Keweenaw Peninsula Trail Report – 03/31
KEWEENAW PENINSULA UPDATE via Keweenaw Trail Reports – 3/31
Today marks the “official end” of the 2019/20 season. Trails officially close March 31st.
I have to say that even with the early season HEAVY snow storms delaying the opening of trails in some areas, the Christmas to New Years rain and then snow storm, limited snow in February and March and now of course the virus wrecking havoc and devastation on the world…..it was STILL a good season! I always say ANY day riding is better than a day at work or home!
Adam Garvey (a local to the Keweenaw) enjoyed a last trail ride and shared his good, bad and ugly photos with us!
Thanks for sharing, Adam, along with ALL of you that shared photos during the season and trail conditions reports – It’s awesome to have so many people willing to share their riding experiences!
Huge thanks again to the Groomer Operators, Trail Boss, Keweenaw Snowmobile Club and Volunteers that make each season great!
Stay safe and stay healthy!
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Great news from MI-TRALE!
“BN Route grading project has begun. The project will run thru September 1. Grading from M26 in Mass City to Toivola. The DNR will be grading from Toivola to the canal in Houghton Please use caution, give the equipment operators your respect, wait for them to signal you to pass”
Explore the Eagle Harbor Art Fair and discover amazing pieces while supporting incredibly talented artists. This year is the 60th consecutive year for this popular art festival....and well this year things are a little unique....it has gone virtual!
Learn about the various artists & check out their work...from the comfort of your home. If you see something you like, the shopping links are conveniently linked on the site. ❤️
Copper Country Associated Artists
EH Art Fair Virtual – Copper Country Associated Artists
ccaartists.org
Eagle Harbor Virtual Art Fair At the Eagle Harbor Virtual Art Fair you will find a juried selection of the same art work that you would have seen in Eagle Harbor this summer. Unfortunately you are sitting at your computer and not enjoying the gorgeous Copper Country scenery. Thanks, COVID.The select... Cynthia Fake-Meier
BN Route grading project has begun. The project will run thru September 1. Grading from M26 in Mass City to Toivola. The DNR will be grading from Toivola to the canal in Houghton Please use caution, give the equipment operators your respect, wait for them to signal you to pass
Woohooo!
"Back in my day we had to walk 15 miles to school, barefoot, in the snow, uphill--both ways!" 🥶
Take a drive down any backcountry road and you are likely to see a former schoolhouse. Abandoned one-room schoolhouses dot the landscape of the Copper Country. They stand as "humble, sturdy icons of a simpler America".
Many kids walked or skied (the kids around Otter Lake area would ski across the lake during the winter months) to school, but some were lucky enough to have a train or a horse drawn wagon pick them up. On the horse drawn wagon there was a wood stove inside....kids would often fight to get the seat closest to the heat during those cold winter days.
The late billionaire Dr. Homer Stryker taught at a one-room schoolhouse in the Keweenaw Bay area after graduating from college. It was his first job. (Who is Dr. Stryker? Teacher turned orthopedic surgeon/inventor...ever had a cast cut off? Thank Dr. Stryker--one of his many inventions was that cast-cutting saw.)
The Copper Harbor Schoolhouse is the northernmost school in the state. The school is a charming building, proudly continuing to serve the children and the community of Copper Harbor--going on 170 years!
The Houghton County Historical Museum in Lake Linden, Michigan brought the Traprock Valley one-room schoolhouse onto museum property in 1983. The museum is situated on 15 acres, on the shores of Torch Lake.
The Rathbone School in Eagle Harbor, Michigan proudly served the community from the early 1850s to 1873. It's a popular location for pilgrimages; members of the Knights of Pythias make trips to see the place, their founder, Justus Rathbone, came up with their secret organization's foundation while teaching here at the school.
The historic Pelkie Grade School is located in the small town of Pelkie, Michigan. The building was used as a one-room schoolhouse until 1932. It then served as a community hall until 1979 when the Sturgeon Valley Historical Society began restoration of the schoolhouse, turning it into a museum.
In 1919, there were 190,000 operating one-room schools in the U.S., with approximately 7,200 one-room schools being in Michigan. Now, there are fewer than 400 in the U.S. and 23 one-room schoolhouses in Michigan.
Sources:
www.keweenaw.info/member-detail/houghton-county-historical-museum-complex/
keweenawhistory.org/sites/rathbone/
michiganoneroomschoolhouses.blogspot.com/2015/05/houghton-county.html?m=1
michiganoneroomschoolhouses.blogspot.com/2015/05/?m=1
www.michiganradio.org/post/one-room-schoolhouses-survive-michigan
Baraga County Convention & Visitors Bureau #keweenaw
Very proud of all the teachers and students who went to these types of schools. Yoopers learned well in many venues. Pretty smart kids. 👏🇺🇸👍😀
The page of the Pelkie grade school book shows my dad and his sister as very young students.
My wife's uncle drove the team of horses that pulled the school wagon, I believe his name was Leonard Paananen.
I attended Copper Harbor School for eight grades and my aunt taught at the Traprock School when she first started teaching.
I wish the Central Mine school were still standing because I bet it was big by comparison to these.
Wonderful old info.
So did my dad, grandpa and so on.. classic midwest saying. I still tell my kids that..they laugh
Thank you for the history lesson.
Such a nice old schoolhouse. ❤
My Dad had to do the same thing 😄
Thanks for the info!
Love this!
Fantastic
Very cool
Dody Wyman : Susan Else Wyman
My mom went to a one room school house that was still there in the 70's but long gone. It was near the Gay road, but I think it was a road over, going up the hill.
This weekend specials:
Today - Fish Fry - 5 to 8 p.m.
Saturday - BBQ Ribs or 10 oz. Ribeye - 5 to 8 p.m.
Sunday - Spaghetti and Meatballs with garlic bread - noon to 8 p.m.
www.denniskirk.com/sledbuild/1971-ski-doo-elan/
☠Stretch
1971 Ski Doo Elan - Dennis Kirk - Sled Build
www.denniskirk.com
Besides repairing the sled, we wanted to make it ride, steer and go even better in deep snow than a stock Elan. Since I was only 7 at the time I was too young to ride on the trails so we wanted to make a sled to go boon-docking through the woods. Once we painted the hood, it came out so cool and so.... Donald Echola
Scott
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Great news from MI-TRALE!
“BN Route grading project has begun. The project will run thru September 1. Grading from M26 in Mass City to Toivola. The DNR will be grading from Toivola to the canal in Houghton Please use caution, give the equipment operators your respect, wait for them to signal you to pass”
Explore the Eagle Harbor Art Fair and discover amazing pieces while supporting incredibly talented artists. This year is the 60th consecutive year for this popular art festival....and well this year things are a little unique....it has gone virtual!
Learn about the various artists & check out their work...from the comfort of your home. If you see something you like, the shopping links are conveniently linked on the site. ❤️
Copper Country Associated Artists
EH Art Fair Virtual – Copper Country Associated Artists
ccaartists.org
Eagle Harbor Virtual Art Fair At the Eagle Harbor Virtual Art Fair you will find a juried selection of the same art work that you would have seen in Eagle Harbor this summer. Unfortunately you are sitting at your computer and not enjoying the gorgeous Copper Country scenery. Thanks, COVID.The select...Cynthia Fake-Meier
BN Route grading project has begun. The project will run thru September 1. Grading from M26 in Mass City to Toivola. The DNR will be grading from Toivola to the canal in Houghton Please use caution, give the equipment operators your respect, wait for them to signal you to pass
Woohooo!
"Back in my day we had to walk 15 miles to school, barefoot, in the snow, uphill--both ways!" 🥶
Take a drive down any backcountry road and you are likely to see a former schoolhouse. Abandoned one-room schoolhouses dot the landscape of the Copper Country. They stand as "humble, sturdy icons of a simpler America".
Many kids walked or skied (the kids around Otter Lake area would ski across the lake during the winter months) to school, but some were lucky enough to have a train or a horse drawn wagon pick them up. On the horse drawn wagon there was a wood stove inside....kids would often fight to get the seat closest to the heat during those cold winter days.
The late billionaire Dr. Homer Stryker taught at a one-room schoolhouse in the Keweenaw Bay area after graduating from college. It was his first job. (Who is Dr. Stryker? Teacher turned orthopedic surgeon/inventor...ever had a cast cut off? Thank Dr. Stryker--one of his many inventions was that cast-cutting saw.)
The Copper Harbor Schoolhouse is the northernmost school in the state. The school is a charming building, proudly continuing to serve the children and the community of Copper Harbor--going on 170 years!
The Houghton County Historical Museum in Lake Linden, Michigan brought the Traprock Valley one-room schoolhouse onto museum property in 1983. The museum is situated on 15 acres, on the shores of Torch Lake.
The Rathbone School in Eagle Harbor, Michigan proudly served the community from the early 1850s to 1873. It's a popular location for pilgrimages; members of the Knights of Pythias make trips to see the place, their founder, Justus Rathbone, came up with their secret organization's foundation while teaching here at the school.
The historic Pelkie Grade School is located in the small town of Pelkie, Michigan. The building was used as a one-room schoolhouse until 1932. It then served as a community hall until 1979 when the Sturgeon Valley Historical Society began restoration of the schoolhouse, turning it into a museum.
In 1919, there were 190,000 operating one-room schools in the U.S., with approximately 7,200 one-room schools being in Michigan. Now, there are fewer than 400 in the U.S. and 23 one-room schoolhouses in Michigan.
Sources:
www.keweenaw.info/member-detail/houghton-county-historical-museum-complex/
keweenawhistory.org/sites/rathbone/
michiganoneroomschoolhouses.blogspot.com/2015/05/houghton-county.html?m=1
michiganoneroomschoolhouses.blogspot.com/2015/05/?m=1
www.michiganradio.org/post/one-room-schoolhouses-survive-michigan
Baraga County Convention & Visitors Bureau #keweenaw
Very proud of all the teachers and students who went to these types of schools. Yoopers learned well in many venues. Pretty smart kids. 👏🇺🇸👍😀
The page of the Pelkie grade school book shows my dad and his sister as very young students.
My wife's uncle drove the team of horses that pulled the school wagon, I believe his name was Leonard Paananen.
I attended Copper Harbor School for eight grades and my aunt taught at the Traprock School when she first started teaching.
I wish the Central Mine school were still standing because I bet it was big by comparison to these.
Wonderful old info.
So did my dad, grandpa and so on.. classic midwest saying. I still tell my kids that..they laugh
Thank you for the history lesson.
Such a nice old schoolhouse. ❤
My Dad had to do the same thing 😄
Thanks for the info!
Love this!
Fantastic
Very cool
Dody Wyman : Susan Else Wyman
My mom went to a one room school house that was still there in the 70's but long gone. It was near the Gay road, but I think it was a road over, going up the hill.
This weekend specials:
Today - Fish Fry - 5 to 8 p.m.
Saturday - BBQ Ribs or 10 oz. Ribeye - 5 to 8 p.m.
Sunday - Spaghetti and Meatballs with garlic bread - noon to 8 p.m.
www.denniskirk.com/sledbuild/1971-ski-doo-elan/
☠Stretch
1971 Ski Doo Elan - Dennis Kirk - Sled Build
www.denniskirk.com
Besides repairing the sled, we wanted to make it ride, steer and go even better in deep snow than a stock Elan. Since I was only 7 at the time I was too young to ride on the trails so we wanted to make a sled to go boon-docking through the woods. Once we painted the hood, it came out so cool and so....Donald Echola
Scott
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