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Superior History

The Michigan North Woods Club

By Jennifer Lammi It was the spring of 1925 when the recreation committee of the Hamilton Club of Chicago first met to establish a hunting and fishing club for interested members. This meeting was the beginning of the Michigan North Woods Club. After several trips to the area, they ...

Superior History Quiz

In the diary she kept in 1858, 12-year-old Ellen Harlow recorded picking many quarts of raspberries and blueberries. She called the raspberries “raspberries” but used a different name for blueberries. What was it? A) Huckleberries B) Whortleberries C) Bilberries D) Little blue ...

Norman ‘Nommy’ Boulden

MARQUETTE — Eleven-year-old Nommy Boulden hopped off the daily train from Marquette to Big Bay in 1919. He was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin in June 1908 and came with his family to the busy lumbering town when his father landed a job there. Young Nommy wiggled on the seats of the wooden ...

‘Mummu: The Lady Behind the Loom’

EDITOR’S NOTE: This work is exerpted from the book, “Mummu: The Lady Behind the Loom.” MARQUETTE — Fannie Salmela was born in the Helsinki, Finland area in 1895. She came to the United States at the age of 16, settling in the central Upper Peninsula where she worked as a housekeeper ...