Sue Steckart Jarosh
1967 B.A. Elementary Education - St. Norbert College
Graduate Level Classes: University of Wisconsin –University of Wisconsin at La Crosse, University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh (first writing class) and Clark College in Dubuque, IA.
1967- 1972 Taught elementary school in Appleton Public Schools
1974- 2002 Substitute teacher in Dubuque, IA, School District
1984 - Purchased home in Jacksonport and opened Jacksonport Craft Cottage Gifts
2015 - Sold business after 31 years and retired to Baileys Harbor
2017 - Established Door County Polar Bear Press
Children's
Door County's Eagle Bluff Lighthouse Mouse
2017 Polar Bear Press
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Walter is a boy growing up at Eagle Bluff Lighthouse in the 1890s. Follow him through this iconic land mark as he searches for a lost key to the lighthouse tower. Read about, Max the lighthouse mouse, who helps Walter save the day. Selected for first Children’s Book Trail to be read April 30, 2022 in Murphy County Park.
Camden and the Cana Island Cat in Door County
May 2022 Polar Bear Press.
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In our story, “Camden and the Cana Island Cat (in Door County),” Camden visits
Cana Island and takes a tour of the island and lighthouse. This fictional story of Cana
Island, based on actual history, is told through the eyes of a curious and imaginative
boy named Camden and his guide, Buddy, the Cana Island cat.
