30 years ago

MARQUETTE – Couples have many unique strategies for tackling boredom: going to the movies, getting together with friends, or maybe having a game night. Gary and Joannie McGuffin, on the other hand, go on natural adventures. For their fifteen years of marriage, they have been exploring wild habitats that are used for inspiration in their books and lectures. Their most recent adventure? Canoeing the circumference of Lake Superior. They will be in Marquette this weekend promoting their book “Superior: Journeys on an Inland Sea” that chronicles their 80 day circumnavigation in 1989. The MacGuffin’s started their trip canoeing side by side from the Nipigon River, Ont. with no itinerary, just gear, and returned 80 days later. Their closeness to nature, especially Lake Superior, have made the McGuffins advocates for environmental preservation, speaking at the International Joint Commission about potential dangers to the great lakes health.

60 years ago

MUNISING – Munising High School superintendent William T. MacNeil announces that the school public library was accepted for membership in the Mid-Peninsula Library Federation. Benefits of this federation are as follows: the librarian will be able to see and study book collections before ordering, new books will come to school with four cards (saving time), the library members receive three year subscriptions to thirty magazines, and the school will receive a revolving collection of books from the federation alongside requests for other volumes.