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e='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Phone: (517) 324-1828 • FAX: (517) 324-4370</span><o:p></o:p></p></td><td width=199 valign=top style='width:149.35pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.75pt 0in 5.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://www.hsmichigan.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/UP-history-conference-flyer.pdf"><span style='color:windowtext'>Click here to download the booklet for more information and session descriptions.</span></a></span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#7030A0'> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://www.hsmichigan.org/conferences/upper-peninsula-history-conference/up-conference-registration/"><span style='color:windowtext'>Go to online registration.</span></a></span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#10253F'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#7030A0'>Here are just a few of the sessions that will be presented at the conference…</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#7030A0'> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>From Sunburns to Snowstorms: U.P. Weather</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> with Karl Bohnak, TV6 Meteorologist, and Jack Deo, Photo-Historian</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><img border=0 width=178 height=144 id="Picture_x0020_8" src="cid:image011.jpg@01D4E970.C3DBD500"></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Sites of Refuge and Resilience: Anishinaabe Logging Settlements</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> with Eric Drake, Hiawatha National Forest</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Braving the Waves: Life-Saving Service on the Shipwreck Coast</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> with Bruce Lynn, Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><img border=0 width=178 height=144 id="Picture_x0020_9" src="cid:image012.jpg@01D4E970.C3DBD500"></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>We Were Here Too: Women of the Central U.P. </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>with Karen Lindquist, Delta County Historical Society</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><img border=0 width=178 height=144 id="Picture_x0020_10" src="cid:image014.jpg@01D4E970.C3DBD500"></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>A Cultural Journey: The Potawatomi in Michigan</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> with Earl Meshigaud Sr., Potawatomi Heritage Center</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Pasties, Cudighi, and Nisola: The U.P.’s Ethnic Foods</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times Ne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