Tom Izzo’s road to East Lansing still runs through Iron Mountain and Northern
As Michigan State opens another season, a look at how a guard from Iron Mountain and Northern Michigan University became one of college basketball’s longest-tenured coaches.
Douglass Houghton and the survey that opened the Upper Peninsula
Michigan’s first state geologist reported on copper in the Keweenaw and helped set off the mineral rush. He drowned in Lake Superior in 1845.
The pasty, the miners’ lunch that became a Marquette business
Cornish miners brought the pasty to the Upper Peninsula in the 1800s. Today shops across Marquette County sell thousands of them, and some ship them across the country.