Welcome to the Upper Peninsula History Book Club

All meetings are Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. Join in person in our museum’s permanent gallery. Check in at the front desk and join the book club through the double doors from the gathering hall to the Main Gallery. 
​Book club is free, but donations are always appreciated.
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You may always join by Zoom online, if you would like to join remotely! Links for video-meeting access will be posted the day of the book club meeting. 

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All books are available for purchase in our gift store, Spring & Third. 

2026 Upcoming Books​

• August 19 - Read either/both Anatomy of a Murder by Robert Traver a.k.a. John Voelker (fiction) and/or Dissecting Anatomy of a Murder by Eugene R. Milhizer (nonfiction)
• October 14 – Enduring Legacies: People of the 1926 Barnes-Hecker Mine Disaster by Mary Tippett
• December 16 - A Face in the Rock: The Tale of a Grand Island Chippewa by Loren Graham

2027- Start thinking about possible books! We'll be taking recommendations and voting later in the year.

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Previous Books

• Ladies of the Lights by Patricia Majher - February 19, 2025
• Kawbawgam: The Chief, The Legend, The Man by Tyler R. Tichelaar - April 16, 2025
• We Kept Our Towns Going by Phyllis Wong - June 25, 2025
• Laughing Whitefish by Robert Traver - August 20, 2025
• The Alcatraz Camp: World War II Conscientious Objectors, Germfask, MIchigan by Jane Kopecky and Wolf's Mouth by John Smolens - Octobert 15, 2025
• The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald​ by Fred Stonehouse - November 5, 2025
• Any Book by Dr. Russ Magnaghi-​ December 17, 2025
• Bloodstoppers & Bearwalkers: Folk Traditions of the Upper Peninsula by Richard Dorson- February 18, 2026
• Schoolcraft's Indian Legends ed. by Mentor L. Williams and Ojibwa Narratives of Charles and Charlotte Kawbawgam and Jacques Lepique, 1893-1895 ed. by Homer Kidder- April 15, 2026
• Diary of an Isle Royale Schoolteacher by Dorothy Simonson- June 17, 2026

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