The family-oriented event is an interactive game with a regional history lesson. Live actors portray real people from Beltrami County as participants become amateur sleuths trying to solve the crime.
In recalling the many saloons of the pre-Prohibition era in Bemidji, it is easy to think of the robust bartenders and saloon keepers as owners of the property, but this was seldom the case.
Some say old Bemidji home to 40 saloons and eight brothels was a rough and rugged town due to the presence of the lumberjacks. But, didn’t the lumberjacks spend most of the winter in the woods?
Michigan's population has slowly trickled down from the top to bottom over the last few centuries. Did you know our 1st cities were in the Upper Peninsula?