Grand Marais Historical Society

09/18/2026

Let your friends in Munising know!

Munising friends: Altran is offering transportation to the W**e Tasting event next Saturday, September 26. The bus will leave Munising at 3pm and will return 9:00 - 9:30. Ride in comfort and enjoy the w**e, cheese, silent auction, live auction, and more! Altran tickets are $13.00. To reserve your spot, call 906-387-4845.

09/18/2026

Munising friends: Altran is offering transportation to the W**e Tasting event next Saturday, September 26. The bus will leave Munising at 3pm and will return 9:00 - 9:30. Ride in comfort and enjoy the w**e, cheese, silent auction, live auction, and more! Altran tickets are $13.00. To reserve your spot, call 906-387-4845.

09/13/2026

If you haven't bought your tickets for the third annual W**e Tasting and Live/Silent Auctions event, here's the link:
https://grandmaraismichigan.com/2026-w**e-tasting-and-art-auction/
Tickets are $30 in advance and $35 at the door. Just wait till you see what will be in the auctions this year! And we will be featuring some non-alcoholic w**e and drink options. too.

Sip, swirl, and bid the night away in Grand Marais! Join us for a lively evening of w**e tasting, art, raffles, and auction excitement. Tickets are $30 in advance, and $35 at the door. Purchase tickets online at PayPal. Be a Table Sponsor! Table Sponsorships are $250 if paid by check and $255 if pai...

08/30/2026

Stop at the Pickle Barrel and adopt some Grand Marais-grown irises! These have names so you can look them up. Donations appreciated. The PB is open today!

08/21/2026

It's Iris Time! For planting, that is. We weren't able to offer irises inside the Old Post Office Museum this year, due to ongoing renovation work, but if anyone would like to plant a bed of irises from Grand Marais, we can box up a nice mix of 20+ irises and mail them to you for $50, shipping included. All proceeds will go to the museums. Interested? Email us at [email protected]. We can take PayPal or Venmo payments.

08/21/2026

We've just about finished the first coat of paint on the new siding for the Old Post Office Museum. We're using Sherwin-Williams' premier Duration exterior paint in a nice light tan, which will look great with our white trim and red doors. Hats off to our volunteer painting crew, made up of HS members helping to get this project across the finish line! Our thanks to Township of Burt, Alger County for allowing us to use the barn at the Community Center. Keegan Redloske and his crew from KCR Homes LLC will be finishing the project in a few weeks. It's going to look beautiful!

08/20/2026

To celebrate the 100 year anniversary of the Pickle Barrel, a donation was presented to the Pickle Barrel restoration, in memory of Ed and Florence (Honey) Ogden. Pictured is great-great nephew John Ogden and great-great niece Patti Ogden Lico (great-great niece Maria Ogden Christy not present), descendants of William Donahey, cartoonist of the Teenie Weenies, who lived in the pickle barrel. The Ogdens encourage folks to donate to keep this wonderful attraction available for future generations to enjoy. Volunteer Teresa Mitchell was at the Pickle Barrel that day and accepted the donation with thanks from the Historical Society.

08/07/2026

The Pickle Barrel will be open on Saturday, 8/8 from 1-4pm. Come visit!

08/07/2026

And after six weeks of hard work by Troy Morgan, the Pickle Barrel has a beautifully-renovated exterior! It is now coated in a waterproof membrane from Semco. We still have some tasks to complete, but it sure is looking nice! We are trying to have it open for visitors on weekends, and during the week when possible.

08/03/2026

Stop by the Pickle Barrel garden and see our new exhibit honoring the tough, resilient people who refused to let Grand Marais die. The graduates of Burt Township School represent many of these families and we have senior class photos on display all the way back to 1937. If you were a graduate, a teacher, or a staff member, please share your memories with us! In our welcome box, you'll find information postcards, a guest book, and even some forms to fill out with a memory or two. You can drop it right in the box under our welcome station. We will compile these memories into bound volumes. Help us keep our history alive!