regional Books
What Remains: Bringing America’s Missing Home from the Vietnam War
Author Sarah E. Wagner - For many families, the Vietnam War remains unsettled. Nearly 1,600 Americans are still unaccounted for. In What Remains, Sarah tells the stories of America’s missing service members and introduces us to the scientists and others who seek to bring the missing back home. Advances in forensic science have provided new and powerful tools to identify the remains of the missing, often from the merest trace—a tooth or other fragment. So promising are these scientific developments that they have raised the expectations of military families hoping to locate their missing. As Wagner shows, the possibility of such homecomings compels Americans to wrestle anew with their memories, as with the weight of their loved ones’ sacrifices, and to reevaluate what it means to wage war and die on behalf of the nation.
Included in this book, with excerpts from interviews with several people from Red Cliff WI, is the story of Bayfield's Lance Corporal Merlin Raye Allen's homecoming in 2013 after being MIA for forty-six years, and the creation of the Duwayne Soulier Memorial VFW Post in Red Cliff. Hard cover, 288 pages, b & w photos $29.95
See Sarah's presentation about Lance Corporal Merlin Allen's journey home HERE. MIA since 1967 - returned in 2013.
Discover Bayfield WI with these Self-Guided Walking Tours by Virginia Hirsch
Each book has a map and illustrations that help even the armchair traveler make the journey. $5.99 each
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Vol I: A WALK UP WASHINGTON AVENUE Walk from the Lake Superior shore to the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore Visitors Center, learning the history and stories of 16 historic sites along the way.

Vol II: A STROLL DOWN RITTENHOUSE AVENUE From the top of Rittenhouse Ave, explore 15 more historic sites as you return to downtown Bayfield. More great stories and history.
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Vol III: DYING TO GET IN Explore historic Bayfield Cemetery and learn more about the people who lived here as well as cemetery customs & lore.
GHOSTS & MYSTERIES IN THE BAYFIELD GRAVEYARDS
Author Virginia Hirsch - A graveyard is a place of many stories. Some stories are terrifying, some are hilarious, many are filled with love and sacrifice. Then there are stories of Bayfielders who still haunt their former homes and businesses. All are based on the experiences of real, living people who have been kind enough to share these "adventures" with you. You don't have to believe in ghosts to laugh or shiver as you explore the world of the supernatural through these true stories. 102 pages with b & w pictures and a guide map $11.99
GHOSTS AND LEGENDS OF OLD BAYFIELD - CD
Big Foot, ghosts, haunted houses, and other spooky stories from the Ghost Walks.
*The Wendigo  *The Curse on Dr. Hannum  *William & Jessie Knight-An Undying Love Story  *Ghosts of the Old Bayfield County Courthouse  *Three Encounters with Big Foot
All stories told by professional storyteller Virginia Hirsch. 41 minutes $12.00
THE HISTORIC CHRISTMAS TREE SHIP
Author Rochelle Pennington - Captain Herman Schuenemann became affectionately known as "Captain Santa" for his yearly voyages from Michigan's Upper Peninsula to Chicago with a load of freshly cut Christmas trees during the late 1800's and early 1900's. Families would wait anxiously at the docks for their choice of the best trees. Through vintage photographs (over 50!), newspaper clippings, and interviews with persons directly connected to the story, this book details the extraordinary events surrounding this loved legend. 320 pages $17.95
APOSTLE ISLANDS WATER TRIPS
Author John Frank - An excellent guidebook with paddling, boating and camping information for the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. Includes each island's location, geography, history, shoreline and small watercraft landing sites; its camping and hiking facilities, and its possible integration into a multi-island boat trip. A map showing the shoreline features, landing sites, and other important information for kayakers and boaters is included and each chapter also features a vignette or essay based on the author's paddling and camping experiences on each island over a twenty-two year period. 183 paged, full color photos & maps. $20.00
​THE LIGHTHOUSE ON DEVILS ISLAND
Author Jim Merkel - (fiction) One miserable spring night, a tired, bitter, despairing old lighthouse keeper prepares to jump off the top of Lake Superior's Devils Island Lighthouse. It seems the end for Owen McClatchy, but it's the beginning, during a wondrous summer of 1928. New first assistant keeper Sam Brown, his wife and two kids arrive from St. Louis and by summer's end, the Browns help McClatchy realize he hasn't wasted his life on a lighthouse! Based on the real Devils Island Lighthouse in Lake Superior’s Apostle Islands, this book is full of carefully-researched details about the drudgery, loneliness, beauty and heroism of a time and place when everything depended on keeping the light burning.  302 pages $15.95
APOSTLE ISLANDS: From Land and Sea (SOUVENIR EDITION)
Author / Photographer Craig Blacklock - Wisconsin's Apostle Islands are a haven for boaters and tourists and this photo book will appeal to them. Blacklock's ability as a photographer and kayaker sets this book far apart from any others. He has the skills to create images others would find impossible. Sea caves, lighthouses, scenic shoreline & so much more! hardcover, 48 pages of full color exceptional photography $8.95
DISCOVERING THE APOSTLE ISLANDS
Author Lawrence Newman - This book is a handy guide for visitors coming to this beautiful area of Wisconsin. It reveals recreational opportunities, history and facts about the islands, lighthouse information and photos, beach locations, how to get to the islands, and recommended places to visit in Bayfield and the surrounding communities. 143 pages, full color photography. $19.95
THE "UNHOLY" APOSTLES: Shipwreck Tales of the Apostle Islands
Author James Keller - The setting is the beautiful Apostle Islands & Chequamegon Bay area on the south shore of Lake Superior. The time frame runs roughly from 1870 to 1930. Within this sixty year period these waters witnessed many a troubled vessel and produced a plethora of interesting tales. This book reveals historical accounts and facts are presented as accurately as possible along with ample amounts of heroics, sacrifice, cowardice and courage. b/w historic photos, 158 pages  $11.95
GREAT LAKES LIGHTHOUSES: American And Canadian
Author Wes Oleszewski - The only all Great Lakes lighthouse guide! It features over 300 lighthouses on both the American and Canadian side of the lakes. The lighthouses are indexed by lake, making a trip to an area easy to plan and execute. Each lighthouse has a photo (if available), brief description, access availability and directions. Planning your lighthouse trip will be a breeze! Every listing includes a checkoff box to mark off each lighthouse you have visited. 217 pages, black & white photos & maps $17.95
HAUNTED LAKES
Author Frederick Stonehouse - This BEST SELLER has delighted and sent chills up the spines of thousands of readers! Haunted Lakes tells of possessed lighthouses and tragedies that have kept troubled souls walking the corridors and beaches, ghostly captains signaling their home port from vessels long gone and Sea Monsters that appear before the most trusted sailors of the Great Lakes. 204 pages, historic photos. $14.95
HAUNTED LAKES II
Author Frederick Stonehouse - Spirits, sea serpents and superstitions! One book simply couldn’t carry all of the hauntings of the Great Lakes - so now comes Haunted Lakes II, sequel to the popular Haunted Lakes. Enjoy mystifying tales of ghosts on boats, under water and in lighthouses, of underwater creatures and shipboard superstitions in an entertaining collection gathered from true believers. 200 pages, historic photos. $14.95