June 2025
Frances Anne Hopkins: Hudson Bay Company Wife, Voyageur’s Artist at Sibley
Frances Anne Hopkins paintings of canoe travel are best described as colorful and accurate scenes of early fur trade history. These cherished prints are widely published and reproduced. However, most admirers of Hopkins work do not know the artist was a woman or that she was from a prominent British family and mother of seven! Join historian Mary Ellen Weller-Smith as she shares the story of Frances Anne Hopkins and her remarkable life as a voyageur’s wife. Mary Ellen Weller-…
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Book Signing for “Rocky’s Lighthouse Adventure”
Join us in welcoming Deborah Winchell & Renee Andriani, author and illustrator of Rocky’s Lighthouse Adventure. Deborah Winchell was inspired to write about Rocky while interviewing a former lighthouse keeper for an article in Lake Superior Magazine. The man revealed that a dog lived on Rock of Ages in the 1970s. Deborah has camped, paddled, and hiked all along the North Shore and Keweenaw Peninsula of Lake Superior, including Isle Royale National Park. She retired from Cornell University and serves…
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