August 21 -22
Needed to drive back to where we had reliable internet so I could zoom into Patty's annual ISP meeting. Rather than take the main road back we decided to follow the forest/logging road we were on. It was beautiful, but definitely a rough road. Mostly I was driving 5-15 miles per hour because of ruts, rocks, and boulders, and once because a backhoe was digging into the embankment on the side to widen it.
Found the local library (inside the same building that houses the elementary, middle, and high schools and open from 9 - 3 during the summer) and got caught up with things while waiting for my meeting, only to find out that it was the next day, Tuesday, not on Monday as I thought. Luckily Calumet is home to the other main section of the Keweenaw (key-weh-naw) National Historic Park. We spent the afternoon exploring the Visitors Center museum which focused more on the social and cultural aspect of the mining town.
The miners went on strike in 1913 for shorter hours and more pay. It divided the community.
Mother Jones came to support the strikers.
On Christmas Eve the Union sponsored a holiday party at the Italian Hall. Someone yelled fire and 73 men, women, and children were crushed to death in the crush to get out of the building.
Hungry, we grabbed a bite at the historic, and very eclectic, Michigan House Cafe and Brewery.
And we explored the area's architecture
Snow plow pushed by a locomotive to clear the tracks
Theater and Opera House that sat 1000
What the tower used to look like
View through the window of another pub that is in current use
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