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14 - Black Rocks nanobrewery 16 - 35-acres of Lakenenland18 - Mindy Sager’s creative cakes19 - Learn, create, Bella Beads20 - Aaron Sault’s found jewelry22 - Hand made Walking Wood24 - Just chainsaws and art25 - Matherne, NMU’s noted poet26 - Professor exhibits in Milan27 - Andy Gregg’s bike furniture

ABOUTSUPERIORLANDMAGAZINE:It is my pleasure to welcome readers, onbehalf of The Mining Journal staff, to the 2010 Superiorland Magazine: Craft and Creation. In last year's magazine, we focused specifically onthe many great things youth in our areawere doing. This year, the spotlight is on creativity of all kinds by all ages. From atop photographer to a creative cakemaker to someone who uses chainsawsto fashion art, our corner of the worldabounds with imaginative folks. So pleasesit, relax and meet the many people weprofiled in this year's magazine.

Bud Sargent, managing editor

The Mining Journal

Design/Layout by Chad Casper

2 - Teen launches photo career4 - Carp River Gardens6 - The world through watercolor8 - Dan Pemble’s sacred art

10 - Painting World War II12 - Elegant Seagulls Design

28 - Street music in The Village30 - Piping Gregor MacGregor31 - Classical doctor Sulik32 - LaLonde meshes art & music

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By RENEE PRUSIJournal Staff WriterISHPEMING — It all started with a pink digital camera.It’s turned into a career for a young woman who

hasn’t yet graduated from high school.But Katie Jarvi thinks she’s found her calling and

others seem to agree: She’s kept busy with her bud-ding career as a photographer.“My mom bought me a pink digital camera the

Christmas of my freshman year,” said Jarvi who is asenior at Negaunee High School. “I got down theangles by taking photos of my own face. Then Istarted taking pictures of other people and I loved it.“I had been planning on going into cardiology, but

then I decided to take some art classes,” she said.“And it has kept going from there.”What really got Jarvi going was the response

from others.“My motivation is the feedback I get, the support

people give me,” she said. “What they say mademe decide to do this. I have take a lot of pictures inthe past couple years.”Her mother, Kelly, said she was amazed at the work

her daughter produced.“Even the pictures she took with that little pink

camera looked like they came out of a magazine,”Kelly said.“When people would look at pictures I took, they’d

say ‘You’re like a professional’ and I was like ‘Not yet,’”Katie said.However, she’s now gone beyond having people

just pay for prints and is doing the entire gamut oftasks involved in a photo shoot herself with herKatherine Jarvi Photography business.“I’m a 17-year-old running my own business, so I

am learning as I go along,” she said. “I have a one-woman show going. I do wardrobe, make up,hair... everything that needs to be done to getready for a shoot.”Her mother said their Ishpeming home sometimes

takes on the appearance of a film set.“It’s kind of like ‘Twilight’ in my bathroom with the

PICTURETHISTeen launchesphotography business, plans career

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candlelight and the dark makeupsometimes,” Kelly said. “There will be abunch of girls in the bathroom gettingready for the pictures. When Katie’sdone editing them, they look great.”While most seniors were worrying this

summer about who was going totake their graduation photos, Katiewas shooting those all-important pic-tures for her a few of her classmatesand friends.“That has been fun,” Katie said. “I like

taking pictures of people best. Youcan get every emotion. There’s alwayssomething different about each per-son. I like taking photos of children,too. They are so much fun.“I like scenery photos, but that really

depends on the sky,” she said. “If thesky isn’t right, then the photos aren’tinteresting to me.”Katie has a computer at her home

devoted to her business, meaning it’shands-off for her older brothers(Michael, Daniel and Jacob) and herfather, Brian.“That PC is strictly for my work. I need

all the space on it and have an exter-nal hard drive that I use,” she said.

Katie’s hoping to go beyond that.“I’m investing in a studio with back-

drops and all of that. That’s an entirelynew thing for me,” she said.She’s changed cameras since her

freshman year as well.“I went from the little pink camera to

a Kodak to a Canon T1I,” she said.“And I have been getting other equip-ment, like lenses and a tripod.”She keeps honing her craft by tak-

ing photos, especially of a particularperson.“My friend Jolee (Johnson) must

have the most photographed faceonline in Marquette County,” Jarvisaid. “She stands there for hours and

she’s so patient.”Her business has a Facebook pres-

ence (facebook.com/pages/Kather-ine-Jarvi-Photography/319813231957?ref=ts) for now, but Katie wantsmore.“I definitely want my own website.

I am taking a class in high school tolearn how to do that,” she said.And she’s looking far beyond her high

school years.“Some people are saying that I don’t

even need to go to college if I’mgoing to go into photography, but Iwant to,” she said. “I want to studyphotography at NMU and want tomake some classes related to medi-cine. I know that cardiology is some-thing I won’t have enough time for.”While she loves living in the Upper

Peninsula, Katie wants a future thattakes her past its boundaries.“I hope my career takes me to

other places. I can’t just stay home inthe U.P. or even Michigan and tothis,” she said. “I want to take all kindsof photos, even celebrity photos,some day. I want to get to the top ofthis career.”

My motivation is the feed-back I get, the supportpeople give me. What they say made medecide to do this.

— KATIE JARVI, teen photographer

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This page showcases photographs by Katie Jarvi.


By JOHANNA BOYLEJournal Staff WriterNEGAUNEE — Twenty years ago, when Jim Somers

and Mike Wirtanen first snowshoed through theirproperty off of Heritage Drive in Negaunee in themiddle of winter, it looked like any other woodedplot of land along the Carp River.Not for long.The owners immediately began transforming the

land into the Carp River Gardens, a three-acrenorthern perennial garden.“It’s always changing,” Somers said. “We’re con-

stantly adding on to it. It keeps us busy all season.”With beds of brightly colored flowers wound around

90-year-old evergreen trees, grape-vine coveredtrellises and waterfalls splashing into rock-lined pools,the Carp River Gardens is a unique garden nestledin the middle of the Upper Peninsula woods.Both coming from gardening families, Somers and

Wirtanen said their interest in gardening began inchildhood and remains an inspiring hobby.“It’s like life — every day, around every corner

there’s something new to do,” Somers said. “Being agardener, you look forward to the next year. It givesyou something to look forward to.”Now living in a home built from the trees that were

cut to make room for the garden, Somers andWirtanen keep the gardens open to the public Fri-

day through Monday, asking for a donation to gotoward the upkeep of the property.The garden is also a popular destination for pho-

tography sessions and weddings.“One of our goals was to have it magazine ready,”

Somers said. And magazine ready it is, having beenfeatured by Midwest Living.Whether being photographed, as the venue for a

fundraiser or other gathering or just enjoyed as aquiet, beautiful space, the gardens keep Somersand Wirtanen busy most of the year.“We start seeds in the house in March,” Somers

said. “We start the spring garden and then it goes allsummer until the first hard frost.”

CONSTANTLYCHANGINGCarp River Gardens is aliving destination in Negaunee


With Wirtanen doing the design workfor the beds, the gardeners makesome changes each year.“Mike has the designer’s eye,” Somers

said. “Between the two of us, wecome together and it works.”A natural basin area near the Carp

River, the garden has plenty of goodtopsoil and a good water source,Somers said. It’s a wooded location,however, meaning regular visits fromsomeone other than garden enthusiasts are common.“The number one challenge is keep-

ing the deer out and keeping thedeer from having a salad every day,”Somers said. “Slugs are a real prob-lem. They go after everything.”Besides the more destructive visitors,

Somers and Wirtanen also get a front-

row seat for other animals.“We had a bear out here a few

weeks ago,” Somers said. “We have acouple mink who live in the pond. Andducks and turtles and frogs.”While caring for the garden, which

also includes a vegetable garden,Somers said he and Wirtanen workedto further develop the area.“We’re going to push it back proba-

bly another hundred yards,” he said.The older the garden gets, the better

it looks, too.“Gardens get better with age. The

older a garden is, the more spectacu-lar they are,” Somers said, pointing tothe trees that have become as mucha part of the garden as the flowers.“Some plants are like that. Peonies willoutlive us if they are taken care of.”

Brightly colored flowers surround 90-year-old evergreen trees, grape-vinecovered trellises and waterfalls splashing into rock-lined pools, at theCarp River Gardens in Negaunee. (Journal photos by Johanna Boyle)


By JOHANNA BOYLEJournal Staff WriterISHPEMING — Ishpeming resident

Corbin Lutz has always been an artist.“I had been doing art for as long as I

can remember. I did drawing, I didcharcoals, I did pastels — everythingbut watercolor,” she said.Coming from artistic families on

both sides, all that changed for Lutzwhen she took a watercolor work-shop hosted by nationally-knownartist Nita Engle.“After three days, I was completely

hooked,” Lutz said. “That’s my passion

and my love.”Focusing entirely on watercolor work

since 1999, Lutz has painted every-thing from landscapes to animalsfrom her studio at the Creative ArtsCenter on Cleveland Avenue indowntown Ishpeming. The center,owned by Lutz, is a 135-year-oldbuilding that also serves as a galleryfor her work.Switching to watercolor served as an

artistic inspiration for Lutz.“It was like a faucet I couldn’t turn off

in the beginning,” she said.Typically Lutz said she works on three

paintings at once, first taking a photo-graph of the place or subject shewishes to paint. The scene is thensketched onto the paper andpainted in the studio.Working on three images simultane-

ously allows her to work on one paint-ing while another is drying aswatercolors have to be workedwhen wet.“For people who paint like I do, when

the faucet is on, you have to go,” shesaid, placing a finished sketch on herwork table to begin painting.As for subjects, Lutz said she usually

paints a series containing five or siximages centered around the sametheme.Most recently, she completed a se-

ries of paintings of familiar sightsaround Ishpeming, including the Ish-peming High School, the Butler The-ater and the statue of Old Ish on MainStreet. Other series topics have in-cluded silhouettes, lighthouses andanimals. An upcoming series will besights from around the U.P., she said,beginning to sketch an image of theBishop Baraga shrine near Baraga.“I do one at a time. When I’m done

WATERCOLOR INSPIRATIONIshpeming artist explores the world through painting

Coming from two artistic families, life-long artist Corbin Lutz switched solely to watercolors in 1999 and hasn’t stopped since. Working on several paintings at once from her studio in Ishpeming, Lutz typically paints in series of five or six. (Journal photos by Johanna Boyle)


with it, I move on,” Lutz said.The series are also usually com-

pleted as what Lutz calls “suitcase art”— pieces that are small enough tobe easily packed in a suitcase.“You get a picture this size and you

take it home and frame it,” she said.Coming from many years traveling

to art shows out of state, Lutz said it iseasier to transport her work in an 8-by-10-inch format since watercolors can-not be rolled up as a canvas can. Thesmaller format also makes it easier forcustomers who travel to art shows tobring their purchased artwork home.Part of the process for Lutz has been

developing the building she owns intoa gallery space. Formerly known asthe Olson News Building, the structureholds two retail fronts and apartmentspace above.Purchased in 2000, the building was

a large empty space that Lutz has

been working to improve each year.“My studio has been here ever

since,” she said. “I have about 70 ofmy originals on display as well asprints and postcards.”Being in downtown Ishpeming has

been good for her work, Lutz said.“I do love living here. I love living in

this building. It’s been a great placeto be,” she said. “Every year I live hereI do some improvements.”The Creative Arts Center is open Sat-

urdays from noon to 4 p.m. or by re-quest on other days. Although takinga break from traveling greater dis-tances to art shows, Lutz’s work canbe seen at local shows like the annualGlacier Glide or art shows at the PeterWhite Public Library.To see examples of her work online,

Lutz’s website is www.corbinlutz.com.She can be contacted at 906-486-4540.

By JOHN PEPINJournal Staff WriterMARQUETTE — From his Sacred Tattoo Studio on

Washington Street in Marquette, Dan Pemble isamong those talented young artists riding a mam-moth wave of popularity and appreciation for tattoo artistry.Pemble, 28, has been working almost four years in

his career as a tattoo artist.“It’s the best thing that ever happened to me,” he

said. “I love my job. I love it.”His work today in indelible ink was born out of an

artistic talent he recognized and sought to refinefrom an early age.“Since I could hold a crayon, people always knew

this is what I was going to do,” Pemble said. “Therewas never ‘I’m going to be a fireman or a police-man.’ I always knew I was going to be an artist,

whether a painter or graphic designer or illustrator.”In his early years, his art focused on trying to cap-

ture typical male-oriented subjects from crime fight-ers to ice hockey heroes.“I was always drawing Batman, Spiderman, sports-

related…goalies,” he said.Later, the subjects changed but the emphasis re-

mained the same.“The focus of my illustration has been figure stud-

ies, the human body,” he said.When he was in his late teens, Pemble had a brief

dalliance with tattoo art as an apprentice.“It seemed like an opportunity at the time but it

didn’t really work out,” he said.Pemble instead focused on his education and in

2005, he graduated from Northern Michigan Univer-sity with a degree in illustration. Out of college, heused his talents for graphic design creating T-shirt

and poster designs for local groups and events.He then fell back into tattoo art in the midst of a

worldwide boon.“It’s not just bikers and outlaws doing tattoos any-

more,” he said. “It’s kids with college degrees.”Over the past decade or so, interest in tattoos

has exploded with everyone from doctors andlawyers to teachers and students — all walks of life— enamored with ink.“I think it’s an outward expression of a person,”

Pemble said. “Different people do it for differentreasons.”In general, Pemble said most of his clients are

young, working professionals in the 18-35 agerange but there are others into their 40s and 50smaking appointments as well. Tattoo artists tend tobe younger too because of the toll the craft takeson your body, especially the wrists and back.

SACREDARTTalented and reputable, Pemble’s ink holds true to name


Tattoo artist Dan Pemble works on client Dan Maki's three-quarter sleeve at Sacred Tattoo Studio on Washington Street in Marquette. (Journal photo by Danielle Pemble)

Pemble thinks the art form has bene-fitted greatly by the Internet makingavailable a tremendous wealth of in-formation for artists and clients, includ-ing artist portfolios, from across theplanet within a few keyboard strokes.“This was a secret trade craft that no-

body knew, you had to really seek itout,” Pemble said. “(Now), not onlyfrom a prospective client’s perspec-tive, but for artists too, techniques forartists are more accessible, makingartists better.”In the United States, Pemble said

there’s definitely a new appreciationfor traditional American tattoo media,including anchors and sailor themes.“Black and gray portraiture always will

remain very prominent and preva-lent,” he said.Some of the oldest imagery is still

recurring.“People are adding their own touch

and updating the old way of doingthings,” Pemble said. “The trends arepretty consistent here as they areoverseas.”

Pemble opened his studio last Octo-ber. He makes several decisions withclients before starting to work includ-ing what style of tattoo to create,what’s going to look best and what willsuit the client.“Ninety-nine percent of the work we

do here is custom,” he said.Often, sketches or photographs will

be brought to Pemble to work from.“We’ll work directly with the client to

draw up something original,” he said.He charges by the hour for the work

and depending on the project, it maytake several appointments to com-plete the art. A healing time of twoweeks is set between appointments.“I’ve got numerous sleeves and back

pieces that have been in the works formonths,” he said. “I’ve definitely gotprojects in the works that could be outthere forever.”He said it can be frustrating for artists

and clients alike to have to wait to seework completed.“Nobody likes walking around with a

half-done tattoo. But at the same

time it’s fun to see a work in progress,to see it happen in stages,” Pemblesaid. “Everyone wishes they couldsnap their fingers and have a sleevedone, but unfortunately, that’s not theway it works.”Pemble likes working on big involved

pieces, but he appreciates them all.“Bigger work is more fun,” he said. “As

an artist, you feel more invested andthere’s more to show for your effortsthan with a dime-sized tattoo.”Pemble said tattoo artistry is

grounded in reputation built on wordof mouth.“You can be infamous for turning out

bad work or people compliment yourwork,” he said. “The first question peo-ple ask when someone sees their tat-too is where did you get that done.”Pemble said as important as it is to

do great work, it’s an added bonus tohave a comfortable, clean shop.“When they walk in here, it’s every-

thing people envision an upscale tat-too shop to be like and we’ve got thework to back it up,” he said.


By STEVE BROWNLEEJournal Staff WriterMARQUETTE — Maggie Linn has seen

and experienced some things impos-sible for most of us to have witnessed.Now she’s putting them down on

canvas.Linn, 83, was born in the U.S. but early

in life moved with her family to Chinaduring the early 1930s. Her family wasuprooted from there and later Singa-pore when the Japanese invaded inthe run-up to and during World War II.Her family, minus her Chinese father

who stayed in China, ended up inIndia, then a British possession thatwas racked with turmoil as it wasthreatened with invasion by the

Japanese while also trying to gain itsown independence.Her mother of American descent

and younger brother were interned incamps similar to ones Americans ofJapanese descent were placed induring that war.It was her impressions of that time,

when she was a child and ateenager, that is the subject of “five toseven” paintings called her “India” se-ries and that will be done in acrylics.“These aren’t sweet things,” Linn said

about these paintings, of which shehas finished the first one. “They’re notnostalgic, not satire; they’re actuallydepictions of the human condition inIndia as I recall it during the Gandhi

years in World War II.”Gandhi is Mahatma Gandhi, the

pivotal figure in the Indian independ-ence movement who preachednon-violence but was assassinated inhis homeland in 1948, not long afterindependence was achieved.Linn isn’t ready to reveal any of her

“India” works, probably until they arefinished or the series is at least furtheralong, but she said they are ratherabstract with identifiable elementsthat give the works a number of pos-sible meanings.“I don’t expect these to sell very

well,” she said, explaining that that isOK with her.The first painting in the series includes

her impressions of when she, hermother and brother first got off theboat that sailed from Singapore andlanded in India.She plans other “India” works to in-

clude the barbed wire surrounding theenclosure her family was held in, andeven what her brother with scarletfever had to endure when he was iso-lated within this isolation compound.Linn has been affiliated with The Stu-

dio Gallery near the entrance ofPresque Isle Park in Marquette for allof its nearly 16-year existence.She has lived in the Marquette area

for even longer, working as a painter,usually in watercolor and mostly ofscenes from the Upper Peninsula.

ARTIST RECREATESHARROWING TIMESOF WWIILinn a noted watercolorist of U.P. scenes


“This is such a beautiful area,” shesaid. “You can see why I’ve stayedhere all these years.”One wall in The Studio Gallery and

an adjacent display area are full ofprints of her paintings, which are avail-able for sale there along with theother nine artists who are currently partof the studio’s cooperative, includingco-founders Kathleen Conover andVicki Allison Phillips.She traces her roots in painting to her

earliest memories growing up in Chinaand using the same kind of brush topaint as was used in the calligraphy toproduce Chinese written characters.“I was 2 (years old) when we left the

U.S.,” Linn said.She says her painting style has since

become something of a cross be-tween Chinese and Western styles.“When I look through my notebooks

from my young days, I have a billionwillow trees,” she said, laughing. “It’snot that the Chinese style doesn’tuse color, but there is a lot of blackused to outline objects.”While people do appear in her works,

often they are tiny, showing man’s in-significance in the larger world.“In the ‘Picker’ series, you really have

to look hard to see the people,” shesaid about a collection of works ofpeople picking and harvesting whatgrows in the U.P., such as blueberriesand morel mushrooms.


These aren’t sweet things. They’re not nostalgic, not satire; they’re actually depictions of human condition in India as I recall it during the Gandhi years in World War II.”

— MAGGIE LINN, painterOn her “India” series she is currently working on

Maggie Linn works on a painting at The Studio Gallery on Presque Isle in Marquette where her paintings are displayed. (Journal photos by Steve Brownlee)


By STEVE BROWNLEEJournal Staff WriterMARQUETTE — A seagull in flight is truly an elegant

work of art.As is a “seagull” that helps design a web page, a

company logo, a brochure or a business card.Elegant Seagulls Design of Marquette is an up-

and-coming company for the computer age thatweds the practical — getting business for busi-nesses — with clean, modern, easy-to-use andoften artistic design.“We have clients that range from startup busi-

nesses to full-scale companies,” said Ben Johnson,27, owner, president and creative director for histhree-man operation. “We’re able to treat everyclient the same as far as service goes.“We have a lot of back and forth with our clients

to find out what they’re looking for. I pride myself intrying not to do a cookie-cutter approach to our work.“When it comes down to it, one of our goals is

that the client is always happy with the finishedproduct.”He said that about 75 percent of his work deals

with web design, but that may change as thecompany evolves.Johnson added that about half his clients are

local with the other half ones located all over theUnited States.Among his clients are Bell Hospital in Ishpeming,

Marquette-based V.I.O., the Lake Superior Com-munity Partnership, Dr. Tim Hunt of Harvey, Superior-land Ski Club, Lake Superior Hospice, Portsiderestaurant, Getz’s department store, Swick

Plumbing & Heatingand Snowboarder Magazine out of California.“I started five

years ago out ofmy home,”Johnson said. “Iwas doing free-lance work forother compa-nies, and it sort ofsnowballed.“I applied for jobs that

were permanent positions,because I’d had enoughof the freelance biz.

Shown onthe nextpage are screenshots ofwebsites designedand built by ElegantSeagulls.

ELEGANT,ARTISTIC,AND DOWN TO BUSINESSElegant Seagulls designs for companiesof all sizes

“Nothing really was right, so itdawned on me to incorporate andbegin my own company.“It started with just me, but now we

have two regular employees,” hesaid. “We also work with some free-lance people.”During the past few months, the

company moved into an office inthe Peninsula Bank and V.I.O. buildingin downtown Marquette.The Marquette native is a 2001

graduate of Marquette Senior High

School and a graduate of PlymouthState University in New Hampshire witha bachelor of fine arts in graphicscommunication.While designing what goes on the

Internet currently takes up a majorityof his company’s time, it’s far fromthe only thing he’s interested in.“There’s branding — logos, colors

and designs — packaging,brochures, and newspaper andmagazine ads — anything that includes design,” Johnson said.

“I really wasn’t planning to grow thismuch already, but it’s just worked outthat way. I don’t want to grow toofast, however, where I couldn’t continue to provide the same serviceI do now.“Getting in an office has helped

streamline our process tremendously.We’re all in the same place andthere aren’t nearly as many phonecalls and e-mails and text messagesgoing back and forth between my-self and my employees.

“If I had to say I have a design type,it would be that a lot of the websiteshave a ‘clean’ look — but really, theyall look different, as we have manydifferent kinds of clients.”A passion for art — he still paints

and draws in his spare time — hasgiven Johnson an artistic esthetic tohis design, he says.“Maybe that’s what separates us

from a lot of other companies thatare more ‘tech-oriented’,” Johnson said.


By DANIELLE PEMBLEJournal Staff WriterMARQUETTE — “Grain is sexy,” said

David Manson as he showed off acupped handful of grain destined tobecome part of a batch of home-brewed beer. It’s a statement only atrue beer lover could make. Mansonis passionate about beer and thecraft of brewing it — which he does inhis basement on Hewitt Street.Marquette native Manson, and his

good friend and soon-to-be businesspartner Andy Langlois, originally fromKingsford, have been brewing beertogether for about four years.

The operation they run is called a“nanobrewery,” which producessmaller batches of beer than evenmicrobreweries. This gives them anopportunity to create tailor-madebatches of beer as well as givingthem more flexibility without theadded burden of capital investment.“It’s a more logical crawl-before-run

approach,” said Manson.It takes about a half an hour just to

explain the involved two-week beer-making process, but the two believethe results are well worth the effort. Thetiny brewery, which Manson and Lan-glois have named Blackrocks Brewery,

already has a solid lineup of at leastfive beers ranging from a lighterRonde Wheat to a dark Willy O’ReeSchwarz to a Bramber — brown mixedwith amber — and a Noque Brown. So when will Marquette residents be

able to sip a frosty glass of Bamber?Hopefully by the end of 2010, saidLanglois. The two are working their way through

a mountain of paperwork, but the fu-ture location for Blackrocks Brewery isalready set. Langlois and Mansonhave their sights set on a spot acrossfrom Third Street Bagel on Third Street.The two brewers said they’re looking

to fill a niche in Marquette: a placewith a cozy atmosphere, with localphotography on the walls. Where youcan sit on an Andy Gregg recycledbike-part chair and drink out of oneof potter Ryan Dahlman’s handmademugs. Maybe listen to some liveacoustic music or watch the Tour deFrance with some friends. All whilesampling great local beer.In planning their brewery idea, they

didn’t forget about the daytime familycrowd. Blackrocks Brewery plans to bestocked with cream soda and rootbeer, to provide family-oriented op-tions, as well. While they won’t serve

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food, they will encourage people to order a pizza or a burger from anotherrestaurant and stay a while.“We want to try to make it bike friendly,” Langlois said, “Try to find a way to re-

ward people for biking and being responsible, whether it be 25 cents off a pintor something else.”The two cite the importance of people in Marquette having something that’s

“theirs.” They said they really want to give community members a place tohave a sense of pride in. With a nanobrewery, they hope to grow their beerwith the community as palates change.“Because we are a nanobrewery, we can try different things,” Langlois said.“Hopefully the community will come out and help us to develop our beer,”

Manson added. Another thing the budding brewers are proud of is their attempts to locally

source their hops. They’re working with a farm in Eben. And they work withSeeds and Spores farm in Skandia to use the leftover grain as pig feed andcompost. They try to purchase as many of their home-brew supplies fromWhite’s Party Store as they possibly can. Langlois and Manson said they want to be part of a movement which would

encourage beer drinkers to support more locally based breweries and beers— instead of buying from conglomerates and big brewing companies. Theirvision is for the brewery to be a grassroots place for patrons to sit and talk —and solve life’s problems. “Grown here, brewed here, it’s your beer,” Manson said.While the business is still a way off, Langlois already has a slogan you could

envision as a bumper sticker on a car. It fits with the brewery’s local focus:“Walk, bike, stumble home.”

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Home beer brewers David Manson, left, and Andy Langlois pose by their brewing station in Manson's basement. (Journal photos by Danielle Pemble)

Beer Brewer David Manson holds a handful of grain, an ingredient usedin making beer.

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