An Illustrated Guide to Their Identification and Control
Invasive Plants of the Upper Midwest includes more than 250 color photos that will help anyone identify problem trees, shrubs, vines, grasses, forbs, and herbaceous plants (including aquatic invaders). The text offers further details of plant identification; manual, mechanical, biolo
This is the story of the most famous unit in the Union Army. Originally called the "Black Hat Brigade" because the soldiers wore the army's regular dress black hat instead of the more typical blue cap, the Iron Brigade was the only all-Western brigade in the Eastern armies of the Union. The Brigade was initially made up of the 2nd, 6th, and 7th Wis more...
Frances Hamerstrom, fomer debutante and fashion Model, has written over 100 scientific papers, articles, and reviews as well as ten books - two are for children, and one is Wild Food Cookbook. She has lectured in over a dozen countries and appears on the NBC television's "Late Night with David Letterman."
Lighthouse Keepers & Their Families Door County, Wisconsin 1837-1939
Keepers of the Lights is an outstanding work of local social history and a well-researched and thoughtful case study in 19th and early 20th century US history. Taken by themselves, the facts and data it contains would make the book a standard reference on the local lighth
A survey of the Maritime Accidents of Lake Superior, from Whitefish Bay's Point Iroquois to Grand Marais. A fascinating look at the many shipwreck, life-savers and lighthouses along the shoreline known as "The Graveyard of Lake Superior." Excellently illustrated with photographs. more...
This is a story about a farm and it's people, of a hilltop world in the 1930's in southwestern Wisconsin. Ben Logan grew up on a farm with his three brothers, father, mother, and hired hand Lyle - "The fifth Logan boy" - and marked the seasons by the demands of the land.
In the course of his flamboyant career as an all-purpose activist, Saul Alinsky went from organizing working-class ethnics in one of Chicago's most blighted neighborhoods to mapping out strategies for the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960s. He enlisted allies - from Catholic clergymen to labor unionists and black activists - in battles more...
Liberty Grove Township is the largest township in Wisconsin's Door County. Located at the northern tip of the Door Peninsula, a few miles due south of Washington Island, Liberty Grove occupies 36,331 acres which face Green Bay on the west, Green Bay and Lake Michigan on the east. The south is the land area of Door Peninsula. The shoreline is approx more...
Within these pages will be found short stories, long stories, technical descriptions, shipwrecks, acts of courage, fasinating drawings, details on how things worked, maps of where things are and were, photos, and generally something for everyone. more...
Lighthouses and Range Lights of Door County, Wisconsin.
The Door Peninsula of Wisconsin juts northeastward between the waters of Green Bay and those of Lake Michigan. It has more than 250 miles of shoreline and at least it's fair share of rocky shoals, dangerous passages, and difficult harbors. In the nineteenth century, it also had a weal