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We are making great progress! Our Keweenaw Time Traveler team has finished creating the "geocoder" for 1949. This will allow visitors to automatically map historical information about people, events, and places to the exact location in the Keweenaw around 1949. Look at all the buildings and structures we have outlined! We have scanned and georeferenced more than 1200 maps and located more than 66,500 houses, commercial buildings, theaters, train stations, shaft houses, smelters, mills and other mine locations. We are working quickly on 1942, 1928, and 1917…
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John Arnold and Don Lafreniere recently presented a paper at the 36th annual statewide preservation conference of the Michigan Historic Preservation Network, held at the McGregor Memorial Conference Center on the Wayne State University campus in Detroit, May 12-14. The paper, "Passive Preservation: Vernacular Reuse of the Postindustrial Landscape," builds on work currently underway in the Historical Environments Spatial Analytics Lab.
By: John Arnold
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The Keweenaw NHP Advisory Commission and the National Park Service awarded the Keweenaw Time Traveler team a 2016 Keweenaw Heritage Grant.  The $5,000 award will help support the creation of 2 kiosks that will travel to local heritage sites and summer festivals.  Next summer look for the Time Machine on a Kiosk near you!
By: Don Lafreniere
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Research Associates Geoff Muir, Kevin Brefka, and Savannah de Luca recently presented posters at the annual Social Science Research Conference at Michigan Tech.  

Geoff and Savannah's work harnessed the Keweenaw Time Traveler to explore the 'Geography of Drink' around the Keweenaw from 1880-2010

Kevin's work used the Time Traveler to create an online web app for the Calumet Historic District Commission.  The web app allows the Commission to manage the district more efficiently and will be used as a tool for local economic development

Congrats to Geoff, Kevin, and Savannah!
By: Don Lafreniere
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Dr. Don Lafreniere and Dr. Sarah Scarlett hosted an interactive brown bag talk about the Keweenaw Time Traveler project to the Department of Social Sciences at Michigan Tech.  The talk outlined the progress to date on the construction of the Historical Spatial Data Infrastructure (aka- Time Machine!) and the planned activities for the next several years.  There was a discussion of how we will be looking to engage Citizen Historian volunteers to help prepare data and contribute their own knowledge of Copper Country places and how the time machine can be used in research and teaching on both historic and contemporary topics in the Keweenaw. 
By: Don Lafreniere

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