Wanna go for a bike ride tonight?
What with the glorious weather we're having, and what with the fact that we've just finished Ore-to-Shore weekend here in Marquette, I'm doing another “Pop Up” tour for the Marquette Regional History Center tonight, a tour where we go for a bike ride around the city's bike path system and talk about what used to be there.
I actually think it'll be a lot of fun.
I've done this tour twice before, although not for four or five years now. You get a different crowd on a bike tour as opposed to a walking tour; the last time I did it, I got into a rather interesting conversation with some local beer brewers about whether or not they could used water from the Whetstone Creek to try & recreate the Drei Kaiser beer produced 110 years ago by the old Marquette Brewing Company on the west side of the city.
Unfortunately, I don't think they were able to make it work. Although the end result could have been interesting.
There's a lot to talk about on one of these bike tours; after all, the reason the city has such an amazing bike bath system is that it sits upon old railroad beds, and those tracks served everything from iron ore docks to chemical plants to saw mills & lumber yards. Those were symbols of the old Marquette; the bike paths are new Marquette's legacy of those long-ago times.
If you're in the area and if you're interested it gets underway at 630 at the History Center; bring a phone or other mobile internet-capable device to look at pictures, and a donation for the History Center, if you feel like it. And maybe tomorrow I'll post a few of the pictures that show what used to sit along the bike path.
You know—pictures of old Marquette.
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