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On Friday, November 5, the Beaumier U.P. Heritage Center and Center for Upper Peninsula Studies will present Sonderegger21 at the Northern Center on the campus of Northern Michigan University. Since 2001, the Sonderegger Symposium has been the preeminent conference on Upper Peninsula historical, cultural, economic and scientific topics. This year the theme is “Challenges” and the presentations will all focus on issues past and present that the region faces and ideas of how to address them. Admission is free and open to the public. There is no need to register. There will be a box lunch offered at noon in the ballroom of the Northern Center. All attendees will be required to wear face masks. Sonderegger21 will feature over a dozen presentations on many pressing issues including topics such as food insecurity, land use and development, the opioid crisis (past and present), NMU enrollment (past and present), tourism growing pains and the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, economic development, environmental protection, the Civilian Conservation Corps, Upper Peninsula air bases, rural entrepreneurship, Native American inter-generational trauma and other topics. There will be a keynote address at 1 p.m. by Michigan State Senator and NMU alumnus, Ed McBroom, who will talk about the challenges facing the Upper Peninsula and addressing them in Lansing.
More detailed information will be posted soon on the Beaumier Center’s Facebook site, (facebook.com/BeaumierNMU) and the Beaumier Center’s website (nmu.edu/beaumier). You can also call 906-227-3212) for more information.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Northern Center at Northern Michigan University, 1401 Presque Isle Ave, Marquette, MI 49855, United States