Island 2013 - Madeline Island Museum

Island 2018 - Second Trip First Day: Storm Clouds Gathering

Sunday, July 8, 2018

Dale and I had supper at the Beach Club. I ordered the shrimp basket and he had the whitefish. Molly, my favorite bartender mixed me up a brandy Old Fashioned.

Mom had left me a message to call my brother Pete because he had some exciting news. When we finished eating I called him from the restaurant to get the 411. Turns out he has a business partner and they're going to work on opening up a brewery! I offered him my congratulations. Pretty exciting although to me it seems somewhat scary as I don't have an entrepreneurial bone in my body. Good on him though.

Sunny, hot, and humid when I arrived on the Island. By the time Dale and I left the restaurant storms were moving in as you can see in the above picture taken on our walk home.

Island 2016 - First Trip Day 4: Walk About Town 12

Sunday, June 19, 2016

Four flags over Madeline.

Madeline 2013 - 2nd Trip: The Museum

I haven't been to the museum in about 10 years.  I'm glad I went.  It was lots of fun and the staff was very knowledgeable.

Flags

Flags at the Madeline Island Historical Museum in La Pointe, Wisconsin.
Photo taken July 14, 2012.

Colonel Woods Avenue - Madeline Island Museum

Madeline Island Museum

Photos taken July 15 and 16, 2012

Madeline Island Museum

More from the Madeline Island Museum website:

"On the front lawn a pair of fog horns and a bell from nearby Long Island greet your arrival. Anchors from the schooner-barge Pretoria and a propeller from the tug Ashland pay tribute to the area's maritime history.

The above photo was taken in July of 2011.

Madeline Island Museum

More from the website of the Madeline Island Museum:

"The Madeline Island Museum comprises the original museum and a modern expansion. The original museum is four historic log structures that have been relocated and connected together. It includes the only remaining building of the American Fur Company complex built at La Pointe in 1835, making it the oldest structure on Madeline Island. That building is adjoined to an old barn, the former La Pointe town jail, and the Old Sailor's Home, which had been built as a memorial to a drowned sailor. In 1991 the museum expanded by adding the Capser Center and, in 1995, the connecting Walkway Gallery."

Above photo taken July 9, 2011.

Madeline Island Museum

The Madeline Island Museum is owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society. The following is from the museum's website:

"Picturesque and historic Madeline Island first cast its spell on Leo Capser in 1903. In the mid-1950's, the love he felt for the island manifested itself in the Madeline Island Museum."

The above photo is dated July 2010.

Madeline Island Museum

The sign you see pictured here is outside the Madeline Island Museum. It reads:

MADELINE ISLAND

Known to the Ojibway Indian as Moningwunakauning, "The Home of the Golden Breasted Woodpecker"

The largest of the Apostle Islands was one of the earliest areas of Indian settlement, fur trade, missionary activity and commercial fishing in the interior of North America. It was discovered by French explorers in 1659. Trading posts were built here for the French by Le Sueur in 1693 and for the British by Michel Cadotte in 1793. In 1834 this site and present La Pointe dock became headquarters for the Northern Outfit of the American Fur Company. Missionary operations began about 1830 with the erection of a Protestant Church followed by Father Baraga's Catholic Church.

Erected by Madeline Island Historical Museum

Photo from June 2011.