[Michlib-l] U.P. Notable Book Club - Jennifer McGraw and "The Unsolved Mysteries of Fr. Marquette's Many Graves"

[Victor R. Volkman]

All your patrons are invited to the first online bookclub event of 
2024.  thanks for giving me the opportunity to get the word out!


      For Immediate Release…

*Contact: Victor Volkman
(734) 417-4266
President at UPPAA.org*
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      UP Notable Book Club presents a Q&A session with Jennifer McGraw
      about "The Unsolved Mysteries of Father Marquette's Many Graves" -
      A History

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UP Notable Book Club:* The Crystal Falls Community District Library in 
partnership with the U.P. Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) has 
scheduled author events with winners of the /UP Notable Book List/. The 
34th event is with historian Jennifer McGraw who will take us through 
the odyssey of the remains of Father Jacques Marquette (1637 - 1675 
A.D.), arguably one of the U.P's most influential clerical pioneers. 
Marquette was a French Jesuit missionary who founded Michigan's first 
European settlement, Sault Sainte Marie, and later founded Saint Ignace. 
In 1673, Marquette, with Louis Jolliet, an explorer born near Quebec 
City, was the first European to explore and map the northern portion of 
the Mississippi River Valley.

/*When: */February 8th, 2024 at 7 pm Eastern / 6 pm Central
/*Where: */on the Zoom platform -- please contact Evelyn Gathu in 
advance by egathu at crystalfallslibrary.org 
<mailto:egathu at crystalfallslibrary.org?subject=UPNotableBooks&body=Please-send-me-the-zoom-link>, 
or by phone at (906) 875-3344. We recommend you borrow a copy of these 
books from your local library or purchase from your local bookseller in 
advance to get the most out of these events.

*JENNIFER MCGRAW *writes non-fiction history focusing on the 1600s and 
the Michilimackinac region.  Her latest book, /The Unsolved Mysteries of 
Father Marquette's Many Graves/, discusses his time in the Great Lakes 
area, his life at Sault Sainte Marie and Saint Ignace, his trip down the 
Mississippi, and his death.  It then goes on to extensively cover the 
multiple times that he was buried and dug up as well as the evidence 
that led people to conclude that the remains they had found were him.  
It tells of the treatment given to his bones when he was dug up which 
included scraping the flesh from them, likely cremating that flesh, and 
disarticulating his skeleton to prepare his bones for transport. This 
book follows other books or booklets she has authored including /Lawless 
Mackinac/ and /The David Haynes Dig/.  She is also co-author of a 
collection of writings called /The Reminiscences of David Corp 
/(co-authored with Prentiss M. Brown, Jr.). /The Unsolved Mysteries of 
Father Marquette's Many Graves /is available at multiple area bookstores 
and gift shops.  It can be purchased online at islandbookstore.com 
<https://UPPAA.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b1016c5c910959a236f2ff48f&id=3932749b22&e=2efc3cf0fe> 
or by contacting Island Bookstore on Mackinac Island at 
islandbookstore at gmail.com <mailto:islandbookstore at gmail.com>.

"I was impressed with McGraw’s in-depth research and how she 
incorporated text from her sources, including /The Jesuit Relations/, to 
make this scholarly work both informative and entertaining reading. One 
highlight for me was the many details about Native American customs of 
the time and how the Jesuits tried not only to convert the Native 
Americans, but to get them to give up practices they disagreed with from 
living together before marriage to believing in the power of dreams.

But one Native American custom was particularly important to Father 
Marquette’s story—related to the Odawa’s way of showing respect for 
their dead. Father Marquette died on May 18, 1675, as he was journeying 
across Lake Michigan on his way back to St. Ignace. Realizing he was not 
going to live to see again the mission where he had served, he asked to 
be set ashore near present-day Ludington, Michigan, where he died. He 
was buried there, but two years later, the Odawa he had served decided 
to return his remains to the mission at St. Ignace. McGraw notes that 
this was the deepest sign of respect they could have shown him, and how 
they exhumed and treated his body was one of their customs. They 
practiced a process called excarnation—McGraw describes it in 
detail—where they dug him up and removed the flesh from his bones. Then 
they transported the body to St. Ignace. McGraw notes that they treated 
Father Marquette with the same respect they showed to loved ones whose 
bodies or bones they would sometimes carry with them for decades."
-- Tyler R. Tichelaar, /U.P. Book Review/

More information about the U.P. Notable Book list, /U.P. Book Review, 
/and UPPAA can be found on www.UPNotable.com 
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*<https://UPPAA.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b1016c5c910959a236f2ff48f&id=24edca5f9a&e=2efc3cf0fe>About 
the Upper Peninsula Publishers and Authors Association (UPPAA)*
Established in 1998 to support authors and publishers who live in or 
write about Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, UPPAA is a Michigan nonprofit 
association with over 100 members, many of whose books are featured on 
the organization’s website at www.uppaa.org 
<https://UPPAA.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b1016c5c910959a236f2ff48f&id=26041d7a94&e=2efc3cf0fe>. 
UPPAA welcomes membership and participation from anyone with a UP 
connection who is interested in writing. # # #

-- 
Regards,

Victor R. Volkman, President
L H Press Inc.
www.LHPress.com
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