Virtual Book Talk: Milwaukee in Stone & Clay with author, Raymond Wiggers

Historic Milwaukee is pleased to co-host this virtual book talk with Boswell Books featuring Milwaukee in Stone and Clay: A Guide to the Cream City’s Architectural Geology with author, Raymond Wiggers.

The recording of the Zoom lecture will be available for seven days following the event.

About the Book
Milwaukee in Stone and Clay follows directly in the footsteps of Raymond Wiggers’s previous award-winning book, Chicago in Stone and Clay. It offers a wide-ranging look at the fascinating geology found in the building materials of Milwaukee County’s architectural landmarks. And it reveals the intriguing and often surprising links between science, art, and engineering.

Laid out in two main sections, the book first introduces the reader to the fundamentals of Milwaukee’s geology and its amazing prehuman history, then provides a site-by-site tour guide. Written in an engaging, informal style, this work presents the first in-depth exploration of the interplay among the region’s most architecturally significant sites, the materials they’re made of, and the sediments and bedrock they’re anchored in.

Raymond Wiggers crafted Milwaukee in Stone and Clay as an informative and exciting overview of this city. His two decades of experience leading architectural-geology tours have demonstrated the popularity of this approach and the subject matter.

About the Author
Raymond Wiggers is a geologist, science writer, and retired college Earth and life sciences instructor. He is the author of Chicago in Stone and Clay, Geology Underfoot in Illinois, and three other books.

You can preorder the book, here.