Concerns and apprehension of local residents as the new year of 1911 approached were predicated on events begun in 1907 when the Osceola Consolidated Mining Company became the first venture targeted for takeover by the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company. By the turn of the 20th century, ...

HOUGHTON — This coming Monday, January 1st as the clock strikes 12 midnight, many Keweenaw Peninsula area residents will dine upon special foods, offer beverage toasts, along with kisses, hugs, and well wishes to family and friends. Also possible, a few households will shoot off fireworks. ...

HOUGHTON — By now, thousands of Keweenaw Peninsula homes, commercial and public buildings, and houses of worship have their Christmas decorations in full display, including the Christmas tree. According to the Lansing- based Michigan Ag Council, the state ranks third in the nation for ...

It is a twisted story, really. But in 1659, the Massachusetts Bay Colony outlawed Christmas. The Pilgrims, who are credited with the first Thanksgiving, were a radical faction of separatists within the Puritan movement in the Church of England (derisively referred to as the Puritans). The ...

It is interesting how people welcome this time of the year regardless of what faith or no faith followed. We stop to gather family and friends, employees and employers, to rest and shut out the hassle of the everyday rush. Even the weather seems to cooperate, and in our country’s cold and ...

To be sure, the United States was a child of Great Britain. There were, of course, differences between the two, but the “apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.” Much of what Great Britain did was emulated by Americans; among the uglier of these was the exploitation of children in ...