EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference staff at the Peter White Public Library in Marquette.

30 years ago

MARQUETTE – Art lovers and anyone else who enjoyed the weekend’s warm sunshine can thank Anita Meyland. The founder of Art on the Rocks, which made its 33rd appearance in Marquette over the weekend, is being credited with bringing summer weather back to the Upper Peninsula. Since she started the shows at the base of the Father Marquette statue on Front Street in 1959, Meyland has been blessed with good weather. After a few years, the show moved to Presque Isle Park. The weather wasn’t always dependable. Art or warm weather brought out what may be a record number of visitors this year said Pat Hicks, publicity chairwoman of Lake Superior Art Association, which sponsors the show each year. “The artists I spoke with were selling very well,” Hicks said. There were about 140 artists at the show. John Heath of Skandia has been showing his oil paintings and prints at the show since it began. “I saw a lot of people leaving with art,” he said. “I sold a lot of originals.”

60 years ago

MARQUETTE — The Marquette 4-H Saddle Club will make its annual trail ride to Camp Shaw at Chatham tomorrow. The riders plan to stay overnight. The ride is 25 miles long and takes most of the day to complete. Riders will leave the DeVought’s Fertile Valley Farm at 11:30 a.m. and will ride up the West Branch of the Chocolay River to Skandia, where they will follow U.S. 41 and then M-94 to Chatham. The group will eat lunch on the way.