Anyone familiar with the Academy Award nominated film, Anatomy of a Murder, knows that it was filmed in the U.P. The movie is based on a true story that was turned into a novel written by former Michigan Supreme Court justice, John Voelker. Courtroom scenes for the movie were filmed in the [...]

You have got to see the pictures at the Mining Journal of the hailstorm that hit Marquette yesterday afternoon. Apparently the hail fell in the midst of a tornado watch and severe thunderstorm warning.
It is surreal to see a guy running through downtown Marquette in “drifts” of hail. Too weird.

Coming this April to the Marquette County Historical Museum is an exhibit dedicated to those wonderful souls who call Michigan’s Upper Peninsula home and are affectionately referred to as ‘Yoopers.’ The exhibit will be called “Anatomy of a Yooper.” This appears to be a play on the popular novel “An Anatomy of a [...]

Fred Rydholm is a local historian up in Marquette. He has written a few Michigan-related books in the past, but his newest one will contradict what most of us have been taught about history. His new book is entitled “Michigan Copper - The Untold Story.”
As a boy he saw the ancient copper [...]