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Superiorland Yesterdays

Superiorland Yesterdays

EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference desk staff at Peter White Public Library. 30 years ago NEGAUNEE — For its final concert of the season, the Negaunee City Band has a special treat for its audience - a second annual evening of circus music. The concert will be at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Vista Theatre in Negaunee. Guest conductor for the concert will be Robert B. Hills Jr. of Delaware Ohio, who conducted the same music in June in Corydon, Indiana for the Windjammers Circus Band. The program will begin with several center ring concert numbers ...

Superiorland Yesterdays

EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference desk staff at Peter White Public Library. 30 years ago MUNISING — An $8,600 state grant will help build a fishing pier at the mouth of the Anna River in Munising. The city received the grant from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources Coastal Management Program. The grant will be matched locally with in-kind services. City Manager Judy Slancik said the funds should be received in October, but construction of the pier won’t begin until after spring fishing in 1995. 60 years ago ALGER — A northern pike ...

Superiorland Yesterdays

EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference desk staff at Peter White Public Library. 30 years ago AuTRAIN — The Iron Bay Auction Company will hold an open house and ice cream social on Sunday July 24 from 11 am to 2pm at the Hiawatha Folk Craft and Art Center. The social will preview the Saturday, Aug. 6th real estate auction regarding the Paulson House Museum, the former Avery Color Studios, and the folk craft and art center. The center is located on AuTrain Lake, two miles south of the M-28 caution light on Forest Lake Road. . 60 years ago MENOMINEE ...

Superiorland Yesterdays

EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference desk staff at Peter White Public Library. 30 years ago WATERSMEET — One state fish hatchery in the Upper Peninsula and three downstate will be taken out of production by the end of next year. Conservation director Ralph A. MacMullan, Lansing, yesterday announced that the Watersmeet hatchery in Gogebic County and Lower Peninsula hatcheries at Paris, Grayling, and Benton Harbor will be discontinued in keeping with recommendations made in the “new look” fisheries management program adopted by the conservation ...

Superiorland Yesterdays

EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference desk staff at Peter White Public Library. 30 years ago MARQUETTE — The Peter White Library Board has approved a contract with Sundberg, Carlson and Associates Inc. for expansion and renovation of the library. Also involved in the planning and design will be Frye Gillan Milinaro Architects Ltd. Of Chicago. The firms will meet with library staff, building committee members, board members, and the public to identify needs for the library’s departments and services in a series of interviews beginning today through ...

Superiorland Yesterdays

EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference desk staff at Peter White Public Library. 30 years ago RESEARCH VESSEL EDWIN LINK — The Edmund Fitzgerald has been Tom Farnquist’s passion since he heard the first radio reports of its fatal plunge to the bottom of Lake Superior. Nineteen years later he has come face to face with the legendary vessel which inspired him to establish the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society and the museum commemorating the voyages. “It’s always been a dream to get a look at it firsthand.” Farnquist said Monday after a two ...