Father Marquette National Memorial

Canoe and kayak races highlight this year's Father Marquette Days in Montello. The event, sponsored by the Montello Rotary, begins Saturday at City Park.  

The members of the 8-18 Media Convention Team pose at the base of a well-known Marquette landmark, the statue of Father Marquette.  

Sometime in the mid-1990s Steven Faulkner, a father of seven working on a PhD in Kansas, found a translation of the journals of Father Jacques Marquette. He read them with excitement, carefully recording the time and the route taken by...  

And not just any canoe trip, but one that followed the route Father Jacques Marquette and explorer Louis Jolliet took between St. Ignace, Mich., ...