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, straight through the double doors from the gathering hall, or by Zoom if you would like to join remotely! Links for video-meeting access will be posted the day of the book club meeting. 

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

2026 Upcoming Books

• February 18 - Bloodstoppers & Bearwalkers: Folk Traditions of the Upper Peninsula by Richard Dorson
• April 15 - Read either/both Schoolcraft's Indian Legends ed. by Mentor L. Williams and/or Ojibwa Narratives of Charles and Charlotte Kawbawgam and Jacques Lepique, 1893-1895 ed. by Homer Kidder
• June 17 - Diary of an Isle Royale Schoolteacher by Dorothy Simonson
• 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

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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
  

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