While a newly married couple celebrated their love and talked about childhood memories of the Potawatomi State Park Observation Tower, Dr. Daniel Tingley of Wood Research and Development inspected the structure intently and reflected on the seven years it took to ensure that moment could occur. The Sturgeon Bay Historical Society celebrated its efforts to save the observation tower from demolition after it was closed in 2017. To save it, Christie Weber and others implored Tingley to come to Sturgeon Bay to see if the tower could be saved, along with the memories that stand alongside it. With Tingley holding court about the finer details of the tower’s wooden structure on one side of the top platform and the newlyweds taking pictures on the other side, Weber expressed her happiness that all of the pieces came together to make the tower climb possible.

As a part of the day’s events, the Sturgeon Bay Historical Society hosted a special reception at the Door County Granary, where engineer Wm. Jason Flatt and Tingley talked about the tower’s history.