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Voyageur Magazine Joins the Social Networking Frenzy!
Greetings, and for our first time visitors, welcome to Voyageur Magazine’s new website! Our new website has been up and running for a few months now, but we wanted to make you aware of Voyageur’s other two web presences on Facebook and Twitter.
Our Facebook page features basic information on the magazine and its history. You will also find cover images and contents of all our past issues, staff photos, and images and information covering each issue’s development process. A semi-weekly feature found on our Facebook page is “History Talk,” where we do things like spotlight a historical society or museum in Voyageur’s 26-county coverage area, talk about ways you can become involved in local history yourself, or highlight an area personality, event or historic location.
We want our Facebook page to be a way for Voyageur fan and readers to interact with us by posting historic images and letting us know your thoughts on the magazine and Northeast Wisconsin’s history in general. Please “Like” us on Facebook, and make sure to recommend us to all your Facebook friends as well! Click on the following link to navigate Voyageur Magazine Facebook page.
Voyageur Magazine is also on Twitter, where we will make announcements regarding upcoming issues and also “tweets” about past issues and articles. You can find us on Twitter under the name, “VoyageurMag.”
About Voyageur
Voyageur is a nonprofit magazine about the history of a 26-county area of greater Northeast Wisconsin. It's published twice a year, each June and December. Publication frequency is Summer/Fall and Winter/Spring. Each 64-page edition highlights historic people, places and events from the region's past. Voyageur has a readership of 10,000. It's distributed to homes, schools, libraries, businesses and other locations throughout Wisconsin, in nearly all fifty states and overseas. Voyageur has published two issues a year since its beginning in 1984. The magazine is published by the Brown County Historical Society in cooperation with the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and St. Norbert College in De Pere.
Featured Articles: Sturgeon Bay’s Michigan Street Bridge
The Michigan Street Bridge in Sturgeon
Bay reopened to traffic on October 14, 2011.
The nearly $21 million rehabilitation project
had begun in July 2009. Work on the 1,390-
foot-long bridge included structural rehabilitation
of the fixed and movable steel
through truss spans; replacement of the
machinery, controls, electrical system, lighting
and fender system; and painting.
In 1930, the Wausau Iron Works Company
began construction of the original Sturgeon
Bay Bridge, which is also known as the Steel
Bridge. The bridge, designed by the Chicago
engineering firm of Keller and Harrington,
would cross the Sturgeon Bay shipping canal
and become the first free passage over
Sturgeon Bay.
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Jim Zwerg Featured in American Experience PBS Documentary
After deciding to participate in the Freedom Rides in May 1961, Jim Zwerg called his parents for support only to be told that he was "killing his father." As a white Freedom Rider, Zwerg was among the first to be attacked and sustained severe injuries. (More)
Current Issue
Voyageur’s
Summer/Fall
2012 Issue
In 1976 the United States celebrated its bicentennial. Thirty-six years later we mark another bicentennial. This time it is the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 – a war often looked over by historians. In this issue we feature an article by James Onbrello, Jr., who recently earned his M.A. in history from the UW-Eau Claire. In his article, “War of 1812,” James looks at the effects of the war on our part of the country. British and American forces spent incredible amounts of effort to win control of the Mackinac-to-Prairie du Chien water route because control of that route would give aid to control of the Upper Mississippi River. (More)
Voyageur’s
Summer/Fall
2012 Issue
Over the 2010 Memorial Day Weekend Green Bay hosted “LZ Lambeau.” It was to be “Wisconsin’s official ‘Thank You and Welcome Home’,” event for the state’s Vietnam War veterans. That the event took place 35 years after the fall of Saigon in April of 1975 is indicative of how America still struggles with its reactions to the war and the men and women who fought in it. (More)