The Beaumier News Beaumier U.P.

Heritage Center

147D Gries Hall

1401 Presque Isle Ave.

Marquette, MI 49855

906-227-1219

heritage@nmu.edu

Director/Curator:

Daniel Truckey

Student Assistants:

Riley Crawford

Elizabeth Fust

Casandra Somes

Volunteer:

Karen Kasper

Advisory Board:

Diane Darlington

Jim Jajich

Jon G. LaSalle

Dr. Russell Magnaghi

Michael Prusi

Dr. Jon Saari

Dr. Leslie Warren,

Ex-Officio

The Beaumier Upper

Peninsula Heritage Center

celebrates the history and

culture of the Upper

Peninsula of Michigan. It

serves the university by

providing opportunities

for greater knowledge,

scholarship and exposure

to the unique culture of

the Upper Peninsula for

students, faculty, staff and

the general public. The

center maintains an active

schedule of public

programs and exhibitions

to engage the public and

develop a greater

appreciation for the

region’s great social and

cultural diversity.

February 2017

On December 8 2016, the Beaumier U.P. Heritage Center celebrated its ten year

anniversary. The party included cake, ethnic food connected to the U.P., accordion

music by Wil Kilpela, and photos from the past ten years. Despite the weather, the party was attended by many people and a good time was had by all.

10th Anniversary Celebration

Beaumier U.P. Heritage Center Staff: Riley

Crawford, Karen Kasper, Elizabeth Fust,

Casandra Somes, and Dan Truckey

Wil Kilpela on accordion

President Erickson, Leslie Warren, Dan

Truckey and guests enjoy the Remnants:

Ghost Towns of the Upper Peninsula Exhibit

Middle Eastern

Dinner p.4

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Conserving the Land

In June 2017, the Beaumier Center will be opening a new

exhibition on the history of land management in the U.P. The

exhibition, “Conserving the Land,” will look at how citizen groups,

non-profit and government agencies began to set aside tracks of

land for preserving the U.P.’s natural resources. Beginning with the

Huron Mountain club in the 1880s, there was an ever growing

effort to preserve the natural character of the U.P.’s landscape. In

the 1890s, State and National Forests began to be designated throughout the United States in attempt

to both provide for a sustainable logging industry and also to provide recreational opportunities and

preserve the region’s natural wonders. In 1940, Isle Royale National Park was designated, helping

preserve the undisturbed ecosystem on the remote island. In 1945, the largest state park in Michigan,

Porcupine Mountain State Park, was established and became a Wilderness Park in 1972. It was

followed by Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, which was established in 1966, with a unique arrangement between the National Park Service and local logging operations.

Since the 1970s, various environmental organizations and groups, such as the Nature Conservancy,

began to actively attempt to preserve and save wild spaces in the Upper Peninsula. Groups such as the

Friends of the Estivant Pines were able to preserve one of the last stands of old timber in Keweenaw

County, which was threatened by the lumbering industry.

The Cold War in the U.P.

From the late 1940s until the early 1990s, the United States and the Soviet

Union were locked in a battle for political and social influence throughout

the planet. At the crux of this conflict was the ever present danger of nuclear

war, as both countries had enough armaments to destroy the Earth many

times over. Because of this tense relationship, there developed a mass

military industrial complex that spread throughout the country. Even remote

place like the Upper Peninsula played a key roll in America’s defense during the Cold War. In addition, there were individuals from the Upper Peninsula

who played an important role during the Cold War. All of these facets will

be featured in the exhibit, “Cold War in the U.P.,” which will open in

October 2017.

Two Upper Peninsula natives who made an enormous impact on America’s role in the Cold War were

Clarence “Kelly” Johnson and Glenn Seaborg. Both were born in Ishpeming, two years apart (1910 and

1912 respectively) and would go on to make huge contributions to the Cold War “effort.” Johnson

was an aeronautical engineer who designed the most important military aircrafts of the Cold War

period, including the Lockheed U-2, SR-71 Blackbird, F-104 Starfighter and P-80 Shooting Star. Seaborg

was a chemist and physicist, who as a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, became one

of the key researchers in the Manhattan Project. His main job was to create the plutonium for the first

atomic bomb. He would later become the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission from 1961 to

1971.

Upcoming Exhibits

Glenn Seaborg 1964

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Vintage Ski Day

Sunday, March 5 2017

12:00—2:30 pm

Marquette Mountain

The Beaumier

Heritage Center and

the U.S. Ski and

Snowboard Hall of

Fame are planning a

Vintage Ski Day. This will be a great opportunity

for all skiers to be able to go back in time and win

some prizes while skiing on old skis or bringing out

their old ski clothes. There will be lots of

opportunities to experience and enjoy the old

times of skiing. Marquette Mountain will donate $5

to the museums for each person who buys a day

ski pass in a vintage ski outfit.

Folk Music School Preview & Coffee House

Concert

Saturday, March 11 2017

To help promote the school, the Center is hosting

a free Mini-Folk School at the Don H. Bottum

University Center. Throughout that afternoon

there will be free folk music lessons for people of

all ages and in the evening there will be a concert

in the Black Box Theatre with some of the folk

school’s faculty. See the schedule below for more information.

Folk Music Workshops

Explorer Rooms, Don H. Bottum University

Center, NMU

12:00 p.m. – 12:50 p.m.

Creative Process for Songwriters with Sue Demel

Basic Folk Guitar with Dan Truckey

Accordion 101 with Tim Clancy

1:00 p.m. – 1:50 p.m.

Improv Vocal with Sue Demel

Fiddle 101 with Barb Rhyneer

Basic Music Recording and Production with Mark

Shevy

2:00 p.m. – 2:50 p.m.

Folk Percussion with Tim DeMarte

Workshopping that Song with Dan Truckey

Coffee House Concert

7:00pm

Black Box Theatre, NMU

Suggested donation: $5

adults, $1 students

Performances by Dan

Truckey, Dave Zeigner, The

Knockabouts, and Sue

Demel

WWI Symposium

Thursday, April 6 2017

9:00 am-3:00 pm

Marquette Room, Don H. Bottum

University Center, NMU

Speakers TBA

Jerry Mills and Northern Wylds Coffee

House Concert

Saturday, April 15 2017

Black Box Theatre, NMU

Suggested Donation: $5 adults, $1 students

Jerry is an internationally acclaimed keynote

speaker, trainer, singer-songwriter and educator.

Northern Wylds consists of veteran

musicians Natalie Ray (vocals, viola) and Nicklas

Johnson (guitar). Their set list balances an equal

amount of originals and indie cover tunes.

WWI Fashion Show

Saturday, April 29 2017

2:00—4:00p.m.

Peter White Lounge, Don H. Bottum University Center,

NMU

Suggested Donation: $5 adults,

$1 students

The Beaumier U.P. Heritage

Center and the Friends of

Fashion from Chassell,

Michigan, are excited to present the ‘WWI Fashion

Show.’ This show will feature scenes portraying life

and fashion from 1910 to 1920, including fashion fit

for the Titanic, suffragist fashion, flapper styles, and

fashion that was influenced by World War One.

Upcoming Events

Image courtesy of the U.S. Ski and

Snowboard Hall of Fame

The Knockabouts: Tim

Clancy, Barb Rhyneer,

Tim DeMarte

Members of the Friends

of Fashion

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2017 Ethnic Dinner

This year, the Beaumier U.P. Heritage Center’s

2017 ethnic dinner will feature a Middle Eastern

dinner. The annual event is co-sponsored by the

Upper Michigan chapter of the American Culinary

Federation and raises scholarship funds for

hospitality students at NMU and for the Beaumier

Center's programming fund. The 2016 dinner

event raised $3,600 for the American Culinary

Federation and the Beaumier Center. Ninety-two

people attended the event, which is an increase of

45% over the previous year.

In November through December of 2016, six

different ethnic cuisines were in an on-line poll to

determine this years theme. The winner of the was Middle Eastern with a 34.53% majority. The

polling results are shown below.

Following dinner, the 2017 Upper Peninsula

Folklife Awards will be presented. The recipients

of the 2016 awards were Kay Seppala and the

Hiawatha Music Co-op.

A Middle Eastern Dinner

May 30, 2017

Michigan Room, Don H. Bottum

University Center

6 p.m. Cocktail Reception (Cash Bar)

6:30p.m. – Dinner Begins, includes

paired wines with each course.

Upper Peninsula Folklife Awards will be

presented after the Entrée course.

Registration and price to be announced

soon on Facebook and email.

Members of the Hiawatha Music Co-op

receive a 2016 Folklife Award

Scandinavian Dinner Lingonberry Ice-cream and Kladdkaka

Scandinavian Dinner 2016

Austrian 11.51% 16

German 7.91% 11

Greek 21.58% 30

Italian 12.95% 18

Middle Eastern 34.53% 48

Polish 11.51% 16

Total Votes= 139

Poll results for 2017 Ethnic Dinner

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Last year, the Beaumier U.P. Heritage Center

was awarded $12,500 from the Wildcat

Innovation Fund to start a folk music summer

camp for high school students on the campus of

Northern Michigan University.

This camp will take advantage of Marquette’s rich

folk music resources including faculty and

community members with a strong background

in performance and playing folk music. The camp

will be four days long from July 16 - 19, preceding

the annual Hiawatha Traditional Music Festival in

Marquette. Students will stay in the NMU residence halls and their classes and lessons will

be held in campus facilities.

Students who attend the folk school will be

required to choose a specific instrument in which

they would like instruction. Instruction will be

available for guitar, bass, fiddle, flute, banjo and

voice and potentially others dependent on

demand. In addition, students will have a choice

of elective courses such as history of American

Folk Music, songwriting and recording

techniques. Each student will select an

instrument they would like to focus on in their

lessons as well as one of two tracks: instrumental

or singer-songwriter.

Instruction for this camp will come from faculty

and staff members at NMU with extensive

backgrounds in American folk music. Local folk

musicians also will be hired to teach lessons or

classes on specific instruments.

Where?

The camp will be held on the campus of

Northern Michigan University. Students will stay

in the residence halls of the university and classes

will take place in the facilities of the Department

of Music and other campus facilities.

When?

Students will arrive on the

evening of Sunday, July 16. They will leave at noon on

Wednesday, July 19.

Who is eligible?

Any student who will be in 9th through 12th

grade in the fall of 2017.

What does it cost?

The camp has two pricing options

With Room and Board (4 nights - shared

residence hall room, 3 meals a day): $400

Without Room and Board: $250

Meal passes can be purchased separately for

$26.75 a day.

In addition, there are two scholarships

opportunities available. The first is the Charles F.

Ganzert Scholarship, in honor of the former

professor of communications at Northern

Michigan University, who passed away in March

2016. The second scholarship is the Hiawatha

Music Co-op scholarship, which in the past

provided scholarships for students to attend the

Augusta Heritage Center camps in Elkins, West

Virginia. Each scholarship will cover the tuition to

the camp of $225.

What kind of Social Activities?

The camp will take advantage of Marquette’s

beautiful weather and surroundings by including a

picnic at Presque Isle Park, hiking excursions and

beach time. There will also be movies and jam

sessions in the evening.

Registration and information on courses, tuition,

scholarships, teacher bios and more can be found

at http://folkmusicschool.nmu.edu/ or on

Facebook at The Beaumier U.P. Heritage Center

Folk Music School.

Folk Music School 2017

Business Tagline or Motto

Which of these U.S.

President’s has never

visited Marquette?

1. President Theodore

Roosevelt

2. President William

Howard Taft

3. President Warren

Harding

4. President Gerald Ford

5. President George W.

Bush

6. President Barack

Obama

Send your answer to the

Beaumier U.P. Heritage

Center for a chance to

win a photo of a U.S.

president visiting

Marquette. The first

correct response wins!

Email:

heritage@nmu.edu

Former Museum Assistant: Molly Snow

Beaumier U.P. Heritage Center

1401 Presque Isle Ave.

Marquette, MI 49855

Former Heritage Center Museum Assistant

Molly Snow was recently accepted at

Newcastle University in Newcastle upon Tyne,

England, where she will pursue a masters in

Museum Studies this fall. Molly graduated from

NMU in May 2016. Congratulations and good

luck, Molly!

Docent Feature

Jacob Anderson is a freshman secondary education history major.

He started volunteering at the Beaumier center in February 2017.

Jacob became a docent because he wanted to gain experience to

one day open his own museum and because he likes teaching

people about history.

Dan Feenstra is a junior history major. He started volunteering a

the Beaumier on February because he has always loved museums,

Dan became a docent because he wanted to know what it was like

to work behind the scenes working with the collections and

designing exhibits. His favorite part about volunteering is that he is

gaining experience in a museum and also gets to learn about the

history of the UP.