regional Books
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.
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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. $5.99

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. $6.99
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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. $5.99
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 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
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
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