P.O. Box 39 Stone Lake, WI 54876
PRESIDENT: Rob Lester (715) 766-3407
VICE PRES.: Vi Myer (715) 865-5600
TREASURER: Joan Rainville (715) 558-8013
SECRETARY: Betty Helwig (715) 865-5500
DIRECTOR: Connie Schield (715) 865-4940
DIRECTOR: Sandy Oates
DIRECTOR: Carol McDonnell (715) 558-4911
Stone Lake Area Historical Society E-mail address: tncmcd@aol.com
Stone Lake Area Historical Society Website: www.stonelakeareahistoricalsociety.com
Stone Lake Area Historical Society Digitization
Project Website: http://content.mpl.org/stonelake
The Ham & Scalloped Potato dinner is a yearly fund-raiser for the historical society. It will be held on Saturday, May 3, 2014, at the
Stone Lake Fire Hall. Dinner will be served from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM, and there will be a
Silent Auction with many wonderful donated items. Price is $10 for adults and $5 for children 10 and under. It is hoped that everyone in the community will come out and enjoy this get-together, while giving their support to the many activities of the historical society.
THE STONE LAKE DEPOT/MUSEUM, 1913 SOO
LINE CABOOSE, 1926 TOWN HALL AND
LITTLE FREE LIBRARY
2013 Array of awesome desserts!
The historical society has been contacted by
Emily Reeves, the daughter of Les and Mary
Neu, first owners of the Stone Lake
Creamery. Emily has given the historical society several items from the old creamery, including the scale on which all the dairy products were weighed. As an added note, we must thank David Svejda, Sharon Svedja’s

son, for transporting these items from southern Wisconsin to Stone Lake. Thank you so much, David. We are very grateful that Emily thought of gifting the museum with these items, and are also happy to have received her handwritten memoirs describing her childhood in Stone Lake. We urge everyone reading this newsletter to consider adding your own family history and/or memoirs to the historical society’s collection of family histories, which is growing each season.
PAGE 2 with others. Do you have wonderful memories of childhood vacations in the Stone
Lake area?
Cathy Sommer Holz, an active member of the historical society, will be on a mission this season to locate as many brochures and photographs as possible of our area’s early resorts and campgrounds. This is a major project and is not an easy job, so please, if anyone has material they can provide about these early businesses, email the historical society at tncmcd@aol.com
and the information will be passed on to Cathy immediately. We have a major display unit just waiting for this very important material.
Cathy would also like to contact former customers of resorts and campgrounds who might like to send in their “remembrances” of their resort experiences that could be shared
This new brochure display rack, given to the museum by Harold Burton in memory of Gretchen Burton, will be the home of the items that Cathy Sommer
Holz will be seeking. It will hold a history of our resorts and campgrounds in brochure and picture so they can be enjoyed by future generations.
At the March, 2014, meeting of the historical society, a slate of officers was presented to the membership. A ballot is included in this newsletter for all current members which they should return by May 10, 2014.
The Stone Lake Area Historical Society is a 501 © (3) charitable organization; gifts are tax deductible.

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The second Antique and Collectible event to be sponsored by the Stone Lake Area
Historical Society will be held on Saturday,
June 14, 2014 from 2:00 to 5:00 PM at the
Stone Lake Fire Hall. Appraiser Mark Moran has served as a guest expert on Antique Road
Show, has authored or co-authored more than
25 books on antiques and collectibles, and is a former senior editor of antiques and collectibles books for Krause Publications.
He has bought and sold antiques for more than 30 years, and a contributor to the 800 page annual Warman’s Antiques &
Collectibles, now in its 45 th edition. This year, a special feature of this event is the
“home visit” by Moran. He will come to your home to appraise items too large to bring to the event. The cost of this home visit is
$75.00 per hour, and more than one item can be appraised. Reservations in advance are necessary, and may be made by sending your check for $15.00 per item, or $75.00 for the one hour home visit, to “Stone Lake Area
Historical Society, PO Box 35, Stone Lake,
WI 54876”. We have provided a form in this newsletter which you may use to register.
Please register by May 10, 2014, to assure a spot at this exciting event. Spectators are welcome.
As many of you know, Stone Lake Area
Historical Society’s yearly dues are $5.00 for an individual membership and $10.00 for a family membership, and are due on April 1, each year. Many of you may not know that the cost of a lifetime membership is $100.00, and gives a big boost to the historical society as it works to maintain its services to the community. All membership dues are tax deductible. Would you like to consider becoming a lifetime member? The historical society now has 79 regular memberships and
78 lifetime memberships. 157 total memberships is a wonderful show of support for our small community! A coupon is provided at the back of this newsletter for your use in becoming a new member or renewing your membership.

Recollection Wisconsin includes digitized collections from libraries, museums, archives, and historical societies in the state.
In 2011, Carol McDonnell and Connie
Schield decided to take on the project of digitizing the Stone Lake Historical Society
Museum for Recollection Wisconsin. Special photographic supplies were purchased and personal cameras were used for the project.
During two summers they took pictures of and wrote the metadata for the following collections in our museum: Railroad collection, Cranberry collection, Military collection, Church history collection, Logging collection, Clothing collection, and
Household collection.
In 2013, Recollection Wisconsin asked
Wisconsin residents to submit stories about their memories of working and playing in
Wisconsin. We submitted five stories which were featured on this site during the summer.
They are now included in the Stone Lake
Area Historical Society digitization collection. The stories were: Making
Cheddar Cheese by Doug Strand, Memories of Family Stories by Clovis Tripp, Memories of Growing Up on the Isle of Pines by Ted
Crandall, An American Girl-the Story of
Christine Henk written by her great granddaughter, Lexi Hutton, and The Sad
Fate of a Beautiful Doe by Carolyn Skille
Crotteau.
Please take a few minutes and look for our digital collection by either searching for the
Stone Lake Historical Society on Google
(where you will also find links to the digital
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If you search for the Stone Lake Area
Historical Society you will find our website which includes important local dates and archived newsletters.
These wonderful volunteers who work in teams of two, for four hour shifts on Friday,
Saturday, and Sunday, help make everyone’s visit to the museum complex more enjoyable.
Please consider joining the team of 60
Docents who share this experience on a regular basis. You select your own day(s) and select your own teammates if you wish. We thank Marilyn Knutson and John Clark, our two most recent volunteers, and look forward to working with them at the museum this summer.
Tom McDonnell re-stained the deck and handicapped ramp at the museum during the 2013 summer season.
This job must be re-done every 3-4 years. Thank you very much,Tom!

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VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
[ ] I would be willing to be a Docent during
the 2014 season.
[ ] I would be willing to bake a pie for the
Pie and Ice Cream Social on Sunday,
July 13, 2014
NAME: _____________________________
ADDRESS: __________________________
__________________________
PHONE: ____________________________
Email: ______________________________
Send to: Stone Lake Area Historical Society
PO Box 39, Stone Lake, WI 54876
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I would like to become a member of the Stone
Lake Area Historical Society.
NAME:___________________________________
ADDRESS:________________________________
________________________________
PHONE:__________________________________
[___] LIFETIME $100.00
[___] FAMILY 10.00/year
[___] INDIVIDUAL 5.00/year
Mail to: Stone Lake Area Historical Society
PO Box 39, Stone Lake, WI 54876
(Membership is from April 1 to April 1 each year)
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HISTORICAL SOCIETY CALENDAR
OF EVENTS - 2014
Saturday, May 3, 2014: Ham & Scalloped Potato
Dinner to be held at the Stone Lake Fire Hall from
4:00 PM to 7:00 PM.
Friday, May 23, 2014: Stone Lake Museum
Complex opens at noon for the season. Hours are noon to 4:00 PM each Friday, Saturday, and Sunday through October 4.
Saturday, June 14, 2014: Antique Appraisal Event with Appraiser Mark Moran. This event will be held at the Stone Lake Fire Hall from 2:00 PM to 5:00
PM. This year, Mark Moran will come to your home to appraise items, if necessary.
Sunday, July 13, 2014: Pie & Ice Cream Social at the Stone Lake Lion’s Park from 1:00 PM to 3:00
PM. Live music and a good time for all ages!
Saturday, August 2, 2014: Stone Lake Museum
Complex OPEN HOUSE from noon to 4:00 PM.
Refreshments will be served.
Thursday, September 4, 2014: “Business after 5” at the museum complex for Stone Lake’s business community. Wine & Cheese will be served from 5:00
PM to 7:00 PM.
Saturday, October 4, 2014: Visit the historical society’s “Wine By The Glass” booth during the exciting Cranberry Festival in Stone Lake. The booth is located at the top of the hill on Main Street, near the Lion’s Hall. This is our biggest fund raiser of the year, and lots of help is always needed and appreciated! Later that same day, at 5:00 PM, the museum complex closes for the season.

ANTIQUE APPRAISAL EVENT
I have _____ items to be appraised. I understand that the $15 fee for each item appraised must be enclosed with reservation. Enclosed is my check for $______ per item.
I would like to have a one hour home visit from Mark
Moran to appraise items at my home. My check for
$75.00 for that visit is enclosed.
Please call me [ ] or email me [ ] for specific information on my items to be appraised. I understand that some excluded items are all weapons, coins, paper money, precious gems, sports memorabilia, fine jewelry, pocket and wristwatches, most musical instruments including violins (some acoustic and early guitars accepted).
Name: _____________________________
Address: ___________________________
___________________________
Phone: _____________________________
Email: _____________________________
Send this with your check to: Stone Lake Area Historical
Society, PO Box 35, Stone Lake, WI 54876
Stone Lake Area Historical Society
PO Box 39
Stone Lake, WI 54876
THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING THESE
EVENTS. THEY PAY THE YEARLY
OPERATING EXPENSES OF THE
HISTORICAL SOCIETY.