A new exhibit at the Cross River Heritage Center in Schroeder takes a look at the resort industry in the ‘30s, ‘40s and ‘50s. These lakeside cottages were part of Gunderson’s Resort.
The Cross River Heritage Center opened May 22 to 350 visitors. Schroeder Area Historical Society’s 2015 exhibit Lost Resorts returns to the deep roots of the Schroeder area community from Caribou River to Cascade River. Exhibit boards provide a glimpse of the over 50 resorts that dotted the North Shore and inland lakes in the ’30s, ’40s and ’50s. Only eight of those original resorts remain in business today.
The Schroeder Area Historical Society Annual Meeting will be held at 1 p.m. June 21 and feature Grand Portage National Monument Superintendent Tim Cochrane, who will speak on The American Fur Company. An ice cream social will follow the annual meeting.
Schroeder Area Historical Society’s annual Lundie Tour is at 1 p.m. July 11. There will be six sites visited including Spike Carlsen’s small footprint cabin featured in a recent Minneapolis Star Tribune book review about Carlsen’s recent publication Cabin Lessons. Both author Spike Carlsen and architect and author Dale Mulfinger will be featured at a free and open to the public talk and book signing July 11 at 10 a.m. at the Schroeder Town Hall.
John Schroeder Day will be celebrated on Aug. 15 and headquartered at the Cross River Heritage Center from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. At 11 a.m. Lee Johnson, archeologist from the U.S. Forest Service in Duluth, will be speaking about the seven dams of the Cross River. More information about this community wide celebration will be coming in the next months.
The Cross River Heritage Center Art Gallery for the year features the fantastic beadwork of Marcie McIntire until July 15. The July 15- Sept. 1 exhibit features the work of painter Sandi Pillsbury Gredzens, who has been a featured artist at the Agora Gallery in New York City in the winter of 2015. The Sept. 1- Oct. 17 art gallery will feature various works of the Lake Superior Watercolor Society curated by Sandy Maxwell.
For more information about the yearly fundraising event or any other programs, call (218) 663-7706.
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