Save the Date:
Groundbreaking Celebration
Saturday, May 9th 2009
at Founder's Landing

For the Record:
The Landing Development will include a complex of seven condominium buildings, constructed over four phases. Each building will be named after a prominent man in Marquette’s history beginning with Chief Charlie Kawbawgam, Bishop Frederic Baraga, and Silas C. Smith. Each month, we’ll include a brief introduction to these legends.

THE BARAGA BUILDING -
Bishop Frederic Baraga
Frederic Baraga was born in 1797 in Slovenia. He first earned a law degree at the University of Vienna but his heart yearned to be a missionary. At 26 he was ordained and in 1830 came to the Great Lakes to minister to the native Ojibwa and later the French, German and Irish miners. He tirelessly visited remote settlements making the journey in winter by snowshoe and earning the moniker “Snowshoe Priest.” In 1853 he became the Upper Peninsula’s first Roman Catholic Bishop. He died January 19, 1868, and is buried in St. Peter Cathedral in Marquette.

To view the floorplans for the Baraga building, please visit www.superiorlanding.com

The Landing Letter ~ 04.16.09

Attention Skiers: Glide is not gone

Just when you think it's time to pump up the bike tires or clean out your kayak cockpit from wintering critters, take heart. You can still stretch the ski season in Marquette County.

For the downhill crowd, Vern Barber reports Marquette Mountain will be open another weekend, April 18 & 19.

Call 800-944-SNOW or visit http://www.marquettemountain.com/home.php
for an update on conditions.

And for the skinny skiers, many trails are still covered.

Last Saturday, April 11,  a group of us skied the Noque trail from County Road 510 west.

Conditions were glorious all the way up to Granite Point. Sun had baked the rock at the top, but it was the ideal spot to shed our skis and take a water break surveying the still frozen Dead River Basin. 

The trip back we explored another route and found the true back country to be superb skiing too.

Skiers, from early season to late spring, you can't beat Marquette County.