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4-H Archaeology Fun Project Camp at the Carnegie Museum!!
This Wednesday, July 28, Thursday, July 29, and Friday, July 30, 10 until noon.
Ages 8 – 13. Cost is $15.00 for non 4-H members, $5.00 for members.
At Archaeology Fun camp, kids will have the opportunity to learn how to think like an archaeologist, explore the types of objects that archaeologists uncover to learn about how people lived in the past, participate in a simulated excavation, and create a real museum exhibit about their findings that will be displayed at the Carnegie Museum.
All supplies will be provided, but bring a hat and water bottle.
You must be registered ahead and space is limited, so email(withheld for archive)
Local Author, Historian and Researcher to Speak at Portage Library !!
The Portage Lake District Library continues to offer programs for the community as part of its Summer Reading Program series of events.On Thursday, July 29, from 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m., local author and Michigan Tech Professor of History Dr. Larry Lankton will present "Water, Life, and Industry on the Keweenaw."
Starting from the mid-19th century, copper, forests, and water were the three key natural resources that shaped settlement patterns and a way of life and industry on the Keweenaw. Lankton's talk will particularly emphasize the importance of water within the realms of transportation, industrial development, and community location. He will also explore changes in attitudes about water and how water resources and lakes came to be better protected in the region after more than a century of being seen as convenient dumping grounds for industrial waste byproducts, especially stamp sands.
Lankton's primary area of study and research is 19th century American industrialization and the social history of industrial communities. He particularly focuses on the history of the copper mining industry in the Keweenaw. Lankton has authored three books and several journal articles on the history of the Lake Superior copper district. His research has been supported by fellowships at the Smithsonian Institution, the Hagley Museum and Library, and the Dibner Institute at MIT.
There will be a book signing after the presentation for his new book Hollowed Ground: Copper Mining and Community Building on Lake Superior, 1840s – 1990s.
Library programs are free and everyone is welcome to attend. For more information, please call the library at 482-4570 or visit www.pldl.org.
Strawberry Farming Thesis Presentation at Portage Library !!
The public is invited to a unique opportunity at the Portage Lake District Library to hear a Michigan Tech senior thesis presentation about local strawberry farming.
Catherine Cogger will present "Strawberry Farming in the Sturgeon River Valley: A Biography of the Land" on Friday, July 30, from 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Her thesis traces the history of strawberry farming in the Upper Peninsula with specific focus on the Sturgeon River Valley in Houghton County and its progression from being one of the largest cash crops in the Upper Peninsula to its current status. Cogger's research will strive to answer why strawberry farming in the Sturgeon River Valley has declined alongside small farming in the United States and what the cultural, social, and economic implications are for farmers as a result of this decline.
Her presentation will provide a history and an analysis of the broader trends in small farming and show how this history has affected strawberry farming in the Sturgeon River Valley. Specific focus will be given to one particular farm in the Sturgeon River Valley from pre-1950 to the present. This farm serves to provide a local context for greater nationwide trends in farming.
Cogger is finishing her Bachelors degree in Anthropology at Michigan Technological University under the direction of Dr. Susan Martin. Her presentation will include slides and a question and answer period.
This presentation is free and open to all. For more information, please call the library at 482-4570 or visit www.pldl.org.
CCHE Curriculum Sale - Now on Facebook!
Just a reminder that CCHE has a Facebook page for socializing and promotion. If you use facebook, check us out at: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=113169952068172 and please consider posting the curriculum sale event to your wall to help promote it. The more people that attend, the better the chance of selling your items!
Remember the curriculum sale is August 14th. Book drop off at 9am with list and information cards. Free refreshments available throughout the morning. Please consider staying for socializing and shopping. Pick-up unsold items at 1:30pm. Contact Val at (withheld for archive)ccheupdates@gmail.com if you have any questions or need to make other arrangements.
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