This month’s Northern Michigan University Jazz Festival will be preceded by a presentation on the history of jazz at NMU to coincide with the university’s 125th anniversary and feature opening and closing concerts with guest artist Matt Wilson, a drummer, band leader and educator. The annual festival brings middle and high school students from throughout the region to campus for performances and clinics. Beaumier U.P. Heritage Center Director Dan Truckey will discuss the little-known history of the first jazz performers in Northern’s dance halls, gymnasiums and auditoriums during a free public presentation at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 18, in Mead

  Northern Michigan University students at Radio X (WUPX-FM) will broadcast an all-day NMU 125th Anniversary Alumni Show from 6 a.m. to midnight Saturday, March 22. Radio X alumni are scheduled to guest-DJ radio shows, and there will be interviews with other alumni. Radio X announcements from the past will air, and students will present NMU history moments that they have researched in the NMU Archives. The day-long broadcast can be heard on WUPX at 91.5 FM, or streamed online at http://www.nmu.edu/wupx.

NEA Big Read The People Library Saturday, March 22, 2025, 11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.  Peter White Public Library, Community Room. Adults, Seniors, Family Friendly.  For this unique program, participants will be able to “check out” individuals from the library for short, individual conversations about their lives and experiences as miners, Native Americans, authors, teachers, clergy, individuals with mental illness—the people who make up our home.  For more information, contact Marty at 226-4322, machatz@pwpl.info, or visit pwpl.info.

The regular monthly meeting of the Marquette County Board of Health will be held on Wednesday, March 26, 2025 at 6:00 pm.  The meeting will take place in Room 231 of the Henry A. Skewis Annex, Marquette County Courthouse, Marquette.

NEA Big Read Christine Saari Book Release:  A Stitched Life  Thursday, March 27, 2025, 6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.  Peter White Public Library, Community Room.  Adults, Seniors, Family Friendly.  Writer/artist Christine Saari reads from her newly released memoir in poems, A Stitched Life.  The book details Saari’s childhood experiences growing up in Austria during the rise of Adolf Hitler to her eventual settlement in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.  Join us for this powerful testament to the human spirit overcoming authoritarianism, war, loss, and grief to find this place we call home.  For more information, contact Marty at 226-4322, machatz@pwpl.info, or visit pwpl.info.

NEA Big Read Cinema:  On Golden Pond  Friday, March 28, 2025, 12:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.  Peter White Public Library, Community Room.  Adults, Seniors, Family Friendly.  PWPL screens this classic film which explores aging, dementia, and intergenerational communication.  Following the film, there will be a discussion of the movie and Roz Chast’s Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? with a representative from the Marquette Alzheimer’s Association, focused on connections and care of the people we call home.  For more information, contact Marty at 226-4322, machatz@pwpl.info, or visit pwpl.info.