Blog | Manistee Co. Museum

Reforestation in Manistee County

Hello. I am Kurt H. Schindler, a volunteer at the museum. I am scanning and indexing the museum’s estimated 20,000 old photographs. ...

Otto Firzlaff's buttons

I’ve mentioned museum volunteer Deb Fortier before in the weekly column that I write for the Manistee News Advocate and how from...

Department store Christmas catalogs were once seasonal signifiers

These past few weeks I have been thinking more and more about the signifiers of the Christmas season. However, because of the pandemic...

Tragedy at Orchard Beach Crossing

NOTE: Sections of the following blog post were taken from a two-part series written for the Manistee News Advocate in the July 11 and...