The Sturgeon Bay Historical Society’s Coffee Talk Series with Door County Master Gardeners on May 29 at 10 AM. Virge Temme and Patrick Baird, Master Gardeners, discuss the kitchen garden display that is being designed in Sturgeon Bay. The kitchen garden showcases various sustainable gardening techniques that can be implemented in a small garden area, including three sisters, vertical gardens, straw bales, and containers.

Coffee will be served at 10 AM with the presentation beginning at 10:30 followed by Q&A.

Free and open to the public.

The Sturgeon Bay Historical Society Coffee Talk Series: American Ingenuity and the American Dream: The Door County Granary. Meet with Beth Renstrom of the Sturgeon Bay Historical Society on June 5 at 10 AM. This is an exciting opportunity to connect with fellow history buffs, make new friends, and enjoy some coffee!

Invented in America, grain elevators changed the world’s food landscape. These amazing structures were a technological innovation greatly increasing the ability to store and ship grains around the globe, accelerating food distribution into the modern age. In Door County, The Teweles and Brandeis families aspired to the American dream, building a local grain elevator in 1901 on the shores of Sturgeon Bay that helped launch the family’s adventures in the new world. The Door County Granary has been preserved for all to learn about a time and place that boosted the American economy when the mid-west moved from log cabin settlements to feed people locally to a global food power.

Coffee will be served at 10 AM with the presentation beginning at 10:30 followed by Q&A.

Free and open to the public.

The Sturgeon Bay Historical Society celebrates the Door County Heritage Alliance’s History Days with American Vinyl Night on the Waterfront. DJ David Watkins will be spinning vintage vinyl at the Door County Granary. Enjoy Early Country Heroes (fiddle, bluegrass from 1920s-1930s) in this historic setting.

The Granary is located within the City’s Entertainment District. TAKE YOUR DRINK ON A WALK! Purchase an adult beverage from any local establishment within the district and walk over to the Granary, meet some friends, and enjoy some blues on the historic waterfront.

Join the Sturgeon Bay Historical Society for an evening program with Derrick Pratt, the Erie Canal Museum’s Director of Education & Public Programming in Syracuse, NY. Derrick will present Erie Eats: The Erie Canal Foodways project.

Food is the most basic building block of human life. We all need it to survive and thrive. But where does our food come from? How does it get to where we can eat it? Who decides what products will be available to us to eat? The answers to all of these questions, for people in Upstate New York and throughout the United States, were radically transformed by the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825 and continued to change dramatically over the next 200 years as the Canal itself changed.

Free and open to the public.

Signature Granary cookies will be served.