-LARGE POSTER-

                        (27 X 39)

  -Lake Pepin History-

       -150 Images in COLOR-

                         This Amazing Poster is based on the Book…

     Once Upon a Lake in Pepin

                     (27 X 39)

-A must have and one of a kind Poster that captured chronologically the most important events, believes, people accounts, adventures, and dreams of this picturesque area and its inhabitants.  

                                                        POSTER

Once Upon a Lake in Pepin

-There are 150 images  on this great poster

-On the Outside of this poster is a Great Saying of Little Crow, Dakota Chief who was a regular Visitor of our Area...

“We are many, many people and yet we are one. What we do today with our thinking, what we do tomorrow without thoughts, what we do with our actions and our interactions with people determines the course of the universe itself. You are not powerless. You are Not without power.” Little Crow – Dakota Chief

-This poster is available in color (for only $25) or as a black and white copy (for only $20).

-This Poster covers chronologically a period from 500 million years ago to our present times.

-If you liked Pepin Odyssey and Once Upon a Lake in Pepin books, this is POSTER that you will enjoy even more.

- Everything you ever wanted to know about this area is now in on this POSTER.

-Town of Pepin and its Lake is an epicenter of this POSTER. Besides town of Pepin, this Poster is covering related events that influenced several bordering counties including Buffalo, Pierce, St. Croix, Dunn, Pepin, Trempealeau, and Eau Claire (in Wisconsin), and Goodhue, Winona, and Wabasha in Minnesota…

-Once Upon a Lake in Pepin POSTER glorifies past events on the both sides of Lake Pepin.

Once Upon a Lake in Pepin POSTER recounts the events, landscapes, and people that made this area the charming place it is today. There is everything to be discovered in this book: buried treasures, Native American mounds, the only operating lighthouse on the Mississippi River, UFO sightings, a murder, unsolved bank robberies, kidnapping, shark accounts, Viking runes, mysterious caves, ancient artifacts, the largest boat disasters on the Upper Mississippi, the invention of water skiing, Native rebellions and battles, the last Wisconsin public lynching, the B-24 bomber crash site, and even Pepie the monster that was reported as a local residentJ. There are more than 280 stories accompanied by 900 images where readers will discover an amazing world of Hoton Wakpa (Dakota village and council grounds), the first ever written document at the local Fort St. Antoine in 1689, Rum production and the royal proposal of Captain Jonathan Carver, steamboat races on Lake Pepin, and Mark Twain’s account of the Maiden Rock story...  Full of stories and mysteries, one after another, including a Jim Stokes dream and the proposal of 1994 to create a National Monument dedicated to the Mdewakanton Dakota here in Pepin.

                 There is a little bit of everything for everyone to find in…

                          POSTER: ONCE UPON A LAKE IN PEPIN

For only $20 (Black & Whiteor $25 (ColoCopyyou can own this amazing account on the historical event of this area in last 500 million years to present times.

-This is a great gift for all of those distinguished history buffs, residents, visitors, and all of people who love this area of Lake Pepin and call it their home. 

  • -Great 150 IMAGES- POSTER and a gift for everyone.
  • -Rediscover Pepin’s Area History from the very beginning. Once Upon a Lake in Pepin POSTER recounts the events, people, and landscapes that made this area the charming place it is today. With an attempt both chronological and comprehensive, local history teacher Goran Pesic covers several centuries of Lake Pepin’s remarkable past, uncovering how it was shaped by the Native American cultures, French explorers and traders, waves of new inhabitants, politics and upheavals that created states of Minnesota and Wisconsin.
  • -As an ambitious project, Once Upon a Lake in Pepin POSTER documents and investigates many amazing events including arrivals of first settlers, the Sea Wing and the worst boat disaster on the Upper Mississippi River, the B-24 crash of 1944, Oneota villages and artifacts, UFO sightings, origins of Native American mounds, French forts, reported lost treasures, Pepie- the Lake Monster of Pepin, remarkable famous people from the area including Laura Ingalls Wilder, Helen Parkhurst, and Cadwallader Colden Washburn…
  •      There is something for everyone to find, discover, read, and learn on…

         POSTER Once Upon a Lake in Pepin.

  • Everything you wanted to know about this marvelous location, its people, local attractions, and their history - you can find on this POSTER that follows the Book Once Upon a Lake in Pepin chronologically. 
  • Area of Lake Pepin is a Twin Peaks of the Midwest Region. Its past and present are filled with amazing and extraordinary stories and events. There is a story for everyone. 
  • -Here you will learn about ....

               - Why is this area called the Driftless Area and how glaciers never covered the landscape of  Lake Pepin.

               - What are some secrets of the first humans that inhabited these lands. 

- Pepie the monster of Lake Pepin, a story similar to famous Loch Ness legend 

               - Secrets of mysterious Native American burial mounds scattered all around Pepin prairies,

               - When did Dakota and Chippewa peoples arrive in Pepin Area,

               - Who are Kiuksa (Code Breakers) Sioux who lived around Lake Pepin?

               - The Last Stand of Big Ojibway in 1795 - an Indian Chief and his Spartan story,

               - French Nicholas Perrot who wanted to burn an entire Lake Pepin in 1686,

               - How the Lake of Tears became known as the Lake Pepin in 1680?

               - What mysterious fortifications did Jonathan Carver reported seeing near Lake Pepin in 1767?

               - How did Chief Wapasha II lost his eye?

               - Infamous 1824 massacre of white Canadian traders on the shores of Lake Pepin,

               - Who is African American runaway slave who married Dakota Chief's daughter near Pepin in 

                 1847?

               - Who was that famous Indian girl that leaped of the Maiden Rock in 1700 and why she did that?

               - How did Red Wing, Pepin, Plum City, Nelson, Stockholm, Lund, Wabasha.... become townships?

               - Who are Santee Sioux (Dakota) from this region and are they related to the Oneota Civilization? 

               - Who is Laura Ingalls Wilder and where she was born in 1867?

- Why did B-24 bomber crash in Lake Pepin in 1944 and should its crew be remembered as 

                  heroes?

               - A location of only working Light House on the entire Mississippi River?

               - How the water skiing was invented on Lake Pepin in 1922?

               - Who built Historic Stockholm Hotel in 1914 and why?

               - Did you know that there is a buried treasure somewhere between Stockholm and Pepin?

               - Where is a location of only conducted archaeological excavation in this area and who financed 

                 it?

               - Did you know that Pepin had a semi-pro Baseball team that was the State Champion in 1967?

               - Do you believe in Aliens? Only 30 miles from Pepin, one town claims to be be the UFO capital of 

                 the world.

               - Learn of the last public lynching in the Midwest and an infamous crimes of Maxwell Brothers.

               - Did you know that there were three bank robberies in Pepin and that two of them went 

                 unsolved?

               - Who is great Softball coach who won two High School Softball Championships in 1995 and 

                 1998?

               - How did Jack Lemon and Walter Matthau make Wabasha famous in 1993?

- Who became the first person to swim an entire length of the Mississippi River in 2002?

               - Was there really a bull shark found in the Lake Pepin in 2006?

               - What is the story of the Flood Run and how it began in 1970?

               - What did Jesse James do in this area in 1876 and were the Maxwell Brothers his associates?

               - What is the location on the Lake Pepin of this worst boat accident on the Upper Mississippi 

                 River (1890)?

               - Who was the only resident of Pepin County who died in Vietnam War in 1970?.............

                                                     

 ...and 100’s  more  images that chronologically follows Pepin History and the book Once Upon a Lake in Pepin...

 

These and many other amazing facts you will find on this POSTER. An entire chronology of Pepin and surrounding area. Everything you ever wanted to ask is now in one PLACE.

 

                  POSTER: Once Upon a Lake in Pepin