In 1959, thirty-five artists propped their work on the black rocky hillside beneath the Father Marquette statue, and the organizer named the show for exactly where it stood. Five…
When Lake Superior's shore finally starts to thaw each April, Marquette 'wakes the bear' - a fur-clad, street-closing block party that celebrates Yoopers emerging from a long…
Inspired by the Wheatland Festival downstate, a handful of people from Deerton, Munising, and Marquette raised money through bake sales, basketball games, and dances to throw the…
One Friday every July, downtown Marquette closes Washington and Front Streets and goes entirely blue. Restaurants get inventive - blueberry pizza, blueberry brats, blueberry beer…
It started in 1984 as a seafood feast - the Rotary boiling lobster and Lake Superior whitefish for an end-of-summer meal on the shore - and over forty years it grew into a free…
Marquette has built one of the best trail networks in the Midwest, and the festival celebrates it - mountain bike races, trail runs, group rides, and a town where the singletrack…
Michigan ranks sixth in the nation for breweries and cheerfully calls itself the Great Beer State, and once a year the Brewers Guild hauls that reputation north to the Lake…
On a February night, downtown Marquette trucks in snow to bury three blocks of Washington Street, and at seven o'clock twelve-dog teams launch from the chute straight into the…