A UNION SOLDIER REMEMBERS   $24.95    FATHER & SON PRODUCTIONS, VHS, 58 MIN

When the Civil War began, Manitowoc, WI, raised a company of soldiers to defend the Union.  The town made them a magnificent flag to carry into battle.  In the summer of 1861, the 105 volunteers left on the steamer Comet, to report to Camp Randall for training.  They would become Company A, of the 5^th Wisconsin Volunteers Regiment.  Through the diaries of one of these men, James S. Anderson, we will see the war through his eyes.  Experience what it was truly like to fight in the Civil War by watching A UNION SOLDIER REMEMBERS.

Cheese the Making of a Wisconsin Tradition   $18.95    Jerry Apps 

This is a story of farmers, milk cows, dairy barns, and green pastures.  It is the story of cheese makers who work their magic and turn milk into cheese.  In Cheese, The Making of a Wisconsin Tradition, award-winning author Jerry Apps narrates the history of the cheese-making industry in Wisconsin from its inception in the 1840s to the present.  Apps explains the many different kinds of Wisconsin-made cheeses (including those that originated or are exclusively made in the state), and discusses the current cheese producers, their factories and technology.

FOLK CULTURE         $2.00	   The Manitowoc County Historical Society

	

	What did people do 
	for fun in the Manitowoc County of yesteryear?  Three writers, Frances Ritchie Kruck, Joan
	Marcks, and Marie Stoelting, 
	all MCHS members, share their memories.  We appreciated this look at 
	our communities’ unique pursuit of happiness as settlers brought with them 
	their homeland’s culture and shared it with anyone 
	wanted to participate.
		
 

They glitter. They shimmer. They bask in the glow of gently rotating color wheels.  They last forever.  Aluminum Christmas trees are the most spectacular souvenirs of our most recent Christmas Past -- the Christmases of the super-modern 1960s.  In more than 60 lush color photographs, Season's Gleamings reveals the fantastic diversity of aluminum trees.

From Schooners to submarines, Manitowoc has been home to shipbuilders and their craft for over 200 years.  Thanks to the vast collections of the Wisconsin Maritime Museum, Maritime Manitowoc : 1847-1947 uncovers the fascinating and colorful Golden Age of shipbuilding in the area.  This book explores the remarkable history of Manitowoc's shipyards and the magnificent ships that were built ther.