tuesday, July 22, 2025 – 7 pm The Sister Bay Bays baseball team has been a dominant force in the Door County League for the last decade, but the sport has been a central local pastime almost as long as the village has existed. Join the Sister Bay Historical Society on Tuesday, July 22, for a look
This is a replica of the type of chicken coop that likely would have been found on the Anderson farm. This is another one of the structures built by Sister Bay resident Don Erickson.
The tourism industry began to take hold in Sister Bay in the late 1800s when steamships delivered tourists escaping the summer heat of the big Midwest cities. The first tourist hotel in the Sister Bay Area was the Liberty Park Summer Resort, built in 1898, and it remains open today as the Liberty Lodge. In
Centerpiece of the Corner of the Past, the Old Anderson House is believed to have been built in the Marinette, Wisconsin area and moved across the ice of Green Bay to its present location in the 1880s or 1890s. It became the home of Alex and Emma Anderson. After Alex’s death in 1915, Emma remained
Thursday, June 19, 2025 – 7 pm Terry Wolf introduces a new exhibit in the Koessl Barn that displays postcards of the early 1900s that were sent to and from Sister Bay residents. The cards have unique images of Sister Bay from that era, but they also contain interesting messages that reveal the nature of
