Quincy #2 Dredge.

I am currently taking a Historiography (history of history) course and the professor is a copper country historian. For the class, students are required to write a 15 page research paper on a specific type of history in the copper country. I am actually really excited to explore the history in this place because growing up here I could care less about its historical past. It was not until I moved back to the Keweenaw did I realize how amazingly rich in history this place really is. Around here, you dont have to look far for something historically interesting...


Almost every day I drive by the Quincy #2 dredge on my way to school and wonder what its significance was. So I took some pictures early this morning as the fog was lifting away and googled some information on it when I got home. This is what I found...
(http://keweenawfreeguide.com/quincy-dredge/)

The mining of Torch Lake did not require drills but instead relied on the use of large boats called dredges. Essentially large vacuums, these boats could suck up sands from the bottom of the lake by means of a long snout lowered down into the water. The recovered sands would then be sent back to shore along a floating conveyor belt. The belt was supported by a long pontoon line stretching between the shore and the dredge. On shore those sands would be reprocessed at the Reclamation Plant.

The dredge seen on shore today is in fact Quincy’s second dredge (Dredge No. 2), its first one having sunk while in lay-up over the winter. This second dredge was first used by C&H to reprocess their own sands before it was sold to Quincy. The second hand dredge continued to serve Quincy for close to a decade before it too sunk during a winter lay-up. By that time copper prices were too low for even Reclamation to pull a profit so Quincy abandoned both the Dredge and Reclamation plant.

Here are some pictures I took...

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.

This summer, my friend Stephanie asked me to take pictures of her two children. I was very excited and nervous at the same time. I had never taken pictures of children before, and this was a new adventure for me. When we were on location, I had know idea what to do or where to go. Once I became comfortable with Stephanie, Kane, and Laci I felt less nervous and started to feel better about taking pictures of them just being kids. Which worked out perfectly. 


Kane was fantastic. He was all smiles and kept saying cheese when he saw the camera. I could not have asked for a better child to work with my first time taking pictures of children. Laci was also very corporative and full of smiles. I loved working with these two children, and hope to take more pictures of them in the future. 
This is just a sample of pictures I took that day. I got carried away and took about 600:) 
Enjoy