Past Events

This History Talk has been postponed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. See our most recent blog post for more information. New date to be determined. Michael Douglass is the former director of Villa Louis Historic Site in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. Douglass actively engages in interpreting the early 19th-century Great Lakes Fur Trade. In … Read more

Starting at 10:00 am and going until 3:00 pm, antique quilt expert Joey Mahieu, will be available to help date antique quilts and give information about the pattern used. At 11:30 am and 2:30 pm, Nancy Fairchild will be speaking on “Quilts and the Underground Railroad.” Fairchild is a DAR member and Grant County Resident. … Read more

Free Book Event at the Platteville Library’s Community Room. Local Wisconsin author, Gary Jones, will speak about his new book, Ridge Stories: Herding Hens, Powdering Pigs, and Other Recollections from a Boyhood in the Driftless, published this year by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press. Gary has written for several Milwaukee and Door County publications and … Read more

At this History Talk, Dr. Eugene Tesdahl from the University of Wisconsin Platteville will be speaking about his research on the illegal holding of enslaved people in Grant County. Dr. Tesdahl has recently published an article in the Summer 2019 edition of Wisconsin Magazine of History about Lead Mining and Slavery. Free and open to … Read more

At this Book Talk, Micheal J. Larson will talk about his book Dear Delia. The book chronicles the story of Henry F. Young, an officer in the famed Iron Brigade, as told through his 155 letters home. Young’s insights, often poignant and powerful, enable readers to witness the Civil War as he did. His letters cover … Read more