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La Catrina Quartet. The La Catrina Quartet is a group of four U.S.-based classical musicians who specialize in traditional and classical music from the Americas as well as traditional European pieces. The group was formed in 2001 by four graduate students at the Western Michigan University. The group tours regularly through the United States ...
0631600 [ 8] Website. marquettemi .gov. Marquette ( / mɑːrˈkɛt / mar-KET) is the county seat of Marquette County and the largest city in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, United States. Located on the shores of Lake Superior, Marquette is a major port known primarily for shipping iron ore from the Marquette Iron Range.
12 mi (19 km) north of Marquette on Granite Island. 46°43′15″N 87°24′43″W. / 46.720833°N 87.411944°W / 46.720833; -87.411944 ( Granite Island Light Station) Marquette. The Granite Island Light was built in 1868 and commissioned in 1869. It is one of the oldest surviving lighthouses on Lake Superior. 11.
The L'Anse Indian Reservation is the land base of the federally recognized Keweenaw Bay Indian Community ( Ojibwe: Gakiiwe’onaning) of the historic Lake Superior Band of Chippewa Indians. (The Keweenaw Bay Indian Community was defined in 1934 by the Indian Reorganization Act as the successor apparent of the L’Anse and Ontonagon bands). [4]
Ilona Maher of Team USA rugby at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Ashley, who coaches at the Club, is thrilled Maher is bringing increased visibility to the sport. "Everybody knows she's hilarious and a ...
The first construction in the Arch and Ridge Streets Historic District was in 1867, when Peter White built the first house on the Ridge. [2] Most of the construction in the district took place over the next 35 years as other leading citizens of Marquette followed White's lead, including pioneer businessman and industrialist Hiram A. Burt, Charles H. Call, [2] Daniel Merritt, Andrew Ripka, [5 ...
Simona Ahrnstedt’s international best seller All In is a riveting, high-stakes love story that helped popularize the romance genre in her home country of Sweden. When the novel was first ...
Jacques Marquette, S.J. (June 1, 1637 – May 18, 1675), [ 1] sometimes known as Père Marquette or James Marquette, [ 2] was a French Jesuit missionary who founded Michigan 's first European settlement, Sault Sainte Marie, and later founded Saint Ignace. In 1673, Marquette, with Louis Jolliet, an explorer born near Quebec City, was the first ...