By ANGELA KELLOGG-HENRY Cleaver Managing Editor   One doesn’t need to spend a lot of gas money this weekend to find something fun to do close by. The Clare County Historical …

The photos on the left had been circulating for many years and were somewhat low-quality scans with odd colors I suspected were not original but part of the scanning process. There was some …

Jon H. Ringelberg Member, CCHS March 5, 2019 Sometimes one stumbles into history by sheer accident and this particular stumble into history involves the now City of Clare, previously known as …

By ANGELA KELLOGG-HENRY Cleaver Managing Editor While a member of the Clare County Historical Society for over 40 years with only a self-proclaimed nickname of ‘curmudgeon”, Jon …

By ANGELA KELLOGG-HENRY Cleaver Managing Editor Carl and Louise Burkhalter moved to Harrison in 1940. They became beloved citizens who ran several successful businesses and were active in …

By ANGELA KELLOGG-HENRY Cleaver Managing Editor This spectacular cabinet card photo is in the collection of the Clare County Historical Society. With no AI or photoshop, just a love of his …

By ANGELA KELLOGG-HENRY Cleaver Managing Editor The latest item to be acquired in the history collection at the Harrison District Library is a guest register from the Lewis House in …

By Angela Kellogg-Henry Cleaver Managing Editor Readers may remember the two articles I’ve written about two brass baggage tags found from the Johnson House of Harrison, now the home of …

By ANGELA KELLOGG-HENRY Cleaver Managing Editor Anthony Rogers, nickname Tone, was a resident of Harrison in the late 1800s and early 1900s. His descendant Chip Rogers, a loyal subscriber …

By ANGELA KELLOGG-HENRY Cleaver Managing Editor In 2021, I wrote an article about a baggage tag from the Johnson House I purchased in an online auction. The brass tag dated from …

By ANGELA KELLOGG-HENRY Cleaver Managing Editor Jon Ringelberg’s new book is a bit different than his half dozen or so other historical works about Clare County. This book is more …