Marquette – The 14th annual Sonderegger Symposium, a series of presentations on Upper Peninsula topics, will be held Thursday, September 11 beginning at 7 p.m. in the Erie Room of the University Center and on Friday, September 12 beginning at 8 a.m. at Mead Auditorium in the West Science Building at Northern Michigan University.
The event is free and open to the public. It kicks off with “Playing for the People: The Labor Sport Union Athletic Clubs in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula” with history professor Gabe Logan on Thursday.
Friday begins with a continental breakfast at 8 a.m., followed by opening remarks from Robert Archibald and a welcome from NMU President Fritz Erickson. Presentations follow from 9 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. Topics and presenters are: “Honoring Russ Magnaghi,” “Canadian Immigrants in the Upper Peninsula,” “Industry, Labor and the Right to Smoke in Michigan’s Arsenal of Democracy,” “Voices of the Gossard,” “The Blind: Shoot Shack as Sacred Space,” “An Immense World of Delight: The U.P. in Prose,” “Holing Up: The Origins Evolutions, Lifestyle and Work of Shackers in the Upper Great Lakes,” and “The Beginnings of the Center for U.P. History and the Sonderegger Symposium.”
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