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Thursday, July 23, 7:00 pm In the mid-1800s, Adolf Carlson raised cattle on the land that is now a cherry orchard owned by his great-grandson Mark Carlson and wife Mary Pat.  The building for their business, the Wildwood Market, once served as housing for cherry pickers, including German POWs.  Mark and Mary Pat will tell

Wednesday, August 19, 7pm On April 1,1963, Sister Bay native Dorothea Grasse Johnson became one of Sister Bay’s few female entrepreneurs when she and her husband, Percy, returned from Toledo, Ohio, with their family and started the Going Garbage business.  Dorothea’s new venture followed advice from her brother John, also a Sister Bay native, who

Tuesday, September 22, 7pm This program about Sister Bay’s rich maritime history will be delivered by John Blossom, a long-time Sister Bay boating enthusiast and history buff who has been leading the project to renovate the Bunda Boathouse and turn it into a Sister Bay Waterfront Museum.

This iconic barn was built in 1919 for Grant Anderson, whose family had fished and farmed in the Little Sister area since the 1870s, and then started the famous Little Sister Resort.  The barn was used initially to house dairy cows, and in later years served as a site for square dances.  When the resort

This granary was originally on the Koessl farm.  It was moved across the road, and became part of a retail shop (the Domicile), and then a rental cottage; it was donated by Jim Salinsky. It will be used to house additional museum artifacts.