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History Chats will be returning to an older theme this June, and will be featuring stories of some remarkable people from Marathon County’s history.

For this May, MCHS is again celebrating Historic Preservation Month by looking at topics from around the County that illustrate the importance of historic preservation. This year we are featuring a few sites on the National Register of Historic Places from Marathon County.

For April, the Marathon County Historical Society’s History Chats programs will be exploring the myths, misconceptions, and mistakes from local history in Marathon County. These foolish stories will include quack doctors, fabricated trolleys, underground tunnels, and mythical monsters of the Pinery.

Maps don’t always get the credit they deserve. They are some of the most interesting and helpful resources out there, but often you have to know what you are looking at in order to appreciate the usefulness of the map. So for March, we are returning to a month of History Chats dedicated to maps, and the remarkable stories that they can tell us.

After doing History Chats for over a year, we decided to take the month of February to revisit some stories that didn’t fit into programs we’ve done in the past, and to field questions from the public.

In 2022, the Wausau is celebrating 150 years as a city. And to mark that occasion, we are starting off another year of History Chats with a look at some stories about the City of Wausau.

2022 will mark the 70^th Anniversary of the Marathon County Historical Society. Today’s efforts to continuing efforts to collect, preserve, and keep alive the history of the people of Marathon County has been built on decades of historical exhibits and programs. So as we finish this year and look to the next, we are digging into the foundations of our own Historical Society to see some of the earlier stories of our efforts to keep Marathon County history alive.