June 2022 Marquette Monthly by marquettemonthly

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contents

City Notes Highlights of important happenings in the area 15 On Campus

News from U.P. universities & colleges

June 2022 No. 398

Publishers

Jane Hutchens James Larsen II

Managing Editor Jackie Stark

Calendar Editor Carrie Usher

Graphic Design Jennifer Bell Knute Olson

Proofreader Laura Kagy

Circulation

Dick Armstrong

Chief Photographer Tom Buchkoe

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About the Cover Artist

This month’s cover art, “North Country Trails,” by John French, can be seen at Wintergreen Hill Gallery & Gifts in Marquette. John is a Marquette County artist who, in 2019, was awarded “Best in Show” at the Lake Superior Art Association Members’ Show for his painting titled “The View.” To learn more about John and his work visit http://artofjohnfrench.com

16 Then & Now

Superior View

Brad Gischia

Donckers

Lookout Point 150 years

20 In The Outdoors Warblers

Scot Stewart

New York Times Crossword Puzzle

Feature

Two-By-Two (answers on page 76)

Erin Elliott Bryan Honoring the Gossard Girls

32 Arts

Jonny Bahk-Halberg Pine Mountain Music Festival returns

34 At The Table

Katherine Larson

37 Poetry

Rick Rastall

Partridge Creek Farm Know that

38 Superior Reads

Victor Volkman Nonfiction piece outlines amazing lives of UP women

Lookout Point History on display

Pam Christensen

44 Back Then

Sonny Longtine Frank Lloyd Wright, iconic architect, pays a visit

48 At The Table

Katherine Larson Celebrating Juneteenth with all things red

50 Arts

The meaning of water

Jackie Stark

52 Back Then

Larry Chabot

Brad Gischia

Bernice Steadman

Fiction

The Pick, Part II

58 In The Outdoors

Elizabeth Fust

The Gathered Earth

Plan Bee

Coloring Page

64 Back Then

Larry Chabot

67 Arts

Brad Gischia

Military men

Theatre with a view

Lookout Point

Locals

Deborah K. Frontiera Historical eateries of the Copper Country Helping Ukraine

Jonny Bahk-Halberg

75 Home Cinema

Leonard Heldreth Film noir and complicated relationships

77 Out & About

Carrie Usher June events and music, art and museum guides

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city notes Wednesday Night rides changes start location

AMBA’s Wednesday Night rides have a new starting point in downtown Ishpeming. West End Ski and Trail and Velodrome Coffee Co are hosting and providing riders with a place to meet before the ride. The RAMBA Wednesday Night Ride has been happening for years and is a great way to get introduced to the RAMBA mountain bike trail network. Groups are composed of many skill levels, and rides typically take between one-and-a-half to two hours.

Marquette County Habitat for Humanity to break ground on new home

arquette County Habitat for Humanity will break ground at noon on June 1 on its 109th home build at 56 Co Rd 510, Negaunee. Since 1992, Marquette County Habitat for Humanity has been partnering with families to construct new affordable housing in Marquette County. In keeping with their mission of “a hand up, not a handout,” partnering families are required to put in at least 250 hours of sweat equity, or invested time, into their home build, alongside Habitat staff and volunteers. Once the home is completed, the family is set up with an affordable mortgage, giving them a solid financial foundation and safe, secure housing for their future. Whether you have hands-on experience or are looking to expand your skill set, Habitat is always looking for more volunteers for new construction, home repairs and ramp installation. Those interested in learning more about volunteer opportunities, or wishing to inquire about how to apply for a Habitat partner home, can email info@mqthabitat. org or call (906) 228-3578.

Iron Range Roll scheduled for June 4

onnect Marquette’s annual fundraiser, the Iron Range Roll, is set to begin at 2 p.m. at the Cliff’s Iron Mine Museum in Ishpeming on June 4. The 16-mile family friendly yet competitive race will take participants down the Iron Ore Heritage Trail through Negaunee, Negaunee Township and Marquette Township, before ending at the Marquette Commons in downtown Marquette. Following the race, dinner and awards will take place at the Ore Dock Brewing Company. The 2021

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Iron Range Roll raised more than $7,000 for the YMCA of Marquette County’s Youth Programs. Over the past eight years, the Iron Range Roll has donated over $30,000 to youth programs at the YMCA. Visit connectmarquette.org/iron-rangeroll/ to register. Same-day-registration is also allowed.

Marquette City Band releases summer concert lineup

he Marquette City Band is returning for its 136th season, with performances to last through the summer. Performances will take place June 9, June 23, July 4, July 14, July 28 and August 4. All concerts will take place at Presque Isle Park and begin at 7:30 p.m., except for the July 4 concert, which will take place at 6:30 p.m. at Lower Harbor Park.

Cleveland-Cliffs 175 years

celebrates

leveland-Cliffs has been traditionally recognized as the largest and oldest independent iron ore mining company in the United States. Founded in 1847 and headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland-Cliffs is the largest flat-rolled steel company and the largest iron ore pellet producer in North America. With ongoing initiatives to reduce waste, improve water conservation, and reduce carbon emissions by 25% by 2030, Cleveland-Cliffs is working to become America’s leader in steelmaking and mining sustainability. Cleveland-Cliffs rang The Closing Bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday, May 3, to celebrate the company’s 175th year anniversary. “For nearly two centuries, Cleveland-Cliffs has been instrumental in building modern society in the United States through the domestic steel industry,” said Lourenco Goncalves, Chairman, President, and CEO. “Companies with this type of longevity are incredibly rare. Cleveland-Cliffs has achieved this through its resilience, innovation, and constant reinvention which has kept the company relevant and adaptive to an ever-changing world for generations.”

Western U.P. Farm to School Project springs into action

he Western U.P. Planning and Development Region (WUPPDR) has partnered with local farmers, regional school districts, and

Negaunee Senior Center donation will help provide in-home services for seniors The Negaunee Senior Center received a $2,500 donation from the Eagles Ladies Auxiliary #1944. Eagles auxiliary president Diane Johnson presented the check to center administrative assistant Olivia Pirhonen at the Mother’s Day Dinner on May 7. The money will be used to keep senior citizens off of waiting lists for in-home services. (Photo courtesy of the Negaunee Senior Center)

organizations including Taste the Local Difference, Michigan Technological University (MTU), Marquette County Conservation District, Michigan State University - Upper Peninsula Research and Extension Center, Portage Health Foundation, Upper Peninsula Food Exchange, and Groundwork Center for Resilient Communities to establish Farm to School programs in the Western U.P. Each of these partners have made considerable progress in their efforts to develop a regional Farm to School project, facilitating connections and a variety of activities bringing fresh local produce to K-12 schools. Farm to School project activities over the past few months have focused on developing strong relationships with local food service directors and farmers through outreach, interviews, and

webinars. More than 10 farm safety visits were also conducted with the expertise of the Upper Peninsula’s On-Farm Produce Safety Technician Landen Tetil and Local Food Coordinator Madelina DiLisi to identify and minimize any potential food safety risks on farms. The identified risks will be mitigated with the help of a mini-grant that provides the committed farms food safety equipment. Currently, there are more than 10 farms in Baraga County, Gogebic County, Houghton County, and Keweenaw County committed to selling to schools in the next two years. The next steps for the project include a Farm to School directory for each school cafeteria, educational webinars, and a community photovoice project.

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Did You Know... The second national park in the United States was located in the UP?

t was located on Mackinac Island from 1875 to 1895 and the early “rangers” were troops stationed at Fort Mackinac. When it closed lacking “monumental status” it became Michigan’s first state park. If Michigan ever closes the state park the land would revert to the Federal government. Submitted by Russell M. Magnaghi, history professor emeritus of NMU and a U.P. author and historian.

UP Rainbow Pride planning for Pride Fest 2022

fter a two-year hiatus, Upper Peninsula Rainbow Pride has announced that UP Pridefest will return, with a few changes. This year, UP Pride will align with the global celebration, taking place from 1 to 11 p.m. on Saturday, June 11 at Marquette’s Mattson Lower Harbor Park. This festival focuses on spreading acceptance, equality, and love, featuring live entertainment from artists and bands throughout the day. Beer and wine will be served from 5 to 10 p.m., provided by sponsor Ore Dock Brewing Company. Food vendors from across the U.P. will also be present, as well as a variety of activities for all ages, including giant yard games, face painting and more. For more information, visit uprainbowpride.org, or follow the organization on Facebook.

Vinyl record show coming to Ore Dock Brewing Company

eginning at noon on Thursday, June 9 and running through 11 p.m. Sunday, June 12, a four-day vinyl record show, presented by the NMU Vinyl Record Club, will be held in the second floor community room of Ore Dock Brewing Company, in downtown Marquette. Thousands of new & used vinyl records, CDs, posters, cassettes, books, and t-shirts will be available. Talk with Jon and Geoff about trading old records and tapes for new favorites, or finding an unused media collection a new home. For more information call 906-373-6183. To RSVP for this event, visit the Facebook Event Page.

Negaunee Beautification Committee to host work day

BC meeting will be on Wednesday, June 15 in the Pocket Park on Iron Street. Depending on the turnout, work will be completed on that park and possibly others. Participants are encouraged to bring gloves

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and be prepared to meet some really nice folks. A short agenda will close the evening. For more information contact Annamattson@sbcglobal.net or find the Negaunee Beautification Committee on Facebook.

UP Notable Book List author to hold talk via Zoom

he Crystal Falls Community District Library in partnership with the U.P. Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) has scheduled author events with winners of the UP Notable Book List. The 18th event will take place at 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 9 with Ellen Airgood whose novel Tin Camp Road tells the story of an everyday single mom and her child struggling to find happiness and make ends meet in a small town on Lake Superior. The events are open to all U.P. residents free of charge. To register for the event email Evelyn Gathu at egathu@crystalfallslibrary. org or call (906) 875-3344.

Shiras Planetarium offers shows through June

he Shiras Planetarium has planned a full schedule of public shows through June and into July. Shows include a night sky tour, K-pop and spirit of America. visit shirasplanetarium.org for a full listing of shows.

Bridgefest kicks off with overdue ceremony

hough the Portage Lake Lift Bridge was officially named a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark in 2019, celebrations were put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This year, to kick off Houghton’s annual Bridgefest, a ceremony will take place at 10 a.m. on June 17. Officials from the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Michigan Department of Transportation will be on hand, including Tom D’Arcy, an original bridge designer. Bridgefest will take place from June 16 to 19, and will include helicopter rides, chainsaw carving shows, plein

air painting, the Thatcher Markham Memorial Run, live music, the annual Bridgefest Parade and much more. Visit bridgefestfun.com for a full schedule of events.

Celebrating National Trails Day with annual cleanup

he North Country Trail Association is hosting a trail maintenance day on June 4 to commemorate National Trails Day. The event will begin at 8 a.m. in Harvey at Lofaro’s Fresh Market, where people will carpool to trailheads. Participants can plan to be back by 3 p.m. Email bjs119@ hotmail.com to register for the event. The NCTA Marquette Area Chapter will also host a hike at Laughing Whitefish at 12:30 p.m. on June 5. Along with viewing the well-known falls, hikers will traverse the entire spur to a bridge over the Laughing Whitefish River, viewing some smaller waterfalls and spring flowers along the way. Hikers will be joined by biologist Amellia Vasquez-Collins who will share information on the natural features of the area and identify some of the native flora and other interesting phenomena. Participants are encouraged to bring bug spray, wear long pants and sleeves, waterproof boots, and consider a head net. They should also bring water and a snack. The round trip total mileage for the hike will be about 5 miles; there are stairs and a steep incline. The hike is limited to 20 people. Hikers can make a reservation by sending their name and the number of people hiking in a separate email to mac@northcountrytrail.org, using the subject heading “June Hike.”

Michigamme Township to begin new recycling program

ichigamme Township will begin rolling out new recycling carts for residents next week as it officially launches its curbside collection service. With this new collection program, residents will be able to place recyclable items directly into a new, larger, 96-gallon recycling cart. The carts will begin arriving at residents’ homes from May 25 through early June. This new program allows residents to set out most recyclables at the curb instead of hauling them to a drop off center. The carts come with wheels for easy maneuvering and attached lids to keep recyclables dry and secure. Residents can begin using their new carts beginning June 8. Michigamme’s waste hauler will collect recycling every other week on the same day that garbage is collected (Wednesdays). Households

New exhibit installed in UPCM

Charles Stout from Ann Arbor Hands-on, Toby Smith, MBLP; Carie Roberts, exhibits creator at the UP Children’s Museum; and Michael Larson, EO/Michigan Energy Options, are shown with the newest exhibit at the museum. By converting mechanical energy from pedaling into electrical energy, the new “Pedal Power” exhibit educates through physical activity and friendly cooperation. This project allowed the UPCM to collaborate for the first time with the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum to design, fabricate and install the exhibit. “We are so pleased with the design and execution of the exhibit that the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum was able to produce,” said Nheena Weyer Ittner, Executive Director, UPCM. “We thank the generous support of the Energy Optimization Program and look forward to the many smiles Pedal Power will generate.” (Photo courtesy of UPCM)

will receive a calendar with their new schedule attached to their recycling cart, and can also visit michigammetownship.com for a map and schedule for pickup.

Farmers markets return for season in Houghton, L’Anse

he Downtown Houghton Farmers Market opens on Tuesday, June 14. It will be held on Tuesday afternoons from 4 to 7 p.m. on Huron Street next to the Portage Lake District Library. The Baraga County Farmers Market - L’Anse location opens June 25, running from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturdays through October 8 at the L’Anse Waterfront Park. Artisan crafts, plants, flowers, produce, eggs, maple syrup and honey will be offered.

Keweenaw Time Traveler to add new records

he acclaimed Keweenaw Time Traveler (KeTT) is getting a major upgrade. On June 1, the online interactive historical atlas will add 600,000 records across 14 million data variables, an exponential increase from its current 25,000. In addition, KeTT will significantly im-

prove user experience. A newly designed user interface makes it easier to search for information about past people, places and stories. The KeTT is a one-of-a-kind example of deep mapping — a living map connecting layers of archival, geological and geospatial data across time and space. The atlas contains historical data from archival collections from across the region — including the Michigan Technological University Archives, the Keweenaw History Center in Keweenaw National Historical Park, the historical societies of Keweenaw and Houghton counties, and census data from IPUMS USA — collected and connected using high-resolution scans of hundreds of historic maps.

West End Health Foundation opens grant cycle

he West End Health Foundation recently announced the opening of its 2022 Proactive Grant Cycle. The theme for this year’s funding is youth services, with a special focus on mental health programs and initiatives. The foundation will award up to $30,000 in grant funding to non-profit organizations that provide programs and services for youth in

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the West End of Marquette County. Marquette County’s West End is comprised of the following: City of Ishpeming, City of Negaunee, Champion Township, Ely Township, Humboldt Township, Ishpeming Township, Michigamme Township, Negaunee Township, Republic Township, Richmond Township and Tilden Township. Applications are due by 5 p.m. on Friday, June 10. Applicants must use the online Proactive Grant application found here, westendhf. org, the West End Health Foundation’s website. Contact the Foundation Manager, Doug Russell, at manager@westendhf.org or (906) 204-7410 for more information.

Cliffs Shaft Mine Museum opens for season

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he season has begun for the Cliffs Shaft Mine Museum, with regular operating hours running through September 24. The museum will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Hour-long, guided tours will run at 10:30 a.m., 11:45 a.m., 1 p.m., and 2:15 p.m. The working forge will be fired up with David Arbelius, the museum’s resident blacksmith, at the anvil with his handmade wares for sale. A variety of products, including local food items,

will be available in the gift shop along with many popular books, rocks, apparel, toys, and souvenirs. Cliffs Shaft Mine Museum is located at 501 W. Euclid Street in Ishpeming. For further information, please see the museum’s Facebook page, its website cliffsshaftminemuseum.com, or call the museum at (906) 485-1882.

Kids fishing day returns June 18

he South Shore Fishing Association is hosting its annual Kids Fishing Day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on June 18 at Lakenenland, located just outside of Marquette along M-28. A picnic lunch will be prepared and donated by the Elks Club Lodge #405 of Marquette. The event is SSFA’s second largest event each year.

Stormy Kromer names new CEO

ina Jacquart Thorsen made history as the first female CEO of Jacquart Fabric Products, the parent company of Stormy Kromer. In her new role, she will oversee the strategic vision, company operations, sales and marketing, product development, and more. Working at the company for 13 years — starting as a Customer Service Manager then moving into the role of Stormy Kromer Division Manager — Thorsen has been instrumental in growing the Stormy Kromer brand by broadening the appeal of the brand to a younger demographic, expanding the female customer base, and developing the company’s online presence while also increasing key partnerships and collaborations. “Gina understands systemizing and following process to a T,” said Bob Jacquart, owner and former CEO of Stormy Kromer. “Seeing her become a master in the complexities of the business has been such a gift to the legacy of Jacquart Fabric Products and the Stormy Kromer brand.”

NMU Arts and Golf outing set for June 23

he Northern Michigan University Arts and Athletics Golf Outing will be held on Thursday, June 23, at the Marquette Golf Club. This is the 4th annual event, which supports students and programs associated with the Departments of Theatre and Dance and Intercollegiate Athletics. Registration begins at 10:30 a.m., with a shotgun start at noon. The event will close with a 5 p.m. cocktail hour, followed by dinner with awards and a silent auction under a tent on the driving range. Costs are $125 per person or $500 per team for the Heritage Course and $175 per per-

son or $700 per team at Greywalls. Tickets include 18 holes of golf with a cart, dinner, refreshments on the course, and a thank-you gift. Visit nmu.universitytickets.com to register. For more information, contact Bill Digneit at wdigneit@nmu.edu or (906) 360-0751.

Artist gatherings scheduled through fall at Bonifas

scanaba’s Bonifas Arts Center is hosting several artist gatherings throughout the summer to help spur creativity. Gatherings will take place from 6 to 8 p.m. on June 6, July 11, August 8 and September 12. Each session will offer an optional artist challenge designed to encourage artists to continue creating. Participants may bring a current work-in-progress or finished piece to share. All gatherings are free and open to the public.

Ishpeming historical society to host home tour fundraiser

he Ishpeming Area Historical Society will hold its annual “Historic Places and Interesting Spaces” Home Tour Fundraiser from noon to 4 p.m. on Sunday, June 26. Two historic homes, two gardens, two outdoor sites, as well as the Historic Register-listed Gossard Building will be featured. Refreshments will be offered at the Gossard Building, along with building tours and an open house at the museum, located on the 3rd floor. Tickets are a suggested $10 donation to the society, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Advance tickets will be available approximately one week in advance of the event at Main Street Antique Mall in Ishpeming. Those interested can call (906) 486-8680 for further info, or check the Ishpeming Area Historical Society Facebook page, or its summer newsletter for specific locations. Tickets are also available at each venue the day of the event.

New ballet to premier in Marquette June 26

aeries of the Night: Good and Evil, an original ballet written by local dance teacher Deborah Choszczyk will be presented at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Sunday, June 26 at Kaufman Auditorium. Tickets are now available at the NMU ticket office and online. Choszczyk’s newly released book, with the same title, will be released to the public at the show.

Marquette Farmers market returns for season

he first market of the Downtown Marquette Farmers Market’s (DMFM) 23rd season occurred

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to fill open spots on its board of directors. Board members serve three-year terms, and can serve for up to two consecutive terms. Board members represent UPAWS in the community and advocate for UPAWS mission, programs, and services. UPAWS is especially looking for individuals with financial or accounting experience. There are also several committees with openings available. Visit upaws.org for more information.

Calumet Electronics receives $2.6 million in grants

First Thursdays return for summer

Guest pop-up artist, Steph Heise, displays her artwork outside of Madgoodies Studio and Zero Degrees Gallery for Marquette First Thursdays. Marquette First Thursdays are monthly self-guided tours of open studios, art galleries and creative spaces. The event runs the first Thursday of every month from June through October. Participants can utilize a professionally created map to guide themselves to all the participating major cultural hubs to view artwork created by members of Marquette’s arts community. This event increases awareness of local artists and the art venues by encouraging collaboration amongst creative groups, all while being on display for the greater public. Some of First Thursday’s additional functions include serving as a tourist attraction, encouraging Upper Peninsula locals to explore the art community, and strengthening Marquette’s economy and supporting local artists. (Photo courtesy of EDGE)

at the end of May, with plans to run through the summer in the Marquette Commons. This year the market has updated hours, a new market layout to allow for full capacity, and after a two-year hiatus, programming is back. The DMFM offers three different market seasons: the Saturday Morning Market runs from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. through November 19. There is no market on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. New this year, the Holiday Market will run on Saturdays, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. from

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December 3 to 17. And finally, the Wednesday Evening Market is back for its third season. This mid-week market runs from 4 to 7 p.m. from June 15 through September 21. A full lineup of programming and events can be found on the market’s event calendar on the market’s website.

UPAWS seeking board members and committee volunteers

he Upper Peninsula Animal Welfare Shelter is looking for people

alumet Electronics was awarded $2.6 million from the Michigan Strategic Fund in Community Development Block Grant funds to offset machinery and equipment costs for its 35,000 sq. ft. manufacturing facility expansion. The project is expected to generate a total capital investment of $6.5 million and create 80 manufacturing and engineering jobs. Calumet Township is supporting the project by acting as the applicant for the CDBG grant. When the project is completed, the company will be one of few manufacturers in the United States with the ability to increase capability and capacity for organic substrates, a critical component in all microelectronics — which will then reduce American reliance on Asia to put semiconductors into service, especially in national defense applications.

MRHC to hold fundraising event June 30.

he Marquette Regional History Center is hosting a fundraiser on Thursday, June 30 at 1400 Lakeshore Boulevard. Hear the history of how this property changed hands 87 times before the current owners purchased it in 1975. Jim Koski will share the owner’s stories of what it is like to live on the shores of Lake Superior and tour the inside to see this cabin that was built without hardware. Tickets are $75 per person, and include refreshments. There will be two tours, at 2:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. Tickets are limited to 120 total or 60 per tour. Tickets may be purchased online at MarquetteHistory.org or at the MRHC in Marquette. Call 906.226.3571 for more information.

United Way to host fundraiser with Red Wings alumni

nited Way of Marquette County is kicking off their annual fundraising campaign with the Detroit Red Wings Alumni Hockey Night on Saturday, September 17 at the Berry Events Center. The Detroit Red Wings Alumni team will face off

against a team of Marquette County hockey talent with all proceeds benefiting United Way of Marquette County’s Community Investment Fund. Details for the event are still being finalized. Businesses interested in sponsoring the event may call (906) 226-8171. Information on registering for a chance to be a part of Marquette County’s hockey team and playing against the Red Wings Alumni will be released in early June. Tickets for the event are anticipated to go on sale mid-July. Visit uwmqt. org for updated information.

Seney refuge to undergo upgrades

he Seney National Wildlife Refuge will undergo several updates through funds received as a grant recipient from the Great American Outdoor Act Funds. Funding will go to four big projects: new combined visitor and headquarters building; Marshland Wildlife Drive and Fishing Loop Bridge and water control structure repairs; show pool site rehabilitation and improvements; and Pine Ridge Nature Trail improvement project. The largest portion of the project affects the current visitor center, office, and the campus surrounding these buildings. As part of this process,

the old visitor center was demolished this winter and construction of a new visitor center/headquarters, will begin. In the meantime, the Refuge is adapting existing facilities to temporarily house the visitor center and headquarters offices. The temporary Visitors Center is open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. During construction the Marshland Wildlife Drive and Fishing Loop will be closed but all other trails will be open including the Driggs River Road and Robinson Road access area. Canoeing and kayaking the Manistique River will take visitors through the refuge, and the Whitefish Point Unit remains open. Visit fws.gov/refuge/ seney for project details and updates.

Mark Farner’s American Band to perform at Pine Performance Center

ark Farner’s American Band will perform an acoustic concert beginning at 7 p.m. on July 1 and 2 at the Pine Performance Center. As one of the founding members, lead singer, lead guitarist, and writer of 90% of the Grand Funk music catalog, Farner has always been known as the energetic driving force on stage, the engine that pulled the original Grand Funk Railroad to the top of

MRHC hosting cemetery walks in June

The Marquette Regional History Center is hosting several cemetery walks at Holy Cross from 1 to 6 p.m. on Thursday, June 23. This year’s walk will feature people connected to the railroads including Joseph LaFave, who worked for the DSS&A for 57 years, and Timothy Patenaude, the “Human Adding Machine.” All tours will meet near the Chapel. Rain date will be June 28. A donation of $5 is suggested. Visit marquettehistory.org for more information, or call (906) 226-3571. (Photo courtesy of the John M. Longyear research library, MRHC)

the charts. All ticket holders can attend the “Some Kind of Wonderful” Happy Hour Event starting at 5 p.m. on the Pine Patio overlooking beau-

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tiful South Manistique Lake and enjoy live entertainment with Dennis Peacock. Tickets range from $60 to $150. Event sponsored by The Erick-

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son Center for the Arts, The Erickson Foundation, The Curtis Area Chamber of Commerce and Guitar Man’s Ruff Cut Music. Presented by Oldies 93 WNBY Newberry.

From the desks of Sens. Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peterson

Groundbreaking held for new police communications and dispatch facility The Michigan State Police recently held the groundbreaking ceremony for a new communications and dispatch facility in Negaunee Township that will be shared with Marquette County Central Dispatch. The new building will be nearly 6,000 square feet, which is more than five times the size of the current facility — estimated at a more than $4 million project. The Michigan State Police and Marquette County Central Dispatch are planning on moving into the building in January 2023. (Photo courtesy of Michigan State Police)

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• U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Gary Peters (D-MI) recently announced $200,000 in funding for the Upper Great Lakes Family Health Center to provide physical and mental health care services in the Lake Linden-Hubbell School District. There are 140 school-based health centers in Michigan, which play a crucial role in providing health care to students who have limited access to medical care outside of school. Senator Stabenow secured these funds in the recent government funding bill. School-based health centers provide a combination of primary care, mental health care, substance use disorder counseling, case management, dental health, nutrition education, health education and health promotion activities • U.S. Debbie Stabenow (MI) and Gary Peters (MI) announced recently that the Department of Transportation (DOT) will be awarding

$5,591,256 in funding to update safety equipment, repair runways, and invest in other improvements at airports across the Upper Peninsula. These funds are from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grant program. Houghton County Memorial Airport will receive $2,157,632 to install a new runway guidance system, repair runways and taxiways, and reconstruct runway and taxiway lighting systems. Sawyer International Airport will receive $466,950 to repair taxiways. Ford Airport will receive $1,029,376 to purchase snow removal equipment and repair runways and taxiways. Chippewa County International Airport will receive $982,548 to purchase aircraft rescue and firefighting safety equipment, repair runways and taxiways, and improve runway lighting systems. Delta County Airport will receive $954,750 to purchase snow removal equipment and rehabilitate the snow removal equipment building. • U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters announced the U.S. Senate confirmed the nomination of Judge Stephanie Dawkins Davis to serve on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit with a bipartisan vote. Judge Davis currently serves as the U.S. District Court

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UP Health System-Marquette adds new faces to its executive leadership team UP Health System-Marquette has brought on two new leaders to its executive leadership team — Ashraf Ali, MBA, CPPS, who began as Associate Administrator in February (left), and Henrietta Skeens, CPA, (right) who joined in May as Interim Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Prior to joining UP Health System–Marquette, Ashraf was the Administrative Resident at Clark Memorial Health, another LifePoint Health facility in Jeffersonville, IN, where he played an integral part in the analysis and execution of several facility-wide initiatives and gained valuable experience with strategy, operations, data analytics, and business development. A seasoned, hands-on finance executive, Henrietta Skeens, CPA, joins UP Health System–Marquette as the Interim CFO. She brings extensive experience in private practice, local and regional levels with multiple public accounting firms, as well as serving in a number of CFO roles, including Twin County Regional Hospital, a Duke LifePoint Hospital in Galax, VA, and Cancer Outreach Management Services, a large oncology physician practice in Abingdon, VA. (Photos courtesy of UP Health System-Marquette)

Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan. Judge Davis is the first African American woman from Michigan, and the second African American woman in history, to serve on the Sixth Circuit. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has appellate jurisdiction over the federal district courts in Michigan, Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee.

From the desk of Gretchen Whitmer

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• Gov. Gretchen Whitmer recently signed House Bill 4256, Senate Bill 258 and Senate Bill 259 into law. House Bill 4256 allows training of service animals in real-world settings, which will benefit people with disabilities who rely on service animals. Senate Bills 258 and 259 ensure that government notices are posted on newspaper websites, increasing accessibility and transparency. This brings the total of bipartisan bills signed by Governor Whitmer to 823. House Bill 4256 would allow service animals in training to accompany their trainer at places of public accommodation for the purpose of training or socializing the animal

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and would be allowed in areas where members of the public are permitted to go. The animal would remain under the control of their animal raiser or trainer and must have a harness, leash, or other tether. Senate Bills 258 and 259 together require newspapers who are selected to publish legal notices to also place notices online for free public access. Under these bills, newspapers must provide access to notices on their website and are prohibited from placing that page behind a pay wall. These bills will improve public access to information while maintaining records that newspapers provide. • Gov. Gretchen Whitmer highlighted new data showing Michigan’s economic jumpstart continues as small businesses in the state are experiencing tremendous growth and expansion. In the first three quarters of 2021 alone, small businesses with fewer than 50 employees created almost 170,000 jobs, the fastest start to small business job growth in 23 years, according to the Michigan Bureau of Labor Market Information. The state also saw an explosion of entrepreneurs and business owners

beginning new ventures in 2021, with 150,000 new small business applications filed to start businesses, which is 59% more than in 2019. • Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced that major road repairs are expected in six counties across Michigan. The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) projects include, US-41/M-28 rebuilding project in Marquette County, US-41 resurfacing project in Menominee County, and M-183 Delta County culvert replacement. Based on economic modeling, these investments are expected to directly and indirectly support 2,894 jobs. • Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced that the Healthy Michigan Plan is now providing health care coverage to 1,000,456 Michiganders, marking the first time more than one million people have opted for affordable and accessible care under the program. The state’s expanded Medicaid program has grown since it was enacted in 2014, when then Senate Democratic Leader Whitmer helped pass bipartisan legislation that created the Healthy Michigan Plan. • Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist II, the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA), and the Michigan Department of Education announced an ambitious goal to open 1,000 new childcare programs by the end of 2024 and launched Caring for MI Future — a $100 million plan to get there. Caring for MI Future is a $100 million investment to help more Michigan families find quality, affordable childcare in their community. Today, according to the Michigan League for Public Policy, nearly half of communities do not have enough childcare options to meet demand. This strategy responds to the most pressing needs facing childcare entrepreneurs and creates sustainable systems to support the current and next generation of child care business owners. • Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced that Michigan has submitted seven nominations for new Alternative Fuel Corridors (AFCs), which are transportation routes that will build out electric vehicle charging infrastructure using the state’s National Electric Vehicle (EV) Infrastructure funds that arrived via the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). These nominations are intended to improve the overall driving experience for Michiganders, while bringing jobs to the state and improving Michigan’s economy. MM

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Veridea Group named master developer for redevelopment of old Marquette hospital site T he Northern Michigan University Foundation recently announced Marquette-based real estate developer Veridea Group as master developer to lead the redevelopment of the former hospital site on College Avenue, adjacent to Northern Michigan University’s campus. Veridea Group’s response to the Foundation’s Request for Qualifications (RFQ) was selected by a special committee of the Foundation Board of Trustees, including consultation with a special committee of the Marquette City Commission. The Foundation board formally authorized the partnership with a unanimous vote on May 13. The RFQ was issued nationally on March 11, and was open to developers of all sizes and locations until April 8. With 180 total RFQ downloads, the project drew interest from several development firms, including Veridea Group, which produced the sole qualified response. “The NMU Foundation is gratified to have assembled the partners and resources necessary to bring this transformational opportunity to fruition,” said John List (‘84), president of the Northern Michigan University Foundation Board of Trustees. “When

our committee issued the RFQ on a national scale in March, we were focused on attracting an experienced developer partner holding the financial capability to perform, a proven record of success working in communities like Marquette and a commitment to completing the entire project vision over a five to eight year build schedule. We are pleased to have Veridea Group as a partner that exceeds these critical elements while also displaying a longstanding commitment to community building in Marquette and throughout the Upper Peninsula.” Special committees from both the NMU Foundation Board of Trustees and the Marquette City Commission consulted on the RFQ review and selection process. Staff from the Foundation and City have convened weekly to address common objectives for the project, including: defraying costs associated with site preparation and demolition of obsolete structures; public infrastructure development, including reconstruction of College Avenue and other important transitions between the campus and community; and other policy goals outlined in the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) executed

between the City, Foundation and the Marquette Brownfield Redevelopment Authority on March 17. Parallel to its process of identifying and selecting a qualified master developer partner the NMU Foundation has been working collaboratively with the City of Marquette, Marquette Brownfield Development Authority, and Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) to identify public resources required for demolition and site preparation, which is the critical barrier for redevelopment. One resource is the framework for a Brownfield Redevelopment Plan, which would enable reimbursement of eligible expenses for demolition, infrastructure development, and other activities through tax increment financing as well as additional investments in site demolition pending all state and local approvals. Community forums designed to update members of the public on the project process and obtain local input about the potential redevelopment project took place May 3 through May 9. Results and observations from the listening sessions will be shared with the community-at-large. Results will also be provided to Veridea Group

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to inform pre-development planning. The developer has also pledged to conduct additional community engagement as part of the development planning process, consistent with the MOU between the Foundation and City. Additional community feedback may be submitted by email to foundtn@nmu.edu at any time. “The process to get to this point has been an effort by many, and we’re glad to be surrounded by others who share the vision we have for this proposed redevelopment; one of a revitalized neighborhood and a real boon to Marquette,” said Bob Mahaney, CEO of Veridea Group. “We have been investing in Marquette for 30 years, and this project presents the opportunity for Veridea to reinforce the strength of its commitment. There is a lot to still be done, and we’re excited to have reached this milestone. We’re looking forward to engaging with the community during next steps, and as we move toward finalizing a site plan. This project is a unique opportunity to enhance the quality of life for NMU students, staff and faculty and residents of Marquette, and it is an opportunity we take seriously.” MM

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then & now

Donckers has been a staple along Washington Street in downtown Marquette for more than 100 years. Above, the famed chocolate store as it was originally. Below, how it is in modern day.

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A photo depicting downtown Michigamme from years past. Michigamme is celebrating 150 years with several events early July. (Photo courtesy of the Michigamme Museum)

Michigamme reaches milestone birthday, plans celebration By Brad Gischia

t isn’t often that anyone is around for the founding of a town anymore. Those days of exploration are over in most parts of the world, so we must celebrate those events. This year the town of Michigamme will celebrate 150 years. The sesquicentennial celebration planned for July 1 through July 4 will celebrate its rich heritage while bringing in events that should be fun for the whole family. “We’ve really planned a lot for this year,” said Virginia Olson, one of the planners of the event, “we’re starting the weekend with a bonfire and cultural dance by the Keewenaw Bay Indian Community.” The culture of all people who settled in the area is relevant and there will be something for every interest going on over the fourday event. The Michigamme car show has been a staple of summer events for over twenty years. This year they’ve moved it from the end of May to coincide with the Sesquicentennial. Don Moore, the show organizer, said that though the show is later than usual, he hopes there will be a good turn out. “Anyone can bring their cars in. There’s no fee to enter.” Cars from around Marquette Coun-

ty area will be there. “We have a lot of the same people show every year,” he said, “some coming from Negaunee and Ishpeming, the Superior A’s, and some come down from Baraga.” Mr. Moore is planning on showing his 1936 GMC pickup, a vehicle he’s been associated with for a very long time. “I drove this truck when I was a kid.” Moore and his father helped family friends with work at their lodge. “We’d open the building up every year, and then do cleanup work and repair jobs.” Moore got several jobs early on. He worked on the first blacktop job on US 41, worked on a ship on the Great Lakes, and after he got out of the army got a job at the Michigan truck plant in Wayne. He would ferry parts down there after his summer vacations to get them redone. He spent thirty years at the plant and after he retired he moved back to Michigamme and continued to work on his pickup. “I’ve got a lot of time into it,” he admitted, “but I enjoy it, and it turned out really good.” The car show will take place in the

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Bark River celebrates 150 years (a year later)

he Upper Peninsula township of Bark River, somewhat surprisingly, ranks as the fourth oldest city (settlement or township) in Michigan — and it will hold its 150-year grand sesquicentennial celebration from July 2 to 4. The actual Bark River anniversary was last year but activities were limited due to the pandemic. This year’s celebration schedule, however, is jam-packed. Over the years, Bark River, a small community in Delta County, has made a name for itself. Maybe the most notable is the Bark River International Raceway, located about 10 miles from Escanaba. Among racing fans, Bark River’s facility is known as one of the favorite shortcourse tracks in the Midwest. For the record, Bark River was originally named “Barkville” but was given its current name around 1872 after a railroad (Chicago and Northwestern) completed its line through the area (traversed by a 400-seat passenger train which operated until the early 1970s from Menominee to Escanaba). The Bark River Township was established around 1880. The population was split mostly between Scandanavians and French settlers. The Pottawatomi Indians settled about four miles away from Bark River at Hannahville. All events at the 150-year celebration are free, but food and beverages will be available for purchase, along with other items such as history and cooking books, T-shirts, etc. Saturday, July 2 will be “All Class Reunion Day.” Activities will include an outing at Highland Golf Course from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Information can be obtained by calling Highland at 466-2791. Also, from 1 to 4 p.m., the Bark

lot across from the Michigamme Museum from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. on July 3. Anyone can bring a car out and register it and there will be a trophy provided to the winner. “The winner is chosen by the other people in the show,” Moore said, “so it doesn’t have to be the nicest or best looking car to win.” The car show usually has brats and hotdogs available during the show and there will be a 50/50 drawing as well. The weekend promises to be filled

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The Bark River school is pictured. (Photo courtesy of Superior View/Jack Deo)

River Senior Center History Room will be open with booths and other setups and displays featuring Bark River, nearby communities, businesses along with historical power-point and photo displays of farms, homesteads, memories, etc. At the same time (1 to 4 p.m.), Bark River-Harris School will feature open-house tours, followed by the free all-school reunion at Bark River Park from 6 to 11 p.m. and is open to graduates of Bark River, Harris, Holy Name and Bark River-Harris. More information can be found, including a registration form at brhschools.org or the Bark River Post Office, Ray’s Feed Mill, Massies, First Bank and local churches. Music will also be provided Saturday from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. by The Peltier Brothers. On Sunday, July 3 activities begin at 11:30 a.m. with an ecumenical church service at Bark River Park The remaining day’s activities are based at the park, including a “cannon shoot” at noon, followed with things to see and do, including three different bands who will take the stage over the weekend. Richie Yurkovich and Polkarioty will play the Dinner Dance on Saturday. The New Breed Band, Black Pearl and The Band Stetson will play in the park on Sunday. Members of The Band Stetson include Arnie Spickerman, Hunter Josephson, Aaren Joki, and Drew Collister. They’ve been going to Michigamme for Fourth of July cele-

by a 12:15 p.m. fiddler performance and a 1 p.m. beginning of the Great Lakes Timber Show. The History Room at the Senior Center will also be open from 1 to 5 p.m. and family games will be held at the park starting at 1:30 p.m. A polka band will play from 2 to 5 p.m. at the pavilion and an American Legion baseball game will be held at 3:30 p.m. Music by Oz will play into the evening at the park from 7 to 10 p.m. On Monday, July 4, activities will begin at 11 a.m. with a Fourth of July parade. The History Room will again be open from 11a.m. to 5 p.m. The Peltier Bros will also perform at 1 p.m., followed by fireworks at dusk. Residents and representatives from nearby communities such as Perronville, Schaffer, Hannahville, Wilson and Harris will be present throughout the event and also feature exhibits from current and past businesses, churches, sports teams and others. MM brations since they were kids. “It’s kind of surreal, it will be cool to be on the other side of it and be there doing what we love,” Josephson said. The Band Stetson will play from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. on July 3. “It’s always been a dream to play anywhere I could, and I’ve always wanted to create a safe space for people to be happy,” Spickerman said. There is rich history to the Michigamme area.

The Band Stetson, pictured here, will perform during Michigamme’s Sesquicentennial celebration. (Photo courtesy of The Band Stetson)

“Jacob Houghton, a brother of Dr. Douglas Houghton, Michigan’s first state geologist and surveyor, is credited with founding the village of Michigamme.” That quote, from the History of the Michigamme Area 1872-2006 certainly shows the origins of the little town on the edge of Marquette County, but, as with each and every city and village and township that make up the quilt of the Upper Peninsula, the story doesn’t end there. Like so many other towns in the U.P. the village was built around mining iron ore and logging the vast forests, and it suffered similar disasters as other towns. A fire in 1873 wiped out the entire community, but it was rebuilt, and by 1890 had everything a thriving village needed, including suburbs. The villages of Beaufort, Nestoria, and Three Lakes grew as Michigamme did, and added their wealth to the area. Michigamme’s chapter in popular culture came with the filming of Anatomy of a Murder at the Mt. Shasta Lodge, where several scenes were filmed with the likes of Jimmy Stewart and Duke Ellington, while locals filled the bar in the background. Mt. Shasta is still open and serving today. In 1985 and again in 1987, the Moose Drop was another Michigamme high point, a program which tried and succeeded in the reintroduction of a moose population to the Upper Peninsula. Over a 10-day period 10 bulls and 19 cows were air-lifted to the Peshekee Grade, where the collared animals were released. The Michigamme Sesquicentennial celebration kicks off on July 1 and

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runs through the 4. For more information and updates go to their website, michigammetownship.com, or check the Michigamme Facebook page. “The committee has done a lot of work to put this together and we hope to draw a lot of people,” Olson said. MM About the author: Brad Gischia is a writer and artist native to Upper Michigan. He has published two children’s books and done illustrations for both comic books and novels.

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in the outdoors

Warblers

With more than two dozen species that nest in the Upper Peninsula, there are plenty of opportunities to catch a glimpse of these beautiful birds By Scot Stewart

Warblers are often the delight of birders with their beautiful song and colorful plumage, offering a wide spectrum of species, many of which migrate through the Upper Peninsula. Top row: From left, a male common yellowthroat, a male black-throated blue warbler and a golden-winged warbler. Middle row: From left, a bay-breasted warbler, a Cape May warbler and a male chestnut-sided warbler. Bottom row: a Canada warbler. (Photos by Scot Stewart)

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“A warbler singing — somewhere beyond the willow, before the thicket” — Matsuo Basho s spring melts in the early summer sun, the last of the season’s migrants finally arrived and settled into the wood across northern Michigan. Those last migrants include some of the most beautiful and least seen birds, the warblers. Because they often arrive after leaf-out, spend most of their lives up in the forest canopy, and rarely appear at bird feeders, most birders don’t get very good looks at them. Those that do often complain of warbler neck — a rare condition seen most often in birders, caused by the practice of peering up into the high branches of trees, binoculars in hand, attempting to simply get a good look at a small bird flitting from

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branch to branch, gleaning insects, mostly small green caterpillars, and other leaf eaters. There are about 36 species of warblers that nest in Michigan and 27 of these nest in the Upper Peninsula. Several more migrate through on their way north to Canada. Most are wood warblers here, called New World Warblers, and they make up their own genetic family. In North America, the family numbers from around 54, depending upon your source, and across the Americas a total of around 120. Genetic work actively continues for this group and there have been a number of changes in recent years in the family membership, and that of similar species, into other closely related families. Warblers are birds more likely to be found in

m o r e northerly parts of the continent. A large portion of them spend their summers in the northern tier of the Lower 48, and the northern mixed and boreal forests of Canada and Alaska. Where a number of different species are found in the same range, they usually spend most of their foraging time at different levels of the forests or in more specific tree communities to avoid direct competition, but most species are more successful in larger, unbroken tracts of clean forests unburdened with pesticides and other chemicals. Winter habitats are presenting even more challenges to warblers as increasingly larger portions of tropical forests in Central and South America are clearcut. But climate change may be an even bigger problem for warblers, especially those living near ocean coasts, as sea levels rise and hurricanes become more common and more powerful. One of the best examples of threats to winter range comes from the Kirtland’s warblers. They utilize the 3000 islands of the Bahamas, in the Atlantic southeast of Florida winter months. The highest point of land in the entire archipelago is a mere 206 feet on an island only 150 square miles in size. A few warblers have winter ranges in the continental United States, like the yellow-rumped warbler, with a winter range extending across the southern states and parts of the Rockies from South America all the way to Illinois. The pine warbler’s range is confined entirely to the southern tier of the states in the southeast. For a group of similar species though, their summer and winter ranges are often quite different. Blackpoll warblers just stop for a cup of coffee during migration between the far north end of the boreal forest in Canada and most of Alaska in summer, and Mexico, Panama, and a small sliver of the Gulf Coast in the United States in winter. Bay-breasted warblers spend sum-

The male Northern parula is pictured. Warblers migrate long distances, which can make them susceptible to problems related to climate change. (Photo by Scot Stewart)

mers in boreal forests of aspen and spruce south of Hudson’s Bay from the Yukon to the Maritimes and Maine in the east with a few spots in the U.P., Lower Michigan and New York state thrown in for good measure. A third consideration for migrating birds is the actual route or routes taken by them in migration. Spring migration is usually more direct as birds try to reach their summering grounds as quickly as possible to claim the best territories. Usually, weather is one of the biggest hurdles — avoiding cold and storms. Fallouts are bird migration events resulting from the collision of warm weather fronts carrying migrants northward and cold fronts, with unfavorable winds, diving down from Canada. These conditions can put large numbers of birds down on the ground rapidly where they must wait until conditions improve before continuing. Late May 2013 provided those conditions in the U.P. A front dropped thousands of individuals of nearly 30 species of warblers along the Lake

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Above, a blackburnian warbler, showing off its beautiful orange neck. At right, the Kirtland warbler. Once endangered, the Kirtland warbler has had a successful comeback with the help of habitat restoration and the removal of invasive brown-headed cowbirds. (Photos by Scot Stewart)

Superior shore. At the Presque Isle Bog Walk, birders described flocks running over their feet as they walked around the woods edge by main pond and along the dunes. The birds remained in the area for two to three days depending on the individuals and gave birders and hikers alike great opportunities to see many warblers literally at their feet. The perfect weather that had allowed us to get the oats and corn in ahead of time probably also contributed to the dearth of migrating warblers. With no storms to force the birds down, they overflew this area on their northward journey. At least I hope that is the reason. I fear, though, that the cutting down of the tropical rain forests (the winter home for many warblers) to create ranches that will provide cheap beef for fast-food restaurants in the United States may also be partly responsible for the dearth. — David Kline ome stopovers are key to migration, and conservation of these places is now critical to helping maintain warbler populations. These too are challenged by climate change. One of these sites is the Lake Huron shore along the southern edge of the Upper Peninsula between I-75 and Drummond Island. There is a critical

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lake midge hatch along the shore in mid-May, providing migrating warblers with an ample supply of food as the insects collect in the cedar trees above the lake. With global warming, the hatch times are changing and sometimes out of sync with the arrival of the warblers. These changes can play a crucial role in the success of the birds’ trips northward. More and more research is being done to better delineate the paths they take so more can be done to protect important stopovers. Tracking chips are being placed in some birds to follow their pathways in migration and are extremely helpful in pinpointing stopovers. Another important tool for understanding the routes taken by birds is the analysis of hydrogen isotopes in the birds’ chemistry. Key indicators from foods the birds eat are trapped in their blood and feathers and can be matched to areas where the birds have fed, particularly on summer and winter ranges. Warblers are a delight. Most have a mix of a combination of some basic colors, yellow, olive, brown, black and white plumage, perfect for blending into the leaves, bark and spots of sunlight in the canopy. Blackburnian warblers and American redstarts both have orange markings. Cape May Chestnut-sided, bay-breasted, palm

warblers and ovenbirds have brickbrown markings. Male yellow warblers have spots of red on their chests and two more warblers in the west have bright red markings — the painted redstart and the red-faced warbler. Their songs are not really warbles, but rather sweet, intricate songs. Singing is heard in the Upper Peninsula from about the third week in May until mid-June but is dependent on weather and arrival of migrants. From small woodlots around towns yellow-rumped, black-throated green, yellow warblers and American redstarts are often the singers most frequently heard. It is almost possible to delineate yellow warbler territories along Lakeshore Blvd., along the Lower Harbor in Marquette by listening to the singing males in the shrubs and small trees in early summer. For many of the warblers, their time spent finding and defending territories, attracting a mate, building a nest, and raising young is rapid and brief. Incubation for eggs is usually just 10 to 13 days, and two broods may be raised in one season with one to five eggs laid for some species. Black-throated greens like a denser, mixed woods and usually nest in branches 3 to 10 feet from the ground. Yellow-rumps nest in conifers, up to

50 feet above the ground. Redstarts sing until late in the summer, flashing their orange wing and tail patches at rivals. Females build the nest, usually close to the trunk of a broadleaf tree. Many warblers build their nests on the ground. Ovenbird nests give the species its name. The nests are built of grass and other plant materials in the shape of an oval “oven.” Palm, Wilson’s and Kirtland’s warblers also nest on the ground, usually near tree trunks and concealed under grasses, ferns and other herbaceous plants. Kirtland’s warblers are one of the best known, especially in Michigan. In the 1970s they became the new poster birds for the endangered species program in the United States. Their specific preference for nesting habitat in the Lower Peninsula is at the heart of their predicament. Their summer ranges lay in the heart of stands of jack pines. And not just any jack pines — they must be 3 to 15 feet tall. In pre-settlement days, with lightning fires and fires probably set by native peoples to improve hunting habitats, there were plenty of stands of suitable jack pines on sands plains. These burns help produce a steady supply of the trees the Kirtland’s warblers seek. But by the 1920s much more stringent efforts were given to minimize

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Pictured below is a pine warbler. To the right, a magnolia warbler enjoys a snack. Warblers can help control insect populations, as they prefer bugs, beetles and the like for their next meal. (Photos by Scot Stewart)

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the impact of wildfires and the needed habitat dwindled. Added to the loss of habitat was a problem of another sort. Brown-headed cowbirds had expanded their range eastward and became well established in Michigan. They are parasitic birds and lay their eggs in the nest of other birds. Cowbird eggs hatch before host bird eggs and the young out-compete the host young. By 1973, Kirtland’s warblers made the new Endangered Species Act list. There were only 167 singing males found by bird census counters in 1974 and the birds were in danger of going extinct. Luckily a plan was hatched to help this bird. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service developed a burn plan to systematically create patches of jack pine stands to provide ongoing areas of suitable jack pines downstate at the heart of their summer range. They also constructed fenced areas with traps to capture the brown-headed cowbirds for removal from the area. The result was tremendous. The warblers rebounded. Their range expanded into the Upper Peninsula, Wisconsin and parts of Ontario. In 2019 they were taken off the Endangered Species List and their numbers current hover around 2,400 pairs! They are

still a high-maintenance species. Land management and cowbird control are musts for them to thrive. The drive is to keep them going – around a billion dollars was spent in the state in 2019 by birders hoping to see them in the wild. “Birds...are sensitive indicators of the environment, a sort of “ecological litmus paper,”...The observation and recording of bird populations over time lead inevitably to environmental awareness and can signal impending changes.” — Roger Tory Peterson arblers are brightly colored, they are part of a wonderful summer chorus, mixing with frogs, the hum of bees and crickets, and they play an important role in the ecotourism economy of their ranges, but they have another role that may be the most important of all. They are part of the biological jig saw puzzle that provides for a healthy community. Insect control is a warbler specialty. Since much of the time warblers spend foraging is in tree canopies, they play an incredibly important role in insect control, eating canker worms and spruce budworms. Insect larvae can have a huge impact on summer

leaves in a forest, slowing the growth of a stand in a short summer season. Both blackburnian and bay-breasted warblers consume huge quantities of the budworms when they are critical problems in spruce forests. Warblers also eat huge numbers of ants, grasshoppers, true bugs, beetles and other harmful insects. “The truth of the matter is, the birds could very well live without us, but many — perhaps all — of us would find life incomplete, indeed almost intolerable without the birds,” — Roger Tory Peterson ecause they are in the canopy, are small birds, and can blend in well with the vegetation, finding warblers can be greatly enhanced by learning their songs. Then morning trips with a good ear, a good memory and a phone with apps for identifying bird songs can open the door to many warbler experiences. If you have a running start, Audubon and Cornell University have apps with songs to compare. Merlin is an app to record songs and have them compared to their files for possible identification. During spring migration, the Lake Huron shore is obviously a great spot if the timing is good. Peninsula Point in the Stonington Peninsula can also be a great place to see large numbers of species and individuals on favorable days. During the last two weeks in May, southerly winds can carry them across the open waters of Lake Michigan. Those days can be great for warblers, lots of other migrants including vireos, orioles, tanagers and others carried across the lake beyond their regular summer range, to appear briefly, before heading back south for the summer. During the summer season there

are a number of great spots to watch and listen to warblers. The Kate’s Grade/Ross’s Grade area in southern Marquette County south of Gwinn off Co. Road 438 has a mixture of boreal forest, mixed forest and wetland full of willow and alder, providing a great mix of warblers, vireos, grosbeaks, tanagers, flycatchers and woodpeckers. It is also a great puddling area for tiger swallowtail butterflies, crescents and white admiral butterflies. The butterflies gather along road edges to lap up minerals in the soil and animal scat along the road in large, memorable numbers. Golden-winged, Cape May and other great warblers are good finds there too. The Peshekee Grade, always a great spot to bird and look for moose, is loaded with warblers too. Magnolia, blackburnian, northern parula, black-throated blue, Cape May, Nashville and yellow-rumped warblers are there. Because there is a fair amount of boreal forest there contributing to the diversity occasionally seen, boreal chickadees, Canada jays and black-backed woodpeckers may also be seen there too. The trail into the McCormick Wilderness can be found about 10 miles up the grade. The Upper Peninsula is an amazing place, full of natural wonders. Add morel picking in early spring, strawberry, service berry and blueberry picking, wildflower photography, a few waterfalls and more to a birding experience and life instantly looks a whole lot better! MM About the author: Scot Stewart has lived in Marquette long enough to be considered a true Yooper even though he was born in Illinois. He is a teacher and loves to be outdoors photographing and enjoying nature.

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Pieceworkers operate industrial machines on the upper level of Ishpeming’s plant. Undated photo. (Digital file provided by Superior View/Jack Deo)

Honoring the Gossard Girls In researching the impact of one influential woman, author Phyllis Wong found the story of hundreds By Erin Elliott Bryan

hyllis Michael Wong had never been to the Upper Peninsula before her husband, Dr. Les Wong, was asked to consider becoming president of Northern Michigan University in 2004. The Wongs had both spent their entire careers in higher education, but she admitted she didn’t know what to expect when they first arrived in Marquette. “We took a tour of the campus and strangers would say hello,” said Wong, a native of the San Francisco Bay Area. “That’s the spirit of the U.P.” Wong said she also appreciated the geography and topography of the area and recognized that it is “part of

who we are.” As NMU’s First Lady, Wong was also a member of the Century Club. In 2007, the group’s members began a project to research “women who made a difference” locally, regionally or nationally. Wong partnered with fellow member Carolyn McDonald to examine the life of Geraldine Gordon DeFant, someone they knew had made a significant difference in Marquette County. Over the course of their research, they learned that DeFant had helped to unionize an undergarment factory in Ishpeming. Wong and McDonald interviewed seven former employees of the H.W.

Gossard Company who they hoped could shed light on DeFant’s unionizing efforts. Originally, Wong and McDonald wanted to know what these women remembered about DeFant, but they soon realized that the women had their own stories to tell. “I very quickly became interested in these stories,” Wong said. “Hearing all of the women’s experiences fed my interest in learning more. They had strong, humble spirits for what they had done.” Wong began to interview more and more Gossard employees — affectionately known as Gossard Girls — and learned everything she could

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ing: The Gossard Girls of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, published by Michigan State University Press. The book, which has sold out its first two printings and is available to order, is a compelling account of the contributions these women made to their families and their communities, both Ishpeming and Gwinn, as well as their societal, economic and political impact during the early to mid-20th century. “What began as a research project focused on one woman who made a difference quickly shifted to a project about the collective voices of rural women factory workers,” Wong writes in the book’s preface. Wong sought advice and direction from Ishpeming native Lily Korpi; Kaye Hiebel, then the director of the Marquette County Historical Center; and Russ Magnaghi, a history professor at NMU. She began collecting oral interviews of more and more employees. In 2008, she was asked to participate in NMU’s Sonderegger Symposium, an annual conference on the

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culture, history, and nature of the U.P. That led to more interviews and more requests to speak about the Gossard Girls. By 2010, Wong had interviewed some 60 former employees. At that time, she was also gifted a box of Gossard fabric remnants, some of which had been fashioned by hand into quilt squares. She brought the fabric with her to several presentations and eventually helped to create the Gossard Memorial Quilt. The quilt was completed in the summer of 2010 by Gossard Girl Chris Wiik, Toyo Kaumeheiwa, Esther Johnson and Judy Parlato, and was first exhibited at the Autumn Comforts 2010 Quilt Show at NMU. The quilt was later donated to the Marquette Regional History Center. When the Wongs moved to the West Coast in 2012, she took the stories of the Gossard Girls with her. It was then that she began conceptualizing the book, which she describes as the “impressive story” of the women of the Gossard factories. Wong estimated she met with more than 100 women, as well as some

Top left, the Gossard baseball team at Gossard Company picnic at Al Quaal Recreation Area in Ishpeming, 1947. Front row, left to right Joyce Rock, Elaine Peterson (holding the game prize, a box of Brach’s chocolates), Gossard Queen Dorothy Windsand, Jean Sandstrom, Dorothy Waters. The names of women in the back row are unknown. Above, Gossard strikers in front of Ishpeming’s factory, 1949. (These works originally appeared in Phyllis Wong’s We Kept Our Towns Going: The Gossard Girls of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, published by Michigan State University Press. Digital files provided by Superior View/Jack Deo). Bottom left, strikers picket in front of Ishpeming’s Gossard factory, while non-union workers observe picketers from the second floor in 1949. Organizer Ruth Craine, wearing a wool coat and hat, stands curbside. (Photo courtesy of Phyllis Wong) At right, the author Phyllis Wong, and the cover of her book We Kept Our Towns Going, about the amazing story of the Gossard Girls.

men, who worked at the Gossard. The majority of them were pieceworkers, but she also spoke to the children of employees as well as local business owners. Many of her interviews were conducted on the third floor of the Gossard building. “As someone would give me a name, it was my obligation to reach out to see if they wanted to share their experiences,” Wong said. “This was an untold story, what they said, what they described, what they did.” Wong said the book is an account of each person’s unique experiences, which “provides a richer understanding and context of the Gossard Girl.” These experiences are presented with some of the history of Ishpeming in each decade that the Gossard existed — from the 1920s to the 1970s. The predominant takeaway that Wong discovered, no matter the de-

cade, was that the Gossard empowered women. Women were afforded an opportunity to work outside the home long before World War II and were able to provide for themselves and their families in uncertain economic times. “There was a pride, an absolute pride for what they did,” Wong said. “It elevated their status in the town. It was the only place where women could make a lot of money.” The H.W. Gossard Company came to Ishpeming in 1920, taking over the building that once housed the F. Braastad and Company Store at 308 Cleveland Avenue. Led by founder Henry Williamson Gossard, the company produced women’s undergarments, most notably the front-lacing corset. In the book, Wong describes this item as “revolutionary” as it provided a woman “with more control

over her own body by enabling her to tighten the corset herself and not require assistance from someone else as the traditional corset of the day did.” Gossard was the only American manufacturer of the front-lacing corset at the time and later held the patent for it. Ishpeming was a perfect place for a new Gossard factory, according to Robert Archibald, an adjunct professor of history at NMU and U.P. historian, as well as an Ishpeming native. Archibald served as an unofficial consultant for the book and answered many of Wong’s questions about Ishpeming and the historical context during the factory’s existence. “This is an Ishpeming story,” Archibald said. “But it’s part of a larger American story for women on a broader scale.” The Gossard was one of many

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Gossard Plant (formerly Braastad Building) in Ishpeming, Michigan. Unknown date. (This work originally appeared in Phyllis Wong’s We Kept Our Towns Going: The Gossard Girls of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, published by Michigan State University Press. Digital file provided by Superior View/Jack Deo)

clothing or manufacturing companies at the time that were moving its factories into rural areas to escape high labor costs and efforts to unionize. In small towns, goods could be produced at the cheapest costs. Even the cost of shipping materials in and product out still made fiscal sense as they were able to pay lower wages. And at the Gossard, the women made a piecework wage, which was paid for the number of items that were made and passed inspection each day, not the time required to make them or the hours they put in during a shift. Despite that, the Gossard provided women in the community with an “out,” according to Archibald. And it was life changing for some families, allowing women to step up in a number of circumstances. Gossard Girls were able to sustain themselves or their families when their husband was injured or killed in the mines, when they had to help support large families, or if they were raising children on their own. A few even lied about their ages to secure a job. This created a stronger sense of solidarity. “Women didn’t necessarily have easy lives,” Archibald said. “If they were in a position of needing to go to work, it created a common bond among the women.” But others chose the Gossard simply as a way to make money until they got married or to help an older child pay for college. Some were even rehired for multiple stints. “This was a time when employing women was unique. The Gossard welcomed women with open arms,” Ar-

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chibald said. “Women couldn’t have bank accounts or qualify for credit cards. It’s amazing and intriguing. It seems like ancient history, but it wasn’t that long ago.” Archibald also noted Ishpeming’s ethnic diversity, saying there was anywhere from 20 to 30 different nationalities represented at the Gossard. While some divisions existed among the groups, those divides eased over time as the women found “commonalities in the work.” The Gossard continued to be prosperous despite the Great Depression and through World War II. In 1945, the Gossard factory in Ishpeming recorded 560 employees and an annual payroll of $750,000, which the women reinvested into the downtown business community through regular purchasing. “This had a huge economic impact. The local businessmen depended on these women,” Wong said. “We can’t underestimate what wages can do in an area. It was a good business to have in town.” A similar, though smaller, impact was felt in Gwinn, where about 140 Gossard employees worked in a former Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company hospital. That site had an annual payroll of $250,000 in 1947. During this time, a years-long campaign to unionize the Gossard Girls had escalated, according to Lisa Fine, a women’s/gender labor and working-class historian who wrote the book’s foreword. She noted that a skilled organizing effort, led by Geraldine Gordon DeFant, as well as unfair piecework rates and speedups, hos-

Six Gossard Girls attend a Gossard presentation at Northern Michigan University in March 2010. Back row left to right: Elaine Peterson, author Phyllis Wong. Front row left to right Cecilia Kangas, Catherine Johnson, Marjorie Ketola, Rose Collick, and Evelyn Corkin. (Photo courtesy of Phyllis Wong)

tile work environments, and remote ownership, helped the employees win representation from the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) in the summer of 1949. Not all employees were in favor of unionizing, but Ishpeming was a union town and the effort was supported by the United Steelworkers. It took a 16-week strike, but the Gossard Girls voted to unionize. “These women were the forerunners for the women’s movement of the 1960s,” Wong said. Wong was able to tap into her original research of DeFant and described her as a “very strong woman who cared about all workers and an equitable environment.” Wong further stated that DeFant’s tireless efforts improved working conditions in Ishpeming and Gwinn. “She is a person many of us should know about so we can gain an appreciation of her impact,” Wong said. The Gossard Girls continued to work and thrive throughout the 1950s and 1960s. But a changing business climate, a global oil crisis and corporate consolidations, and as well as changing fashions, caused operations to end in the 1970s. The Gossard eventually shuttered its factory in Ishpeming on Dec. 31, 1976. Gossard Girl Rita Roberts Corradina told Wong, “It was just like the company took the heart out of Ishpeming.” But the legacy of the Gossard Girls and the impact they made will continue to live on through Wong’s book. Wong noted that many of the women she interviewed didn’t think they had really done anything that was partic-

ularly significant or special. But it’s their collective experiences that tell the larger story of empowerment, strength, independence and solidarity. Wong is hopeful that her book will become part of university curriculums and be read by women and men everywhere. “They loved their jobs, they absolutely loved their jobs,” Wong said of the Gossard Girls. “I really was quite lucky to listen to these stories from so many women. They were willing to tell me what happened and they made an indelible mark on me.” Phyllis Wong will return to Marquette County in July to promote We Kept Our Towns Going: The Gossard Girls of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. She will speak at at 1 p.m. on Saturday, July 9 at the Ishpeming Carnegie Public Library and at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, July 19 at the Michigan Iron Industry Museum in Negaunee. Visit www.msupress.org for more information or to order the book. MM About the author: Erin Elliott Bryan grew up in Ishpeming and was the MM calendar editor from 2001-2005. Her grandmother Edna as well as several great aunts and other relatives were Gossard Girls.

Check out page 38 for a review of We Kept Our Towns Going, by Phyllis Wong

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Pine Mountain Music Festival returns Festivities focus on importance of classical music in modern world By Jonny Bahk-Halberg

he Pine Mountain Music Festival is back again this year with a full schedule of fun and music from June 13 through 22. Artistic Director Scott Flavin said the festival he leads along with co-executive directors Libby Meyer and Danielle Simandl has big things in store for the U.P. this year. The festival’s offerings this season are aimed at making fresh connections with U.P. audiences, according to Flavin. “I’m involved in festivals all over the country,” he said, “and one of the biggest challenges is feeling relevant — feeling a part of the community. “The way people look at classical music traditionally is music from centuries ago from old dead white guys, and we want to change that,” Flavin said. “We believe in this music and we’re very passionate about it, and we don’t want to leave out the community. We want to be impactful.” Flavin said that having Meyer and Simandl running the show, with events in Marquette, Crystal Falls and

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Houghton, “is a great new direction for the festival,” a direction that’s bringing “exciting new energy.” Meyer, a senior lecturer in music theory and composition at Michigan Technological University, is a composer whose work reflects the natural rhythms and patterns of the world around her. Simandl is a violinist who grew up in the U.P., and performs with the Fox Valley Symphony in Appleton, Wisconsin, as well as executive director of the Superior String Alliance, based in Marquette. “We are very proud of the fact that we have two brilliant women at the helm of the festival, an all-too-rare occurrence in classical music circles,” Flavin wrote in an email. Simandl and Meyer are “two truly accomplished musicians and leaders,” he added. Flavin, a professor at the Frost School of Music in Miami, where he teaches violin, conducting and chamber music, has been involved with the festival as a musician for more than 25 years, he said. “And to now be in more of a leadership role is really, re-

ally exciting.” According to Simandl, this year’s lineup includes chamber music concerts by the Bergonzi Trio. “They’ve been a chamber group in residence at Pine Mountain Music Festival for decades and they will be playing an awesome program,” he said. Children’s concerts are also on the musical menu this year, Simandl said, in conjunction with puppetry workshops with Patricia Henzel, a professional puppet maker. These workshops will be offered for young people from kindergarten through 12th grade. In addition to the concerts for adults and children, the festival features UPstarts Concerts, which feature talented youth and young adults who are majoring in music or planning to become professional musicians. “The UPstarts events are a way to highlight people from the U.P. who are trying to go on and make a career in music,” said Simandl. She added that before each of the UPstarts

Performers at the 2022 Pine Mountain Music fest include Bergonzi Trio (far left), Susie Byykkonen (middle) and Trish Helsel (left). (Photos courtesy of Pine Mountain Music Festival)

concerts, musicians will offer what she called “instrument petting zoos,” chances for children to check out a variety of musical instruments they may have never had chances to look at and touch before. “We’re hoping that people will bring a lot of youngsters to these (UPstarts) concerts as well,” Simandl said. “That way we can show kids a bunch of different instruments that they can try before the concerts happen.” In addition to the evening Bergonzi Trio and Upstarts concerts, as well as the daytime children’s concerts and puppet workshops, Flavin will also offer Peak Performance Workshops at three locations during the festival. He invited musicians to come boost their music performance level in these ground-breaking workshops. Flavin pioneered the course Peak Performance at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami, through both in-person and online versions. Intended for performers who get stage fright performing in front of audiences, for music students who want to build their skills or for amateur musicians who want to create a

greater connection with an audience, the workshops will allow groups to work with Professor Flavin in a fun, non-threatening and positive atmosphere, where they can learn solutions to their struggles with performing. Festival organizers say strategies covered will include: Preparation – how to use your practice time most effectively; Positive Psychology – boost your mental game; Visualization – anticipating difficulties mentally; The Body – physical awareness and strategies to release tension; Communication – how can we best connect with our audience?, and The Mind – Use your brain to its fullest extent. Both participants and auditors will work with Professor Flavin in group activities and lectures. Participants will perform short selections or excerpts, under his guidance. The group setting allows everyone to learn something new and come away with new techniques to find greater ease, enjoyment, and success as a performer. The Peak Performance Workshop at PMMF is open to registered participants of all instruments and voice from ages 15 to adult with some mu-

sic performance experience, though not all participants are guaranteed to play. It is open to auditors ages 5 and older. According to Flavin, one of the most important things about all the festival’s live events lies in the nature of music itself. “I feel music is the most powerful of the arts because it does not exist in the real world,” Flavin said. “Music can exist on the page; it can exist in a recording, but it truly exists only for that moment where it creates sound waves that reach from the player to the listener’s eardrums. There is something so incredibly powerful in that non-concrete nature of that moment of connection. “What we’ve seen with COVID is you can have a million great Zoom concerts and virtual activities and listen to recordings and watch videos on YouTube, but it is never the same profound experience as being at a live concert,” Flavin continued. “And I think audiences, even if they don’t go to a huge number of concerts, they’re appreciating it more than ever. I mean the concerts I’ve done since opening

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up after COVID, it’s been remarkable and remarkably stronger, that reaction from audiences. They crave it, and they finally realize the importance of that, that moment that exists, that you cannot taste or touch. You only hear it for a moment and then it’s gone.” Wrapping up festival week will be On the Town musical events. These will be more casual, impromptu, popup chamber music mini-concerts, with locations still being decided. Check the Pine Mountain Music Festival website at pmmf.org. for details about festival events, including the dates, times, and locations of this season’s Bergonzi Trio concerts, children’s concerts, puppetry workshops, peak performance workshops, and pop-up On the Town chamber music performances. MM About the author: After more than two decades working with universities in Seoul, writer/editor/teacher Jonny Bahk-Halberg brought his family back to his favorite place in the Western Hemisphere—the shores of Lake Superior.

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Partridge Creek Farm Providing a place for food, education and community on Marquette County’s west end By Katherine Larson

An aerial view of Partridge Creek Farm, located in Ishpeming (Photo courtesy of May Tsupros)

artridge Creek Farm is, in the language of vegetables, mushrooming. Fueled by a series of generous grants, this Ishpeming-based volunteer-run non-profit is working to cross generations with new and expanded programs aimed at engaging all in the goal of healthy self-sufficiency. Dan Perkins, Partridge Creek’s founder, was moved to start the organization when he observed passing neighborhood children watching him garden, start to ask questions, and then hopping over the fence to help. At first, Partridge Creek focused on a combination of creating community gardens and building and installing raised beds to allow those who wanted and were able to garden at home.

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They still do that, but things have blossomed. Partridge Creek now has five substantial community gardens in Ishpeming. It sells raised beds and farm-made compost to those who can afford them in order to fund raised beds and compost for those who cannot. It started a series of Ishpeming Community Days focused on gardens, and runs an elementary-school-level farm camp for a week in the summer. Now, in 2022, Partridge Creek is parlaying grants from the Michigan Department of Agricultural Development, the Superior Health Foundation, and others to build exciting new programs with far broader reach. May Tsupros, Director of Programs and Partnerships for Partridge Creek, described one goal as “creating space

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for intergenerational community while enhancing access to food for all.” To that end, the organization is leasing a portion of land that used to house the old Bell Hospital — land that is currently brownfield rubble, but that can be repurposed as a healthy source of healthy vegetables. That land is adjacent to both Ishpeming School and Jasperlite Senior Housing, ideally located for intergenerational farm programming. This spring, in partnership with Ishpeming School District Number 1, Partridge Creek broke ground on the process of installing water and adding topsoil. With help from Lindberg & Sons and Hoovers Tree Service, they envision planting their first apple trees this year and offering a pick-your-own com-

munity pumpkin patch by fall. These are the initial steps in a longer-term goal of providing opportunity and incentive for oldsters and youngsters alike to participate in working together to grow a better-fed Ishpeming. Tsupros grows even more excited about a related branch of Partridge Creek’s plans: a consortium built on the school district and community members is in the process of developing a K-12 curriculum that will entwine farm-related matters throughout the school year at all levels. Mathematics, science, writing, planning, history, economics — all offer opportunities for age-appropriate learning that relates directly to the hands-on delight of pulling a carrot

Partridge Creek Director of Programs and Partnerships May Tsupros shows community member Hillary Brandenburg how to apply a natural pest control (neem oil) to the plants in the garden. Partridge Creek uses organic growing practices only. (Photo courtesy of May Tsupros)

out of sweet-smelling soil and taking a hearty bite. The consortium is drawing on the success of existing Partridge Creek-inspired weekly classes in Ishpeming’s fifth and sixth grades, including a sixweek cooking class which culminates in a “Local Food Cook-off” with the winning team’s recipe added to the cafeteria menu for the whole school. The success of that program was evident, according to Tsupros, who cited responses to Partridge Creek questionnaires that teachers distributed. Their website summarizes results: “88% of our students in our fall farm to school program reported trying new vegetables. 70% reported liking a fresh vegetable that they previously thought they disliked. 62% reported ‘liking’ or ‘loving’ fresh salad. All the students participated in growing and harvesting these vegetables and when the school was shut to the students for Covid-19 isolation, 100% reported that they missed our Farm to School

program most above all else in their school experience.” Curriculum development is being led by second-grade teacher Khora Swansen, middle school teacher Katelynn Rich, and high school teacher Jane Steward, along with others with related expertise, including Abby Palmer from MSU Extension and Tsupros herself. It will culminate, for those interested, in an Agriculture CTE (career and technical education) program, providing high school students with vocational skills as they complete their academic coursework. Tsupros is passionate about handson learning for youngsters, saying, “It engages them. It teaches about food and entrepreneurship and the land. It enhances earth care, people care, and self care.” To this end, a broadly community-based approach engages Ishpeming residents from the Superintendent of Schools to the folk who attend the monthly meetings to develop the blos-

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Top, NMU’s Executive Chef Alden MacDonald leads a cooking demo in the Incubator Garden. Right, Ishpeming resident and native Jane Honeycutt with Dylan Mercer and Kyleigh Hebert weed the tree nursery bed in the Inspiration Garden. Partridge Farms Community Days begin June 21 will run from 4:30 to 6 p.m. every Tuesday for 16 weeks (Photos courtesy of May Tsupros)

soming strategic plan, farm site plan, and curriculum plans. With all these new ideas, Partridge Creek continues to build on its foundational work. Community Days are being expanded in 2022 from ten days to fifteen: Tuesdays from 4 pm to 6 pm, starting on June 21, at one of Partridge Creek’s five community gardens. These sessions involve a broad variety of offerings, from cooking demonstrations to talks about indigenous medicine, followed by time working in the gardens together. “Last year a total of well over 300 people attended the ten Community Days,” Tsupros said. “Some kids brought their parents or grandparents

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along, who hadn’t wanted to come but became engaged because of their kids.” 2022 also sees Partridge Creek initiating its “Salad CSA” plan. (CSA stands for community supported agriculture.) Over the summer, participants receive ten weeks’ worth of salad vegetables. Those who pay cash thereby support Partridge Creek’s farm operations, and those who use SNAP/EBT benefits get equal access to Ishpeming-grown produce. In the meantime, Partridge Creek founder Perkins is focusing his vision on sharing Ishpeming’s accomplishments more broadly. Not on a prescriptive basis, Tsupros explained:

“What works in Ishpeming might not work in Houghton. But come and see our ideas, and bring back what you think might work in your community.” Far on the horizon, agrotourism is a possibility. Tsupros quoted a prominent member of the community committee: “’Ishpeming needs something to call our own. I think this could be it.’” MM Editor’s note: Katherine Larson and her husband provide charitable donations to Partridge Creek Farm. About the author: Katherine Larson is a writer, teacher and former lawyer with a special passion for food justice.

poetry An excerpt from Superior Voyage

Know that By Richard J. Rastall for David & Thomas Know that I love you, because I do. Know that you are a good person, because you are. Know that you can do almost anything if you try, practice, work hard and don’t quit, because you can. Know that you can decide, you can say no, because otherwise it’s not your decision. Know that you can compare yourself only with yourself, because there is no one like you. Know yourself and be honest with yourself, because that is the source of your self-worth. Know that you will make mistakes, because we all do. Know that the important things in life are your health, your family and your friends, because they are. Know that you are never alone, because you aren’t. Know that there is life after death, because there is. About the author: Richard J. Rastall is the author of Ice Volcanoes, 3nd Ed., (Gordon Publications, 2016). He is the co-author with Janeen Pergrin Rastall of the chapbooks Romancing The Geek (Gordon Publications, 2013) and True Companions (Gordon Publications, 2017). He co-wrote with Janeen Pergrin Rastall the play Romancing The Geek which premiered in 2014. He was the co-recipient with Janeen Pergrin Rastall of the City of Marquette Arts Culture Center’s Community Arts Activist Award for 2017. He is the editor of Maiden Voyage (Gordon Publications, 2017) amd Superior Voyage (Gordon Publications, 2022).

The Marquette Poets Circle is very thankful for the support of Marquette Monthly with respect to its 10-year anthology, Superior Voyage, is intended to be published this year with a tentative book release date of October 18, 2022 at the Peter White Public Library with all profits from any books sold at the event to be donated to the library.

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superior reads Nonfiction piece outlines amazing lives of UP women Review by Victor Volkman

We Kept Our Towns Going: The Gossard Girls of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula by Phyllis Michael Wong

cross the history of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula in the industrial age, there have only been a handful of major employers in the private sector with more than 500 employees. We are, of course, drawn to the big mining concerns such as Calumet & Hecla’s copper and Cleveland Cliffs Empire Mine in Marquette County. In Chippewa County, we remember Union Carbide (600 employees) and Northwestern Leather (850 employees) as documented in Phil Bellfy’s award-winning U.P. Colony. Residents of Ishpeming and Gwinn know better, the Gossard Company employed upwards of 600 people in the women’s undergarment manufacturing business. Maybe they are less often remembered because the plants were 90% staffed by women or perhaps it’s only because they closed almost 50 years ago. Be that as it may, Phyllis Michael Wong has written the seminal work We Kept Our Towns Going: The Gossard Girls of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula which is now the definitive history of the Gossard Company in the U.P. Wong’s brand-new book deserves to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Allan Koski’s comprehensive Empire Mine Cascade Range: Michigan’s Largest Iron Mine as a document of immense sociological and historical importance in U.P. labor history. Indeed, there is a fascinating synergy of the two industrial giants as many women signed up as Gossard Girls to manufacturer corsets, brassieres and foundation garments when their husbands were involved in strikes at Empire Mine and other CCI job sites. But let’s back up a bit first… Wong’s quest to document the working life of Gossard Girls began in 2008 when she was a researcher at Northern Michigan University and would crystallize a few years later at a Women’s History Month lecture where the idea for a comprehensive history was born.

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Over the next 10 years, she would research primary sources, such as letters written by union organizers, but more importantly she took a staggering number of oral histories from the surviving women — nearly 100 are preserved. As such, she has knowledge at a system level of how the assembly line worked from top to bottom to produce complex products with up to 40 assembly steps. But more importantly, she knows the unique human story behind the story — the motivations and trials of women who in the aggregate produced more than a million undergarments per year at the peak. You may well ask, why Ishpeming given its distance of 370 miles from the main offices and rail hubs in Chicago? Well, for industrial capitalism to work it requires three essential ingredients: raw materials, a cheap and hardworking labor force and factories. The raw materials for undergarments had a huge markup, immigrants of the central U.P. were long known for their work ethic, and the kicker was the 57,000 square feet available in Ishpeming for a fire sale price. Indeed, the Gossard Girls story starts in the heart of downtown Ishpeming where F. Braastad and Company, the area’s largest department store, had just closed two years earlier. The building, barely 15 years old and built to the most modern standards, could be easily adapted for assembly line work. Given the time period and gender stereotypes, it was inevitable that the line workers would be mostly women. But what did this mean for women of the era? There were few realistic opportunities at all, other than secretarial work, for women and their high school vocational training emphasized the essentials: typing, shorthand and bookkeeping. The jobs that were out there for women, such as grocery store checkout, were very low-paying and far between. The opportunity to earn minimum wage plus unlimited bonuses for piecework were too hard to turn down. If worked your quota (number of pieces per shift), you got the basic minimum wage but if you

excelled you would receive additional monies for each bundle you finished (12 to 36 garments) in your assembly step. Thus the truly gifted or just plain dogged could earn two or three times minimum and could even run a household with dignity as a single parent. Let’s step back and take a look at the typical Gossard Girl. Although the individuality of the circumstances is highlighted with dozens of oral histories in the book, I feel that I can summarize the mainstream experience. Most Gossard Girls started immediately after high school, from three days to three months after graduation. A few skirted labor laws by fudging their birthday by a year or two, often with the help of a friend of the family. Once employed, most stayed on the same machine that they trained on, such as a zigzag sewing machine or a 12-needle machine. They would work for about two to five years before getting married and leaving the labor force. Then, there would be a 10 to 15 year gap while children were raised… and then they would return to Gossard to help buy extras for the family, such as prom dresses, vacations or sending kids to college. Many returned to work despite discouragement from their spouses. Often enough, due to a strike at the Empire Mine or other industrial concerns where their spouse was removed from being breadwinner temporarily, they would return to work. So they would stay on 10 to 15 years and perhaps shoot for the pension which could be claimed starting at age 62. Women became the driving economic force in Ishpeming and to a lesser extent in the sister factory in Gwinn. Thus, the title of the book We Kept Our Towns Going refers to the virtuous circle of earning and spending that let the town thrive and survive despite the Great Depression, mining strikes, World War II and numerous other body blows to rural America. I highly recommend Phyllis Michael Wong’s book for anyone interested

in the history of organized labor in Michigan or simply for the wonderful power of sisterhood and family feeling that such a close-knit and well-run industrial operation can create. She has produced a 50 plus year history of a remarkable time of empowerment for women in one of the harshest and most impoverished areas in rural America. MM About the author: Victor R. Volkman is a graduate of Michigan Technological University (Class of ’86) and is the current president of the U.P. Publishers and Authors Association (UPPAA). He is senior editor at Modern History Press and publisher of the U.P. Reader.

Check out page 27 for a full feature on the Gossard Girls, and the story behind the book.

Send Upper Peninsula-related book review suggestions to victor@LHPress.com Books submitted for review can be sent to: MM Book Reviews, 5145 Pontiac Trail, Ann Arbor, MI 48105

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lookout point History on display

How iron mining shaped the Upper Peninsula landscape forever By Pam Christensen

he Upper Peninsula contains three iron ranges — the Marquette, Menominee and Gogebic Ranges. The Marquette Range iron production began in 1845 at the Jackson Mine established by Philo Marshall Everett. This was an open pit mine and the ore was carved from the hills and surface. This ore was then transferred to the Carp River Forge located on the Carp River near what is now Negaunee. The Jackson Mine can still be seen with a short walk from the Jackson Miner’s Park Trailhead located at the west end of Negaunee’s Main Street. The best place to begin learning about Michigan’s rich iron mining history is with a visit to the Michigan Iron Industry Museum (MIIM) located near the original site of the Carp River Forge. The museum can be accessed from U.S. 41 between Marquette and Negaunee or from Marquette County Road 492. The museum offers interactive displays, exhibits and maps that document the history of mining. Admission to the museum, operated by the Michigan Historical Center, is without charge, but there is a small fee to view the introductory film “Iron Spirits: Life on the Michigan Iron Range.” The museum is open Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday hours are 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. The MIIM offers a lecture series at 2 p.m. on Tuesdays from July 12 to August 16. Topics range from Keweenaw geology and the Estisvant Pines to the Gossard Girls, the Henry B. Smith shipwreck, Native Americans and immigrant food experiences, and the 35th anniversary of James Paquette’s discovery of the Gorto Site. Visit the museum’s website at michigan.gov/mhc/museums/miim/ about for a schedule of these events. Situated on the Iron Ore Heritage Trail, the MIIM will offer guided bicycle tours of the trail from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on July 22, August 5 and August 12. Participants travel about 15 miles on the Iron Ore Heritage Trail from the MIIM to Ishpeming and back. The cost for a tour is $25 per person and includes the tour guide, materials and a lunch catered by Midtown Bakery.

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These iconic Egyptian Revival obelisks mark the Mather A and B shafts at the Cliffs Shaft Mining Museum in Ishpeming. (Photo courtesy of Cliffs Shaft Mining Museum)

Registration is required and can be made by calling (906) 475-7857. The Cliffs Shaft Mining Museum located in Ishpeming at the corner of Euclid Street and Lakeshore Drive offers a different mining perspective. Craig Ilmonen, executive director of

the Cliffs Shaft Mining Museum, is looking forward to another banner year in 2022. “The museum was closed in 2020 but reopened in 2021. In 2021, we set attendance records for visitors. Almost 6,000 people toured the site,”

he said. “We placed a U.S. map in the museum and asked visitors to put a pin on where they live. We had 47 states and seven or eight foreign countries represented. The bulk of our visitors come from Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa and Minnesota, but it is amazing to see how far people will travel to visit attractions such as ours.” Museum headquarters are the former dry (a place where workers changed clothes) of the Cliffs Shaft Mine. The A and B shafts are marked by concrete obelisks built in the Egyptian Revival style and designed by noted architect George W. Maher. The C shaft is the large metal structure that towers over the site and is visible from almost anywhere in Ishpeming. Although the mines closed in 1967, they and the mining operations left a lasting impact on the landscape and society of Marquette County’s West End. Visitors to Cliffs Shaft can take a self-guided or guided tour. The guided tours are led by volunteers, many who worked in or have some connection to the mining industry. Guided tours last approximately one hour and include an underground visit to the C Shaft service tunnel and the base of the towering 174-foot-high shaft. Tours also include a visit to the extensive collection of over 500 rock and mineral specimens on display from the Ishpeming Rock and Mineral Club, a film about the Mather B mine and a diorama of the mine site. Visitors of all ages marvel at the huge 170-ton iron ore haul truck with tires 12 feet high. Weather permitting, blacksmith David Arbelius will be at his forge creating items for sale in the gift shop. The museum also has a comprehensive collection of historical mining artifacts and equipment. The museum gift shop offers apparel, publications related to the mine, mining history and history of the area, rock and mineral specimens, snacks and items created on-site by the blacksmith. The museum opens on Friday, May 27 and closes on September 24. The site is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. There is ample parking for recreational vehicles. The museum’s website cliffsshaftminemuseum.com details the site and tour costs. Cliffs Shaft Mining Museum is a trailhead for the Iron Ore Heritage Trail and serves as the starting point for the 16-mile Iron Range Roll bicycle fun ride on June 4. The museum also hosts the Ishpeming Rock and

Mineral Club’s summer show on Saturday, August 6. The village of Fayette was established as an iron smelting community on Lake Michigan in 1847. Now known as the Fayette Historic State Park, it combines a 711-acre park facility merging nature and history. It features more than 20 historic buildings and a visitor center that explains life in the 19th century industrial town. Guided and self-guided tours are available on the site which is accessible by land or water. Fayette Heritage Day is an annual event that transports visitors back to the 19th century with displays, food, music and a historic baseball game, 1860s style. Heritage Day will be held on Saturday, August 13. On September 16 and 17, evenings, Fayette will offer a paranormal event. This program gives visitors a firsthand look at what paranormal investigators do and allows them to witness any paranormal activity that is captured by researchers. Visit michigan.gov/mhc/museums/fayette for more information about these events and the park itself. Hours vary during the tourist season, so double check the website for current operational hours. A Michigan Recreation Pass or daily visitor pass is required to enter the park. Contemporary iron mines in the Upper Peninsula are now open pit rather than underground. For a trueto-life taste of underground mining, a visit to the Iron Mountain Iron Mine is required. This Michigan historical site was opened as a tourist attraction in 1958 to take advantage of the former East Vulcan Mine located in Vulcan on U.S. 2 approximately 11 miles from Iron Mountain. The East Vulcan mine, also known as the Breitung Mine was in operation from 1877 to 1945. The 45-minute guided tours are given via underground train, and take the visitor 2600 feet into the mine’s drifts and stopes and 400 feet underground through an exploratory tunnel created in the late 1870s. The “big stope” is a man-made underground cavity from which the almost 22 million tons of ore mined at the site were taken. The path of travel is well-lit, and visitors will also see interesting rock and ore formations. The Iron Mountain Iron Mine opens for the 2022 season on Friday, May 27 and runs until Saturday, October 15. The attraction also offers what is called the U.P.’s largest rock and mineral shop featuring local specimens and items collected from around the

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world. Visit ironmountainironmine. wixsite.com/ironmine for additional information about the mine tour and fees. William Cummings, president of the Menominee Range Historical Foundation, encourages people to visit the Cornish Pumping Engine & Mining Museum in Iron Mountain. The centerpiece of the museum is the largest standing steam-driven pumping engine ever built in the United States. This 725-ton behemoth, standing at 54 feet above the engine room floor, began operation in January 1893 at D Shaft of the Chapin Mine. The diameter of the flywheel is 40 feet and weighs 160 tons. The pump was designed by Edwin Reynolds of the E.P. Allis Company of Milwaukee and the museum recently acquired the original blueprints. Dismantled in the summer of 1898, the reassembled giant steam engine again went into operation in 1908 at the Chapin Mine’s new C Ludington Shaft, where it still stands. The pump could remove 3,000 gallons per minute from a depth of 1,522 feet. The Cornish Pumping Engine is a Michigan Historic Site (1958), a National Historic Site (1981), a Michigan Historic Civil Engineering Landmark (1984) and a National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark (1987). The museum also includes exhibits chronologically documenting the history of the Menominee Iron Range with artifacts and period photographs, as well as an extensive collection of underground mining equipment, engines, ore cars, jack hammers, drill-

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ing equipment, smaller pumps, tuggers, scrapers, a skip used to transport miners to various mine levels, cars to transport miners to work areas and a dynamite car. An extensive exhibit documenting logging and lumbering on the eastern Menominee Iron Range opened in the summer of 2021. The Menominee Range Historical Foundation also recognizes the role the area played in the history of the Iron Mountain Ford Motor Company’s plant which operated from 19201951 in nearby Kingsford. During World War II, the local Ford plant transitioned from building wooden station wagon bodies to building gliders, fabricating more Model CG4A gliders (4,190 units) for the U.S. Army than any other company in the nation at less cost than other manufacturers. The World War II Glider & Military Museum features one of seven fully restored CG-4A gliders in the world. In addition to military-related artifacts, exhibits and memorabilia, this museum has six fully-restored Ford vehicles on display, including a 1924 Model T coupe, a 1928 Model AA fire engine, a 1930 Tudor sedan, a 1930 Model AA dump truck, a 1939 Deluxe “Woodie” Station Wagon and a rare 1946 Sportsman “Woodie” Convertible. “The Foundation is in the process of installing collections formerly located in the former Carnegie Public Library museum to the ‘C’ Ludington sandstone dry at the Chapin Mine site,” Cummings noted. “We started moving our downtown museum collections to the dry last year and hope

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The huge Cornish Pump is the centerpiece of the Menominee Range Historical Society facility located in Iron Mountain. (Photo courtesy of Menominee Range Museum and Cliffs Shaft)

to have the exhibits and collections rearranged in the new site in order to reopen those exhibits to the public in 2023. This move helps to bring all our collections to a central location and allows visitors to see everything without having to travel from one site to another. This also maximizes the efforts of the volunteers who operate the museum seven days a week from early June to September. We had our best summer in 2021 and anticipate that 2022 will also be a busy year.” The Cornish Pumping Engine & Mining Museum and the World War II Glider & Military Museum open June 6, 2022 and will remain open daily through September. Visit menomineemuseum.com for more information about the Menomi-

nee Range Historical Museums. Michigan’s iron mining heritage is easily experienced by visiting these locations dedicated to recounting the important role the Upper Peninsula’s mines and miners have played in U.S. history. MM About the author: Pam Christensen moved to Marquette 30 years ago when she accepted the position of library director at Peter White Public Library. She served in that post for more than 24 years. Most recently, she was foundation manager for the West End Health Foundation, finally hanging up her formal work shoes in May 2021. She and her husband Ralph are in the process of making an off-grid cabin in Nisula their second home.

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back then Frank Lloyd Wright, iconic architect, pays a visit He was arrogant. He was obstinate. But he was also a genius. And he came to Marquette. By Sonny Longtine

A portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright. (Photo courtesy of New York World-Telegram and the Sun staff photographer: Al Ravenna, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

rank Lloyd Wright (1867– 1959), the “Great One,” came to Marquette in June 1936. He stealthily slid into town on a Thursday evening and exited quickly on Saturday morning. While in Marquette he was entertained one evening at Abby Beecher Roberts’s home on Cedar Street. During the course of the evening he was asked by another guest what he thought of Americans. Wright responded, “Americans are the greatest gamblers on Earth.” Another guest blurted out, “What about the Chinese?” Wright chortled and said, “The Chinese concentrate their gambling on games, Americans gamble on everything.” A Mining Journal reporter noted that Wright had been perfectly charming that evening, but it was well known that at times he could also be

as brutal as a hungry tiger. Wright had come to Marquette to oversee the construction of one of his designs. Roberts, the surviving daughter of developer John Longyear, had commissioned Wright to design a house for a wooded 240-acre site (Deertrack Village) just west of the city. John Lautner, a Marquette architect and disciple of Wright, and also Robert’s son-in-law, was superintendent of the project. Prairie style architecture was Wright’s signature design and the Deertrack house was vintage Wright. It is nestled into a hillside and quietly merges with its environment, just what Wright wanted. Sweeping glass panels and beige-colored bricks, framed by an impressive roof overhang, dominate the lower level. All the windows

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are characteristically Wright, looking out on a thickly wooded forest that encouraged the outdoors to become integral with the indoors — a seductive bond between the inside and outside. “The large living room with a unique corner fireplace is large enough to swing a tiger,” said owner Abby Beecher Roberts. The home later became the residence of Karol Peterson, (deceased) a descendant of John Longyear and daughter of architect John Lautner. Wright was 70 years old when he visited Marquette, but even at that age he was described as a human dynamo. It was said that if you didn’t tether his feet he would start soaring like Peter Pan. Wright, often outspoken, wickedly referred to contemporary high-rise

The Collins house sits comfortably on a precipice that overlooks Lake Superior sunrises. Located in a South Marquette suburb, it is classic Prairie style with a second level embedded in the house interior. The house’s massive chimney and extended eaves are also in keeping with the Prairie tradition. (Photo courtesy of Sonny Longtine)

buildings, “as flat-chested.” There was only one Frank Lloyd Wright — and he knew it. He sought to keep his artist image wrapped in mystique — as an isolated and almost superhuman creator. No one had a love for the landscape like Wright. His homes discreetly embellished the earth. At its best, it was difficult to distinguish where the building left off and the earth began, not unlike a beaver dam that unobtrusively blends into its surroundings. He enlightened others about the beauty of natural materials and insisted that buildings grow naturally from their surroundings. He developed the open plan where rooms flowed into each other. He was not only an originator but remarkably productive, creating over 1,000 designs during his lifetime. With more than one-third of

his buildings on the National Register of Historic Places, the maverick architect clearly made his mark on America. The Collins House: Contemporary Prairie Style Architecture he Collins’s house, located in an undulating suburb in Marquette, is a prominent replication of Wright’s Prairie Architecture. It dramatically

sits on the edge of a ridge that abruptly descends a precipitous cliff-like hill to Lake Superior. The view from the rear of the house is breathtaking. On the southeast corner is the kitchen that has two walls sheeted with segmented windows that literally invite the outside in — and best yet — overlook the lake. An island surrounded with chairs is in the center of the kitchen. “The kitchen with all its light and

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the island make it an ideal place to visit when I have my friends over,” said Mary Collins, owner of the house. The vista from the kitchen is vivid, with a panoramic view of Lake Superior, where one can witness an early morning sun carpeting the sky in delicate pastels. Collins’ father, George Lundstrom, grew up in Republic, matriculated to Michigan Technological University, where he obtained a degree in civil en-

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The Wright designed Deertract Village house, located in West Marquette and constructed by John Lautner, is classic Prairie style architecture. The massive roof overhang and ribbon of windows are signature Wright. (Photo courtesy of Sonny Longtine)

gineering. He went to work for Kimberly-Clark, where he was instrumental in constructing new paper mills around the country and in Europe. As a result, the family never spent much time in any one place. When Lundstrom retired, he moved to Marquette, where he actively participated in the planning and building of his new Prairie house in 1986. The on-site architect was Paul Bilgin. Collins’ formative years were pleasant but nomadic. She is a University of Wisconsin graduate and taught school for several years after graduation. When her parents passed away, she moved back to their home in Marquette in 2004. The Collins’ house is classic, asymmetrical Prairie, with a moderately pitched hipped roof, a generous eave overhang and a central section that rises above the wings. A breezeway supported by four substantial red brick pillars connects the garage to the main entry and eases the transition between the two structures. Two sets of ribbon windows are above the garage door. Collins is delighted with the breezeway, where a table and chairs make for comfortable summer sitting. “A cool breeze filters through the area on hot summer days making it an ideal place to be,” she said. It is difficult to tell where the demarcation is between the inside and the outside of the house, exactly what Wright envisioned —a house that seeps into the landscape and is an intimate nature sanctuary. The exterior windows on the house are elongated, and many are 12 panes and segmented. It has the classic Prairie color scheme, with light gray siding and shingling. Broad, horizontal, dark-stained bands separate the sid-

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ing from the shingles and add to the house’s strong, low-lying mass. This polychromatic light siding with dark trim is in keeping with the Prairie look. A massive brick fireplace dominates an airy, pleasantly decorated living room. The center of the floorto-ceiling fireplace has definition with a moderately recessed center, featuring an attractive, elongated art piece. A dining area pendant light with three orange, rectangular shades embossed with black trim have an oriental flavor in keeping with Wright’s affinity for Eastern touches. The interior of the house is free flowing with space not inhibited by walls. With abundant windows, the home’s interior becomes a sundrenched paradise. Even so, Collins said, “I took out one wall in the kitchen because the area was too closed off.” Wright would have been pleased with her surgical removal of a wall. Prairie houses shun “box like” rooms that characterized previous Queen Anne and Italianate houses. “I love this house and I’m happy to be back to my roots,” Collins said. That is understandable when one lives in a space that slowly unfolds its pleasures. Collins cozies up to the fireplace hearth when winter moves in and obliterates what is left of fall, knowing full well that Frank Lloyd Wright is looking down with approval that his greatness is still in vogue. MM About the author: Sonny Longtine is a Marquette resident who has published eight books about the Upper Peninsula. For more than three decades he taught American history and government in Michigan schools.

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at the table Celebrating Juneteenth with all things red By Katherine Larson

une is a month known for celebrations of all sorts — graduations, Fathers’ Day, the summer solstice. This year, we focus on America’s newest national holiday, falling on June 19: Juneteenth. Marquette’s own Juneteenth celebration, sponsored by Social Justice for Us and NMU’s Black Students’ Union, will be held in Mattson Lower Harbor Park, from noon until five p.m. Hosted by comedian Devon Grice, the event will feature music, food, education, crafts, and a keynote speech by Dr. Carter Wilson, Chair of Political Science at NMU. All are invited. This will be the second annual Marquette celebration, but in this country Juneteenth dates back to the nineteeth century. On September 9, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln announced that, if the South’s rebellion did not stop by year’s end, he would issue a proclamation freeing all enslaved people in the confederacy and opening up the US Armed Services to them. Then, as the National Museum of African-American History and Culture describes it: “On ‘Freedom’s Eve,’ or the eve of January 1, 1863, the first Watch Night services took place. On that night, enslaved and free African Americans gathered in churches and private homes all across the country awaiting news that the Emancipation Proclamation had taken effect. At the stroke of midnight, prayers were answered

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as all enslaved people in Confederate States were declared legally free.” While it’s hard to overstate the historical importance of the proclamation, at the time there were severe constraints on its implementation. The Civil War continued to rage, and the Confederate States of America did not consider themselves bound by anything that might emerge from Washington. Many enslavers did, however, move their “property” west, farther from the Union Army — according to Henry Lewis Gates, more than 150,000 of them to Texas, which ended up with over a quarter of a million enslaved people. Even after Robert E. Lee surrendered at the Battle of Appomattox in April 1865, implementation of the Emancipation Proclamation encountered difficulties. So it was not until June 19 of that year that Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and announced the twoand-a-half-year-old order: enslaved Black people in Texas were free. According to Lone Star Pasts: Memory and History in Texas, a formerly enslaved man named Felix Haywood recalled that first June nineteenth: “’We was all walkin’ on golden clouds….Everybody went wild... We was free. Just like that we was free.’” Remember, “Freedom,” Jon Batiste’s Grammy-winning work? Imagine that, many times over. The anniversary of this day came

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to be a big celebration in Galveston, at least for formerly enslaved people. Former enslavers were the opposite of enthusiastic and, with their resistance to Reconstruction and in the bitter days of Jim Crow that followed, Juneteenth was kept tightly within Black communities. As former slaves and their descendants moved out of Texas over the years, the festivities moved with them. Now the celebration extends to all. In 1980, Juneteenth became a state holiday in Texas, and just last year Congress made it a federal holiday throughout the United States. Henry Lewis Gates describes historical celebrations as “an occasion for gathering lost family members, measuring progress against freedom and inculcating rising generations with the values of self-improvement and racial uplift. This was accomplished through readings of the Emancipation Proclamation, religious sermons and spirituals, the preservation of slave food delicacies (always at the center: the almighty barbecue pit), as well as the incorporation of new games and traditions…” As Gates suggests, the food is important. Culinary historian and chef Michael W. Twitty explains that food is “one of the most intimate ways to know people of the past, including your own ancestors… [W]hen we eat the same food, there’s this sense of continuity.”

If you can’t get rhubarb, sour cherries work beautifully in Nicole Taylor’s Liberation Sundae. Many Juneteenth foods are red, symbolizing a plethora of things, including strength, spirituality, life and death. (Photo by Katherine Larson)

“Measuring progress and inculcating rising generations” will form a part of Marquette’s Juneteenth gathering. Social Justice for Us founder and executive director Freddy Sims explained that the group’s goals include presenting and celebrating Black food, culture, and music. To Sims, Juneteenth represents “the essence of community — the things we do together.” It serves to “spread awareness of Black culture authentically.” That will include refreshments, especially barbecue — what Twitty calls “the most important” feature of the meal — served by local food truck

entrepreneur SMOKD, whose barbecued brisket and other treats (barbecued eggrolls!) have drawn raves. The importance of barbecue has powerful historical evidence: Oprah Daily cites “multiple 19th century newspaper reports that all called for entire communities to gather at the local barbecue pit or grounds to prepare the food and eat together in honor of Juneteenth.” With barbecue comes a plethora of related side dishes and an overall theme of red — red decorations, red food, red drinks. Why red? In many West African traditions red is a color symbolizing strength, spirituality, life and death (including the redness of blood shed in religious sacrifices or in slavery). In Twitty’s words, red “symbolizes perseverance, because for our ancestors in West and Central Africa, red was one of the most important colors: it’s the color of creativity, the color of fire, the color of war, the color of resistance. When red shows up, you know it’s a most spiritual moment.” He also points out the strong culinary tradition rooted in the fruit of two West African plants, the hibiscus and the kola nut. Hibiscus flowers can be stewed into a delicious red tea. And kola nuts are a terrific energy booster, digestive, and cold remedy; ground, they make an extraordinarily refreshing red drink. Indeed, kola was embraced by what is now a worldwide symbol of American refreshment, Coca Cola, whose original recipe included those kola nuts. To this day, red permeates Juneteenth celebrations via red punch, red watermelon, red velvet cake, and more. Can Juneteenth be celebrated by those whose ancestors were not slaves? Yes indeed. Everyone can celebrate the fact that all humans are lifted up when oppression is outlawed. Plus Juneteenth provides the perfect opportunity to study the past and the present with an eye to action for the future. For people planning a Juneteenth celebration of their own, we are immensely aided by the publication of Nicole A. Taylor’s Watermelon and Red Birds: A Cookbook for Juneteenth and Black Celebrations (Simon & Schuster, May 2022). So recent a book is it that I’m able to report directly only about those recipes that have appeared online as a teaser, but those recipes are humdingers. Let her welcome you to the party with this imaginative drink: Blueberry and Bay Laurel Tonic. Taylor combines quick-pickled blueberries,

lemon cordial, and tonic water to create a stunningly beautiful and refreshing red quaff. As you would expect, the book contains a variety of barbecue recipes, but if you’re limited to an oven you could consider her Rodeo Turkey Legs — brined turkey legs gussied up with a magical combination of garlic, rosy chili powder, Worcestershire sauce, soy sauce, and honey. Taylor also perks up a simple salad of fresh melon with lime zest, crumbled feta, and more red chili. Perfect for the U.P. in June, though, is her smashing Liberation Sundae. You could start with chocolate ice cream if you like, though Taylor offers a recipe for luscious dairy-free chocolate sorbet because, as she writes, “My goal is to please all my guests, omnivores, vegetarians and vegans alike.” Whichever you choose, layering this chocolate goodness with a slightly spicy rhubarb compote (rhubarb, sugar, cinnamon, crushed dried red pepper, and a whiff of nutmeg) is a stroke of genius. I wish I were clever enough to come up with this combination of sweet and tart, lush and spicy, and then to top it — as Taylor does — with a sprig of chocolate mint. For my home barbecue, after I attend Marquette’s Juneteenth celebration I will definitely be serving Liberation Sundae, plus the blueberry/ bay laurel tonic. Since I love barbecued chicken, I might stick with that, using my husband’s favorite bright red sauce. Besides that? Watermelon won’t be in season yet in the U.P. Maybe a mix of red kidney beans, celery, and onion pulled together with a garlicky vinaigrette? With crackling bread (corn bread made with pork cracklings) from SJFU’s booklet of recipes created for this year’s Black History Month activities at NMU? Taylor’s book will be available in Marquette’s independent bookstores this month, and it would be hard to improve on it. Or bring your own ideas: A rosy wine. Your own favorite scarlet-hued barbecue sauce, or crimson grilled sausages. A slaw made of red cabbage and red bell peppers. Red rice. Strawberry pie. Go for it! For everyone, Juneteenth is a day worth celebrating. MM About the author: Katherine Larson is a writer, teacher, and former lawyer, with a special passion for food justice. She notes that World Central Kitchen is dedicated to providing meals in response to humanitarian, climate, and community crises, including activity in connection with the war in Ukraine. See https://wck.org/

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Performers in the 2021 Art Week closing concert, held near the Marquette lighthouse. (Photo courtesy of Kian McDonough)

Marquette’s Art Week returns with a focus on water By Jackie Stark

rt Week is returning to Marquette this year with a little more fluidity than usual. Celebrating Lake Superior and what it means to the Marquette community, Art Week will focus on water, with that theme popping up throughout the week in various activities, events and displays. Though it may seem counterintuitive when it comes to the nature of creativity, City of Marquette Arts and Culture Center Director Tiina Morin said providing a theme with parameters was beneficial for the artists.

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“People really resonated with having a theme as something to work off of,” she said. “Sometimes the constraints of a theme help people become even more creative.” That creativity will be found all over Marquette from June 20 through 25, with a full schedule of events, gallery showings and installations. Members of the Lake Superior Art Association have painted 100 unique works of art on 4x4-inch canvases and will hide them throughout Marquette, allowing Art Week patrons to keep whatever they find.

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Exhibits will be on display at several galleries and museums during the week as well, including the DeVos Art Museum’s “North of the 45” and “Nature’s Song, Marquette Monthly Cover Art 2008-2022 and New Works” by Diana Magnuson on display in the Huron Mountain Club Gallery inside the Peter White Public Library. Other week-long installations include displays at Campfire Coworks, the Downtown Development Authority, Zephyr Wine Bar and Café and Getz’s, among others.

Harry South performs during the closing concert of last year’s Art Week in Marquette. (Photo courtesy of Kian McDonough)

The week is jam-packed with arts-related activities, designed for anyone from the self-proclaimed “least artistic” to professional artists. “One of the pillars of Art Week is its open to anyone,” Morin said. “There’s opportunity for anyone to be creative and throw your hat in the ring.” Events are planned all day long throughout the week, ranging from concerts to painting seminars, dance seminars to art festivals. Morin said it’s likely there’s something for everyone’s interests – even those that don’t typically seek out art in their daily lives. “Some people don’t necessarily buy season tickets to the theater or attend a concert and this is an opportunity for them to see what’s out there,” Morin said. For the team at the City of Marquette’s Arts and Culture Center, the week has been crafted to really focus on locals. Though it’s sure to delight tourists, and perhaps even bring some to the area specifically to partake in Art Week activities, Morin said the intention was to focus on the local community. “Last year, it really became obvious … that Art Week was a community event,” Morin said. “It’s created by the community, for the community.

Yes, we will get visitors, but that’s not the intent of Art Week, and that became crystal clear in Covid… “We really wanted to think about the goals of Art Week and create a mission and a vision for Art Week as we move forward, so it’s not only just a nice festival that happens in the community,” Morin said. “There’s a real purpose behind it.” The purpose this year is to focus on the water, the driving force for so many who choose to call this area home. Events have been scheduled in such a way to create even more interaction with the big lake, and to bring awareness to the richness the local art community brings to Marquette. “It’s happening outdoors, it’s happening in our parks, in our streets,” Morin said. “There’s so much audience engagement. It’s really an opportunity to stumble upon art in your own community and look at your community in a new lens.” Art Week runs from June 20 to June 25. Visit mqtcompass.com for a full listing of events. MM About the author: Jackie Stark has lived in the UP since she was 11. An avid reader, she also loves gardening and has been talking about learning to play the guitar for 14 years.

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back then Bernice Steadman Denied opportunity, Steadman soared anyway

By Larry Chabot

ou grab a taxi in Traverse City. At the wheel is a woman, whose name on the license card is “Steadman, Bernice.” Turns out she owns the company. You motor past Steadman women’s clothing store. Wow, she owns that, too. What else did she do? She was a Yooper girl, a wife and mother, golfer, hunter, fighter for women’s rights, but mostly a crackerjack pilot who came this close to riding a rocket ship into space until the president of the United States slammed the door on her. She was born Bernice Trimble in Rudyard in Chippewa County in 1925, where her life got off to a horrible start when she was less than two years old: the family home burned, taking the lives of her father, brother, and sisters, who she barely knew. Her dream as she grew older was to fly, which came true after high school graduation when, working as an inspector at an AC Spark Plug plant, she spent her paycheck on flying lessons. Bernice had to ride a bike 10 miles to the airport but the trips were worth it. At age 17, before learning to drive a car, she earned her coveted pilot’s license and began flying professionally the same day. Working out of Bishop Airport in Flint, her energy, ability and intelligence quickly moved her up the ladder to supervisor of the maintenance shop. On the side, she ran her own flight school, flew charter flights, sold aircraft and headed a fixed base operation called Trimble Aviation, using her family name. On her rare off-days, she competed in air races all over the country, winning each one at least once. Soon, she earned a reputation as

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one of the finest professional pilots in the country. Despite her growing renown and many jobs, her airport office was stuck between a stairway and the men’s room. Into this crowded space one day sauntered a young lawyer named Robert Steadman, who wanted to be a pilot. A friend had suggested he look up Bernice Trimble. He found her office by the men’s room and was totally infatuated with her. They dated, got married, had four kids and spent 56 years together. After World War II, Bernice served as the only woman instructor of reserve Air Force officers, was named Michigan’s Outstanding Pilot and was one of the first women to receive the highest possible pilot rating. She was hired to teach several hundred men how to fly, many of whom went on to become airline or commercial pilots, even though airlines who hired her students refused to hire the female aviator who had trained them. A Place in Space? he United States got serious about conquering outer space in obvious competition with the Soviet Union as they competed for “firsts” — like the Soviets launching a dog into orbit to kick off a series of gotchas. The first U.S. manned space effort was called Project Mercury, and all of the potential Mercury astronauts were male. But a little-known part of that project involved the selection of 13 women who were to undergo the same testing as the men. Bernice Steadman of Rudyard was one of the 13 who successfully passed the same rigorous physiolog-

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Bernice Steadman was one of 13 women who successfully passed rigorous screening to qualify to participate in Project Mercury, the first manned U.S. space flight. Despite that, she was denied the ability to fly in space. (Illustration by Mike McKinney)

ical screening as the men. After their applications were rejected, some of them engaged in a heavy lobbying effort on Congress and President Lyndon Johnson. Astronauts John Glenn and Scott Carpenter both opposed the idea of women in space, with Glenn stating “the fact that women are not in this field is a fact of our social order,” and, besides, they weren’t jet pilots, either, which he felt disqualified them. The final blow came from the

president, who scrawled “Let’s stop this now!” on the pro-women proposal which reached his desk. Wouldn’t you know, the Russians stunned the world and the American space program with another coup by launching a woman into orbit in 1963. The American women stewed in frustration. One of them, a pilot named Jerrie Cobb, called it “a shame that, since we are eventually going to put a woman into space, we didn’t go ahead

and do it first.” Valentina Tereshkova, the Russian cosmonaut who made that historic ride, agreed. She reportedly told one of the Mercury 13 that “we always figured you would be first. What happened?” Sadly for them and the program, none of them ever flew in space as part of a NASA mission. Bernice’s husband felt strongly that his wife and the other candidates were denied their big chance to be in space because of the sexist attitudes at the time. It wasn’t until 1983 that Sally Ride became the first American woman launched into space, the first of more than 50 female astronauts. Stymied by the presidential veto, Bernice co-founded a cab company and clothing store in Traverse City, driving a taxi regularly while still finding time for golf, badminton and hunting. “She had a gorgeous swing,” her husband said about her golfing.” She was an excellent hunter, too, with great aim. She once nailed a pheasant with a hip shot. Her awards and appointments were a measure of her reputation. She was on the president’s Women’s Advisory Committee on Aviation, is a member of both the Michigan Aviation Hall of Fame and the Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame. She served as president of the Ninety Nines, the largest group of women pilots in the world; the group’s first president was Amelia Earhart, probably the most famous female flyer ever. Bernice co-founded a women’s air and space museum in Cleveland, Ohio, headed Ann Arbor’s airport committee, and was academically honored with a doctor of science degree from the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. Her battles weren’t over yet. Brain surgery forced her to drop her business ventures, but she never gave up. Bernice fought back with other activities, learning map reading and taking lessons to relearn how to drive a car. Bernice published a memoir in 2001 entitled Tethered Mercury: A Pilot’s Memoir: The Right Stuff – But the Wrong Sex, which chronicled her career and the experience within Project Mercury. She traveled the country as a motivational speaker on behalf of women’s rights. The curtain closed on this remarkable U.P. memorable woman when she passed away in 2015 at the age of 89 after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease. “She was really strong, really smart,” Steadman described his wife. “Everything she tried to do, she excelled in. She had marvelous hand and eye coordination. She could fly

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AT AGE 17, BEFORE LEARNING TO DRIVE A CAR, SHE EARNED HER COVETED PILOT’S LICENSE AND BEGAN FLYING PROFESSIONALLY THE SAME DAY.

a plane better than anyone else. She was just a joy to other people, a warm, passionate woman.” Bernice Trimble Steadman was a wonderful example of a woman from a humble background who found success in a profession dominated by men, and a worthy U.P. memorable woman. MM Editor’s note: Bernice Steadman is the ninth profile in Marquette Monthly’s memorable women series. Candidates for this series were too numerous to count; we chose to feature women from different time periods, geographical areas, and occupations. About the author: Larry Chabot, an Ontonagon native, worked his way through Georgetown University and was then employed at White Pine Copper Company for 32 years, before moving to Marquette with his wife, Betty. He is a freelance writer who has written for several publications, including more than 170 articles for Marquette Monthly.

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fiction

The Pick

Part two in a multi-part, original story Written and illustrated by Brad Gischia II: Summer

cooter stood on the road and tried to reconcile what he was seeing with how he remembered it. It was well into June. His schedule had backed up steadily as he traveled around the mine’s property, and he was only now getting back to checking on the Pick because he had an open end of the week. The leaves were all out now, and what had looked like a canopy in spring was a tunnel in summer. The brush on either side of the two-rut road was so thick you couldn’t see through it. As Scooter edged his truck down the road, branches reached out and their clawed ends screeched along the sides. The speedometer barely bounced as he drove. Two miles into the mine was an eternity of green, and then it wasn’t. The Dodge poked into an opening; the road snaked around Pickett’s Lake to a small log cabin near the shore on the north end. He parked next to a Jeep Wagoneer with faded fauxwood paneling on the sides. Scooter sat behind the wheel, looking around and listening to the engine tick as it cooled. Where was Coy Larson? He must have heard the truck coming. The lake was peaceful, no other noise

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except for the chirping of birds and the occasional croak of a toad from the water. The trees pressed close all around it, rock ledges jutting up on the far side. There were cedar trees clinging to the stone there, reaching out over the lake, daring gravity and weather to pull them down into the black water. The air felt close here, humid near a big source of water. Pickett’s Lake was only about an acre, and not really a lake at all, but a flooded mine pit. This was the mine Scooter was checking on, one that had filled once the drainage pumps had been shut off 70 years prior. He walked to the front door and rapped on it. “Hello?” His voice sounded small in this big open space. He felt the weight of the forest around him. There was no answer from inside, so he turned on the front porch and surveyed the yard. The grass was June long, green and lush. There was a small outbuilding that had wood neatly stacked inside, split and ready for burning. Several logs were next to it, one still hooked to a four-wheeler with a chain. The drag marks behind it drew a line back to the woods and around the lake, where the old road

was. “Mr. Larson?” Scooter waited and called again. No answer. He walked back to his truck. A man stepped out of the woods near where the road entered the field. He was dressed in blue jeans that had faded. They were patched at the knees and tucked into an even older pair of boots. His flannel shirt was rolled up to the elbows and the ragged sleeves of a long underwear shirt hung underneath, even though it had to be creeping towards 80 degrees. A battered pair of binoculars hung from his neck. A rifle sat, barrel down, in the crook of his arm. He walked towards Scooter with long even strides, moving like a man half of the 75 years Scooter knew him to be. “You’re trespassin,’” he said as he stopped in front of Scooter. “Only visitors I get are poachers or kids looking to get drunk and fool around. You’re no kid. Don’t seem like the hunting type. What exactly are you doing here?” “Mr. Larson…” Scooter was trying to get over his surprise at the man stepping out of the woods. The accusation of trespassing made him feel like he needed to explain himself.

“…I’m not trespassing. I work for CMC. My name is…” Larson cut him off by raising his hand and walking past him to the house. “I pay my lease. On time. Every year. You got no reason to come up here.” “Actually Mr. Larson, I do. If you have a moment, I’d be glad to explain what I’m doing here.” Larson stopped with one foot in the house, front door open. “You got five minutes. Only reason I’m lettin’ you talk is I know you’ll be back with the Sheriff if I don’t. Bill Harper can keep to town as far as I’m concerned. Hope you don’t mind if I get something done while you’re yakkin.’ ” He walked into the house, letting the spring door slam behind him. The noise echoed across Pickett’s Lake and sent a crow cawing angrily into the air. Scooter grabbed his briefcase from the truck and followed him inside. The cabin was dark after being outside, but after a moment Scooter’s eyes adjusted. Three windows let in enough sunlight to see a small wood stove along one wall with a stack of kindling and firewood in a wooden box nearby. There was one bed in the corner next to a small bookshelf that spilled just as many tomes on the floor as it held. More books on the table, many of them open, and stacks of loose-leaf paper filled with neat print. A map of the lake covered in pencil marks and the same neat writing was hung near the table. There was a kerosene lantern there. A cast-iron sink stood below one window, looking out over the lake, and a small hand pump was mounted alongside it. There were stacks of notebooks everywhere. They looked like they were filled. Larson hung his rifle from two pegs by the door and sat down at the table. He slid a pair of bifocals on and leaned over one of the open books. There was a stub of pencil behind his ear that he pulled out and checked for sharpness with the ball of his thumb. “This was my pa’s before me. He dragged it over here from t’other side of the lake. Was a pump house at one time.” “It’s great. These logs must be a hundred years old.” “Hnh.” He grunted. “Hunert-twenty.” He scratched something in a notebook with the pencil stub, then peered at Scooter over the tops of his cheaters. “What do you want?” “Mr. Larson, I’m here to check the stability of the Pickett’s Lake basin and the Green Creek runoff. That just means that CMC, in keeping with the standards of the EPA and local DNR, has to check on each of its properties

“ PICKETT’S LAKE WAS ONLY ABOUT AN ACRE, AND NOT REALLY A LAKE AT ALL, BUT A FLOODED MINE PIT.

on a set schedule, and afterwards they, or me rather, has to file a report with those agencies stating that they are not draining off or leaching chemicals from the mining process into nearby watersheds.” Seeing that Larson hadn’t looked up from his book, Scooter stopped. “Do you understand?” “I ain’t stupid just cause I live in the woods. I understand. You’re probably looking for traces of sulphuric acid in the ground water…what else? You doing air sampling as well? Carbon monoxide?” Scooter felt his face flush at the rebuke. He should have known better. “Those, and several others. We have records that the Pickett’s Mine also encountered traces of gold, copper and nickel. Although we don’t have records that show any of those substances were in any abundance, nor were they mined here, I need to check for it as well.” “Who told you they weren’t mined here? Your records aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on. Anything that could make the company money was pulled outta the Pick. Anything.” Larson had stopped reading and was looking at Scooter closely. “Who sent you out here? Someone from town? Was it the Sheriff?” Scooter’s felt himself start to fidget

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and Larson noticed it. “Naw, musta been Frank Delaney. He ain’t so bad as some I’ve known. Leaves me alone. He’s got a bit of fright in him over me. Cause’a my pa, ya know.” Scooter didn’t know what to say so he didn’t say anything. “He tell you about my pa? Probably not. Pa was a mine man his whole life. Worked in the Pick, would’a died in the Pick if it had stayed open. He loved it. Never saw a man so happy to walk away from the sun every day. He’d get out of bed and crawl into that hole and we wouldn’t see him till dark. He was good at it. He knew that mine like no one else.” Larson got a faraway look in his eyes as he spoke. “Strange…didn’t really understand him till later. After they closed it. They tell you that up in Duluth? How fast it was shut down? ‘Gas explosion’ they said. Thirty men were buried down there. CMC shut ’er down Friday for maintenance, the explosion happened that night. Families didn’t know what was going on. Their men went to work same as always for a shutdown, never came home again. It was the way it was back then, that’us part of it sure, but the comp’ny was quiet.” Scooter had heard the stories. Saturday morning there was a chain across the gate. Families were paid for the accidental death. “Blood money, you know,” Larson said. “A week later notices went out that the Pick wasn’t never going to open again. No one knew why, but pa wasn’t surprised. He knew. I could tell that Friday when he came home, had a strange look in his eyes. He wouldn’t talk about it.” Scooter leaned in, but kept his mouth shut so Larson would continue. “I asked my ma about it later and she claimed he saw something down there. Before the explosion. He was supposed to be down there that night, you know. But he never talked to me about it, nor anyone else’s far as I know. What I do know is that he used to walk out here after they shut it down, hop the cable and wander around out here at night. Mine cop would bust him for trespassing, drop him in jail. After the fifth or sixth time, they just started bringing him home. Then Ma passed and Pa started to get real strange. Distant. Only time he ever perked up was when he was hopping that cable and coming out here.” Scooter nodded. The memory of his slush-encased conversation with Delaney this past spring jumped to the forefront of his mind. What had he said? Strange stuff happens out here.

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“New DNR officer got hired in the ’70s, guy named Hill. Straight-laced, gung-ho just out of Vietnam. Came in ready to clean up the whole state. Caught poachers, wrote tickets like it was where his check was coming from. Story is that he caught my pa poaching beaver on the lake. Was going to charge him with it, the felony would have broke the lease agreement. It was more than Pa could take, being separated from this place. Pa killed him then planted two sticks of dynamite on his chest and blew him into the lake. Problem was that the explosion pushed parts of the guy into the ground. Enough of him to identify anyway.” Larson spoke flatly, without emotion, as if he were talking about the weather. “Pa died in jail before his trial. It was a blessing prob’bly” Scooter was captivated. “That’s incredible,” was all he could muster. “Naw. It was just the story they tole.’ Pa wasn’t like that. He was gentle till right near the end.” Larson turned in his chair so that he could face Scooter. His face had taken on an earnestness that was disarming. “Why did you say you were sent here again?” “Sample testing. Pulling water and air samples. Soil if I think it’s needed. Looking for heavy metals, methane leaks, anything that might show that the water in the Pick isn’t keeping the stuff down like it should.” “You’re talking about chemocline and thermocline. The water temperature rotating the silt around.” “That’s uh…that’s correct. We’ve found that using water to create a barrier against the toxins in the ground works better than anything we could come up with, and with far less ecological impact.” Scooter couldn’t help but be surprised at Larson’s knowledge. His face must have shown it because the old man chuckled. “I told you…my pa was a mine man his whole life. You pick things up like that. Plus…I keep an eye on the latest.” He motioned to a stack of magazines. He could see the latest issues of Mining News and Inside Ecology there, as well as several others. “Water density is the key. Pa knew that back in the ’50s. ‘Gotta keep the Pick full,’ he’d always say.” Larson stood and walked to the map pinned to the wall near the table. He tapped at one of the marks with a calloused finger. “This one was in 1953. Right after Pa died.”

The paper rattled beneath his finger. He tapped at another of the pencil Xs. “This one was in ’59. You could walk right down the middle of Green Creek and not get your feet wet. This one…” Rattle. “…was in ’68. Construction out on the highway crushed the culvert. Diverted Green Creek until they could get it replaced. I was out of town with my wife. I was nearly too late.” “I’m sorry.” Scooter was beyond confused. “Nearly too late for what? What are the marks?” “Each one of these…” Larson spread his hand at perhaps a dozen marks on the map. “…is a year when something happened to make the water level in the Pick drop. It fluctuates of course. All the water drains into Green Crick and from there into the Pick. Each year you get a little more or a little less snowfall in winter or rain in the summer. Most years you’re OK. Then the culvert is crushed, or beavers build a dam, or we get a dry spell, and the level starts to drop. Then…things start to happen around the Pick.” “What things? Like plant die off? Methane bubbling to the surface? Any sign of discoloration on the water?” Larson sat down. He seemed deflated. “You don’t understand. Like the rest of ’em.” His eyes had started to become bloodshot in the short amount of time they’d been talking. The veins stood out in the whiteness. “They found something down there in the ’50s. Something that they’d never admit to. Something that wanted out. Out of the Earth. Out of that hole.” He nodded over his shoulder to the peaceful lake behind him. Scooter’s eyes followed it. The water looked

very black. “That’s why they flooded it. That’s why my pa spent the rest of his life out here, keeping an eye on it. It’s why he killed that man…Hill.” Larson sighed. He looked tired and suddenly every one of his seventy-plus years. “At least that’s what I suspect. Never got a chance to ask him.” Scooter was running through the possibilities in his mind. His college chemistry classes were running through his mind. He struggled to come up with reasons for what was happening. Mass hallucinations caused by chemical leaks? Maybe mercury? Mercury poisoning could cause insanity. High concentrates of lead could as well. “I’d like to take some samples Mr. Larson, if it’s OK with you. It should only take me an hour or so.” Larson leaned back heavily. “Do you do the tests on this stuff, or do you send it out somewhere?” “It all goes to an independent lab. Required by the EPA.” Larson laughed ruefully. “Go ahead. Take your dirt. I can’t wait around for you. Gotta go into town. Won’t be home till after dark.” “That’s fine. As long as you’re OK with it, I’ll show myself out.” Larson waved a hand at him. “I’ll let you know if I find anything.” Scooter said from the porch. “You won’t find anything.” Larson said as he closed the door. “The Pick is up this year.” MM About the Author: Brad Gischia is a writer and artist native to Upper Michigan. He has published two children’s books and done illustrations

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in the outdoors

Plan Bee

Meet the intrepid people who keep bees in the Upper Peninsula By Elizabeth Fust

he buzz around town is that Yoopers love their honey local — right from their own backyards, in fact. As spring days began transitioning to summer, many may have noticed bumbling bees out pollinating. Chances are, those bees could be your neighbor’s best producers. The Superior Beekeeping Club is one of many beekeeper groups located in the Upper Peninsula. Composed of long-time beekeepers and fresh worker bees, the group provides community for beekeepers, community outreach and education on bees, and informative gatherings for those interested in starting their own colony. “One third of our food comes from some sort of pollinator. One of the big pollinators is actually a honey bee. Fruits, vegetables, all of that stuff gets pollinated. Honey bees do a lot of it,” said John Robinson, president of the Superior Beekeeping Club. Honey bees will travel up to five miles from their hive as they pollinate, which means a neighbor’s hive could actually be benefiting your garden as

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well, besides producing that sweet golden goo that goes perfect in tea and on hot buttered toast. “They help with your flowers so they grow better. They get pollinated quicker, everything is going to grow good. And I do notice since I started beekeeping, like in the Springtime the biggest thing is dandelions, I have a couple neighbors that won’t mow any more until the dandelions die,” Robinson said. So before mowing down or chemically treating those bright-yellow weeds, it may be worth it to spare a moment to think of the bees who, after a long hard cold winter, are looking for the first fruits of their labors to bring back to the hive — and how a honey bee’s labors can benefit people. “Consider not using pesticides. If you had to, [consider] not doing it at a time that things in your yard are blooming.” Michelle Landis, a long time beekeeper and member of the club, said. “If you can’t just let your yard go, consider leaving a small swath of dandelions.”

What is the cycle of beekeeping in a nutshell — if it can be distilled down that much? It starts right at the New Year — bees are ordered in January and will arrive in April. Many Yooper bees start their journey by pollinating the almond fields of California before being transported here to start new hives. The new bees will have to be acclimated to the queen, which will take a few days. If all goes well, when

the bees arrive they are hived, but it will still be a while before the weather is consistently warm enough and there are fresh blooms for them to pollinate. In the meantime, they need a 1:1 ratio of sugar water to keep them going. Some of the first blooms in the U.P. are the dandelions, so when those come out, so will the honey bees. They will collect pollen first from dandelions, but other favorites for bees in the U.P. include clover, apple trees, thistle, spotted knapweed and wildflowers, among other flaura. Once the snow is finally gone, the temperatures

stabilize, and the world is blossoming, the bees get busy, in their own ways. While the queen is busy royally producing heirs, the male drones are off siring a new generation with queens of other hives. It’s the female worker bees who leave the hive to pollinate and collect nectar. One worker bee will collect the pollen on another worker bee’s legs, and going back to the hive, will put it into the brood cells to form what is called bee bread. “It’s the nutrients they use,” Robinson said about bee bread, “that and nectar.” The bee bread is fed to the larvae

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to help them grow. While those worker bees are picking up pollen on their legs, they’re sucking up nectar and storing it in their stomachs. This is also passed off to another bee who stores it in a comb cell, which eventually becomes honey. Robinson explained the process a little more succinctly: “Honey is basically bee spit, but it’s really good,” he said. Next step is for the bee to fly back out of the hive for more foraging among the flowers. Dandelions are one thing, but how do the bees survive the U.P. snow, ice and cold? “Bees are smart,” Landis said. “I always tell people bees know what

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Robinson, suited up in a special bee suit that helps prevent stings, shows the frames in his bee box. (Photo courtesy of John Robinson)

bees need to do. They’re going to do what they want to do but we want to make sure we can give them what they need to do. And that’s not always easy in the U.P.” For the winter, the bees need insulation and ventilation. As the blooms fade and the weather grows cold, the bees return to the hive for a long stay. They will form a basketball sized cluster around their queen to keep her warm at a constant 92 to 95 degrees. The oldest bees will be on the outside, and as the winter goes, will leave the hive to die, keeping the hive clean for the others. Bees are nothing if not sanitary. A bee that knows it’s sick will not reenter the hive, and in the winter a sick bee will leave the hive rather than die inside. It’s not the cold that will harm the bees in the winter, it’s the moisture. As temperatures fluctuate and bees leave their huddle on a warm day, they can bring moisture back with them, creating condensation that will melt and refreeze in the hive, if not properly ventilated, and kill off the bees. At the end of winter,

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a healthy hive will have a cluster the size of a softball — enough for the hive to continue but not too many to start a swarm. A swarm is when a colony has gotten too large for the hive, so it splits into two colonies, one remaining in the hive and the other finding a nice tree to call home. When the winter weather starts to fade and dandelions start to grow again, the cycle repeats. So why does one decide to become a beekeeper? There is of course the honey, noted Carrie Morency, who first started beekeeping last year. “I think our primary reason was honey,” she said. “We love honey, and we were excited at the prospect of having very local honey, which for us would be a great benefit since we all suffer from allergies. We’re also aware of how important honeybees are to agricultural growth, on pollination, and considering the benefits of having them locally, we were excited to join the beekeeping community.” The amount of honey collected depends on a lot of factors — the weath-

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There’s a why explanation, and Robinson provides the how from his own experience: “I got very interested in doing it and, talking to my wife, the first thing she says you got to do is you got to read a book on it. … FIND A The best thing is to research, do lot of reading. Join a club, any MENTOR, aclub. … Find a mentor, anybody in beekeeping will be more than ANYBODY IN happy to let you come to their and show you what to do. BEEKEEPING house It’s a lot of fun,” Robinson said. His go-to bee book is BeekeepWILL BE ing for Dummies. Landis said MORE THAN she checked out almost every Peter White Public Library HAPPY TO book in Marquette had on beekeepHer go-to reference book LET YOU ing. is Homemade Living: Keeping with Ashley English: All COME TO Bees You Need to Know to Tend Hives, THEIR Harvest Honey & More. How does a Yooper go about HOUSE becoming a beekeeper? Now’s time to consider it, as seriAND SHOW the ous planning for the season starts January. Orders for bees start YOU WHAT in around then, and packages of are delivered in April. Those TO DO. bees interested in learning more can The queen bee among the colony. (Photo contact the Superior Beekeeping courtesy of John Robinson) Club on their Facebook group, Superior Beekeeping Club, or by attending one of their communier, the bees, the environment — and Landis, and why she started beekeep- ty events. For those started on the road of will change year to year. ing, is the “mystique, I guess you’d beekeeping, the Superior Beekeep“I got 15 gallons off of two hives, say, about keeping bees.” “It just sounded like something, ing Club offers a calendar of events which was a lot for two hives last how to explain it, almost bucket- like Beekeeping 101, Hiving Your year,” Robinson said. Bee Package, Hive Inspections, At least one reason, according to list-ish,” she said.

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Mite Inspection Treatment Training, Hive Splitting Training (so the bees don’t swarm), as well as mead tasting, potlucks, and classes on using honey to make candles, lip glosses, and the wax rendering needed to do that. The Superior Beekeeping Club has been around for awhile, and since then other groups have split off and other clubs have formed to be more local in Escanaba, Iron Mountain and the Keweenaw, among others. Fresh off a first year as a newbie beekeeper, Morency and her family can tell a lot about starting out. “We spent a great deal of time preparing, went to the library, rented several beekeeping books, soaked up as much information as we could before committing to beekeeping,” she said. “I joined three beekeeping groups on Facebook, watched from a distance for a while before starting. We thought we were prepared, but when we finally started, we found ourselves riddled with questions. The best experience we got was from learning as we went, as well as the help offered by more experienced beekeepers in our local groups. They came over, helped us do an inspection, taught us really hands-on how to do this to the best of our abilities.” Landis noted the mystique of beekeeping, and Robinson the serene effects. “It’s very rewarding, it’s fun to just sit there. If you have a bad

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Bees hover around an opening to their bee box. (Photo courtesy of Little Wonders Photography) Bottom left, a close up of a worker bee. Bottom right, Michelle Landis with her hive. (Photos courtesy of Michelle Landis)

day at work - I got a chair that I leave sitting out there. You just sit on a chair and you watch those bees coming and going and just seeing what different pollens [are] on them, the different colors that they’re hauling in and see what they do,” he said. “It’s calming… Pollen has so many different colors it’s amazing. … If you just sit there watching the bees, as long as you don’t go in front of them where their flight path is, they’ll never bother you. I go … a foot, two feet away from the hive all the time… and just look at it. They’ll never bother you right there because they’re busy doing their thing — like they say, a busy bee.” It didn’t take long for Morency to feel the same way about beekeeping. “I fell in love with my bees and 62

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with beekeeping almost immediately. It’s difficult not to stand in awe at what they accomplish in such little time, and I became ‘that crazy bee lady,’” she said “Every time I went out to spend time with them was a joy. It was also terrifying, in a sense. I had no idea what would happen, how they would react to me going into their hive, how to handle them, how they would do over winter. That being said, it was a commitment, a task of love and loyalty, because no matter what happened, we were there to do what we could to help them the best we could. It’s an investment, to be sure, but I am so grateful to have had the chance to start this journey and I’m looking forward to being a long-time beekeeper.” Visit the Superior Beekeeping Club on Facebook at Su-

perior Beekeeping Club, or the check out their website, superiorbeekeepingclub.weebly. com, for more information. MM

About the author: Elizabeth Fust has a bachelors in writing from NMU. Though not a native Yooper, she refuses to leave the place. She is a self-published children’s book author and frequent short story contributor to the Upper Peninsula Publishers and Authors Association’s annual U.P. Reader. She has countless unfinished novels and procrastinates on those masterpieces by learning about the wonders of the U.P., meeting fantastic Yoopers, and - on occasion - writing it all down for the Marquette Monthly. Follow Elizabeth’s writing on Facebook and Instagram at Elizabeth Fust Books.

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Military men

Meet some of the Upper Peninsula’s decorated war heroes of the past By Larry Chabot

henever there was a war, U.P. men and women answered the call, whether across the country or across the world. If they were called, they laid down their tools and went. They made fine servicemen and women, used to rough weather, bad roads, handy with guns, patriotic, tempered by the Great Depression. The first major war after Michigan’s earning statehood in 1837 was the War Between the States, or the Civil War. Over 90,000 Michigan men (and one woman disguised as a man) entered the conflict, and nearly 15,000 of them lost their lives to combat or disease. Among the heroic figures from that war was a soldier from the eastern U.P. who was presented with the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest award for valor. Joseph Kemp from Sault Ste. Marie was a 19-year-old sergeant in the Michigan 5th Infantry Regiment when he earned his medal in the Wilderness Campaign in Virginia in 1864. His reg-

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iment had been bloodied in the Union campaigns, having lost nearly 30 percent of its men in the war. Later captured and briefly held as a prisoner, Kemp was promoted to captain and survived the war. Several prominent figures were in the U.P. General George Meade, who led the victorious Union army against the army of Robert E. Lee in the Battle of Gettysburg, was on a government study of the Great Lakes and working on his boat in Ontonagon’s harbor when the call came. He left the harbor on his cutter Floyd. Another noted Union general was Phil Sheridan, whose army forced the Confederates of General Lee to finally surrender at Appomattox, Virginia, in 1865. He was seen on the Lake Superior shore west of Ontonagon in a heated discussion with two others in 1868. He returned to his nearby ship and sailed off. Ten years later, he returned to deliver an address in Marquette. The ultimate Union Civil War figure

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as commander-in-chief was President Abraham Lincoln, who sailed past St. Ignace in U.P. waters on his way to Chicago from a speech in Buffalo, New York. His widow, Mary Todd Lincoln, spent time in Ontonagon and probably Marquette. Although records from that long ago conflict are often spotty, it is estimated that 184 U.P. men lost their lives in combat or disease. World War I he first conflict with “World” in its name, it followed a 1914 assassination in the Balkans, with most of the fighting in Europe. The United States entered in the spring of 1917, a major combatant until the November 1918 armistice. The most renowned American soldier was Alvin York of Tennessee, who disabled 32 German machine guns and captured 132 soldiers pretty much by himself. His exploits were shown in a popular movie starring Gary Cooper,

still seen on TV today. York, appeared at an anti-alcohol rally in Marquette in 1932 sponsored by the Anti-Saloon League. He tried to re-enlist in World War II but was rejected due to age and poor health. He then became head of his local draft board. One of the U.P.’s honored soldiers was Robert Robinson of St. Ignace, a Marine aviation observer in Belgium in 1918. On one flight, he was attacked by eight enemy airplanes, then twelve more. Eluding and firing as best he could, Robinson shot down two planes, had one of his elbows shot off, and fought on with one hand, sustaining two more wounds before landing and collapsing. For his incredible deeds, he was awarded the Medal of Honor. Records show that the war claimed 437 U.P. men. Between the Wars fter peace reigned again, the United States maintained reduced mil-

Top right, Albert Smith of Calumet is pictured. Smith rescued an injured man from a seaplane wreck, risking his life and getting badly burned. He returned to his duties anyway. (Dept of Defense photo) Bottom right, Oscar Johnson of Foster City received the Medal of Honor for his heroics during World War II. (Medal of Honor Society photo)

itary strength. One post-war hero was Marine Albert Joseph Smith of Calumet. While on sentry duty at a Florida naval air station, he raced to a wrecked seaplane which had crashed not far from him. At great risk to his own safety, and despite an exploding gas tank, Smith pulled an injured man from the wreck. Though badly burned, he went back to work. Few knew of his heroics or that he had been awarded the Medal of Honor. It was years before he appeared on the Honor rolls. World War II he greatest conflict ever began in September 1939, although the United States didn’t enter until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. Eventually, 63 countries entered a conflict which raged on six continents and took an estimated 50 million lives. Among the 46,000 peninsulans in service were two who were awarded the coveted Medal of Honor: Oscar Johnson and Owen Hammerberg. Oscar Johnson was a modest farmer from Foster City in Dickinson County who served in Italy with the 93rd Infantry Division. He was on a hillside defending his company’s left flank in September 1944. Using rifles and grenades from dead soldiers, he fired at the Germans at the bottom of the hill, often standing up for a better view. He killed at least 20 Germans from his lonely post and forced 25 more to surrender. After the war, he returned to the farm and eventually moved downstate. The VA Medical Center in Iron Mountain is named in his honor. Owen Hammerberg dropped out of school and headed west to seek adventure, then joined the Navy and served on ships before training as a deep sea diver. Working in muddy waters under a sunken ship at Pearl Harbor in February 1945, Owen saved one trapped diver and was helping another when he was crushed by a piece of steel. He suffered in agony for hours before dying. After the war, a Navy ship was named for him. Something unique: Julien and Antoine Gaujot sons of a mining engineer, were born in Eagle Harbor in Keweenaw County, and both of them — believe it or not — were awarded

the Medal of Honor. They are the only sets of brothers to be so honored for exploits during different conflicts. Julien earned his in the 1911 Mexican Revolution, while Antoine’s honor came from the Philippine-American War. More Heroes nother notable Yooper was Andrew Allen of Sault Ste. Marie,

who was wounded five times, earned four Purple Hearts, and was one of the most decorated U.P. servicemen of all time, surviving 11 major battles. Among his feats was single-handedly capturing 20 enemy soldiers. Norman “Boots” Kukuk of Marquette had a storied athletic career, including professional hockey (once scoring five goals in 10 minutes). He was actually invited by Adolf Hitler to

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Owen Hammerberg saved a trapped diver and was helping another under a sunken ship in Pearl Harbor before becoming trapped himself, crushed by a piece of steel. He did not survive his injuries. (Photo courtesy of Department of Defense)

play hockey in Germany but his dad tore up the offer letter. As a Navy pilot, Boots earned three Distinguished Flying Crosses (almost unheard of) flying off aircraft carriers and island bases against Japanese targets. He crashed four times; was shot down once and was T-boned by a flyer on a runway. Eighteen war ships with U.P. names sailed in the war, including two that sunk. The Peter White was sunk in the Pacific but was refloated and repaired, and the tug Escanaba exploded in the Atlantic; she was known for rescuing survivors from the USS Dorchester, home ship of the Four Chaplains. One tug crewman was Thomas Somes of the Soo, who died in the blast. The tug USS Menominee was torpedoed by a German submarine off North Carolina in 1942. U.P. port cities with seafaring traditions paid a heavy price in the war. Chippewa County lost 28 men from the Navy and Merchant Marine, and Delta County lost 24. Another Chippewa sailor, Harry Madigan, died on the ill-fated Indianapolis near the end of the war. Although the U.P. had 46,000 in

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service and thousands more who left to work in defense industries, troops were everywhere in the peninsula. There were 17,000 troops protecting the Soo Locks, which passed 85 percent of the iron ore needed for war supplies. Thousands more held winter maneuvers to acclimate them to cold weather living, but a daily train returned the many frostbite victims to their Wisconsin base. There were also 1,250 German prisoners of war housed in five old Civilian Conservation Corps camps. When the wars were over, it was time to tally and honor the dead. Fom the Civil War, the World Wars, Korea, and Vietnam, over 2,300 U.P. men (and three women) never came home. MM About the author: The author fired his toy gun at a group of German POWs who were marching past his home in Ontonagon. The Germans laughed and waved; they had never had it so good. Larry has written over 170 stories for MM, mostly historical. He has also authored books on World War II and the Depression-era Civilian Conservation Corps camps.

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Lake Superior Theatre plans packed summer season By Brad Gischia

riving along Lakeshore Boulevard in Marquette, it’s easy to get lost in everything going on. Mattson Lower Harbor Park is filled with families enjoying the cool breeze off of Lake Superior. Boats are taxiing in and out of the harbor, maybe testing their luck on the coho salmon or going for a cruise to Munising or Stannard Rock. Just past the parking lot to the park, there’s a boathouse, a well-cared for building that looks the same as it has for almost 100 years. This is the Lake Superior Theatre, a space still in use as a boathouse for part of the year, but converted for the summer into a one-of-a-kind performance venue on the shores of Lake Superior. Peggy Frazier is the president of the Lake Superior Board of Directors, and spends a good part of her year setting up shows for the season. “It’s different every year, from who is going to direct, to what shows we decide to do. It’s a very fluid process,” she said. All of that work will be put to good use this coming year. After a long intermission due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the LST is ready to put on a full slate of shows and events for the 2022 season. First up is the June 11 Breakfast Rotary fishboil. This charity event puts money back into the community. “It’s a lot of work to flip this from a working boathouse into a live performance space, and members of the Breakfast Rotary are essential in making that happen,” Frazier said. Art Week in Marquette runs from June 20 to 25, and LST is putting on the Lake Superior Theatre Rocks! program on June 20 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. This event will involve the community painting Lake Superior rocks with professional artists under the tent at the Boathouse. Some of the rocks will be left at the Boathouse for the summer season, while others can be taken and hidden throughout the community for a game of social media hide and seek. Find a rock, take a picture and post it, then invite others to find your hiding place. There are seven shows scheduled for the summer of 2022. The first show is Something Rotten, running from July 6 to 9 and 12 to 16. Directed by Eliisa Herman, the show takes place in the 1590s, and is about two brothers desperate to write a play, but stuck in the shadow of “The Bard.” References to 19 musicals in the song and dance numbers will provide plenty of opportunity for attendees to test their theater knowledge. Nunsense goes live from July 19 to 23 and 26 to 30. This musical comedy has been around since the mid-’80s, and follows a group as they struggle to raise funeral expenses for their fellow sisters. A variety show is in the works, and with a former circus performer and ballerina nun in the mix, it’s bound to be an interesting show. Denise Clark, an LST alum,

directs. Dave Dagenais put together the annual cabaret at the LST, simply called Comedy Night, which is August 2 to 5, and also August 7. It is a tour of favorite musicals. One thing the LST often does is pair with the Superior Arts Youth Theater. It gives the kids a chance to learn and act with people they wouldn’t normally. My Son Pinocchio, August 9 to 12, 14, 16 to 19, and 21 will give theater-goers an opportunity to see kids and young adults from the SAYT at the Boathouse. This is a Disney production, so expect to hear some favorite songs from the original movie, and at the same time get a different take on the beloved 1940 film. Marty Achatz, Ronnie Ferguson, Steve Hooper, and B.G. Bradley will take the stage on August 22 for Superior Memories, North Words and Music. The program will feature the group perform- Fireworks explode above the Lake Superior Theatre. (Photo courtesy ing solo and in groups of up of Peggy Frazier) to four, reading poetry set to music and folk songs. Most are U.P.-themed and range in subject matter from said. “People weren’t going to the theater and those the outdoors to the nature of human existence. They people weren’t making anything.” explore their love for the area through their art and The fundraiser is a one-night-only show. are ready to share it with an audience. Visit lakesuperiortheatre.com for details regardJack Deo and Jim Koski will present two shows ing this event, and all of the events at the LST. Frain August. Cops and Robbers, on the 23, is a group zier said the shows at the Boathouse can compare to of stories “from the mysterious to deadly” that illus- any in a major city. trates with photographs true crime stories from the “Our audiences come out of our shows telling us area. The next night, August 24, continues looking that our productions are just as good as anything you at local history with Skiing, Skating, and Slapshots, would see in professional theater,” she said. “It is winter sports history told by Deo and Koski and ac- our mission to keep our ticket prices affordable for a companied by pictures and film from the past. family of four to enjoy live theater, so we rely on our August 25 brings the return of the Franklin Park sponsors and donations to make that happen. Any Band to the Boathouse for a one-night show. The six revenue that is generated gets put into upcoming members were classmates at Holland High School shows. It’s how we can make sure the shows are top in 1969, and bring with them a lifetime of play- notch,” Frazier said. ing the songs that were popular when they were To purchase tickets for upcoming shows go to young. They were a Boathouse favorite last year, tickets.nmu.edu or call (906) 227-1032. and tickets will sell fast. MM August 26 will see a special event at the Boathouse, a fundraiser put on by the LST to benefit per- About the author: Brad Gischia is a writer and formers who work in the gig economy and have had artist native to Upper Michigan. He has published catastrophic medical expenses. two children’s books and done illustrations for both “Covid has been tough on performers,” Frazier comic books and novels.

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Clockwise from top left are Shute’s, Michigan House, Kaleva Cafe and the Dreamland Hotel, all as they stand today. Each of these establishments have been serving Copper Country residents for over a century. (Photos by Deborah K. Frontiera)

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Historical eateries of the Copper Country By Deborah K. Frontiera

uring the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Houghton County had dozens of bars and restaurants for hungry, thirsty miners. Only a few of them are still in operation today, going through multiple owners, or multiple generations of a family. All those featured in this article retain most of their original decorative features and wear their interesting histories on their walls. The oldest of these is Shute’s, located on 6th street in Calumet just

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south of the historic Calumet Theater. The building dates from 1879 when it was established by the Curto family as an Italian Men’s club. The quaint place has been certified as the oldest bar in Michigan still in operation. In 1919, the establishment was sold to the Shute family, and it stayed in their hands for many years. The place had a basement level bar as well as the main floor with a type of speaker system to connect them, so that orders for drinks could be called up and down, the main

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choices being whiskey or beer. During Prohibition, Shute’s became a speakeasy like many other bars in the area and across the nation. One wonders whether that speaker system might have been used to send an alarm to downstairs patrons that law enforcement had arrived, so they had better make a quick exit. The upstairs housed the family and Bernard “Bernie” Shute was born there in 1927, living there until adulthood. He not only ran the estab-

lishment, but he was also the Calumet Fire Chief for many years and would put one of his employees in charge whenever there was a fire call. Many years later, the place left the Shute family. An out-of-town person wanted to buy the place, but only to take out the antique bar and abandon the building. So, the Village of Calumet bought Shute’s and put it up for auction with the stipulation the village would always own the antique bar, thereby preserving it for the commu-

Above, the interior of Shute’s, with its original bar. Below, the bar at the Michigan, with its original mural painted by artist Donna May Harris. (Photos by Deborah K. Frontiera)

nity. Mr. Larson bought the place then and did some renovation, but he failed to pay property taxes, so the county put it up for auction again. Enter Brad Wagner and his son, George. The auction price was low enough that they have no mortgage to worry about. During the 1990s, an artist, Donna May Harris, was hired to paint a mural depicting life in the Boom Days, which is a lovely addition to the history of the place. The selections go well beyond beer and whiskey these days. A block down 6th Street from Shute’s sits the Michigan House. Joseph Bosch established his brewing company in the late 1800s and wanted more places to sell his famous beer, since he was the second largest busi-

ness in Houghton County—just behind C&H Copper Mining Company. He purchased the site of the Michigan House in 1903 and built a luxurious saloon and hotel, opening in 1905. The first floor housed the hotel registration desk, bar/restaurant and a “Men’s Only” smoking room with a fireplace that sported a statue of a naked lady on the mantle. It was quite the place to be for anyone with a few coins. A copy of an early menu the current owners, Sue and Tim Beis, found when restoring the place listed a T-Bone Steak for seventy-five cents! It operated for many years before being closed in the 1970s and falling into disrepair. By 2001, it was in foreclosure. The ceiling was on the floor; the roof drain was frozen, and all the

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Top, the interior of the Kaleva as it is today. (Photo by Deborah K. Frontiera) Above, the original waitresses of the Kaleva, which has been operating since 1918. (Photo courtesy of Sandra and Frank Beauchamp)

plaster was a mess! The price was right for the couple, who both have contractor’s licenses and could do all the repair work themselves. They were able to preserve the original bar, with its mural still in good condition, the stained-glass windows, and a lot of the other history. Once a stand-only bar, there are bar stools now. Sue and Tim used photos from Superior View and MTU Archives, so the place looks as much like the original as possible (less the naked lady statue). The second and third floor hotel rooms have been remodeled into their home. Another bit of luck was that the 1990s owners bought the old Jilbert Dairy next door and moved the kitchen there, providing more space for dining. Sue makes all the desserts and does the dishwashing and accounting, while Tim takes care of maintenance, cooks and manages their wait staff and bartender. Tim is also on the Calumet Village Council. “It’s been an amazing journey,” Sue said, and they enjoy running what is now called the Michigan House Café and Red Jacket Brewing Company. Their brewing capacity is far less than Joseph Bosch had, but customers

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are happy with their specialty brews and menu items. A few miles away on Quincy Street in Hancock, the Kaleva Café has been around “officially” since 1918. Their web site states that the building dates to 1891 when Daniel T. Pearce opened a saloon there. When mining declined, the saloon felt the pinch but stayed in business, until the Temperance Movement nailed the coffin shut. Henry Moilanen took over the building and opened a restaurant in 1918 serving “the best in home-cooked meals.” If one is strict about Finish pronunciation, it is KAL-i-va, but most people have Americanized it to ka-LEE-va. Sandra and Frank Beauchamp, current owners, don’t care how you pronounce it, they just want to be sure they have kept the same standard of home-made breads, hot pasties, and other great breakfast and lunch items. Sandra and Frank bought the business in 2006 because they felt, like many people, “The Kaleva can’t close! It’s been there forever! My grandma/mother/aunt/great-aunt worked there!” Sandy joked about seeing the face of her dad in the grounds of a coffee mug and feeling

it was a sign to buy the place. Frank is a contractor, so they were able to do their own work. They replaced the floors and put in new booths, and then felt their way through learning to run a restaurant. They remodeled the 13 rooms upstairs (which had been a rooming house) into three modern apartments which they rent out. Sandy, her daughter, and a couple of nieces work hard keeping customers happy. The home-made breads are excellent. It was a fair distance, back in the day, over poor roads to reach our final historical place, the Dreamland Hotel (located on the Bootjack Road about eight miles from Lake Linden) so most people reached the resort by boat. There were several small steamboats that ferried people to the hotel, dance pavilion, and picnic area established at the turn of the century by shrewd but honest Norbert Sarazin (born in St. Hubert, Quebec, in 1835) and rebuilt in 1913. A gentle waltz written in 1909, “Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland” may have been the inspiration for the name of the place. “Meet me tonight in dreamland/ Under the silv’ry moon/ Meet me tonight in dreamland/ Where love’s sweet roses bloom.” (Quote from the lyrics taken from the Sarazin Family book of the Dreamland Hotel’s 100th anniversary.) Dreamland was definitely the place for people to go on excursion or for a vacation. It featured a large bar and dining area on the main floor and 10 sleeping rooms on the second floor. The dance pavilion, picnic area and dock, which accommodated many craft in 13 feet of water, graced the lake shore. Norbert Sarazin did not run the place himself, hiring a manager for the May to September season, since he also owned a sawmill, did farming and had a stake in several other businesses and properties in the area. Local newspapers deemed it a “rival” to White City at the Jacobsville entrance to Portage Lake. Many good years passed, but in 1921, the dance pavilion burned down and was not replaced. Prohibition and the Depression forced closure for several years. James Sarazin, grandson to Norbert, reopened Dreamland in 1947 when he returned from serving in the Marines. Jim ran the place until 1998 when his two youngest children, Lori and Todd, took over. Jim turned much of the upstairs into the family’s home, but Jim Sarazin, Jr. remembers that there were still four hotel rooms when he was a child. Lori still runs the place year-round. Though during the winter the menu is much more limited than in

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SANDY JOKED ABOUT SEEING THE FACE OF HER DAD IN THE GROUNDS OF A COFFEE MUG AND FEELING IT WAS A SIGN TO BUY THE PLACE.

summer. The campground and picnic areas are still there for people to enjoy, too. It’s interesting to look at all the family history on the walls while enjoying a good meal. These are only four Copper Country restaurants that are over 100 years old. Some others are the Ambassador in Houghton, the Douglas House (on the National Register of Historic Places) and Lindell’s Chocolate Shop in Lake Linden. To visit any or all of them is to gain a sense of life in the Boom Days. MM About the Author: Deborah K. (Olson) Frontiera is a Lake Linden native who was married in St. Joseph Church in 1971, lived away for many years and returned to the area after retirement. She has written for Marquette Monthly many years and has published a variety of books in several genres. Visit www.authorsden.com/ deborahkfrontiera for details.

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Helping Ukraine

How UP residents are sending support across the sea

ith the ongoing conflict between Russia and the Ukraine now in its fourth month, support for Ukrainians in need has mushroomed from a few people here and there to dozens, if not hundreds, in the central U.P. One of the first Upper Peninsula families to get involved in Ukrainian assistance efforts was the Ampe family of Marquette. Those efforts came out of personal connections after the Ampes adopted two of their 11 children, both with Down syndrome, from orphanages in the Ukraine in 2018. “We’re not a big aid group, so everyone that we work with is someone that we somehow have a personal connection to,” said Tiffany Ampe. “We’ll hear from someone at an orphanage where one of our children was and she has a list (of things that are needed) and she remembers us — we were pretty memorable.” Tiffany Ampe explains that her American family made a big impression on their first adoption trips to the Ukraine because “we were very pregnant with our ninth kid when we showed up to adopt two more.” “So you know, (an orphanage manager) remembers who we were,” Ampe said. “And those things are the long-lasting things where people feel like they can reach out in the middle of the night and say, ‘I know this sounds crazy, but you know me so you know this is legit: This is what

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By Jonny Bahk-Halberg we need.’” Those personal connections with adoption officials and others in the Ukraine, with other adoptive families, and with their neighbors in Marquette and across the U.P. have continued to grow as the Ampes have now made several trips to Poland to send medical and other needed supplies across the border into Ukraine. And their supply runs have been a huge success so far. Trips in April and May brought a great deal of relief to those in need in the war-torn region. Major assistance with that relief has come from area churches. Father Ryan Ford, pastor of St. John the Evangelist and St. Joseph Catholic parishes in Ishpeming noted in early May that parishioners had raised more than $14,000 toward medical supplies for Ukrainian hospitals. Those supplies were taken to the Ukraine border by Tiffany’s husband Joe Ampe, their son Evan, and others. Some of the most important first needs were first responder and CPR equipment, surgical kits, hospital gowns and gloves, tape, gauze, bandages, a ventilator, diabetic supplies, scissors, wound cleaners, airway protection, as well as Rosaries, religious medals, and notes, assuring Ukrainians that donors were praying for them were delivered in April. Another U.P. group that is working with U.P. churches to provide relief for Ukrainians in the midst of a war is Project Lift Ukraine UP.

“May 1st we had our fundraiser breakfast up here on the West End,” said Richard Derby, coordinator of the project. “It was the first of what we hope will be a series of different venues, all raising money for Ukraine.” Wesley United Methodist Church, St. John and St. Joseph Catholic churches, and Immanuel Lutheran Church joined hands to host the benefit breakfast, with proceeds going the relief organizations of each church. “All of the money that we raise will be going to three organizations who are overseas already. United Methodist Committee on Relief, Catholic Relief Services, and Lutheran World Relief,” Derby said. “Each of those organizations has been around for years and years, most of them came into existence after World War II and have boots on the ground in Poland and in Ukraine. To the best of my knowledge, all three of them, their administrative costs are funded in a different way, so 100% of the money that we generate is going right to where its needed in the organizations or the people with needs in those areas.” In addition to medical needs, Derby speculated that the needs these groups would be providing for Ukrainians fleeing the fighting, both in the Ukraine and in Poland, would be basic survival needs more than medical supplies. “They’re probably working on both sides of the border, probably

A Ukrainian police officer in Mykolaiv displays donated trauma supplies. (Photo courtesy of Joe and Tiffany Ampe)

doing a lot of just plain old relief effort: food water, clothing and shelter in Poland.” Ampe added that the supplies her group was providing also went beyond standard medical equipment to items more for keeping people in good health. “We’ve done a lot of water filtration systems because there’s no clean water, even within the hospital systems,” Ampe said. “The Lviv hospital that we were supporting – four weeks with no water whatsoever.” “Last time we had requests for shoes and socks and antifungal foot care items,” Ampe added, “because they’re seeing a lot of foot problems now that are really preventable.” “We’ve also gotten a bunch of solar chargers so people can communicate because there’s no reliable electricity,” she added. “So we’ve included a lot of things that we think support he health and well-being of the civilian population outside of just medications and things.” In Copper Country, Ukrainian

graduate students at Michigan Technological University and supporters have held regular demonstrations and rallies to draw attention to the Russian invasion of Ukraine since fighting between Russia and the Ukraine intensified this year. On May 9, a date which is celebrated by Russians as Victory Day to commemorate the 1945 victory over Nazi Germany, these students and a group of others held a silent protest instead marking the day this year as “Unvictory Day” or “Russian Shame Day.” The Ukrainian graduate students, husband and wife Nazar Gorova and Adelina Oronova, have also organized weekly bridge walks on the Portage Bridge between Houghton and Hancock every Wednesday since not long after Russia invaded the Ukraine in late February. “It’s not just something visual because we are here,” Oranova said. “There are actual Ukrainians here that can provide you some information. Lots of people want to help but they don’t exactly know how.”

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Above, Joe Ampe stands by the door of a van loaded with medical aid, including brand new portable ultrasound imaging equipment and an iPad, bound for the Ukraine’s Vinnytsia region. Below, a nurse at the Ukraine’s Mykolaiv hospital unpacks surgical and airway supplies. (Photos courtesy of Joe and Tiffany Ampe)

Gorova wrote in a facebook post to the public group Yoopers for Ukraine that he is in contact with aid groups in the Ukraine and is organizing support for their needs, including clothing and medicine. Although Derby said Project Lift Ukraine UP is still discussing plans for future events, one is already scheduled for the Fourth of July weekend. He said the group has reserved the Peterson Auditorium at Ishpeming High School July 3rd for a talent show to support Ukrainian relief efforts. “Meanwhile, there’ll be lots to do for a long, long time,” Derby said. “The Ukraine and the disaster over there isn’t going anywhere.” Tiffany Ampe agreed. “We can hope (for the war to end) but the need is not going to stop no matter what,” Ampe said. “I mean you’re looking at 10 years to rebuild Ukraine.”

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For updated information about what these groups are doing, check information on facebook pages at “Yoopers for Ukraine” and “Yoopers Love Ukrainians.” Father Ford at St. John and St. Joseph Catholic parishes has information posted at ishpemingcatholic.com. For those who want to help with donations of medical supplies or funds to help purchase larger medical items such as ultrasound imaging equipment, contact Tiffany Ampe at (906) 236-4654. There are also drop boxes at St. John Catholic Church in Ishpeming and St. Peter Cathedral in Marquette. MM About the author: After more than two decades working with universities in Seoul, writer/editor/teacher Jonny Bahk-Halberg brought his family back to his favorite place in the Western Hemisphere — the shores of Lake Superior.

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Reviews by Leonard Heldreth This month we look at two new films by acknowledged master directors. Nightmare Alley irector, co-producer, and co-writer Guillermo del Toro of Nightmare Alley, is best known for films with supernatural elements, from his debut film about vampires, Cronos, through ghost stories and fantasies like Pan’s Labyrinth, to his 2017 film, The Shape of Water, which won Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director. Nightmare Alley, however, differs in that it has no supernatural elements; rather, it focuses upon exposing pseudo-supernatural situations as hoaxes and using such fakery to bilk people of money or at least their credulity. The film was adapted by del Toro from a 1946 novel of the same name by William Lindsay Gresham; in 1947 the novel was filmed under the same title starring Tyrone Power. According to del Toro, he had read the book in 1992 and had started adapting it before seeing the earlier film. He acknowledges “there are elements that are darker in the book, and . . . I wanted to do noir. . . . Just a straight, really dark story.” The plot, like most film noir plots, forms an arc with the hero rising high in his society before overestimating his own ability and falling to a level as low or lower than that from which he started. Martin Scorsese wrote an essay in the Los Angeles Times urging readers to seek out the film, crediting Del Toro’s films as being “lovingly and passionately crafted” and arguing that Nightmare Alley is “truer to the animating spirit of film noir than the many ‘homages’ that have been made over the years and are still being made now.” The film opens in 1939 with Stanton “Stan” Carlisle (Bradley Cooper) wandering into a cheap carnival. As the opening shot indicates, he brings with him a dubious past which is slowly reveled in flashbacks. The carnival “geek,” a scrawny, mentally ill man who performs by biting off chicken heads, has just escaped from his cage, and Stan helps recapture the runaway; in return, the carny boss (Tim Blake Nelson) offers Stan a job as a general roustabout doing whatever needs to be done. As time goes by, Stan becomes friends with some Regular members of the troup — Clem Hoatley (Willem Dafoe), Bruno (Ron Perlman), Dr. Elwood (David Hewlett) — and the performers — Funhouse Jack (Clifton Collins), Fee Fee the Birdgirl (Dian Bachar), and most importantly, the mind-reader Zeena Krumbein (Toni Collette), her partner Pete Krumbein (David Strathairn), and Molly Cahill, the electric girl (Rooney Mara). Stan studies Zeena and Pete’s “mind-reading” skills, and even uses his newfound ability to convince Sheriff Jedediah Judd (Jim Beaver) not to press charges against the carnival people during a raid.

But winter is coming, and Stan has bigger plans. After Pete’s death, he talks Molly into running off with him and starting a mind-reading scam of their own at a swanky nightclub in Buffalo. All goes well until one night Lilith Ritter (Cate Blanchett) shows up in her most femme fatale outfit, a clinging white dress and crimson lipstick, and tries to expose Stan. As the two grifters come to know each other, they gradually realize they can accomplish more working together than against each other, and the plot thickens. First they try to swindle Judge Charles Kimball (Peter MacNeill) and his wife Felicia (Mary Steenburgen), but when that plan comes to a bad end, they set their sights on Ezra Grindle (Richard Jenkins), a wealthy widower who wants to contact his deceased wife. How all this works out reiterates that the major move of film noir is the double-cross, and the major plot line is the rise and fall of the hero/villain. Enjoy the outcome. The sets and costumes set up superb oppositions. The dirt, cruelty, heat and ramshackle of the carnival setting in the first half contrasts with the elegant rooms, ruthless behavior, snowy streets and calculated chill of the second half. The circular pattern of the carnival Ferris wheel brings the two halves together. Add in a collection of big name stars playing the various eccentrics, and the film is one that catches the viewer’s attention and won’t let go as it winds down to its predictable but powerful end. Parallel Mothers edro Almodóvar is Spain’s greatest living director, and after his semi-autobiographical Pain and Glory, starring his film alter ego, Antonio Banderas, Almodóvar has returned to the brightly colored melodramas for which he is known, such as Women on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown, Dark Habits, High Heels, All About My Mother, Volver and Talk to Her. These films focus on women and their relationships with daughters and other women; on the effects of a hidden past; and on the importance of the home as a center for memories. But Parallel Mothers (Madres Paralelas in Spanish) introduces a new theme — the effect of the Spanish Civil War and the 40 years of Franco’s dictatorship that followed. Somehow, Almodovar manages to integrate the historical material with his account of contemporary Spanish women and their problems. Janis (Penelope Cruz) is a successful commercial photographer who is completing a photo shoot with forensic anthropologist Arturo (Israel Elejalde). Arturo works with various foundations to excavate and investigate the mass graves of the Franco period, and Janis asks him to help her get a grant to open a mass grave in her hometown and identify the victims. He agrees to do what he can, and the two go out for a night on the town. The result is that Janis gets preg-

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nant, and the plot veers from graves to babies as Janis gathers the equipment and fortitude for this new experience (Arturo is married to a woman dying of cancer). After getting over the surprise, Janis, now in her 40s, decides to have the baby and eventually delivers a baby girl, whom she names “Cecilia” after her grandmother. On the same day in the same hospital, a teenager named Ana (Milena Smit) also delivers a baby girl, whom she names “Anita.” Both women are single mothers whose pregnancies were unplanned, and in a predictable plot twist, the babies are accidentally switched. After Cecilia’s birth, Arturo asks Janis to do a DNA test to verify that he is the father of the baby. At the same time she gets the results back on his test, Janis also finds out through another test that she is not the baby’s mother. Figuring out what must have happened, Janis is stunned but unwilling to tell anyone or to consider relinquishing the baby. A few weeks later, Janis runs into Ana at the café where she now works, and the two mothers catch up on their lives. Ana tells Janis that her baby has died from crib-death, and Janis consoles her friend

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without telling Ana what she has concluded about the babies. The two women become close friends, and Ana moves in with Janis to help take care of the surviving baby. Finally, Janis confesses what she knows, and Ana, horrified and angry, snatches the baby and leaves. A few days later Ana calls, apologizes, and agrees to let Janis continue being a part of the baby’s life. Arturo calls Janis to say that the grant to open the mass grave in her hometown has been approved, and they need to start collecting information about the people buried there in order to help in identification — Janis believes her great grandfather may be among the interred. The film ends with the townspeople standing beside the opened grave, staring down at the uncovered bones. Part of what makes Parallel Mothers work is the excellent acting. Penelope Cruz has starred in several Almodóvar films and obviously works well with the director (she was nominated for an Oscar for this role). Milena Smit is also fine as Ana, and that she can hold her own in scenes with Cruz is no small achievement. Actresses from previous Almodóvar films fill out the supporting actress roster. Ana’s mother, Teresa (Aitana Sánchez-Gijón), is totally caught up in her acting career, a vain woman who refuses to miss an audition to give her daughter the time she needs. She unburdens herself to Janis, admitting she never wanted to be a

wife or mother, only to be on the stage, a goal she has now achieved. Janis’ best friend, Elena, is played by one of Almodóvar’s favorite players, Rossy de Palma (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!). She swoops into Janis’ hospital room in a Technicolor-plaid trench coat, and provides support for the new mother. Veteran actress Julieta Serrano (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown) has a touching single scene at the end of the film. The film has Almodóvar’s usual brilliant color, especially the reds that are everywhere, and flamboyantly decorated sets. The music by Alberto Iglesias, the director’s regular composer, works well with the material. Except for the rare times when the two major themes seem to pull in opposite directions, Parallel Mothers is thoroughly enjoyable. (In Spanish and other languages with English subtitles.) MM About the Author: Leonard Heldreth became interested in films in high school and worked as a movie projectionist in undergraduate and graduate school. His short “Cinema Comment” aired for some years on WNMU-FM. In 1987, he started writing reviews for Marquette Monthly. He taught English and film studies at NMU for more than 30 years. Editor’s Note: All films reviewed are available on DVD or streaming video.

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Out & About Out & About is a free listing of Upper Peninsula events. Events included must cost $25 or less (except fundraisers). All events are free and in Eastern time unless noted. We print information sent to us by a wide variety of people and organizations. It pays to double-check the date, time, place and cost before heading out. Due to changing event requirements, please call ahead to ask about safety precautions, or bring a mask to events, as many events require masks regardless of vaccination status.

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Alumni Co-Ed Softball Tournament | June 24 - 30 | Gwinn

june events 01 WEDNESDAY

sunrise 6:00 a.m.; sunset 9:34 p.m.

Escanaba

• Farmers Market. 3 to 6 p.m. Escanaba Farmers Market, 1501 Ludington St. (906) 789-8696.

Marquette

Meeting. 5:00 p.m. Shiras Room, Peter White Public Library, 217 N. Front St. (906) 226-4303. • The Archaeology of Cordwood Choppers’ Everyday Life. MTU professor of Industrial Archaeology and Heritage program, Dr. LouAnn Wurst will discuss the findings of five excavated sites occupied by cordwood choppers and their families. $5 suggested donation. 6:30 p.m. Marquette Regional History Center, 145 W. Spring St. (906) 226-3571 or marquettehistory.org • An Evening of Singing Bowls. Experience relaxation and peace of sound meditation through Tibetan singing bowls and gongs. 7 p.m. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 201 E. Ridge St. (906) 362-9934.

Skandia

• Farmers Market. 4 to 7 p.m. Skandia Farmers Market, 9271 US-41 S.

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02 THURSDAY

sunrise 6:00 a.m.; sunset 9:35 p.m.

Escanaba

• Meet the Author. Author J.L. Hyde will sign copies of her book Summer of ‘99. 4:30 p.m. Escanaba Public Library, 400 Ludington St. (906) 789-7323.

Gwinn

• Planting Presentation. Learn about companion planting, seed starts, crop rotation, spacing and more. Handouts and hands-on activities provided. 6:00 p.m. Forsyth Township Clubhouse, 165 N. Maple St.

Houghton

• Keweenaw Time Traveler Relaunch Celebration. Learn about the online interactive historical atlas available to research the history and heritage of the Copper Country. 6 p.m. Carnegie Museum, 105 Huron St. keweenawhistory.com

Marquette

• Superiorland Duplicate Bridge Club. Games open to all interested players. 1 p.m. $5 for games. Westwood Mall, 3020 US-41 West. superiorland_bridge.tripod. com or (906) 360-3056. • First Thursdays Art Walk. Visit local art galleries, studios and creative spaces throughout the city. Maps of participating businesses available at the Marquette Arts and Culture Center and online. 4 to 8 p.m. Locations vary.

03 FRIDAY

sunrise 5:59 a.m.; sunset 9:36 p.m.

Big Bay

• Registration Deadline: Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve Bird Watching Day. See Saturday the 4th.

Crystal Falls

• Steel City Rovers Concert. The group combines traditional Celtic music and North American styles of bluegrass, folk and roots. Students, $5; adults, $25. 7 p.m. CDT. Crystal Theatre, 304 Superior Ave. (906) 875-3208 or thecrystaltheatre.org

Escanaba

• Krusin’ Klassics Fun Run Parade. View classic cars during this annual parade. 7 p.m. Ludington St. krusinklassics.net

Houghton

• Keweenaw Time Traveler Relaunch Online Celebration. Learn about the online interactive historical atlas available to research the history and heritage of the Copper Country. 3 p.m. via Facebook live. facebook.com/keweenawtimetraveler

Marquette

• Superiorland Duplicate Bridge Club. Games open to all interested players. 1 p.m. $5 for games. Westwood Mall, 3020 US-41 West. superiorland_bridge.tripod. com or (906) 458-4844.

04 SATURDAY

sunrise 5:59 a.m.; sunset 9:37 p.m.

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• Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve Bird Watching Day. The morning will begin with a bird study, annual breeding bird census and be followed by a hike to Pinnacle Falls. The group will carpool to the site. Advanced registration appreciated. 9 a.m. Cram’s General Store, CR-550. (906) 250-3350 or upbarkart@ gmail.com

Curtis

• Above the Bridge Songwriters Concert. Donations appreciated. 7 p.m. Pine Performance Center, N9224 Saw-waQuato St. ericksoncenter.org

Escanaba

• Krusin’ Klassics Fun Run Car Show and Swap Meet. View classic cars during this annual event. $5. 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. U.P. State Fairgrounds, 2401 12th Avenue N. krusinklassics.net

Gwinn

• Town-wide Rummage Sale. Shop sales in Gwinn, K.I. Sawyer and Little Lake areas. 9 a.m. Locations vary. gwinnmi.com

Ishpeming

• Iron Range Roll. This 16 mile bike race follows the Heritage Trail to Marquette Commons. Proceeds benefit YMCA of Marquette County’s youth programs. $40. 2 p.m. Cliffs Mine Shaft Museum, 501 W. Euclid St. ironrangeroll.com

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Skandia

• Pie Sale. Proceeds benefit scholarships, youth development and the Victory Lutheran Food Pantry. 9 a.m. West Branch Township Hall, 1016 CR-545 N. • Plants, Pies and Summer Buys. Veggie seedlings, perennials, houseplants, summer crafts and homemade pies will be available. Proceeds will be used for brick replacement on the sanctuary. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Emanuel Lutheran Church, 9812 US41. (906) 942-7245

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sunrise 5:58 a.m.; sunset 9:38 p.m.

Calumet

• Meet the Author. David Crowley will sign copies of his book The Secret of St. Christopher’s Girls School. 1 to 4 p.m. Calumet Art Center, 57055 Fifth St. (906) 934-2228.

06 MONDAY

sunrise 5:58 a.m.; sunset 9:38 p.m.

Gladstone

• Farmers Market. 3 to 6 p.m. Gladstone Farmers Market, 911 Delta Ave. gladstonemi.org

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Ishpeming

• An Evening of Singing Bowls. Experience relaxation and peace of sound meditation through Tibetan singing bowls and gongs. Rain location is the Joy Center. 7 p.m. Al Quaal Park, 501 Poplar St. (906) 362-9934.

07 TUESDAY

sunrise 5:57 a.m.; sunset 9:39 p.m.

Marquette

• Foot Clinic. This clinic is for people age 55 and older. Appointments necessary. $25. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Marquette Senior Center, 300 W. Spring St. (906) 228-0456. • Superiorland Duplicate Bridge Club. Games open to all interested players. 1 p.m. $5 for games. Westwood Mall, 3020 US-41 West. superiorland_bridge.tripod. com or (906) 236-1811. • Oil Painting, Pastels and Drawing Classes with Marlene Wood. Bring your own supplies. $20. 1 to 3 p.m. Marquette Arts and Culture Center, lower level, Peter White Public Library, 217 N. Front St. (906) 225-8655. • Registration Deadline: NCLL The History of the Soo Locks in 3D. See Tuesday the 14th.

Munising

• Farmers and Artisans Market. 4 to 6 p.m. Bayshore Park, 355 Elm Ave.

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sunrise 5:57 a.m.; sunset 9:40 p.m.

Escanaba

• Farmers Market. 3 to 6 p.m. Escanaba Farmers Market, 1501 Ludington St. (906) 789-8696. • Page Surfer Magic Show with Joel

Tacey. As part of the Summer Reading program, youth are invited for a magic show. 4:30 p.m. Escanaba Public Library, 400 Ludington St. (906) 789-7323. • Ice Cream Social. 6 p.m. Escanaba Public Library, 400 Ludington St. (906) 789-7323.

Ishpeming

• Yooper Knitz Open Craft Night. Knitters, crocheters and crafters of all abilities are welcome. 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Stash Crafters Lounge, 113 Cleveland Ave.

Marquette

• Congregate Meals for Seniors–Dine in or Curbside Pickup. Meals available to those age 60 and older. Call to reserve a meal. $3.50 suggested donation. Noon to 1 p.m. Marquette Senior Center, 300 W. Spring St. (906) 228-0456. • Marquette Regional History Center Trivia Night. Questions will be drawn from The Mining Journal’s Superior History column, Harlow’s Wooden Man quarterly newsletter, museum programs and exhibits. Teams of 4 or 5 people. $5 per person. Register until 6 p.m. Trivia, 6:30 p.m. Marquette Regional History Center, 145 W. Spring St. (906) 226-3571 or marquettehistory.org • Authors Reading Virtually: Karen Dionne. Author Karen Dionne will read selections from her new thriller The Marsh King’s Daughter. 7 p.m. via Zoom. Visit pwpl.info for Zoom link. • NMU Theatre: A Complicated Hope. This production is a portrait of love, loss and coming together. NMU students, $5; other students, $10, seniors and military, $12; others, $17. 8 p.m. Black Box Theatre, NMU. tickets.nmu.edu • Registration Deadline: NCLL Wetmore Landing to Little Presque Isle Hike. See Tuesday the 15th.

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• Hideaway Bar. - Mondays: The Hideaway All-Stars. 7 p.m. 741 M-35. 346-3178. • Up North Lodge. - Sunday, June 5: Shot Gun Kelli. - Sunday, the 12th: Jake & The Fireside Band. - Sunday, the 19th: Flat Broke Blues Band. - Sunday, the 26th: DayDreamers. Music, 4 to 8 p.m. 215 S. CR-557. (906) 346-9815.

Ishpeming

• The Royal Pub. - Friday, June 3: Soulshine. 9 p.m. - Saturday, the 18th: DayDreamers. 8 p.m. 205 E. Division St. (906) 486-4505.

Marquette

• Blackrocks Brewery. - Wednesdays: Open mic. 6 to 9 p.m. - Thursday, June 2: One Human Band. 8 p.m. - Tuesday, the 7th: Luke Ogea. 6 p.m. - Thursday, the 23rd: DayDreamers. 424 N. Third St. (906) 273-1333 or blackrocksbrewery.com • Drifa Brewing Company. - Mondays: Musicians’ Open Mic. 6 to 8 p.m. - Thursday, June 2: High Wasted Genes. 6 p.m. - Friday, the 3rd: Gena and Hozz. - Saturday, the 4th: Backwoods Cadillac. - Sunday, the 5th: Kaden Shannon. - Thursday, the 9th: Ethan Bott. - Saturday, the 11th: DayDreamers Acoustic. - Friday, the 17th: Chris Valenti. - Sunday, the 19th: Ethan Bott. - Thursday, the 23rd: Troy Graham. - Sunday, the 26th: Brody Rosten. - Thursday, the 30th: DayDreamers. Music begins at 6 p.m. 501 S. Lake St. 273-1300. • Flanigan’s. - Tuesday through Thursday: Karaoke. 9:30 p.m. - Friday, June 3: Chris Valenti. - Friday, the 17: Under the Radar. 6:30 p.m. Cover charge on weekends only. 429 W. Washington St. 228-8865. • Northland Pub. - Thursday, June 9: Troy Graham. Music at 8 p.m. Inside the Landmark Inn. 230 N. Front St. (906) 315-8107. • Ore Dock Brewing Company. - Friday, June 3: Humbird. $10. - Saturday, the 4th: The Bootstrap

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Boys. - Thursday, the 9th: Conga Se Menne. 7 p.m. - Friday, the 10th: Frank an Da Beanz. 9 p.m. - Saturday, the 11th: Blanco Suave with Soul Responsibility. 9 p.m. - Friday, the 17th and Saturday, the 18th: Iridescence, Highwasted Genes and the Juneteenth Jazz Band. 10:15 p.m. All shows are free and begin at 8 p.m. unless noted. 114 W. Spring St. 228-8888. • Rippling River Resort. - Saturday, June 11. Chris Valenti. - Sunday, the 19th: Chris Valenti. - Saturday, the 25th: Chris Valenti. 4321 M-553. (906) 273-2259 or ripplingriverresort.com • Superior Culture. - Thursday, June 2: Luke Ogea. 9 p.m. - Friday, the 3rd: Outskirts. 9 p.m. - Sunday, the 12th: Troy Graham. - Sunday, the 19th: Speak Easy Poetry. 7 p.m. - Thursday, the 30th: Ear Licker’s. 9 p.m. 713 Third Street. 273-0927 or superiorculturemqt.com

Munising

• The Barge Inn. - Friday, June 17: DayDreamers. 8 p.m. - Friday, the 24th: Spun. 8 p.m. 206 W. Superior St. (906) 387-4869. • Falling Rock Café and Bookstore.

- Monday, June 6: Robert Trice. 6 p.m. - Saturday, the 11th: School of Rock Concert. 11:30 a.m. - Saturday, the 18th: The Wallens. 7 p.m. 104 E. Munising Ave. (906) 387-3008. • Moh’s Pub. - Saturday, June 4: Whiskey Ryan. 7 p.m. Sunday, the 5th: Redneck Preacher. 3 p.m. - Saturday, the 11th: Derrell Syria Project. 7 p.m. - Saturday, the 25th: Sky Pilots. 9 p.m. - Sunday, the 26th: Redneck Preacher. 3 p.m. 109 Elm Ave. (906) 387-8400.

Republic

• Pine Grove Bar. - Friday, June 3: Spun. 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. - Saturday, the 4th: Troy Graham. 8 to 11 p.m. - Friday, the 10th: Danny and Ian. 7 to 10 p.m. - Saturday, the 11th: GHIDORA. 8 p.m. to midnight. - Friday, the 17th: Toni Saari. 7 to 10 p.m. - Saturday, the 18th: Under the Radar. 8 p.m. to midnight. - Friday, the 24th: DayDreamers Acoustic. 7 to 10 p.m. - Saturday, the 25th: Ethan Bott and Country Band. 7 to 10 p.m. 286 Front St. (906) 376-2234. MM

• Farmers Market. 4 to 7 p.m. Skandia Farmers Market, 9271 US-41 S.

09 THURSDAY

sunrise 5:57 a.m.; sunset 9:41 p.m.

Crystal Falls

• Virtual Q&A with U.P. Author Ellen Airgood. Author Ellen Airgood will discuss her book Tin Camp Road. 7 p.m. ET. Call or email to register. (906) 8753344 or egathu@uproc.lib.mi.us

Escanaba

• Live on the Lawn At Lunch Music Series. The vocal duo Awake for Birds will perform. Bobaloon’s food truck will be on site. 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. Escanaba Public Library, 400 Ludington St. (906) 789-7323.

Hancock

• Noteworthy Barbershop Chorus Concert. This women’s barbershop chorus will present Together Again. Donations appreciated. 7 p.m. Gloria Dei Lutheran, 1000 Quincy St.

Marquette

• Marquette Beautification and Restoration Committee Meeting. Lunch provided. Donations appreciated. Noon. Beacon House, 200 S. Seventh St. • Vinyl Record Show. New and used vinyl records, CDs, posters, cassettes, books and t-shirts will be available for purchase. Noon to 11 p.m. Ore Dock Brewing Company, 114 W. Spring St. oredockbrewing.com • Superiorland Duplicate Bridge Club. Games open to all interested players. 1 p.m. $5 for games. Westwood Mall, 3020 US-41 West. superiorland_bridge.tripod. com or (906) 360-3056. • Second Thursday Creativity Series: June Snowstorm. Youth are invited for hands-on activities. 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. U.P. Children’s Museum, 123 W. Baraga Ave. upchildrensmuseum.org or (906) 2263911. • Women in Science. Eva Bergner, DNP, will discuss her background, work and interest in the diagnosis and treatment of traumatic brain injury. 7 p.m. via Zoom. Visit pwpl.info for Zoom link. • Marquette City Band Concert. 7:30 p.m. Band Shell, Presque Isle Park. marquettecityband.com • NMU Theatre: A Complicated Hope. This production is a portrait of love, loss and coming together. NMU students, $5; other students, $10, seniors and military, $12; others, $17. 8 p.m. Black Box Theatre, NMU. tickets.nmu.edu

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Crystal Falls

• Missoula Children’s Theater: The Emperor’s New Clothes. Local youth will perform in this production. Students, $5; adults, $10. 7 p.m. CDT. Crystal Theatre, 304 Superior Ave. (906) 875-3208 or thecrystaltheatre.org

Ishpeming/Negaunee

• Town-wide Rummage Sale. Shop sales in Champion, Ishpeming, Michigamme, Negaunee, and surrounding townships. Times and locations vary. gincc.org

Marquette

• Vinyl Record Show. New and used vinyl records, CDs, posters, cassettes, books and t-shirts will be available for purchase. Noon to 11 p.m. Ore Dock Brewing Company, 114 W. Spring St. oredockbrewing.com • Superiorland Duplicate Bridge Club. Games open to all interested players. 1 p.m. $5 for games. Westwood Mall, 3020 US-41 West. superiorland_bridge.tripod. com or (906) 458-4844. • NMU Theatre: A Complicated Hope. This production is a portrait of love, loss and coming together. NMU students, $5; other students, $10, seniors and military, $12; others, $17. 8 p.m. Black Box Theatre, NMU. nmu.universitytickets.com

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Baraga

• County-wide Yard Sale. Maps available on Facebook, community businesses, registered sale site and the Chamber of Commerce. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Locations vary. keweenawbay.org

Crystal Falls

• Missoula Children’s Theater: The Emperor’s New Clothes. Local youth will perform in this production. Students, $5; adults, $10. 2 p.m. CDT. Crystal Theatre, 304 Superior Ave. (906) 875-3208.

Curtis

• Above the Bridge Songwriters Concert. Donations appreciated. 7 p.m. Pine Performance Center, N9224 Saw-waQuato St. ericksoncenter.org

Escanaba

• Onagomingkway Chapter of NSDAR Meeting. Questions about genealogy and joining NSDAR will be answered following the meeting. Noon. Hereford and Hops Restaurant, 624 Ludington St. (906) 226-7836. • LEGO Club. Bring your own box or bag of LEGO blocks. 1 p.m. Escanaba Public Library, 400 Ludington St. (906) 789-7323.

Ishpeming/Negaunee

• Town-wide Rummage Sale. Shop sales in Champion, Ishpeming, Michigamme, Negaunee, and surrounding townships. Times and locations vary. gincc.org

Marquette

• Saturday Morning Farmers Market. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Marquette Commons, 112 S. Third St. mqtfarmersmarket.com • Kids Read! Summer Reading KickOff. Register online for the summer reading program and stop by for dropin activities and pick up reading logs. A petting zoo and Superiorland Pet Partners will be on the front lawn until noon. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Lower level, Peter White Public Library, 217 N. Front St. (906) 2264323. • Superiorland Duplicate Bridge Club. Games open to all interested players. Lessons, 10 a.m. Games, 11:30 a.m. $5 for games. Westwood Mall, 3020 US-41 West. superiorland_bridge.tripod.com or (906) 236-3173. • Teens Read! Summer Reading KickOff. Youth in grades 6 to 12 are invited to register online for the summer reading program and stop by for drop-in activities and pick up a bingo card. 10 a.m. to noon.

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• Calumet Art Center. - 100 Days of Stitch Meditation, featuring works by Karen Milszeski, will be on display June 1 through 30, with a public reception at 1 p.m. on the 5th. Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., 57055 Fifth St. (906) 934-2228. • Copper Country Associated Artist. Works by members and workshop participants in watercolor and oil, drawings, photography, sculpture, quilting, wood, textile, clay, glass and other media. Thursday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. 205 Fifth St. (906) 337-1252 or ccaartists.org • Gallery on 5th. Works by local and regional artists. Days and hours vary. 109 Fifth St. (906) 369-0094.

Copper Harbor

• EarthWorks Gallery. Featuring Lake Superior-inspired photography by Steve Brimm. Daily, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. 216 First St. (910) 319-1650.

Escanaba

• East Ludington Art Gallery. Works by local artists. Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. 1007 Ludington St. (906) 786-0300 or eastludingtongallery.com • William Bonifas Fine Arts Gallery. - NMU Art and Design Student Biennial Show, featuring a variety of works by NMU students, will be on display through June 30. - East Ludington Gallery Artists Show, featuring works by artists in the coop, will be on display June 9 through August 4. Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m. to 3p.m. 700 First Avenue South. (906) 786-3833 or bonifasarts.org

Hancock

• Finlandia University Gallery. - Folk School at Midsummer, an exhibition of work by Folk School instructors and students, will be on display June 1 through 30, with a reception at 7 p.m. on June 22. Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturdays, noon to 4 p.m. 435 Quincy St. (906) 487-7500. • Kerredge Gallery. - Art Inspired by the Portage Lake Lift Bridge, featuring works by various artists, will be on display June 7 through 18. Tuesday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Community Arts Center, 126 Quincy St. (906) 482-2333 or coppercountryarts. com • Youth Gallery. - Featuring works by area students. Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m.

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to 5 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Community Arts Center, 126 Quincy St. (906) 482-2333 or coppercountryarts.com

Houghton

• A-Space Gallery. Featuring works by local, regional and national artists. Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturdays, 1 to 8 p.m. Rozsa Center, 1400 Townsend Dr. mtu.edu/rozsa

Marquette

• Art—U.P. Style. Art by Carol Papaleo, works by local artists, gifts, classes and more. Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. 130 W. Washington St. (906) 225-1993. • DeVos Art Museum. - North of the 45th, an annual juried exhibition, will be on display June 21 through July 29, with a closing reception at 7 p.m. July 29. - Regional Perspectives by Women Artists, featuring works in various media from the dawn of the 20th century to present, will be on display through June. - The Last Place on Earth, featuring works by Jan Manniko, will be on display through November 15, 2022. Monday through Friday, noon to 5 p.m. Corner of Seventh and Tracy streets. NMU. (906) 227-1481 or nmu.edu/devos • Graci Gallery. Works by regional and national artists. Featuring fine craft, contemporary art, and jewelry. Thursday and Friday, noon to 5 p.m. Saturday,

11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday through Wednesday, by appointment or chance. 555 E. Michigan Street. gracigallery.com • Huron Mountain Club Gallery. - Nature’s Song: Marquette Monthly Cover Art 2008-2022 and New Works by Diana Magnuson, will be on display June 6 through July 16, with a public reception at 6 p.m. June 9. Monday through Thursday, 9:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., and Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Peter White Public Library, 217 N. Front St. (906) 228-0472. • Lake Superior Photo and Gallery. The studio features landscape photographic art by Shawn Malone, including naturescapes of the Lake Superior region. Monday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. 211 S. Front St. (906) 228-3686 or lakesuperiorphoto.com • Marquette Arts and Culture Center Deo Gallery. - Forever a Wilderness, featuring photography by Christine Lenzen, will be on display June 1 through 30th, with a public reception at 6 p.m. on the 9th. Monday through Thursday, 9:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., and Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Peter White Public Library, 217 N. Front St. (906) 228-0472. • Peter White Public Library Reception Area Gallery. - A Gallery of Moons, featuring fiber art works by Judy Parlato, will be on display June 1 through 30th, with a public (continued on page 81) 83)

art galleries reception at 6 p.m. on the 9th. Monday through Thursday, 9:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., and Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Peter White Public Library, 217 N. Front St. (906) 228-0472. • The Gallery: A Marquette Artist Collective Project. Works by local and regional artists. Monday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday 1 to 4 p.m. Suite U7, 130 W. Washington St. mqtartistcollective.org • The Studio Gallery at Presque Isle. Works by local and internationally acclaimed artists. Wednesday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, noon to 4 p.m. 2905 Lakeshore Blvd. (906) 360-4453. • Wintergreen Hill Gallery and Gifts. - Works by Jacob Bartanus, will be on display June 4 through 17th, with a public reception at 6 p.m. on the 11th. - Works by Carol Irving, will be on display June 18 through July 1, with a public reception at 6 p.m. on the 18th. Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 810 N. Third St. (906) 273-1374. • Zero Degrees Artist Gallery. Works in oils, watercolors, mixed media, jewelry, photography, metals, woods, recycled and fiber arts and much Lower level, Peter White Public Library, 217 N. Front St. (906) 226-4323. • Vinyl Record Show. New and used vinyl records, CDs, posters, cassettes, books and t-shirts will be available for purchase. Noon to 11 p.m. Ore Dock Brewing Company, 114 W. Spring St. • Pride Fest 2022. This festival focuses on spreading acceptance, equality and love. Live entertainment by local artists and bands. Additional activities include food vendors, yard games, face painting and more. 1 to 11 p.m. Mattson Lower Harbor Park, 200 N. Lakeshore Blvd. uprainbowpride.org • NMU Theatre Sensory Friendly Performance: A Complicated Hope. This production is a portrait of love, loss and coming together. NMU students, $5; other students, $10, seniors and military, $12; others, $17. 2 p.m. Black Box Theatre, NMU. tickets.nmu.edu • NMU Theatre: A Complicated Hope. This production is a portrait of love, loss and coming together. NMU students, $5; other students, $10, seniors and military, $12; others, $17. 8 p.m. Black Box Theatre, NMU. tickets.nmu.edu

Munising

• Pictured Rocks Days. Activities include music, food, bounce houses, a petting zoo, arts and crafts and more. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Bayshore Park, 355 Elm Ave. (906) 3872138.

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more. Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. 525 N. Third St. (906) 228-3058 or zerodegreesgallery.org

Munising

• Open Wings Pottery Studio & Gallery. Featuring works by more than 50 local artisans in a variety of media. Open by chance or appointment. E9795 County Road H-58. (906) 387-5070. • U.P.-Scale Art. Featuring works by local and regional artists. Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. or by appointment. 109 W. Superior Ave. (906) 387-3300 or upscaleart.org

Rapid River

• The adhocWORKshop. Owner Ritch Branstrom creates sculptures with found objects inspired by the land in which the objects were found. By appointment or chance. 10495 South Main Street. (906) 339-1572 or adhocworkshop.com

Sand River

• Aurelia Studio Pottery. Featuring high fire stoneware, along with functional and sculptural pieces inspired by nature, created by potter and owner Paula Neville. Open by appointment or chance. 3050 E. M-28. (906) 343-6592 or aurelia1998@yahoo. com MM

Calumet

• Stitch Meditation with Karen Milszeski. $25. 1 to 4 p.m. Calumet Art Center, 57055 Fifth St. (906) 934-2228.

Ishpeming/Negaunee

• Town-wide Rummage Sale. Shop sales in Champion, Ishpeming, Michigamme, Negaunee, and surrounding townships. Times and locations vary. Gincc.org

Marquette

• Nature Bracelets. Youth ages 4 to 6 years old are invited to use observation and classifying skills to find objects in nature to make a bracelet. Suggested donations, $5 per child, $10 per family. Noon. Moosewood Nature Center, Presque Isle. (906) 228-6250 or moosewood.org • Vinyl Record Show. New and used vinyl records, CDs, posters, cassettes, books and t-shirts will be available for purchase. Noon to 11 p.m. Ore Dock Brewing Company, 114 W. Spring St. oredockbrewing.com • NMU Theatre Sensory Friendly Performance: A Complicated Hope. This production is a portrait of love, loss and coming together. NMU students, $5; other students, $10, seniors and military, $12; others, $17. 2 p.m. Black Box Theatre, NMU. tickets.nmu.edu

Munising

• Pictured Rocks Days. Activities include music, food, bounce houses, a petting zoo, arts and crafts and more. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Bayshore Park, 355 Elm Ave. (906) 387-2138.

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museums Big Bay

• Big Bay Lighthouse. The grounds of the 1896 lighthouse are open yearround. 3 Lighthouse Rd. (906) 3459957.

Calumet

• Coppertown Mining Museum. View exhibits relative to the copper mining Industry and community life. Prices vary. Monday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. 25815 Red Jacket Road. (906) 337-4354. • International Frisbee Hall of Fame and Museum. Learn about the history of Guts Frisbee. Days and hours vary. Open when events are held. Second floor ballroom, Calumet Colosseum, Red Jacket Rd. (906) 281-7625. • Keweenaw Heritage Center. Exhibits focused on different aspects of life in the Keweenaw are on display, with exhibits varying each year. $3. Monday through Saturday, 1 to 4:30 p.m. corner of Scott and Fifth streets. (906) 337-2410 or keweenawheritagecenter.org

Caspian

• Iron County Historical Museum. This complex is the U.P.’s largest outdoor museum. Twenty-six buildings represent the industries of lumber, mining and transportation and include a homestead, cultural center and art complex. Youth 5 and younger, free; 6 to 18, $10; adults, $15. Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Off M-189 or two miles off US-2 at Iron River. 265-2617 or ironcountymuseum.org

Copper Harbor

• Fort Wilkins State Park. Built in 1844, this fort is a well-preserved, nineteenth century military post and lighthouse complex. Through museum exhibits, audio-visual programs and costumed interpretation, visitors can explore the daily routine of military service, experience the hardships of frontier isolation and discover another era. Park store, bookstore, concession stand and campsites are on site. 8:30 a.m. to dusk. $17 per car, per day for Michigan residents, $9 for nonresidents. US-41 (one mile east of Copper Harbor). 289-4215.

Covington

• Covington Historical Museum. Located in the historic 1905 Township Hall, a Michigan Historic Site, the Museum houses exhibits, photographs and artifacts focusing on the life of early Finnish residents of Covington Township. The Museum contains the Township’s only jail cell. On the grounds is an early fire truck. The Genealogy Room has family history files and early township records. Opens June 4. Saturdays, 1 to 3 p.m. Donations appreciated. Center St. (906) 355-2169.

Delaware

• Delaware Copper Mine. This authentic copper mine operated from 1847 to 1887. The tour takes visitors to the first level at 110 feet, where they can see veins of copper exposed in the walls

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of the mine. A deer pen and museum are also on site. Youth 5 and younger, free; 6 to 12, $7; 13 and older, $12. Daily, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. US-41, 12 miles south of Copper Harbor. 289-4688 or keweenawheritagesites.org

center, museum exhibits, a twenty-six station walking tour and a scale model of the original townsite. $17 per car, per day for Michigan residents, $9 for nonresidents. Daily, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 14785 II Road. (906) 644-2603.

Eagle Harbor

Grand Marais

• Eagle Harbor Life Saving Museum. View displays of early wooden rescue boats, surfboats, life-cars and more. Opens June 19. Donations appreciated. Daily, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Marina Rd. keweenawhistory.org • Eagle Harbor Lighthouse and Museum. Tour the museum and lighthouse complex. Opens June 19. Youth, free; adults, $8. Monday through Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. M-26. keweenawhistory.org

Eagle River

• Eagle River Museum. The museum focuses on four themes including, the Cliff Mine, the town of Eagle River the town and mine of Phoenix and the Crestview amusement area. Opens June 22. Donations appreciated. Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, noon to 4 p.m. M-26. Keweenawhistory.org

Escanaba

• Delta County Historical Society Museum and Sand Point Lighthouse. Exhibits portray the local history of logging, shipping, railroads, military, Native American culture, surveyings, fishing, sports and more. Youth, free; adults, $2; families, $5. Daily, 1 to 4 p.m. 16 Water Plant Road. (906) 789-6790. deltahistorical.org

Garden

• Fayette Historic Townsite. This site was once one of the Upper Peninsula’s most productive iron-smelting operations. A town of nearly 500 residents grew up around two blast furnaces, a large dock and several charcoal kilns. It now includes a visitor

• Gitchee Gumee Agate and History Museum. View agates, mineral specimens, mineral art, jewelry and more. $1. Thursday through Saturday, 2 to 5 p.m. E21739 Brazel St. (906) 4942590. • Pickle Barrel House Museum. This 16-foot high barrel has been restored to its conditiona as a cottage, built for author and illustrator William Donahey who created the Teenie Weenie characters. $1. Saturday and Sunday, 1 to 4 p.m. Downtown. grandmariasmichigan.com

Greenland

• Adventure Mining Company. The mine opened in 1850 and remains one of the best-preserved sites of its time. Although the mine closed in 1920, many of the shafts are still open for touring. Tours range from surface walking tours to underground rappelling down a mineshaft. Tour prices vary. Youth 6 and younger, free; 7 to 12, $7.50 to $14.50; 13 and older, $14 to $25. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. 200 Adventure Ave. 883-3371 or adventuremine.com

Hancock

• Quincy Mine Hoist and Underground Mine. There are two options for touring the site. On both the surface tour and the full tour, visitors will see the museum, inside the No. 2 Shaft House and the Nordberg Steam Hoist and ride the cog rail tram car to the mine entrance. On the full tour, visitors will take a tractor-pulled wagon into the mine, seven levels underground. Prices, (continued on page 85)

museums days and hours vary. (906) 482-3101 or quincymine.com

1 to 5 p.m. 402 Third St. (906) 236-3502 or kishamuseum.org

Houghton

Lake Linden

• A.E. Seaman Mineral Museum. View the largest collection of minerals from the Great Lakes region and the world’s finest collection of Michigan minerals. Exhibits educate visitors on how minerals are formed, fluorescent minerals and minerals from around the world. Prices vary. Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 1404 E. Sharon Ave. (906) 487-2572 or museum. mtu.edu • Carnegie Museum. Features rotating displays of local history, natural science and culture. The Science Center is dedicated to interactive exhibits about science for kids. Thursdays, noon to 5 p.m. 105 Huron St. (906) 482-7140 or carnegiekeweenaw.org • MTU Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections. Features a variety of historical memorabilia, highlighting life in the Copper Country. Open by appointment. Lower level of the J.R. Van Pelt Library, MTU. (906) 4873209.

Iron Mountain

• World War II Glider and Military Museum. During World War II, the Ford Motor Company’s Kingsford plant built the CG-4A Gliders for the U.S. Army. View one of seven fully restored CG-4A G World War II gliders, military uniforms from the Civil War through the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, memorabilia, restored military vehicles and more. Prices vary. Days and times vary. 302 Kent St. (906) 774-1086.

Ishpeming

• Cliffs Mine Shaft Museum. View local historical artifacts of miners and mines, past and present, safety equipment, blasting and diamond drilling equipment and more. Guided tours of the tunnels are available. Prices vary. Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 501 W. Euclid St. (906) 4851882 or cliffsshaftminemuseum.com • Ishpeming Area Historical Society Museum. New exhibits include a military exhibit and artifacts from the Elson Estate. Donations appreciated. Days and hours vary. Gossard Building, Suite 303, 308 Cleveland Ave. ishpeminghistory.org • U.S. National Ski Hall & Snowboard Hall of Fame & Museum. The museum features more than 300 Hall of Fame inductees, presented in photographs and biographies, and displays and exhibits of skiing history and equipment, an extensive library, video show, gift shop, special events and more. By appointment only. US-41 and Third St. (906) 485-6323 skihall.com

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• Houghton County Historical Museum. Exhibits include local Copper Country mining, logging and cultural history. Outdoor exhibits include a working Calumet & Hecla Mining Company Train. Prices, days and hours vary. 53102 M-26. (906) 296-4121 or houghtonhistory.org

Marquette

• Beaumier Upper Peninsula Heritage Center. - UP3D, an exhibition of stereograph images from the collection of Jack Deo, will be on display through August 27. Three separate collections focus on cultural artifacts relating to ethnic, religious and social diversity in the U.P. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, noon to 4 p.m. NMU, corner of Seventh Street and Tracy Avenue. (906) 227-3212 or nmu.edu/beaumier • Marquette Maritime Museum. The museum collects, preserves and presents maritime history. Many exhibits and guided tours of the lighthouse grounds are offered. Prices vary. Tuesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. 300 Lakeshore Blvd. 226-2006 or mqtmaritimemuseum. com • Marquette Regional History Center. - Railroads of Marquette County: Yesterday and Today, featuring select hands-on elements, as well as maps, artifacts and photographs, will be on display through February 2023. The museum includes interactive displays as well as regional history exhibits. Youth 12 and younger, $2; students, $3; seniors, $6; adults, $7. Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. 145 W. Spring St. (906) 226-3571 or marquettehistory.org • Upper Peninsula Children’s Museum. A variety of interactive exhibits offer learning through investigation and creativity. Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Prices vary. 123 W. Baraga Ave. (906) 226-3911 or upchildrensmuseum.org

Menominee

• West Shore Fishing Museum. Experience the life of an early 20th century pioneer commercial fishing family at this stop on the Great Lakes Fisheries Heritage Trail. Tour the restored home and surrounding gardens. Walk the shoreline nature trails. View exhibits of boats, equipment, and practices of commercial fishermen and Native Americans who lived on the West Shore of Green Bay. Saturday and Sunday, 1 to 4 p.m. 15 miles north of Menominee or 8 miles south of Cedar River on M-35. Turn at Bailey Park entrance. (715) 923-9756

Munising

• Alger County Historical Society Heritage Center. Exhibits include the Grand Island Recreation Area,

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the 1920s. $3. Tuesday, Thursday, Satruday and Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. 13249 Hanka Rd. (906) 334-2601 or hankahomesteadmuseum.org

Negaunee

• Phoenix Church. Originally built in 1958 and located in the town of Cliff, the museum was dismantled and reassembled in its church location in 1899. The last mass was held in 1957. Opens June 19. Donations appreciated. Daily, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Junction of US-41 and M-26. keweenawhistory.org

• Michigan Iron Industry Museum. In the forested ravines of the Marquette Iron Range, the museum overlooks the Carp River and the site of the first iron forge in the Lake Superior region. Museum exhibits, audio-visual programs and outdoor interpretive paths depict the large-scale capital and human investment that made Michigan an industrial leader. The museum is one of 10 museums and historic sites administered by the Michigan Historical Center. Daily, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 73 Forge Rd. (906) 475-7857.

Pelkie

• Hanka Homestead Museum. The homestead recreates farming life from

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• Copper Range Historical Museum. Exhibits recreate life from the early 1900s to the mid-1950s of the immigrants who built the towns and villages of the area. Collections include photographs, books and artifacts. Tuesday through Friday, noon to 3 p.m. 44 Trimountain Ave. (906) 482-6125.

own supplies. $20. 1 to 3 p.m. Marquette Arts and Culture Center, lower level, Peter White Public Library, 217 N. Front St. (906) 225-8655. • Teen Tuesdays: Bath Bombs and Sugar Scrubs. Youth in grades 6 to 12 are invited. 2 to 4 p.m. Great Room, Peter White Public Library, 217 N. Front St. (906) 226-4321. • NCLL The History of the Soo Locks in 3D. 3D photographer and archivist Don Balmer will discuss the development of the locks and boats. 3D glasses provided. Register by the 7th. NCLL members, $3; nonmembers, $10. 6:30 p.m. Community Room, Peter White Public Library, 217 N. Front St. (906) 249-1273. • Concert on the Steps. Singer and songwriter Kerry Yost will perform. 7 p.m. Front steps, Peter White Public Library, 217 N. Front St. (906) 226-4322. • Registration Deadline: NCLL Prison Ministries. See Tuesday the 21st.

Munising

• Farmers and Artisans Market. 4 to 6 p.m. Bayshore Park, 355 Elm Ave. • Concert in the Park. Enjoy a night of music outdoors. 6:30 p.m. Bayshore Park, 355 Elm Ave.

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• Farmers Market. 3 to 6 p.m. Gladstone Farmers Market, 911 Delta Ave. gladstonemi.org

Marquette

• Bike Parade. Families and youth are invited for an ocean/water animal-themed bike parade. Dress up and decorate bikes, trikes, strollers and scooters as water animals. Cancelled if raining. 10 a.m. Back parking lot, NMU Superior Dome. (906) 226-4323. • Teens Game On. Youth in grades 6 to 12 are invited for video games, board games and more. 1 to 3 p.m. Teen Zone, Peter White Public Library, 217 N. Front St. (906) 226-4321. • Senior Theatre Experience Monthly Workshop. Those age 55 and older are invited for the monthly workshops and discussions. Advanced registration required. 4 p.m. Marquette Arts and Culture Center, lower level, Peter White Public Library, 217 N. Front St. (906) 2258655. • Pine Mountain Music Festival Peak Performance Class. Artistic Director Scott Flavin will conduct this performance class open to music performers age 15 and older, and auditors age 5 and older. Not all participants are guaranteed to play. Bring your own instruments. 5 to 7 p.m. Community Room, Peter White Public Library, 217 N. Front St. (906) 226-4322.

Negaunee

• Kids Summer Reading Kickoff. Youth ages 3 to 17 can pick up a summer reading kit. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Negaunee Public Library, 319 W. Case St. (906) 475-7700. • Troy Graham Outdoor Concert. Local musician Troy Graham will perform. Bring blanket or lawn chairs. 1 p.m. Negaunee Public Library, 319 W. Case St. (906) 475-7700.

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sunrise 5:56 a.m.; sunset 9:44 p.m.

Calumet

• Friends of the Calumet Public Library Annual Meeting. 5:30 p.m. Calumet Public Library, 57070 Mine St. (906) 3370311.

Crystal Falls

• Bergonzi String Trio Children’s Concert. Families and youth are invited for the interactive concert. 10:30 a.m. CT Crystal Theatre, 304 Superior Ave. pmmf. org • Bergonzi Trio Concert: Stories in Music. As part of the Pine Mountain Music Festival, the Bergonzi Trio will perform. Youth, $9.50; adults, $24.50. 7 p.m. CT. Crystal Theatre, 304 Superior Ave. pmmf.org

Escanaba

• Lunch with the Munch Bunch. Youth ages 4 to 10 with an adult are invited for stories. Bring a sack lunch to eat. 11:30 a.m. Escanaba Public Library, 400 Ludington St. (906) 789-7323.

Marquette

• PWPL Park Storytime. Families and youth are invited for outdoor stories, fingerplays, bubbles, parachute play and more. Rain location is the Great Room at Peter White Public Library. 9:30 a.m. Williams Park, corner of Pine and Ohio streets. (906) 226-4323. • Tasty Reads Book Group. The group will discuss Buttermilk Graffiti by Edward Lee. Noon. Shiras Room, Peter White Public Library, 217 N. Front St. (906) 226-4303. • Superiorland Duplicate Bridge Club. Games open to all interested players. 1 p.m. $5 for games. Westwood Mall, 3020 US-41 West. superiorland_ bridge.tripod.com or (906) 236-1811. • Oil Painting, Pastels and Drawing Classes with Marlene Wood. Bring your

June 2022

Curtis

• Music in the Park. Donald Benjamin will perform. Donations appreciated. 6:30 p.m. Erickson Center Park, N9224 Sawwa-Quato St. ericksoncenter.org

Escanaba

• Farmers Market. 3 to 6 p.m. Escanaba Farmers Market, 1501 Ludington St. (906) 789-8696.

Ishpeming

• Children’s Carnival. 5 to 7 p.m. Rock River Lanes, 1011 N. Rd. gincc.org

Marquette

• NCLL Wetmore Landing to Little Presque Isle Hike. Meet others to hike a portion of the North Country Trail. Trail consists of rocks, roots and steep stairs. Rain date is June 16. Register by the 8th. NCLL members, $3; nonmembers, $10. 10 a.m. Wetmore Landing, CR-550. (906) 345-9295. • Puppet Making Workshop. Patricia Helsel will lead this class. Advanced registration required, space limited. Pre-K, 9:45 a.m.; K to Grade 2, 10:30 a.m.; Grade 3 and older, 2 p.m.; all ages, 4:15 p.m. Great Room, Peter White Public Library, 217 N. Front St. (906) 226-4323. • Congregate Meals for Seniors–Dine in or Curbside Pickup. Meals available to those age 60 and older. Call to reserve a meal. $3.50 suggested donation. Noon to 1 p.m. Marquette Senior Center, 300 W. Spring St. (906) 228-0456. • Visual Art Class: Wax Resist with Colleen Maki. This class is for those age 55 and older. Advanced registered required. Marquette city residents, free; nonresidents, $5. 1 to 3 p.m. Marquette Arts and Culture Center, lower level, Peter White Public Library, 217 N. Front St. (906) 225-8655. • League of Women Voters Annual Meeting. Those interested in learning about the League’s activities and volunteer opportunities are invited. Open to women and men age 16 and older. 6 p.m. Ore Dock

Brewing Company, 114 W. Spring St. (906) 225-9103 or kwinokur@scbglobal.net • An Evening of Singing Bowls. Experience relaxation and peace of sound meditation through Tibetan singing bowls and gongs. 7 p.m. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 201 E. Ridge St. (906) 362-9934. • Sierra Club: Hug a Tree. Michigan Sierra Club Wilderness guides and instructors Michael Neiger and Todd Theoret will discuss wilderness survival program for children who become lost in the woods. 7 p.m. Community Room, Peter White Public Library, 217 N. Front St. (906) 226-4322. • NMU Theatre: Footloose. This dance musical is based on the film. NMU students, $5; other students, $10, seniors and military, $12; others, $17. 8 p.m. Black Box Theatre, NMU. tickets.nmu.edu

Negaunee

• Negaunee City Band Concert. Bring your own chair and enjoy a night of music. 7:30 p.m. Outdoor Performing Arts Center, east end of Iron St.

Skandia

• Farmers Market. 4 to 7 p.m. Skandia Farmers Market, 9271 US-41 S.

16 THURSDAY

sunrise 5:56 a.m.; sunset 9:45 p.m.

Escanaba

• Michigan Notable Book Series. Author David Hardin will discuss Standpipe: Delivering Water in Flint. 4:30 p.m. Escanaba Public Library, 400 Ludington St. (906) 789-7323.

Gladstone

• Summer Concert Series. The Backroads 906 will perform. Bring a blanket and chairs. 7 p.m. Van Cleve Park. deltami.org

L’Anse

• Lakefront Concert Series. Enjoy a night of music by the Derrell Syria Project. Bring a chair and blanket. Rain location is Meadowbrook Arena. 7 p.m. Lakefront Park, Broad St.

Marquette

• Bergonzi String Trio Children’s Concert. Families and youth are invited for the interactive concert. 10:30 a.m. Community Room, Peter White Public Library, 217 N. Front St. (906) 226-4323. • Superiorland Duplicate Bridge Club. Games open to all interested players. 1 p.m. $5 for games. Westwood Mall, 3020 US-41 West. superiorland_bridge.tripod. com or (906) 360-3056. • Music on Third. Musicians will perform outside businesses from Fair Avenue to Ridge Street. 6 to 8 p.m. Third St. downtownmarquette.org • Interactive Movie: Finding Nemo. Families and youth are invited for the movie. Snacks and props provided. 6:30 p.m. Community Room, Peter White Public Library, 217 N. Front St. (906) 226-4323. • Bergonzi Trio Concert: Stories in Music. As part of the Pine Mountain Music Festival, the Bergonzi Trio will perform. Youth, $9.50; adults, $24.50. 7:30 p.m. Kaufman Auditorium, 611 N. Front St. pmmf.org • NMU Theatre: Footloose. This dance musical is based on the film. NMU students, $5; other students, $10, seniors

and military, $12; others, $17. 8 p.m. Black Box Theatre, NMU. tickets.nmu.edu • Registration Deadline: NCLL Ecology and Management of Black Bears. See Thursday the 23rd. • Registration Deadline: NCLL Introduction to Fly Fishing on the Escanaba River. See Thursday the 23rd.

17 FRIDAY

sunrise 5:56 a.m.; sunset 9:45 p.m.

Gwinn

• Great Lakes Rodeo. Activities include the rodeo riding completion and NBHA barrel racing. Youth five and younger, free; six to twelve, $6; seniors, $8; thirteen and older, $12. Noon. 150 W. Johnson Lake Rd. greatlakesrodeo.com

Houghton

• Bridgefest. Activities include helicopter rides, music, food, parade and more. Times and locations vary. bridgefestfun.com

Marquette

• LEGO Club. Meet other LEGO enthusiasts and build LEGO projects using the library’s LEGO blocks. 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Great Room, Peter White Public Library, 217 N. Front St. (906) 226-4323. • Superiorland Duplicate Bridge Club. Games open to all interested players. 1 p.m. $5 for games. Westwood Mall, 3020 US-41 West. superiorland_bridge.tripod. com or (906) 458-4844. • NMU Theatre: Footloose. This dance musical is based on the film. NMU students, $5; other students, $10, seniors and military, $12; others, $17. 8 p.m. Black Box Theatre, NMU. tickets.nmu.edu

Marquette

• Saturday Morning Farmers Market. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Marquette Commons, 112 S. Third St. mqtfarmersmarket.com • Superiorland Duplicate Bridge Club. Games open to all interested players. Lessons, 10 a.m. Games, 11:30 a.m. $5 for games. Westwood Mall, 3020 US-41 West. superiorland_bridge.tripod.com or (906) 236-3173. • NMU Theatre Sensory Friendly Performance: Footloose. This dance musical is based on the film. NMU students, $5; other students, $10, seniors and military, $12; others, $17. 2 p.m. Black Box Theatre, NMU. tickets.nmu.edu • NMU Theatre: Footloose. This dance musical is based on the film. NMU students, $5; other students, $10, seniors and military, $12; others, $17. 2 p.m. Black Box Theatre, NMU. tickets.nmu.edu • • • and military, $12; others, $17. 8 p.m. sunrise 5:56 a.m.; sunset 9:46 p.m. Black Box Theatre, NMU. tickets.nmu.edu

19 SUNDAY

Calumet

• Red Jacket Jamboree. This oldtime radio variety show will feature a performance by singer/songwriter John Davey. $25. 7 p.m. Keweenaw Storytelling Center, 215 Fifth St. (906) 934-2346 or redjacketjamboree.org

Gwinn

• Great Lakes Rodeo. Activities include cowboy church, team roping and breakaway roping and rodeo performance. Youth five and younger, free; six to twelve, $6; seniors, $8; thirteen and older, $12.

Noon. 150 W. Johnson Lake Rd.

Houghton

• Bridgefest. Activities include helicopter rides and ice cream. Times and locations vary. bridgefestfun.com

Marquette

• PMMF Upstarts Concert. 7:30 p.m. Kaufman Auditorium, 611 N. Front St. pmmf.org

20 MONDAY

sunrise 5:56 a.m.; sunset 9:46 p.m.

Crystal Falls

• PMMF Upstarts Concert. 7:30 p.m. CT. Crystal Theatre, 304 Superior Ave. pmmf.org

Escanaba

• Music Mondays. Jam Band will perform. Bring a blanket and chairs. 7 p.m. Karas Bandshell, Ludington Park.

Peter White Public Library, 217 N. Front St. (906) 226-4321. • Art Week Concert. Local musician Tret Fure will perform followed by the Driftless Revelers. 6 p.m. Band Shell, Presque Isle Park. • Global Geeks Book Club. The group will discuss Peach Blossom Paradise by Ge Fei. 6 p.m. Dandelion Cottage Room, Peter White Public Library, 217 N. Front St. (906) 226-4312. • Docu Cinema. The documentary film Quest: An Intimate Portrait of an African American Family will be shown. 7 p.m. Community Room, Peter White Public Library, 217 N. Front St. (906) 226-4322.

21 TUESDAY

sunrise 5:56 a.m.; sunset 9:46 p.m.

Eagle Harbor

Gladstone

• Farmers Market. 3 to 6 p.m. Gladstone Farmers Market, 911 Delta Ave. gladstonemi.org

• Adventures in History Series. MTU Professor Dr. Timothy Scarlett will present This Just In: New Results of Local Archaeological Paleoe nvironmental Studies. Keweenaw County Historical Society members, $5; nonmembers, $6. 7 p.m. Eagle Harbor Community Building, downtown. keweenawhistory.org

Marquette

Escanaba

• Mermaid Family Storytime. Families and youth are invited for sea books, songs and activities. Face painting available at 5:30 p.m. Costumes welcome. 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. Great Room, Peter White Public Library, 217 N. Front St. (906) 226-4323. • Teens Game On. Youth in grades 6 to 12 are invited for video games, board games and more. 1 to 3 p.m. Teen Zone,

• Lunch with the Munch Bunch. Youth ages 4 to 10 with an adult are invited for stories. Bring a sack lunch to eat. 11:30 a.m. Escanaba Public Library, 400 Ludington St. (906) 789-7323.

Houghton

• PMMF Upstarts Concert. 7:30 p.m. Rozsa Center, MTU. pmmf.org

18 SATURDAY

sunrise 5:56 a.m.; sunset 9:45 p.m.

Big Bay

• Town-wide Rummage Sale. Maps available at Phil’s 550 and Cram’s General Store. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Locations vary.

Grand Marais

• Splash-In on the Bay. Seaplanes will land in the bay for an afternoon of competions. Times vary. Downtown.

Gwinn

• Great Lakes Rodeo. Activities include the odeo parade, youth rodeo and buckle series and rodeo performance. An after party will be begin at 9 p.m. at the Gwinn VFW. Youth five and younger, free; six to twelve, $6; seniors, $8; thirteen and older, $12. Noon. 150 W. Johnson Lake Rd. greatlakesrodeo.com

Houghton

• Bridgefest. Activities include helicopter rides, games, car show, food, music, fireworks and more. Times and locations vary. bridgefestfun.com • Bergonzi String Trio Children’s Concert. Families and youth are invited for the interactive concert. 10:30 a.m. Portage Lake United Church, 1400 E. Houghton Dr. pmmf.org • Bergonzi Trio Concert: Stories in Music. As part of the Pine Mountain Music Festival, the Bergonzi Trio will perform. Pay as you are able. 7:30 p.m. Rozsa Center, MTU. pmmf.org

Great Lakes Rodeo | June 17 - 19 | Gwinn

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Marquette

• Mermaid Book Marks. Supplies will be available to create a mermaid bookmark. 9:30 a.m. Youth Services, Peter White Public Library, 217 N. Front St. (906) 2264323. • PWPL Park Storytime. Families and youth are invited for outdoor stories, fingerplays, bubbles, parachute play and more. Rain location is the Great Room at Peter White Public Library. 9:30 a.m. Williams Park, corner of Pine and Ohio streets. (906) 226-4323. • NCLL Liaison Training. This two hour training will review pre and post presentation responsibilities. 10 a.m. Room 404A, Cohodas Hall, NMU. (906) 361-5370. • Oil Painting, Pastels and Drawing Classes with Marlene Wood. Bring your own supplies. $20. 1 to 3 p.m. Marquette Arts and Culture Center, lower level, Peter White Public Library, 217 N. Front St. (906) 225-8655. • Superiorland Duplicate Bridge Club. Games open to all interested players. 1 p.m. $5 for games. Westwood Mall, 3020 US-41 West. superiorland_bridge.tripod. com or (906) 236-1811. • NCLL Prison Ministries. Pastor Jon Hendry and Jay Norman will discuss their roles within the prison systems. Register by the 14h. NCLL members, $4; nonmembers, $10. 2 p.m. Community Room, Peter White Public Library, 217 N. Front St. (906) 4754252. • Teen Tuesdays: Ocean Painting. Youth in grades 6 to 12 are invited to paint a one-of-a-kind ocean painting with local artist Becca Ouimette. Supplies provided, no experience needed. 2 to 4 p.m. Great Room, Peter White Public Library, 217 N. Front St. (906) 226-4321. • Artists and Their Art: Hudson River School. Art historian Ellen Longsworth will discuss the Hudson River School art movement. 7 p.m. Via Zoom. pwpl.info

Munising

• Farmers and Artisans Market. 4 to 6 p.m. Bayshore Park, 355 Elm Ave. • Concert in the Park. Enjoy a night of music outdoors. 6:30 p.m. Bayshore Park, 355 Elm Ave.

abilities are welcome. 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Stash Crafters Lounge, 113 Cleveland Ave.

Marquette

• Mermaid Slime. Supplies will be available to create mermaid slime. Youth age 8 and younger must be accompanied by an adult. 10 a.m.; 11 a.m.; noon, 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. Great Room, Peter White Public Library, 217 N. Front St. (906) 226-4323. • All About Love Chalk Art Festival: Underwater Wonders. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. U.P. Children’s Museum, 123 W. Baraga Ave. (906) 226-3911 or upchildrensmuseum.org • Congregate Meals for Seniors–Dine in or Curbside Pickup. Meals available to those age 60 and older. Call to reserve a meal. $3.50 suggested donation. Noon to 1 p.m. Marquette Senior Center, 300 W. Spring St. (906) 228-0456. • Art Walk Wednesday. As part of Art Week, galleries and studios will hold demonstrations and special exhibits. 3 to 5 p.m. Downtown businesses. Artist booths, 4 to 7 p.m. Marquette Commons, 112 S. Third St. (906) 228-6027. • NMU Theatre: Footloose. This dance musical is based on the film. NMU students, $5; other students, $10, seniors and military, $12; others, $17. 8 p.m. Black Box Theatre, NMU. tickets.nmu.edu

Munising

• Concert in the Park. Enjoy a night of music outdoors. 6:30 p.m. Bayshore Park, 355 Elm Ave.

Negaunee

• Negaunee City Band Concert. Bring your own chair and enjoy a night of music. 7:30 p.m. Outdoor Performing Arts Center, east end of Iron St.

Skandia

• Farmers Market. 4 to 7 p.m. Skandia Farmers Market, 9271 US-41 S.

23 THURSDAY

sunrise 5:57 a.m.; sunset 9:47 p.m.

Copper Harbor

• Performances in the Park. Bring your own blankets, chairs and picnic baskets, and listen to music by Mojo, Jake and Friends. 7 to 9 p.m. Donny Kilpela Memorial Park.

Escanaba

• Live on the Lawn At Lunch Music Series. The Celtic folk group Failte’ will perform. Bobaloon’s food truck will be on site. 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. Escanaba Public Library, 400 Ludington St. (906) 789-7323.

Gladstone

• Summer Concert Series. Big Al and the Tomatas will perform. Bring a blanket and chairs. 7 p.m. Van Cleve Park. deltami. org

L’Anse

• Lakefront Concert Series. Enjoy a night of music by the Keweenaw Brewgrass. Bring a chair and blanket. Rain location is Meadowbrook Arena. 7 p.m. Lakefront Park, Broad St.

Marquette

• Foot Clinic. This clinic is for people age 55 and older. Appointments necessary. $25. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Marquette Senior Center, 300 W. Spring St. (906) 228-0456. • Reading with Superiorland Pet Partners. Youth are invited to read to friendly, trained therapy dogs. Rain location is in the Great Room. 10 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Front lawn, Peter White Public Library, 217 N. Front St. (906) 226-4323. • Presque Isle Art Fair. The art fair will feature works by local artists. Music, food and drinks will be available. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Presque Isle Station, 2901 Island Beach Rd. • Playing with Pottery. Join MooseWood Nature Center for a pottery wheel demonstration and test your skills at bowl making with the wheel or hand. Noon to 4 p.m. Moosewood Nature Center, Presque Isle. (906) 228-6250 or moosewood.org • 17th Annual Cemetery Walk: Railroad Connections. The tour will feature people

22 WEDNESDAY

Calumet

• Red Jacket Readers Book Club. The group will discuss The Summer Book by Tove Jansson. 6:30 p.m. Calumet Public Library, 57070 Mine St. (906) 337-0311.

• Alumni Co-Ed Softball Tournament. Watch as alumni teams compete for the championship. Times vary. Forsyth Township Baseball Field, Off Johnson Lake Rd. gwinnmi.com

• Music in the Park. Grand Design Band will perform. Donations appreciated. 6:30 p.m. Erickson Center Park, N9224 Sawwa-Quato St. ericksoncenter.org

Hancock

• Finnish American Folk School Dance. Violinist Sara Pajunen and the Thimbleberry Band will perform. Masks required. Advanced tickets, $10; at the door, $15. 7:30 p.m. Finnish American Heritage Center, 435 Quincy St. (906) 4877549 or finlandia.edu/folkschool

Escanaba

• Farmers Market. 3 to 6 p.m. Escanaba Farmers Market, 1501 Ludington St. (906) 789-8696.

Ishpeming

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24 FRIDAY

sunrise 5:57 a.m.; sunset 9:47 p.m.

• Friends of the Calumet Public Library Members Used Book Sale. Memberships sold at the door. Books, CDs and DVDs will be available for purchase. Proceeds benefit the Friends of the Calumet Public Library. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Multi-purpose Room, Calumet Public Library, 57070 Mine St. (906) 337-0311.

sunrise 5:56 a.m.; sunset 9:46 p.m.

• Marquette Shipwrecks. Members of the Marquette Maritime Museum will discuss shipwrecks near Marquette. 6 p.m. Ishpeming Carnegie Public Library, 317 N. Main St. (906) 486-4381. • Yooper Knitz Open Craft Night. Knitters, crocheters and crafters of all

connected to the railroads, including Joseph LaFave and Timothy Patenaude. Rain date is June 30. $5 suggested donation. 1 and 6 p.m. Holy Cross Cemetery, 1400 Wright St. (906) 226-3571 or marquettehistory.org • NCLL Ecology and Management of Black Bears. DNR Wildlife Specialist Cody Norton will discuss techniques for monitoring and assessing the health of the black bear population, partnerships with other organizations and how the hunting lotto manages bear populations. Register by the 16th. NCLL members, $3; nonmembers, $10. 1:30 p.m. Community Room, Peter White Public Library, 217 N. Front St. (906) 475-4252. • Superiorland Duplicate Bridge Club. Games open to all interested players. 1 p.m. $5 for games. Westwood Mall, 3020 US-41 West. superiorland_bridge.tripod. com or (906) 360-3056. • Interactive Movie Sing-a-long: The Little Mermaid. Families and youth are invited for an interactive movie experience. Snacks and props provided. Costumes encouraged. 6:30 p.m. Community Room, Peter White Public Library, 217 N. Front St. (906) 226-4323. • NCLL Introduction to Fly Fishing on the Escanaba River. Learn about fly casting, reading rivers, how to set up a rod and more. Superior Outfitters will provide fly fishing equipment. A Michigan fishing license is required. Register by the 16th. NCLL members, $3; nonmembers, $10. 6:30 p.m. Meet at Tadcyh’s Marketplace to carpool to the location. (906) 486-9861. • Marquette City Band Concert. 7:30 p.m. Band Shell, Presque Isle Park. marquettecityband.com • NMU Theatre: Footloose. This dance musical is based on the film. NMU students, $5; other students, $10, seniors and military, $12; others, $17. 8 p.m. Black Box Theatre, NMU. tickets.nmu.edu

Marquette Finnish American Folk School Dance with Sara Pajunen | June 24 | Hancock

June 2022

• Mermaid Necklaces. Supplies will be available to make a mermaid necklace. 9:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Youth Services, Peter White Public Library, 217 N. Front St. (906) 226-4323.

• Free Blood Pressure/Blood Sugar Clinic. This clinic is free to resident ages 55 and older. Appointments necessary. 11 a.m. Marquette Senior Center, 300 W. Spring St. (906) 228-0456. • Docu Cinema Matinee. The documentary film Quest: An Intimate Portrait of an African American Family will be shown. Noon. Community Room, Peter White Public Library, 217 N. Front St. (906) 226-4322. • Superiorland Duplicate Bridge Club. Games open to all interested players. 1 p.m. $5 for games. Westwood Mall, 3020 US-41 West. superiorland_bridge.tripod. com or (906) 458-4844. • Marquette Trails Fest. Activities include the youth dual Slalom, youth run, adult dual slalom and a 5k run. Proceeds benefit the Noquemanon Trail Network. Prices and event times vary. Marquette Mountain, 4501 M-553. marquettetrailsfestival.com • Fresh Coast Plein Air Painting Festival and Competition. Painters are invited to paint throughout the Lake Superior shoreline and within the Marquette City limits. Painters entering the competiton must register in advance. 5 to 10 p.m. Locations vary. (906) 228-0472 or artsculture@marquettemi.gov • NMU Theatre: Footloose. This dance musical is based on the film. NMU students, $5; other students, $10, seniors and military, $12; others, $17. 8 p.m. Black Box Theatre, NMU. tickets.nmu.edu

25 SATURDAY

sunrise 5:57 a.m.; sunset 9:47 p.m.

Alberta

• Alberta Fest. Activities include an outdoor art and craft fair, car show, fishing, food and more. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 9 miles south of L’Anse on US-41.

Calumet

• Summer Market. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Calumet Art Center, 57055 Fifth St. (906) 934-2228. • Used Book Sale. Books, CDs and DVDs will be available for purchase. Proceeds benefit the Friends of the Calumet Public Library. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Multi-purpose Room, Calumet Public Library, 57070 Mine St. (906) 337-0311.

Escanaba

• Missoula Children’s Theatre: The Emperor’s New Clothes. More than sixty children will perform in this production. Youth 5 and younger, free; six and older, $8. 3 and 6 p.m. Bonifas Arts Center, 700 First Avenue S. bonifasarts.org • Summer Movie Series. The movie Sing 2 will be shown. Bring a blanket, chairs and snacks. 9:30 p.m. Karas Bandshell, Ludington Park. deltami.org

Gwinn

• Fun Daze. Activities include a party, games, an antique car and truck show, food and more. Parade, 10 a.m. Park events, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Peter Nordeen Park, corner of Flint and Pine streets. • Alumni Co-Ed Softball Tournament. Watch as alumni teams compete for the championship. Times vary. Forsyth Township Baseball Field, Off Johnson Lake Rd. gwinnmi.com

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27 MONDAY

sunrise 5:56 a.m.; sunset 9:47 p.m.

Curtis

• Midsummer Medley Classic Concert. $15. 7 p.m. Pine Performance Center, N9224 Saw-wa-Quato St. mynorthtickets. com

Escanaba

• Music Mondays. Wingin’ It will perform. Bring a blanket and chairs. 7 p.m. Karas Bandshell, Ludington Park. deltami.org

Gladstone

• Farmers Market. 3 to 6 p.m. Gladstone Farmers Market, 911 Delta Ave. gladstonemi.org

Gwinn

Ballet: Faeries of the Night | June 26 | Marquette

Demonstrations. Instructors from the Finnish American Folk School will have traditional arts demonstrations. 10 a.m. to noon. Quincy Green, Finlandia University. (906) 487-7549 or finlandia.edu/folkschool • Finnish Song Workshop with Sara Pajunen. Learn to sing Finnish songs with Sara Pajunen. Learn words, melodies and stories of Finnish songs, along with Finnish pronunciation and English traslations. Advanced registration required. $20. 1 p.m. Quincy Green, Finlandia University. (906) 487-7549 or finlandia.edu/folkschool

Marquette

• Fresh Coast Plein Air Painting Festival and Competition. Painters are invited to paint throughout the Lake Superior shoreline and within the Marquette City limits. Painters entering the competition must register in advance. 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Locations vary. (906) 228-0472 or artsculture@marquettemi.gov • Marquette Trails Fest. Activities include the Twin Peaks Trail Run, Enduro and Criterium races. Proceeds benefit the Noquemanon Trail Network. Prices and event times vary. Marquette Mountain, 4501 M-553. marquettetrailsfestival.com • Saturday Morning Farmers Market. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Marquette Commons, 112 S. Third St. mqtfarmersmarket.com • Chess Challenge. Chess players ages 10 to 14, and 15 to 18 are invited a chess challenge. Bring boards and clocks if you have them. 10 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. Peter White Public Library, 217 N. Front St. (906) 226-4323. • Superiorland Duplicate Bridge Club. Games open to all interested players. Lessons, 10 a.m. Games, 11:30 a.m. $5 for games. Westwood Mall, 3020 US-41 West. superiorland_bridge.tripod.com or (906) 236-3173. • NMU Theatre: Footloose. This dance musical is based on the film. NMU students, $5; other students, $10, seniors and military, $12; others, $17. 8 p.m. Black Box Theatre, NMU. tickets.nmu.edu

26 SUNDAY

sunrise 5:58 a.m.; sunset 9:47 p.m.

Calumet

• Used Book Sale. Books, CDs and DVDs will be available for purchase. Proceeds benefit the Friends of the Calumet Public Library. 1 to 3 p.m. Multi-purpose Room, Calumet Public Library, 57070 Mine St. (906) 337-0311.

Gwinn

• Alumni Co-Ed Softball Tournament. Watch as alumni teams compete for the championship. Times vary. Forsyth Township Baseball Field, Off Johnson Lake Rd. gwinnmi.com

Ishpeming

• Ishpeming Area Historical Society Historic Places and Interesting Spaces Home Tour. Tour two historic homes, two gardens, two outdoor sites and the historic Gossard Building. $10. Noon to 4 p.m. Map of locations available upon ticket purchase. (906) 486-8680.

Marquette

• Marquette Trails Fest. Activities include youth and adult cross country bike races, and the downhill races. Proceeds benefit the Noquemanon Trail Network. Prices and event times vary. Marquette Mountain, 4501 M-553. marquettetrailsfestival.com • Ballet: Faeries of the Night. Local dancers will perform this original ballet written by Deborah Choszczyk. Youth 18 and younger, $5; seniors and military, $8; others, $10. 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. Kaufman Auditorium, 611 N. Front St. • What Can I Eat with This Beak? Through discussion, a game and a garden activity, children will learn about birds and how they adapt to their environment. Suggested donations, $5 per child, $10 per family. Noon. Moosewood Nature Center, Presque Isle. (906) 228-6250 or moosewood.org

Munising

• Pictured Rocks Road Race. Runners and walkers will compete in a half marathon and 10k races. Proceeds benefit the Munising Bay Trail Network. Prices vary. 8 a.m. Bayshore Park, 355 Elm Ave. (906) 387-2138.

June 2022

• Alumni Co-Ed Softball Tournament. Watch as alumni teams compete for the championship. Times vary. Forsyth Township Baseball Field, Off Johnson Lake Rd. gwinnmi.com

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• Boundless. Youth in kindergarten through Grade 6 are invited for crafts, games and more. Snacks and materials provided. Registration appreciated. 9 a.m. to noon. Messiah Lutheran Church, 305 Magnetic St. messiahlutheranmqt.org • Teens Game On. Youth in grades 6 to 12 are invited for video games, board games and more. 1 to 3 p.m. Teen Zone, Peter White Public Library, 217 N. Front St. (906) 226-4321. • Matisses’s Goldfish-Inspired Painting. Youth age 8 and older are invited to paint with Carol Phillips of the Liberty Children’s Art Project. Supplies provided, no experience needed. Advanced registration required, space is limited. 2 p.m. Great Room, Peter White Public Library, 217 N. Front St. (906) 226-4323. • Senior Theatre Experience Monthly Workshop. Those age 55 and older are invited for the monthly workshops and discussions. Advanced registration required. 4 p.m. Marquette Arts and Culture Center, lower level, Peter White Public Library, 217 N. Front St. (906) 225-8655. • Concert on the Steps. Singer and songwriter Chris Bathgate will perform. 7 p.m. Front steps, Peter White Public Library, 217 N. Front St. (906) 226-4322.

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• Alumni Co-Ed Softball Tournament. Watch as alumni teams compete for the championship. Times vary. Forsyth Township Baseball Field, Off Johnson Lake Rd. gwinnmi.com

Escanaba

• Lunch with the Munch Bunch. Youth ages 4 to 10 with an adult are invited for stories. Bring a sack lunch to eat. 11:30 a.m. Escanaba Public Library, 400 Ludington St. (906) 789-7323.

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• Boundless. Youth in kindergarten through Grade 6 are invited for crafts, games and more. Snacks and materials provided. Registration appreciated. 9 a.m. to noon. Messiah Lutheran Church, 305

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Magnetic St. messiahlutheranmqt.org • PWPL Park Storytime. Families and youth are invited for outdoor stories, fingerplays, bubbles, parachute play and more. Rain location is the Great Room at Peter White Public Library. 9:30 a.m. Williams Park, corner of Pine and Ohio streets. (906) 226-4323. • Superiorland Duplicate Bridge Club. Games open to all interested players. 1 p.m. $5 for games. Westwood Mall, 3020 US-41 West. superiorland_bridge.tripod. com or (906) 236-1811. • Oil Painting, Pastels and Drawing Classes with Marlene Wood. Bring your own supplies. $20. 1 to 3 p.m. Marquette Arts and Culture Center, lower level, Peter White Public Library, 217 N. Front St. (906) 225-8655. • Bluesday Tuesday. Enjoy a night of blues music. 7 p.m. Front steps, Peter White Public Library, 217 N. Front St. (906) 2264322.

Munising

• Farmers and Artisans Market. 4 to 6 p.m. Bayshore Park, 355 Elm Ave. • Concert in the Park. Enjoy a night of music outdoors. 6:30 p.m. Bayshore Park, 355 Elm Ave.

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Curtis

• Music in the Park. Tarnished will perform. Donations appreciated. 6:30 p.m. Erickson Center Park, N9224 Saw-waQuato St. ericksoncenter.org

Eagle Harbor

• Adventures in History Series. Learn

about two ships lost en route to the Soo Locks. Guy Meadows, director of Marine Engineering Lab, Great Lakes Research Center will present Where are the Inkermann and the Cerisoles? Keweenaw County Historical Society members, $5; nonmembers, $6. 7 p.m. Eagle Harbor Community Building, downtown. keweenawhistory.org

Gwinn

• Alumni Co-Ed Softball Tournament. Watch as alumni teams compete for the championship. Times vary. Forsyth Township Baseball Field, Off Johnson Lake Rd. gwinnmi.com

Escanaba

• Farmers Market. 3 to 6 p.m. Escanaba Farmers Market, 1501 Ludington St. (906) 789-8696.

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Marquette city residents, free; nonresidents, $5. 1 to 3 p.m. Marquette Arts and Culture Center, lower level, Peter White Public Library, 217 N. Front St. (906) 225-8655. • Meet the Author. Author Kelsey Ronan will discuss her book Chevy in the Hole. A discussion will be lead by Suma Rosen. 6 p.m. The Crib, 401 N. Third St. • Wandering Through the Land of the Thunder Dragon. John Frick will present his ten-day hiking and cultural immersion trip to the Kingdom of Bhutan. 7 p.m. Shiras Room, Peter White Public Library, 217 N. Front St. (906) 226-4322.

Negaunee

• Negaunee City Band Concert. Bring your own chair and enjoy a night of music. 7:30 p.m. Outdoor Performing Arts Center, east end of Iron St.

Skandia

• Farmers Market. 4 to 7 p.m. Skandia Farmers Market, 9271 US-41 S.

30 THURSDAY

sunrise 6:00 a.m.; sunset 9:47 p.m.

Copper Harbor

• Performances in the Park. Bring your own blankets, chairs and picnic baskets, and listen to music by B&B. 7 to 9 p.m. Donny Kilpela Memorial Park.

Gladstone

• Summer Concert Series. Sit Down Francis will perform. Bring a blanket and chairs. 7 p.m. Van Cleve Park. deltami.org

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• Alumni Co-Ed Softball Tournament. Watch as alumni teams compete for

the championship. Times vary. Forsyth Township Baseball Field, Off Johnson Lake Rd. gwinnmi.com

L’Anse

• Lakefront Concert Series. Enjoy a night of music by Adam Carpenter & Upper Hand. Bring a chair and blanket. Rain location is Meadowbrook Arena. 7 p.m. Lakefront Park, Broad St.

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• Boundless. Youth in kindergarten through Grade 6 are invited for crafts, games and more. Snacks and materials provided. Registration appreciated. 9 a.m. to noon. Messiah Lutheran Church, 305 Magnetic St. messiahlutheranmqt.org • Summer Reading Book Fair. Those registered in the Summer Reading program can bring their reading log and choose a free book. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Community Room, Peter White Public Library, 217 N. Front St. (906) 226-4323. • Superiorland Duplicate Bridge Club. Games open to all interested players. 1 p.m. $5 for games. Westwood Mall, 3020 US-41 West. superiorland_bridge.tripod. com or (906) 360-3056. • 1400 Lakeshore Blvd–Talk and Tour Fundraiser. Learn the history of the property, what it’s like to live on the shores of Lake Superior and tour the inside of the cabin that was built without hardware. $75 per person. 2:30 and 5:30 p.m. Marquette Regional History Center, 145 W. Spring St. (906) 226-3571 or marquettehistory.org • Buffet Bash. This outdoor concert will feature a Jimmy Buffet tribute band. NMU students, $5; other students, $10, seniors and military, $12; others, $17. 8 p.m. Shoreline Theatre, NMU tickets. nmu.edu

support groups • Alano Club. Twelve-step recovery meetings daily. Monday through Saturday, noon and 8 p.m. Sunday, 9 a.m. and 8 p.m. 1202 S. Front St., Southgate Plaza, Marquette. • Al-Anon Family Groups. A fellowship offering strength and hope for friends and families of problem drinkers. alalon.org or (888) 425-2666. • Alcoholics Anonymous. Meetings throughout Marquette County, open daily, at many locations and times. Twenty-four-hour answering service, (800) 605-5043 or aa-marquettecounty. org • ALZConnected. This is a free, online community for everyone affected by Alzheimer’s disease and other memory loss diseases. alzconnected.org • American Legacy Foundation. Smoking quit line for expectant mothers and cessation information for women. (800) 668-8278. • Amputee Social Group. This peer support group is for amputees, friends and families to share resources, life experiences and create relationships. June 14. 6 p.m. Ice Cream Pavilion, Presque Isle Park. (906) 273-2444. • Blood Pressure, Blood Sugar and Cholesterol Checks. Cholesterol checks are $5. Call for Marquette County schedule. (906) 225-4545. • Divorce Care—Ishpeming. This non-

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denominational group is for people who are separated or divorced. New members are welcome. Tuesdays, 6 p.m. Northiron Church, 910 Palms Ave. (906) 475-6032 or northiron.church • Grief Share—Ishpeming. This nondenominational group is for people dealing with grief and loss. Mondays, 2:30 p.m. Northiron Church, 910 Palms Ave. (906) 475-6032 or northiron. church • iCanQuit. Smokers are invited to learn more about quitting with the help of a quitting coach. (800) 480-7848. • Lake Superior Life Care and Hospice Grief Support Group—Gwinn. People dealing with grief and loss are encouraged to attend. Individual grief counseling is available. June 8. 2 p.m. Forsyth Senior Center, 165 Maple St. (906) 225-7760 or lakesuperiorhospice.org • Lake Superior Life Care and Hospice Grief Support Group—Marquette. People dealing with grief and loss are encouraged to attend. Individual grief counseling is available. June 15. 5:30 p.m. Lake Superior Hospice, 914 W. Baraga Ave. (906) 225-7760 or lakesuperiorhospice.org • Lake Superior Life Care and Hospice Grief Support Group—Negaunee. People dealing with grief and loss are encouraged to attend. Individual grief counseling is available. June 16. 3 p.m. Negaunee Senior Center, 410 Jackson St.

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(906) 475-6266 or lakesuperiorhospice. org • Michigan Tobacco Quit Line. This free quit smoking coaching hotline provides callers with a personal health coach. (800) 784-8669. • National Alliance on Mental Illness— Support Group. Individuals living with mental illness and friends or families living with an individual with mental illness are welcome for Zoom meetings. June 13 and June 16. 7 p.m. Call (906) 360-7107 or email ckbertucci58@charter. net for Zoom invitation, or namimqt.com • Nar-Anon Meetings. Family and friends who have addicted loved ones are invited. Thursdays, 6:30 p.m. Mission Covenant Church, 1001 N. Second St. (906) 361-9524. • Nicotine Anonymous. (415) 750-0328 or www.nicotine-anonymous.org • Parkinson’s Support Group— Marquette. June 22. 2 p.m. Marquette Senior Center, 300 W. Spring St. (906) 228-0456. • Senior Support Group—Marquette. Learn about senior nutrition. June 16. 2 p.m. Mill Creek Clubhouse, 1728 Windstone Dr. (906) 225-7760 or lakesuperiorhospice.org • Sexual Health and Addiction Therapy Group. Call Great Lakes Recovery Centers for more details. Dates, times and locations vary. (906) 228-9696.

• SMART Recovery—Calumet. A selfhelp group for alcohol and substance abuse and other addictive behaviors. Mondays, 7 p.m. Copper Country Mental Health, 56938 Calumet Avenue. smartrecovery.org • SMART Recovery — Hancock. Thursdays, 7 p.m. Basement Conference Room, Old Main Building, Finlandia University, 601 Quincy St. smartrecovery. org • SMART Recovery — Marquette. Mondays, Noon. Zoom meeting. Visit smartrecovery.com for Zoom link. • Take Off Pounds Sensibly. This is a non-commercial weight-control support group. Various places and times throughout the U.P. (800) 932-8677 or TOPS.org • Virtual Caregiver Support Group. U.P. family caregivers are welcome to join. A device with an internet connection, webcam, microphone and an email address are required. Advanced registration required. 2 p.m. Second Tuesday of the month. (906) 217-3019 or caregivers@upcap.org • Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Supplemental Food Program. Clinics include nutritional counseling and coupon pick-up. Appointments required. Call for Marquette County schedule. mqthealth.org or (906) 475-7846.

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