For the past five years, the Marquette Regional History Center has sponsored a search for Native American trail marker trees in Marquette County. Many Indigenous peoples in North America bent trees into distinctive shapes when they were saplings, to convey specific messages. Most were used to ...

In 1972, local resident (and original co-host of “Finland Calling”) Eugene Sinervo published an amusing hand-drawn map of the United States that had the U.P. about the same size as the rest of the country put together. What is the only U.P. river prominently shown on the map? A) Sand ...

MARQUETTE — In honor of National Library Week, tribute is paid to Lydia M. Olson, the first librarian of Northern State Normal (later Northern State Teachers College and now Northern Michigan University). During her 33-year tenure she supervised the moving of the library to several different ...

MARQUETTE — Marquette is a watery place. Eighty miles of Lake Superior shoreline define the northern and eastern boundaries of the county. Inland lakes, left from glacial times, and swift streams from the highlands to the west weave together the land. The earliest people lived by the water ...