About the Event
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The Wisconsin Historical Society Speakers Bureau offers an exciting opportunity for our historians, curators and authors to visit your community and share the stories of our great state.
This graphic novel for children ages 8–11, beautifully illustrated by Renee Graef, relates dramatic moments from Great Lakes maritime history. The book’s five true stories span four centuries but take place in one location: a stretch of water near Lake Michigan’s notoriously dangerous western shore known as “Death’s Door.”
The stories feature a 17th century fur trading crew, an 18th-century Potawatomi trading party, a mail carrier and a shipbuilding family from the 19th century, and an early 20th-century basketball team. The narrator is Death’s Door itself, who wonders why people insist on crossing its treacherous waters, concluding it is “because they are human. Ambitious and restless…but loving too.”
Books will be available for sale and signing.
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Barbara Joosse is the award-winning author of more than fifty books for children, including Mama, Do You Love Me? and I Love You the Purplest, and has collaborated with Renèe Graef on such books as Everybody’s Tree, Lulu & Rocky in Milwaukee, and The Fisherman, the Horse, and the Sea. She lives in Port Washington and is the author and narrator of Shipwreck Walking Tour, an app she created with the Port Washington Historical Society. Visit her at www.barbarajoosse.com
