Welcome to the Video page. The videos shown here are from the past 5 months of programs recorded during live presentations that occurred, typically, at the Kress Pavilion Great Room.
The Alpine Story
The history of the Alpine as recorded in 1980 by Bill Bertschinger and Gus der Schweitzerboob.
Thank you Bill for all the memories you have given us through your recorded interviews and your production of videos of the History or Egg Harbor and of the History of the Alpine.
Joe Knaapen as “Edward Minor, Door County Civil War Veteran”.
Edward S. Minor was the only Door County man ever elected to Congress. Knaapen’s program will feature Minor’s Civil War experience with the 2nd Wisconsin Cavalry and his accomplishments in the Wisconsin
Assembly, State Senate and Congress. Presenter Joe Knaapen is a Sturgeon Bay native whose family owned and operated a bakery there for 70 years. He retired after 30 years as a newspaper reporter and editor, most of that at the Door County Advocate. As an avid reader, he was always interested in the U.S. Civil War.
Into the Storm
Jamie Kay Palmer, author of Into the Storm, describes her process of researching and writing her Historical novel about Leathem D. Smith fatal error in judgement in June of 1946 when sailing his Half Moon Sloop from Menominee, Michigan back to Sturgeon Bay Wisconsin.
Egg Harbor – Now and Then
Giz Herbst takes us down memory lane by comparing the current buildings in Village of Egg Harbor to what the building looked liked and functioned back in the day.
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