Keweenaw Publishing Regional Publication Papers

Collection — sc_box: MS 5, Folder: 11

Identifier: MS-856

Staff Only

Collection Scope and Content Summary

Papers, 1983, by Keweenaw Publishing about regional publications. Includes correspondence to local Copper Country writers and photographers soliciting material for the "Guide to Michigan's Copper Country," a directory of attractions, museums, points of interest, and events. Also includes articles submitted by Clarence J. Monette, a local historian from Lake Linden, and Jean Petermann Kemp, the curator of the A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum and clippings from local newspapers with promotions of the guide.

Dates

1983

Access

Available for use in the Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections.

Biography

Robert P. Mildon was born in 1947 in Houghton, Michigan and graduated from Houghton High School. He was employed by the Upper Peninsula Power Company as an electrician before becoming a free-lance writer for the Daily Mining Gazette, the local daily newspaper in Houghton County. He was also the owner, publisher, and editor of Keweenaw Publishing, producing "Guide to Michigan's Copper Country," with local articles by Clarence Monette and Jean Petermann Kemp.