U.P. Project Unites Community Members through Family Panels
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 “The Story Line Project” galvanized a large portion of the residentsof the Upper Peninsula: it started out as a smallish project to involve school kids in getting in touch with their ancestry.
Creator Mary Wright, of Hancock, has had a successful history of incubating public artworks – hundreds of blue and white chairs to celebrate the Finn Grand Fest in 2005, for example. When the Pine Mountain Music Festival of the Keweenaw Peninsula announced the premiere of the opera “Rockland,” set in Upper Michigan’s copper mining country and based on the famous workers’ strike of 1906, Wright imagined a project to accompany it and the story of the Finnish immigrants who furnished the labor in the mines.
Author Tour Finalized, Traveling Exhibit Applications Available Now
 From Sault Ste. Marie, to Dearborn, and Muskegon, organizations across that state have signed on for the 2011-12 Great Michigan Read. With the list now topping 130, word of this free, statewide reading initiative from the Michigan Humanities Council continues to grow.
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Attention Michigan nonprofits: if you wish to apply for a major grant for this granting period, applications must be postmarked no later than Sept. 15. For more information, visit 
As an incentive, each person who returns a survey by Sept. 7 will receive a free copy of this year’s Great Michigan Read book, “Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age” by Kevin Boyle, as well as a reader’s guide. This gift is valued at more than $26. Click here to take the survey.
