Used Book Sale – BAG SALE

Manitowish Waters Town Hall 5733 Airport Rd, Manitowish Waters, WI, United States

Note: This year's book sale will be in the Manitowish Waters Town Hall (not the Lion's Pavilion). Also, the days of the week and hours have changed. Friday is the bag sale day. One bag: $5 Two bags: $8 Three bags: $10

Used Book Sale – second day

Manitowish Waters Town Hall 5733 Airport Rd, Manitowish Waters, WI, United States

Note: This year's book sale will be in the Manitowish Waters Town Hall (not the Lion's Pavilion). Also, the days of the week and hours have changed.

Used Book Sale – Opens at NOON

Manitowish Waters Town Hall 5733 Airport Rd, Manitowish Waters, WI, United States

Note: This year's book sale will be in the Manitowish Waters Town Hall (not the Lion's Pavilion). Also, the days of the week and hours have changed.  

Interview with C. J. Box by Norman Gilliland

Manitowish Waters Town Hall 5733 Airport Rd, Manitowish Waters, WI, United States

Norman Gilliland from NPR will interview NYT best-selling author C. J. Box in an event at the library on Saturday, May 31st at 9:30am. This event is free and open to the public. NOTE: THERE IS A CHANGE IN THE VENUE. This event will take place at the Manitowish Waters town hall (next door to…

Author – John Armbruster – Tailspin

Manitowish Waters Town Hall 5733 Airport Rd, Manitowish Waters, WI, United States

Note: This event will be held next door at the Town Hall. Tailspin recounts an event in November 1943, in the skies over Nazi Germany, when a wounded American tail gunner, Gene Moran, lay in the severed tail of his Flying Fortress bomber. The mangled wreckage plunged four miles toward German soil.  His parachute shredded by…

History of Northwoods Railroads

Manitowish Waters Town Hall 5733 Airport Rd, Manitowish Waters, WI, United States

Presented by Jim Bokern, president of the Manitowish Waters Historical Society.  No sign-up necessary. NOTE: In some publications this event was scheduled to take place at the library, however, it may be held next door at the Community Building. *Please contact the library close to the event to find out the final location. Thank you.

Manitowish Waters Historical Society – Southgate Canal

Manitowish Waters Town Hall 5733 Airport Rd, Manitowish Waters, WI, United States

Southgate Canal and Exclusive Estate Presentation Richard Southgate’s elaborate canal system and fishing retreat certainly qualifies as one of the most unique Manitowish Waters historic stories.

Wisconsin Lighthouses by Ken and Barb Wardius

Manitowish Waters Town Hall 5733 Airport Rd, Manitowish Waters, WI, United States

No symbol is more synonymous with Wisconsin’s rich maritime traditions than the lighthouse. These historic beacons conjure a bygone era: romance, loneliness, and dependability; dedicated keepers manning the lights; eerie tales of haunted structures and ghosts of past keepers; mariners of yesteryear anxiously hoping to make safe haven around rocky shorelines. If these sentinels could…

Author Talk – Jerry Apps and daughter Susan

Manitowish Waters Town Hall 5733 Airport Rd, Manitowish Waters, WI, United States

Story master Jerry Apps, joined by his daughter Susan Apps-Bodilly, share the memories that footnote the family recipes plucked straight from the matriarch Eleanor Apps's well-worn, Depression Era recipe box in their book Old Farm Country Cookbook: Recipes, Menus and Memories. Return to an era when all food was local and farming was a family-run affair…

Lunch & Learn – Supernatural Lake Superior

Manitowish Waters Town Hall 5733 Airport Rd, Manitowish Waters, WI, United States

Author of several books about the paranormal, Chad Lewis will talk about UFOs, phantom ships, mysterious creatures and sea serpents, and even the legendary Men in Black. The event is free and open to the public and recommended for ages 13 and older. The presentation will last about an hour. This is a FREE program.…