On Tuesday evening, February 28, the Door County Master Gardener Lecture will be “Wild Rice, Our Native Treasure.” Guest speaker Juniper Sundance will discuss of the world of wild rice, one of northern Wisconsin’s native treasures. The Ojibwa and Menominee have traditionally enjoyed wild rice as a staple of their diets, and its harvesting today [...] Read more »
Teddy Bears and Book Club
Teddy Bears were wildly popular in 1906, within the depiction period of the Greene General Store in the Historical Village at The Crossroads, but the Door County Historical Society could never afford to buy a authentic antique teddy bear from that year. To anyone alive today, teddy bears have always been. For many of us, [...] Read more »
Janus -Looking Both Ways
As a history and science center, Crossroads at Big Creek is all about remembering the past and looking toward the future. Looking both ways, is what January is about too. The month was named for Janus, the Roman God of transitions, doors and beginnings. Janus was pictured as having two faces, one looking forward and [...] Read more »
A Simpler Christmas
Christmas is a special time at Crossroads at Big Creek, just as Christmas was a special time around 1900 in the little crossroads communities of rural Wisconsin. In researching and interpreting local history for the Door County Historical Society’s Historical Village at The Crossroads, we have become aware that one of the greatest hardships of rural life [...] Read more »
Christmas Trees and Forests at Crossroads
Crossroads at Big Creek was once within an extensive forest. Several years before the Civil War, the forested land was transformed into a farm and later, an orchard. During World War II, the orchard was a work site for German POWs. For a number of years, several acres of Crossroads’ land supported a Christmas tree plantation. Our records do [...] Read more »
Antique Appraisal Event with Mark Moran
The Door County Historical Society presents An Antique Appraisal Event featuring author and antique expert Mark F. Moran of Iola, Wis. on Saturday, November 19 from 1 – 4 pm in the lecture hall of the Collins Learning Center. The Historical Village at The Crossroads is closed for the season, but the Village Committee of [...] Read more »
