MARQUETTE, MI— Northern Michigan University’s 25th annual Sonderegger Symposium will be held this Friday.
The event features a number of presentations about Upper Peninsula history. The theme of this year’s symposium is Above and Below the Surface: Maritime History of the Great Lakes. It was inspired by the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald but deals with a number of other topics. Speakers include noted maritime scholars, authors, curators and divers.
The symposium begins at 9 a.m. Friday in Northern Center Ballroom IV. It is free and open to the public.
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