U.P. Living In The Upper Peninsula


 
 

Thursday, June 7, 2012

Books   Book on Jackson Mine brings history alive for today's tourist      6/7/2012

NEGAUNEE — Author Robert D. Dobson has written a new book on the Jackson Iron Ore Mine and the Section One land it was built on — We're Going to the 1845 Jackson Mine, Negaunee, Michigan.



Friday, January 1, 2010

Books   NMU professor's book takes a look at the future of passenger rail service      1/1/2010

James McCommons spent a one-year sabbatical from NMU riding the rails across much of the Amtrak system to research his new book, Waiting on a Train: The Embattled Future of Passenger Rail Service.



Monday, November 23, 2009

Books   Big Shoulders      11/23/2009

ESCANABA — Seventy years ago, the Upper Peninsula was home to over thirty CCC work camps. Escanaba-based author Bill Jamerson, tells the story of these camps through the eyes of a seventeen-year-old youth.



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