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“The Women of the Copper Country” is Michigan Humanities’ choice for the 2021-22 Great Michigan Read. The story takes place in the 1913 copper strike in the Keweenaw Peninsula. (Photo courtesy of Martin Waymire)
MARQUETTE Residents throughout Michigan are invited to join in reading and discussing “The Women of the Copper Country,” Mary Doria Russell’s account of 25-year-old Annie Clements as she stood up for the miners and their families during the 1913 copper strike.
The book is Michigan Humanities’ choice for the 2021-22 Great Michigan Read and was unveiled during March, which is Women’s History Month.
Mar 11, 2021
ALPENA The Alpena County George N. Fletcher Public Library is pleased to share that last April’s canceled Michigan Humanities Council Great Michigan Read event has been rescheduled.
The library is pleased to welcome Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha for a virtual visit to Alpena at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 6 to discuss her book “What the Eyes Don’t See,” a powerful first-hand account of the Flint water crisis, the signature environmental disaster of our time, and a riveting narrative of personal advocacy.
Selected as the 2019-20 Great Michigan Read title, “What the Eyes Don’t See” is also the story of how science and determination helped expose the severity of the situation, forcing the government to address the damage being done to the residents of Flint.
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Enjoy thousands of butterflies as they fly freely in the Lena Meijer Tropical Conservatory March 1 through April 30.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (PRWEB) February 09, 2021 Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park s annual Fred & Dorothy Fichter Butterflies Are Blooming exhibition will bring more than 7,000 tropical butterflies to West Michigan beginning March 1. The exhibition is the largest temporary tropical butterfly exhibition in the nation and is highly anticipated.
With its abbreviated three-week run last year due to the onset of the global pandemic, the theme of Into the Glass House returns with an intriguing look into the world of life under glass. This year s exhibition once again highlights Nathaniel Ward and the invention of the Wardian Case. In 1827, Ward accidentally invented terrariums while studying caterpillars and moths by placing them in jars. He noticed that plants were flourishing in these sealed jars and discovered that plants better survived the harsh condi
January 11, 2021 By Jon King / jking@whmi.com
An online event later this month will feature a discussion with the pediatrician many people credit with helping expose the Flint water crisis.
Dr. Mona Hanna-Attishaâs âWhat the Eyes Donât See,â is an account of her discovery that Flintâs children were being poisoned by lead from the cityâs drinking water. She was one of the first to question if lead was leaching from the cityâs water pipes after an emergency manager switched the cityâs water supply to the Flint River in 2014. The book was selected as Michigan Humanitiesâ choice for the 2019-20 Great Michigan Read, which aims to bridge communities around a common conversation. Area residents will have two opportunities to participate in the Great Michigan Read through the Howell Carnegie District Library.