Upcoming Events
Cemetery Tour: Lives, Deaths & Funerals
SAT, OCT 25, 2025 / Tours every 20 minutes from 1 - 2:40 PM
Midland City Cemetery, 3200 Orchard Dr Midland, MI
Step into the past with Midland County Historical Society as they guide a tour through Midland City Cemetery. Along the way, you’ll meet some of the people who shaped our community, brought to life by costumed interpreters sharing their stories. From Willard and Martha Dow, whose memorial at the Midland County Courthouse brought thousands, to other residents whose lives and legacies still echo today, this tour offers a unique way to connect with Midland’s history this fall.
This event is a walking tour and is held rain or shine.
Brunch History: Fisher Sand and Gravel
SAT, NOV 22, 2025 / 11 AM (Brunch service begins at 10 AM)
Midland County Historical Society presents Brunch History: a series of presentations where the public is invited to come in, order a flight of mimosas and a plate from a curated collection of brunch favorites, before enjoying an engaging historical talk.
Join Fisher Sand and Gravel President, J.W. Fisher as he shares about the first century of his family's Midland-based business. The enterprise was started in 1925 when J.W.'s grandparents leased a gravel pit near Freeland. Come learn how it grew into the company it is today with hundreds of employees and many high profile contracts, such as the restoration of the US-10 bridge over Sanford Lake in 2020.
BRUNCH IS SOLD SEPARATELY! Pre-order is required. Pre-orders available until NOV 16 at 11 PM. View the menu and order here.

'Lakeshore Light' Art Exhibit by Stan Myers
OCT 24, 2025 - FEB 7, 2026
Free Art Reception / THU, NOV 20, 2025 / 5:30 - 7:30 PM
Located in the Auditorium Lobby
Featuring over twenty landscape paintings that quiet our soul, seek truth, beauty, and love in nature. Myers transcendent landscapes focus on transitions of light dancing across the atmosphere that seamlessly melt into the lakeshore. Myers artwork focuses on both coastal and agrarian settings in northern and western Michigan while gaining inspiration by traveling abroad. Myers’ states: When painting, it is like a mental dance. It starts with the heart which inspires the entire object. Then there is an analysis of what evokes the impression. The dance occurs when my thoughts move from seeing objects abstractly by how the light reveals them to looking at them for what they are as objects to assessing the impression it gives in my heart.
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'A Journey from Afar' Art Exhibit by Boisali Biswas
DEC 6, 2025 - FEB 22, 2026
Free Art Reception / FRI, DEC 19, 2025 / 5:30 - 7 PM
Located in the Little Theater Lobby
Embark on a journey of nostalgia with textile artist Boisali Biswas as she reflects on growing up in India and traveling the world. Biswas’ education incorporated an integrated approach with a love of nature and Indian culture, and seeks to bring awareness from protecting the planet to the rich cultural experiences of marginalized communities. Her work combines weaving, dyeing, and painting, often exploring themes of identity, culture, and environmental connections. Exhibited nationally and internationally, her art bridges narratives of memory and transformation. Biswas states: Art is like an odyssey for me through the passage of time-honored techniques, traditions, and influences. I contemplate how cultures and countries are bound together by the warp and weft of civilization, how we were wrapped in cloth ever since our inception! My journey of working with fibers continues to weave those cultures together in a multifaceted way.
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'Intersections in Time and Space' Art Exhibit by Guy Adamec
MAR 6 - JUN 6 / 2026
Free Art Reception / FRI, MAR 27, 2026 / 5:30 - 7 PM
Located in the Auditorium Lobby
Master ceramicist Guy Adamec explores the intersection of form, function, and creativity in this thoughtful collection of over twenty ceramic works. The craft of creating something using a machine — the potter's wheel — and one's hands, in sync with creative ingenuity, produces an object of pure beauty. This correlation integrates not just Adamec’s imagination and dedication but also infuses science and engineering that are imperative to the craft. Some of Adamec’s pieces of art are also objects that can be used in a utilitarian fashion, like bowls, urns, and vases that help us in our everyday lives. Adamec states: I make objects to interpret contemporary attitudes within the context of traditional forms and aesthetics while conveying a sense of natural beauty, harmony, balance, and mystery within the intricacies of the piece. Working in clay allows for infinite control over form and surface while allowing for spontaneity.
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