Arnold performs in L’Anse

L’ANSE — The unique blend of country, blues and folk music of Jan Arnold will be featured at the L’Anse Lakefront Concerts at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 21 in Lakefront Park at the foot of Broad Street.

This concert is free.

Pop Up Book Sale on Saturday

MARQUETTE — The Friends of the Peter White Public Library will be having a Pop Up Book Sale on the main floor of the library from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 23.

UPAWS sets Rainbow Bridge Walk

NEGAUNEE — The Upper Peninsula Animal Welfare Shelter is planning a Rainbow Bridge Memorial Walk on the Iron Ore Heritage Trail Sunday, June 24.

Registration will be from 11 a.m. to noon, at the trail access point on Tobin Street in Negaunee, with a Memorial Service at noon followed by a 1.5-mile walk.

The registration fee is $25 with all proceeds going toward the UPAWS Capital Campaign for a New Shelter.

This is a chance to honor and remember a pet who has died. The event will be an opportunity to honor beloved pets and loved ones and the bond shared.

People also can pay tribute to a beloved pet or loved one with a naming opportunity in UPAWS’s new shelter Memorial Garden. Visit the UPAWS First Giving Page at firstgiving.com/event/upaws/Rainbow-Bridge-Memorial-March for details. Those who take advantage of the naming opportunity will have free registration for the Rainbow Bridge Memorial Walk.

For more information, call UPAWS at 475-6661.

Messiah Lutheran Bible School set

MARQUETTE — Messiah Lutheran Church will have a Vacation Bible School June 25-29 from 9 a.m. to noon for 3-year-olds through those who have completed fifth grade.

There is no charge to attend.

This year’s theme is God’s Good Creation and the program will focus on issues of world hunger.

Messiah Lutheran Church is at 305 W. Magnetic St., Marquette. For more information or to register, call the church office at 225-1119 or visit Messiah’s website at www.messiahlutheranmqt.org

Lunch with Tichelaar June 29

MARQUETTE — Marquette Regional History Center presents: Lunch with the History People — featuring Tyler Tichelaar on June 29.

Learn more about local history. Bring a bag lunch at noon June 29 to the History Center to listen to Tyler R. Tichelaar.

Tichelaar is a seventh generation resident of Marquette. Since age 8, he wanted to be a writer, and at age 16 he began writing his first novel, which years later was published as “The Only Thing That Lasts.” He was inspired to write this novel and the many that followed, including “The Marquette Trilogy,” because of an early interest in local history, inspired by stories his grandfather told him. The important role that Upper Michigan has played in American history is central to his work.

Tichelaar has a Ph.D. in Literature from Western Michigan University, and bachelor and master’s degrees in English from Northern Michigan University. He has served as the president of the Upper Peninsula Publishers and Authors Association, and he is the owner of his own publishing company, Marquette Fiction, and of Superior Book Productions, a professional editing and book design service.

In 2009, Tichelaar was awarded the Best Historical Fiction Award in the Reader Views Literary Awards for his novel “Narrow Lives.” He has since gone on to sponsor that award. In 2011, he received the Barb H. Kelly Historic Preservation Award from the Marquette Beautification and Restoration Committee for his book “My Marquette” and he received the Marquette County Arts Award that same year for an Outstanding Writer.

Tichelaar’s most recent works include “Willpower,” a play produced by the Marquette Regional History Center in September 2014 about Will Adams, Marquette’s Ossified Man; “Haunted Marquette” which explores more than 40 places in Marquette that are allegedly haunted; and his upcoming novel “When Teddy Came to Town” about the 1913 Marquette libel trial, to be published this summer.

Today, Tichelaar continues to live in Marquette, where the roar of Lake Superior, mountains of snow, and sandstone architecture inspire his writing. He has many future books in the planning.

Visit Tichelaar at his websites: www.MarquetteFiction.com for more information about him.

Call 906-226-3571 for more info on the MRHC event, or visit marquettehistory.org