CLICK TO HEAR JACK HALL’S INTERVIEW WITH BETSY RUIZ, HISTORY CENTER
The Marquette Regional History Center is organizing its annual Archaeology Fair, which will be held on Saturday, October 21.
Betsy Ruiz, the Museum Educator, tells RRN News that the event will be interesting for people of all ages.
“There is a whole lot of archaeology going on here in the Upper Peninsula,” Ruiz said. “This will be our eleventh annual fair. We talk about all of our local digs, but we also talk about international archaeology. We fill the whole building with archaeology for the day, and it’s incredible to see people discovering what is in their own backyard.”
Ruiz says they’ve had a great response so far from people wanting to have booths at the fair, and they’re still taking reservations for a few more. There were more than 200 people at last year’s fair, and there will again be a screening a Fresh Coast Film Fest film during fair. There will be a scavenger hunt, too.
“Archaeology is the study of human history through what was left behind, artifacts, so we’ll have some people here reenacting Viking cooking,” Ruiz said. “One of our favorites is an archaeology dig that happened at a POW camp, a Prisoner of War camp, over in Alger County. Finding what did people eat, what did they do for entertainment, and what kind of things were they working on. That’s all found through archaeology.”
And, of course, there’s room for you if you dig up an old soda bottle in your back yard. The fair runs from 11 until 3 on Oct. 21, and they are also recognizing International Archaeology Day.
If you’re interested in having a booth there, give Ruiz a call at (906) 226-3571.
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