1st Conference on Ancient Copper Houghton, Michigan,

July 10-12, 2009This event, sugg-ested by AAPSPresident, Glenn De-Vlaminck, isthe first to focus on ancient copper,in the Copper Country, (or any-where.) It featured excursions andjust one evening of presentations.Coordinated by Judy, with theknowledge-able assistance ofHoolie DeCaire and RobertWheeler, we are thankful to de-clare our first Conference on An-cient Copper a success…attributing to the responses fromattendees. (25 in all) The weatherwas gorgeous, the scenery a de-light, and the sites diverse and in-teresting.

Unusual copperspecimens of na-

tive copper,unique to the Lake

Superior CopperDistrict. Most

from Calumentand Hecla Con-glomerate lode

where copper re-placed the matrix,

cementing cob-bles in the con-

glomeratetogether.

Subsequent alter-ation and disinte-

gration of thecobbles left be-

hind the skull-likemolds, preserving

their shapes.

Review of activities and things we learned1. Seaman Mineral Museum, Michigan Tech campus hosted by cu-

rator Dr. Robinson, who led us with emphasis on copper. What a visualdelight this was! There are some very large hunks and sheets of glacialcopper, and a marvelous collection of unique crystallized copper andcopper/silver blends. Copper crystals can look lumpy, square, like frost,tree-shaped, and more. Dr. Robinson patiently answered dozens ofquestions about the origins, creation & removal of copper, and why wasit so pure right here, (with a touch of silver and a wee bit of )arsenic?Just lucky to have all the right components, which melted into crevicescreated by intense heat released by geophysical upheavals billions ofyears ago. The mountains formed (highest in the world) were scrubbedoff by progression and recession of glaciers at the same time the gla-ciers picked up then dropped the wonderful pure- to near pure- copperright on the surface of the land, to be discovered and harvested. “Float”copper was dropped all over the Lake Superior area, and down as far

as central Illinois and Indiana. Thegreatest abundance being the CopperCountry range throughout the Ke-weenaw Peninsula, along the lakeover to Ontonagon. This is BIG:

Michigan copper’s fingerprint is

having silver in its chemical com-

position. NO OTHER copper in the

world is the same. Anealing does notchange the chemical identity. We cango a looong way with this knowledge.

Natural copper crystal, abt. 14” tallSeaman Mineral Museum

2. Then onto Calumet to visit Cop-per World shop to enjoy their waresand private collection of copper anddatolite pieces, Several of us spentmoney on their treasures. Next wasCoppertown USA Mining Museumwhere we learned “modern” miningtechniques of the last 150 years, with interesting exhibits of equipment, tool-ing, and copper & mineral specimens. 3. Friday night: program of speakers at Houghton High School. DavidHoffman was to kick-off but technical problems set us back while Judy shotthe breeze about Fred and AAPS. Myron Paine stepped up to speak of an-cient Norse travel and languages mixed into Algonquin nation tribes. Davidthen showed images of very old maps showing varied water levels, riversthat sliced through the Upper Peninsula, making waterways between LakeSuperior & Michigan. He also showed the Mississippi came out the west endof Lake Superior and down to the Gulf, making another passage from the UPto the rest of the world. Then we enjoyed a playing of the Pennington’s filmon Fred Rydholm- Let Me Not Drown on These Waters.

Map from 1960 Michigan History Mag.

Price $4.00

Monette Bebow Reinhard spoke on the old copper culture peoples of

Oconto Wisc. She raised questions on Fred’s research and conclusions onamounts of copper removed from the UP, and connection to bronze-making(90% copper, 10% tin) during the Bronze Ages, 5-7000 years ago. Sure wishFred was there to talk with her!Saturday: 1. Caledonia Copper Mine, Greenland MI. The only working cop-per mine in the UP today, though they only mine specimen copper, not in-dustrial. This place is significant to us, as the main shaft is an “addit” minedin the 1800s atop a mine begun by ancient miners. Above & right of the wideapproach to this shaft is a small ancient copper pit left just as it was thou-sands of years ago. Caledonia Mine. Foreground was cleared by present owners of 40 ft of rubble to re-veal main shaft. Red arrow points to ancient pit. left un-mined.

We drove another fewmiles to a site near MassCity where we enjoyedseeing two ancient pits,one into a deep creviceunder an overhang of gran-ite, and one more near by.

Warren Jensen viewingcave-like pit above photo.

3. Bob Wheeler’s back yard,

to view petroglyphs. The mostprominent being the 3-legged “A”like form, (right) perhaps Ba’al,symbolizing the ancient (Ogam)

Phoe-nician name of sun god. Wheeler Glyph below

4. Quincy Mine tour took usseven levels down into a mine(closed in 1972) that oncewent 92 levels down over2,000 feet to temps of high90s. At level 7 the temp wasa steady 45 degrees. Thelower levels flooded whencontinuous pumping ceased.As curious as it was to seethe modern style of saw

17 tons of pure vein copper taken from Lake Superio rnear Eagle Harbor, 2001

5. We enjoyed the museum-like mineralshop Prospector’s Paradise at Allouez,amazed at the fabulous collections fromwhich to buy…from 50 cents and UP! Manycame away with copper specimens andother goodies.Sunday: 1. After breakfast in Mohawk, the

group split at the Old

Delaware Mine.Some went 300 stepsdown to the old cop-per mining caves,and some enjoyedpicking rocks in a tailings pile. Hoolie, our residentexpert, told us what to look for to find copper & otherminerals. Datolite, calcite, quartz and prehnite are

often aligned with copper. Wefound a few small pieces withwee lines of copper crystalsalong blue-green prehniteveins.2. Copper Harbor: TheBEST!!! We drove into theboonies west of town, walked along way and saw FABulousancient petroglyphs. We‘e stillresearching and discussingpossibilities as to their meaningand source. Those things are OLD! We were greeted by a 6” bear -symbol of

strength in many cul-tures, then climbed to acurious triangular lady(Tanith?) a whole bird forher head. The bird couldbe a phoenix, thunder-bird, songbird or raven,leaning to raven becauseof the curved beak andNorse connection. Thereare angular writingsnearby; oft-seen inbronze ages, cross-in-a-circle symbolizing sun,earth or life. There arefaint markings in eachquarter of the circle. Tothe lady’s left is a hand.Markings hint of Ogamand runic writings. Top image-untouched.Lower image- enhancementof inscribings; Hand, Circle-cross (sun, earth, life,)Lady-Bird (about 10” tall) &other markings. DJohn White says all

these symbols representEarth Mother in some form.Extremely slow-growinglichens can provide clues toage. From a 13th century Icelandicmanuscript, is the Norse god,Odin with his wise RavensHuginn and Muninn on his shoulders- as if giving advice to his ears. His female con-sort is known as Tanit or Tanith…perhaps the lady-raven figure here. Note the beakshape similarity. Also seen is the sun…like the circle-cross. Some 35 feet north ofthe lady is a wonderful ship with a square sail; its prow & stern like Norse, Carthagin-ian or Minoan ships.

3. After a greatlunch at The

Mariner, many wentto the Astor House

Museum to viewtheir collections ofNative American,historical and pre-historical relics. The VERY bestthing is having thetime to get to know

one another, andenjoy the beauty of

the UP together.

Conclusion of attendees: Find more won-ders in the Copper Country, and DO ITAGAIN! We’ll see… Whew!

From Danish 12th century man-uscript. Note shape of ships sim-ilarity to petroglyph. They lacksails, however.Poking around, we found severalother markings not previouslynoted by earlier investigators.Above: Markings are overlaidwith orange in photo. It can behard to tell natural cracks fromintentional scribes. Petroglyph

etiquette says we must not touch them as oils disrupt age-clues in the stone.L: Mediterranean Bucket Boat

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OCONTO WI COPPER FEST, JUNE 11-13, 2009

AAPS had a presence at the Copper Fest this year. We were the only evi-dence that the so-named festival had anything to do with copper. Monette

Bebow Reinhard would have had a booth, but funds did not support that wish.Several of your AAPS board attended our booth (a tent w/netting sides purchased-onsale for the occasion.) Judy and Glenn set up the tent & displays. They were assistedby Oedith Harris, Ray Meininger, and Hoolie DeCaire. All had turns talking with curi-ous people who stopped by. Several would have attended the Copper conference ifnot for schedule conflicts. We proposed the idea that Oconto, situated along theOconto River, would have been a perfect stopping point for ancient travelers haulingcopper to Lake Michigan, thence to the gulf. Higher waterways would have allowedsuch travel. As there is evidence of 7,500 years of activity on that site, one can onlyspeculate what may have transpired among the peoples over those thousands ofyears. It most certainly involved copper at the site, and in transit. We are thankful forthis connection with Oconto and Ms. Bebow and her determination to learn all she

can about the copper connections to Oconto.

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THE COPPER TRAILThis is a project that will eventually be supplemental to our future museum. COP-

PER TRAIL from Isle Royale and the Keweenaw/ Copper Country, southward, acrossthe UP via rivers, from Lake Superior to Wisconsin, to Lake Michigan, into theWabash and Chicago Rivers then the many connecting sites along the Missis-sippi,and out to the Gulf of Mexico, then leading onto the WORLD! Dr. Jim Scherz isworking on mapping. Karl Hoenke (707-279-1615) is researching sites integral to themovement of ancient copper. David Hoffman (715-477-1210) and his water-level re-search will be helpful. Jeff Bennett (952-8840048) has offered his help too. Oedith

Harris (906-353-6409) is researching Bronze Ages-dates, locations, to get an idea ofhow many bronze implements and armor may have been made to get an idea of howmuch copper may have been required…a huge endeavor. She would like to share re-searching with others. If you can offer further knowledge in any aspect, please callnumbers given.

Important things you folks can do to help promote this effort

as well as general spreading of knowledge:

* If you are near any significant sites along the Mississippi, talk to city/township of-

ficials and the Chambers of Commerce, so they are aware of the tourism potentialof having this ancient history highlighted in their area.

* Give programs and/or exhibits in your area schools, library, scouts, servicegroups, churches, 4-H, etc. Use Myron’s free downloads of PowerPoint programs. Ifyou can’t do that, ask him to mail you CDs. Myron Paine Ph- 925-957-0260, or forfree downloads, go to www.frozentrail.com * Talk about our ancient connections to the world with anyone who will listen.It’s amazing how many people’s interest will be piqued. Even some of my paper dollcustomers are getting curious and have asked to see a newsletter. It’s very excitingto people whose knowledge only goes back to Columbus. They love mysteries andwant to learn more. Read Karl’s Strategy below for ways you might fit into this en-deavour.

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A Strategy for Establishing The Copper Trail For Consideration by AAPS Prepared by Karl Hoenke

Background – During the period 1845 to 1996, an estimated 15.6 billion pounds ofcopper were recovered from Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula using modern miningtechniques. However, long before this, ancient miners were active throughout thewestern Lake Superior Region. Between 5,000 B.C. and 1,200 B.C. indigenous peo-ples, and perhaps others, are believed to have removed an estimated 1.5 billionpounds of this Region’s uniquely pure copper from both surface finds and from shal-low pits. While archaeological evidence for “Michigan” copper in the Americas isabundant, evidence for use of such an enormous quantity is lacking. It is hypothe-sized that the Bronze Age in Europe and the Mediterranean provided a market formuch of this copper and that a complex trade network (The Copper Trail) existed tomove copper throughout the Americas and also to Europe. The Bronze Age in Eu-rope and copper mining in the Region both terminated in 1,200 BC.

Objectives – The AAPS wishes to see this story brought to the general publicthrough a network of museums and archaeological waystops illustrating the how,who, when and where of this ancient copper trade. General education would recog-nize and teach the means by which ancient traders followed land, river and oceanroutes to supply the Americas. If quantities and distribution can be confirmed, thestory would include movement of this essential raw material to supply the Bronze Agein Europe and the Mediterranean. Public appreciation of the Great Lakes’ role wouldbegin to fill in the enormous gap in knowledge spanning the post-glacial epoch fromClovis to Columbus. Curiosity should support an increase in regional tourism as well.

Initiation – The AAPS membership comprises both professional and amateur scien-tists interested in developing and sharing knowledge of ancient copper mining activi-ties in the western Lake Superior Region. AAPS must start by determining its role inthis enterprise. Will it seek to develop and manage the effort by itself? Will it seek todevelop and lead a coalition of interested parties? Will it seek to inspire formation ofsuch a coalition and then contribute people, time and funds while others assumeleadership?

Leadership – AAPS’ first need is a key individual to lead this program, regardless ofwhich participation role is chosen. This leader is someone with the optimistic person-ality and enthusiasm to lead such a long-term and challenging project as this. Thisis essentially a full-time job, and could remain such for several years. Many otherAAPS members must be willing to contribute time and knowledge. A local UP personwould probably be best due to the importance of networking with local and regionalinstitutions.

Scope – The second requirement is to actually define The Copper Trail. In all likeli-hood many pathways will be discovered by which copper was moved from the Re-gion to the present Canada, U.S. and Mexico, and perhaps beyond. It will be best toselect only those routes and sites for which the strongest available evidence can beassembled and articulated (to avoid giving critics any opportunity to dismiss the Trail).Establish dates of activities and identify who the people were, if possible, and if theyare related to present indigenous populations. Research and confirm the quantitiesof copper removed and the amounts of copper estimated to have been consumed bythe Bronze Age. Employ as many technical tools as possible for dating and finger-printing sites and copper. Our selected sites should be robustly supported by data toavoid simply creating tourist “Mystery Spots” with no credible connection to our foun-dation belief.

AAPS needs to define the geographic and technical extent of the Copper

Trail project. It could be local, regional, national, and/or international. It would belogical to begin with local features centered on the AAPS’s Copper Museum. Asrecognition is established, expansion could involve regional sites such as museums,portages, mines, transshipment locations, etc. The Plan must address the pace anddirection of scope expansion. Each step is best if self-contained or stand-alone.Sites must be selected early which contribute significantly to the Project.

Public Awareness – Success or failure of The Copper Trail Project rests on suc-cessful implementation of a publicity plan. General and professional support mustbe generated and sustained. A critical tool for achieving this would be a distinct logoor graphic to associate with the Trail, realizing it would appear in print, on roadsigns,in advertisements, etc.

The publicity plan will identify players and means for generating public awarenessof both the broader outline of the Trail and also of many local specifics such as a par-ticular mine or dolman or ham-merstone. Alliances through which AAPS could lever-age its resources would be especially valuable. It will be necessary to identify whichvehicles (newspapers, public TV stations, schools, etc.) can be most effective in theU.P. and probably to generate a continuous stream of publicity through them to keepmomentum.

Funding – Another item critical to success is adequate financing. The Leader shouldestablish budgets consistent with the scope, objectives and pace of development.Public awareness will help generate donations, but institutional sources and commit-ments will most likely be needed first. Once the Copper Trail story is written and illus-trated, the Leader can take it “on the road” to solicit contributions from some of thepotential sources noted in section 8 of the Outline.

Timetable – The pace of development will be limited by people and financial re-sources. Nevertheless, realistic timetables for each of the major efforts above(scope, publicity, funding) should be established with milestones for measuringprogress.

Reporting – The Leader should prepare a quarterly report to AAPS, benefactors, and

allies/partners summarizing progress, obstacles, changes, etc.

UPDATE: The board has deemed top priority, continued raising of funds forthe giant float copper, & acquistion of a museum building, as we have onlyuntil March 27th, 2011 to end of contract to raise $340,000. Focus is on anexisting historical building in Calumet in cooperation with city and NationalParks Service- who have recently indicated great enthusiasm to work with usand our vision and goals. We are seeking grants & continued donations tothese ends. The Copper Trail will be a support plan to these first goals.

National Parks Service HQ in Calumet building below.

Letters from Members

Lee & Joy Pennington- Hi Judy, We returned to much work and am just now withchance to say thanks for the conference on ancient copper and the tours you put to-gether. I know you did an amazing amount of work organizing it all (Joy and I for 28years organized an international storytelling festival here in Louisville and we knowwhat work it takes to make something like the copper conference work). There werea bunch of highlights. The Seaman Mineral Museum was special, especially with Dr.Robinson's guide duties and his gracious sharing of information. Visiting the historicmines also was nice. To find the Quincy mine had 92 levels and that heat at the 92ndlevel was around 105 degrees (closer to the center of the earth) was interesting. Wasglad to get to see Bob Wheeler's petroglyph site (which may be connected with somekind of relationship to the Copper Harbor site). If the one petroglyph is indeed Ba’al atthe Wheeler site,then Baal's consort, Tanith, at Copper Harbor, would likely be re-lated the same people, Carthaginians, would have been the seafaring visitors. Ohwe could name more highlights. But mainly, as David mentioned many times duringthe conference and tours, the best part was just being with people with similar inter-ests who shared with each other in a very special way. So this is to say thank for youall your hard work and effort. You done good! We all appreciate that.

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Myron Paine- The Copper Culture event was outstanding. Similar events should betied into the proposed Copper Museum. The event would make a good Elderhostelprogram. Perhaps a bigger “contribution” could be requested. I would be willing tobe one of the Copper Trail instructors in the next program. One of my greatest gainsfrom the event is the book by Roger Jewell entitled Ancient Mines of Kitchie Gummi.I cannot believe that the book was published in 2004, a year before the first Confer-ence on Ancient America, and I did not know about it until I bought a copy in the Min-ing Museum. You MUST get Roger Jewell on the Conference on Ancient America.He is an authoritative author that builds a logical skeleton of the copper trade andhangs a lot of flesh on the skeleton. Thanks for organizing an excellent outing. ……………………………….Karin & Allen Altman- Hi Judy, Many thanks for the wonderful Copper Culture Con-ference. We especially enjoyed the petroglyphs near Copper Harbor. We’ve sent youa check for the AAPS conference in September.

............................................David Hoffman- Always an honor to be with like-minded people, sharing questions.One can see photographs, read certain articles, but there is always something ratherindescribable that results from standing in front of a prehistoric feature. Who were

those guys? [who made the petroglyphs] ...................................................

Lowell Ferguson Grosse Pointe Farms, MI- Sorry I did not respond when Fredpassed away. I was suffering from shingles during th period. Better now. Also sorrywe did not get to the UP in July to visit the copper sites. Weill consider the Fall pro-gram. This past winter, I purchased three copies of "Michigan Copper" from Snow-bound Books and had them sent to friends. One, a retired superintendent of theNorthern Michigan Intermediate School District, found Fred's book fascinating as weall did. He, in turn, sent me an interesting book "1491" by Charles Mann. That bookfocused on the Western Hemisphere before and after Columbus's arrival in 1492. Al-though Mann's book does not reference Fred's work, it paints a very interesting por-trait of civilizations in the Americas well before Columbus arrived. It is estimated thatthe population of Central America was over 20 million at the time of Cortez. MexicoCity was then larger than Paris and London. Clearing of the trees in the Amazon rainforest has exposed huge tracks of land that were used for irrigation farming manycenturies ago.

I am beginning to believe that the Western Hemisphere saw civilizations come andgo over the past thousands of years. These disappeared for one reason or an-other......volcanoes, earthquakes, comets, meteors, and disease certainly took theirtoll. I became interested in ancient civilizations over forty years ago, starting withStonehenge followed by Barry Fell and his America BC series, Salvatore Trento's"The Search for Lost America," and finally "Collapse" by Jared Diamond. There aremany more texts yet to be read. These all point in the same direction, and that is .....smart humans have been around for a very long time. The truth depends on the

questions we ask. With Warm Regards,

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~FRIEND of AAPS on the HISTORY CHANNEL

I don't know if I'll be making the conference or not considering allthe commitments I have coming up in the coming days. My newbook comes out July 22nd and the documentary film [on the Kens-

ington Stone] is set to air on History Channel September 21st. However, if Ican make it, I'd love to come! Scott Wolter

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5th International Conferenceon Ancient America

Sept 25-27, 2009, Marquette, Michigan

Holiday Inn, Hwy 41 Westphone 906-225-1351 – ask for AAPS price ($99)

hi-marquette@charterinternet.com Limited to 100

Sponsored by AAPS & Ancient American Magazine

] The end of September is likely to have better weather than Oct. andnear peak color of our annual Autumn Spectacle.

] Room rates are the same as last year- $99/ up to 6 in room.

] Our speakers - not necessarily in this order: ] Documentary Film-makers, Lee & joy Pennington: “’Eyes That Look atthe Sky: The Mystery of Easter Island’ Thor Heyherdahl thought there was a set-tlement on the island from S. America (some of the stonework sure looks like Incastonework). Other archeologists say not so. This gives a comprehensive overview ofthe island, people, and the giant moai.”

] William Morin of Sudbury, Canada, is Native American/ British Islesblended heritage, a college professor, author, poet, philosopher, with a spe-cial interest in native interactions with ancient visitors.

] Author, Peter Marsh, has been working for years on his “PolynesianPathways” book, which links these sea-farers with Canada, Ancient America,& Peru. He goes into genetic and plant & animal evidences.

] Karl Hoenke "Provocative Perspectives in Time" up to 12,000 years.To include the comet story and some of the plants, microbes, and animals"out of place" as per the writings of Sorenson and Johannesson. (Part ofwhich will be incorporated into the Paradigm Project with Jay and Myron)

] Gregory Cavalli,’s family has the largest private Pre-Columbian collec-tion in the world. Several generations have mined in central America andhave preserved their findings, which are sometimes on loan to museums.Gregory and his wife with their little children and a contingency of profession-als have turned to archaeology entirely, and have exciting finds to share withus. He had to cancel in ‘08 as the dig was so successful, he couldn’t leave,as will be the problem again this year. However he is creating a film on hisfinds,. methods, techniques, agreements with interested parties, provenanceetc. which will be of value to all researchers.on that search.

] Dr. John White, 2 programs: Mystic Symbol Culture, and Sun Religionof Old and New Worlds.

] By this time, Wayne May may have some good news on the cave. Wethrill just thinking about what’s soon to be found.

] Author-researcher Jay Wakefield: Poverty Point and the Copper TrailJay Reports, “Presentation of 72 slides, many, an introductory walk-over ofthe site. I have documentation of pottery and metallic finds, and literaturefinds, that I am sure will contribute significantly to the Copper Trail story. Ilook forward to having fun presenting these slides!! I wish Fred could bethere.” [ You and every one of us, Jay!]

] Author, Researcher, Jack Salmela: European Land Claims in CentralNorth America -- the history behind the novel, "Of Vikings & Voyageurs"

] Radio Host, Rick /Oz Osman: "The Coalition of Pre-Columbian Stud-ies". It will give an overview of what CoPS is, how we got into this doctrine ofColumbus first, and a plan for how we get out of it.

] Author-Researcher Roger Jewell “Ancient Mines of Kitchi-Gummi” andupdates learned since the publication of this seminal work. He hopes to pre-miere his newest book to us.

] Judy M Johnson, Sec. AAPS: “A History of AAPS-Where we’ve been,and Where we are going”

We love to hear from others who have updates to share: Sam Osmonagicsays we’ll see him in ‘10. As schedules always change, if you have a shortpresentation handy, it would be well to be prepared should a spot open.

PARADIGM TEACHERS’ SYMPOSIUMIn our efforts to expand education to the schools, we are incorporating the ParadigmProject into our Sat. a.m. Schedule: Educators are invited to the day’s event at NOCHARGE. We’ll get some press in local Calendars. Myron, Jay, and Karl will workon this program which will be of interest to us all, even though some of it will not be“new” to us, having a review never hurts. DVD/PowerPoint. Karl’s introductoryspeech on timelines, Jeff’s PowerPoint on the “Oceans” with Myron narrating, Jay’s

PowerPoint on the “Maps of Stone,” CDs will be available at no charge to teachers.

’09 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE OVERVIEWRegistration Times: Hotel lobby Thursday 7:00- 9:00 pm, and on Friday9:00 am to noon when lunch begins, followed by programs @ 1:00.Programs, with buffet meals interspersed * Friday 1:00 to 10:00 pm * Saturday 9:00 am to 9:00 pm* Sunday 9:00 am to noon

Registration Fees Full conference/all programs/exhibits $135

SIX Meal package only $120 per person incl. tax/tips.

Ford Motor Company on Board with

Ancient Michigan Copper!GOOD NEWS! The historical department of FordMotor Company, historian and producer, were here to

interview June Rydholm (and a little with Judy too) about Fred's researchand knowledge of Michigan ancient copper. They are making a film on theIndustry of Ancient Michigan Copper! The historians have done enoughresearch to know that there was a great deal of activity in ancient days herein the U.P. June did a fine job of getting the idea across of the importance ofsaving artifacts, having a place to house and display them, and of saving themassive float copper as the centerpiece of a museum. Mr. Robert Kreipke,Ford Motor Co. Corporate Historian, and Janine McFadden, Producer areenthusiastic about the importance of UP copper and its influence on the restof the world. This will be a real help to get the word out far and wide, and to

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Pennington Film & Rydholm Tribute in MarquetteOn Sat. May 30th from 2-4:00 pm the wonderful film we so enjoyed premier-ing at conference ’09, was shown at no charge to the public, at Peter WhitePublic Library community rooms. June and son, Dan started the programwith happy memories. Then young friend William Morrison narrated June’sslide program. The JoLee film is entitled after the ancient Norse prayer stonefund in the Escanaba River; Let Me Not Drown Upon These Waters, FredRydhom, Michigan’s Mr. Copper, the film highlights the joys of a lifetime ofresearch, study, teaching,story-telling, sharing, plant-ing trees, love of family,community, friends, familyand COPPER! The roomwas packed to standingroom only with over 200people, many of whomwere wearing Fred’s fa-mous plaid shirts, given byJune. The warm feelingsshared by all attendees, cannot be explained here, except to say we all feltclose to Fred, while hearing his booming voice, his infectious laughter, andwords of wisdom. The Pennington’s say “We would not have missed this forthe world. It was truly a precious event.” They had tears of joy and apprecia-tion for the reception of the film and the powerful emotions felt in the room byso many who love Fred. Photos for this article are by Eaton J. Blumenstein

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June Rydholm Picking up Where Fred Left Off

June has been a busy little beaver, handling phone calls, setting up meetings, plan-ning/ promoting the showing of the Pennington's film on Fred, doing interviews, givingout promos/ mission/goals of AAPS. She is as determined- or more so- as any one ofus active members, to see Fred's dream of saving the huge float copper, for it's placeas a centerpiece attraction in the future museum. She's learning to make PowerPointpresentations, and had one ready to give when receiving an award from MarquetteArts and Culture for Fred...a big push to understand the historical importance of an-cient copper and our goals. She believes we can beat our deadline to make the$340,000 to buy the copper and 40 acres, with ALL our efforts together. She goes tothe Huron Mountain Club to hand them her PowerPoint program, and post cards...asubtle push toward some funding from members there, as hey do not hear direct ap-

peals for any donations. Way to go, June!

Donations and Memorials To date we are thankful to have nearly $1400 to date. Thank you to- Karin &Allen Altman, Faye Amo, Charles & Audrey Alvord, Karl Bohnak & Liz Yel-land, Richard & Ronald Bullock, John Case, Ann & James Caudill, CharlesDuCharme, Stan Hess, Judy M Johnson & Glenn DeVlaminck, Ken & HelenJohnson, Marjorie Hornblower Johnson, Dave Kallio, Kathie & Chriss Kerr,Leonard Kramer, Eeva Miller, Sally Olsen, Lee & Joy Pennington, CarolRees, Robert Swanson, and Jim Weupper. From Am. Legion Unit #444Baraga: Sharon Wright, Virginia Penoric, Beverly Yon, Phyllis Adams, DianeKoskinen, Barbara Broadbeck, Cindy Collins, Barbara Mayo, Sandra Pittsley,Dorothy Mayo, Diane Waara, Karen DeKleyen, Mary Williams, Viv Barada,Val Darcy, Berdee Sheldon, Barbara Stephens, & Oedith Harris.

Thank you all, for your general contributions & memorials to Fred!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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All board and advisors: Thom Bell, Jim/Hoolie DeCaire, Glenn DeVlaminck,Oedith Harris, David Hoffman, Judy M Johnson, Dave Kallio, Carl Lindquist,Wayne May, Rick Osmon, Myron Paine (Patron,) Lee & Joy Pennington (Pa-trons,) June Rydholm, Mary Turvey, Jay Wakefield (Supporting,) Beth Webband Robert Wheeler.Other Members (*Welcome New!): Karin & Allen Altman (patrons,), *David &Janet Anderson, Monette Bebow Reinhard, Mary Jo Berner, Charles Bruns,Kevin Callaghan (Supporting,) Anne Caudill, Charles Creager (Patron,)*Charles DuCharme, Barb Dukeman, *Lowell Ferguson (Supp.,) Hugh Fox,Larry Gallant, Richard & Judy Haskell, Stan Hess (Supp.,) Karl Hoenke(Supp.,) Peter Hoheisel, Robert & Joan Howling, Charles Huver & AndreaHildebrandt, *Larry & Sue Koetter (Benefactors,) Leonard Kramer (Supp.,)Dale Kramer (Supp.,) Gail Manthei, Marion Manthei, Eeva Miller (Supp.,)Mary Ellen Quaine, Chris Reinhold Hill, *Fred K. Rydholm, *Tom Teel, NormThomas, Wayne & Crystal Trickle, *Wayne Westerson (Supp), and *J.C.Williamson. Some have already paid for 09/10, thank you very much! We fig-ure memberships from Sept.-Oct. as so many join and renew at conferencetime. If you are a paid-up member, and do not see your name here, pleaselet Judy know she’s made an error. Thanks. Your renewals are appreciated.

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AAPS PowerPoint CD Now Available

Judy will send to anyone for a small fee: A PowerPoint Program "AAPS His-tory from 1999 to 2009" is now ready with self-explanatory images. Any one of youwho have been to an AAPS conference and/or heard Fred Rydholm speak, can makea decent fill-in talk using this little program of 28 slides. It starts with Patt Hendrick-son's People's Festivals in Baraga Michigan with ancient American subjects and pro-grams and exhibits, to formulation of our casual PCCRS/Pre-Columbian CulturalResearch Society and excursions, to AAAPF and conferences to our final nameAAPS. Our goals of acquiring the giant float copper, land and eventual museum withphotos, are included. LOTS of pictures of people and artifacts are included. I'll be

happy to send you a copy for just $3.75 to cover CD, case and shipping.

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AAPS / Diffusionist Museum in New York State

Wayne May has worked with hotel owners to establish a mini-museum(30’x60’) at Palmyra Inn, in upstate New York. Both are along what is knownas the “Mormon Trail.” Wayne says that about 60% of the tour travelers areMormon, the rest, interested parties in America’s ancient past. Thousands oftravelers each summer traverse these historical trails. A perfect place to ex-pand the copper history and other evidences.

In the extensive glass dis-play cabinets, Wayne is show-ing some of his treasures.AAPS has loaned some of ourancient copper artifacts, and aportion of the MichiganRelics/Tablets from the DavidDeal/Henriette Mertz collectionwill also be exhibited. The arti-facts will be displayed with in-formational cards. Also available in the hotel gift shops, will be related bookson the subjects, including Fred Rydholm’s Michigan Copper book, and AAPSfund-raiser post cards…which help promote our goals of acquiring the giantfloat copper and eventual museum building. Here’s a coup; the MichiganState Historical Society is loaning 100 pieces of the Michigan Tablet collec-tion for this exhibit. Photo shows the AAPS exhibit.

Congratulations and thanks to Wayne for helping to create perhaps thefirst true diffusionist museum, which will do much to promote and displayanomalies until a major museum can be built. To loan a piece from your

collection, mail to: Palmyra Inn, 955 Canandaigua Road, Palmyra, NewYork 14522. Contact Wayne May at 877-494-0044 or 1-800-426-9900.

Tips: When you select artifacts from your own collections to loan to themuseum, take photos, check with your insurance company to make sure theitem is covered against loss in transit and in a location away from yourhome. You may need to add a small rider to your policy. Keep track of all ex-penses and deduct them under the AAPS non-profit status. Ask that youritems go into the AAPS section of the exhibits.

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PENNIES for Mr. COPPERBy Lee Pennington

If we all can think together and do together, wecan get Fred's dream of the copper piece savedand the museum going in his honor. It would be ashame not to call the museum the Fred RydholmAncient Artifact Museum or something near that. IfFred's name is connected to the whole thing up

front, it will certainly help the fundraising, I think. Also, every single one of usneeds to donate something, whatever we can, if only a $1. Each person needs to beand feel a part of this. I've tried to think of something unique that would get thou-sands of people involved--something so unique that it would attract media attentionworld-wide and even attract total strangers to the cause. I thought about this kind ofcampaign: "Pennies for Mr. Copper," and having people send their pennies to a bankaccount set up in Marquette strictly for saving the piece of float copper. With a littleYou Tube and other outlets and EVERYBODY spreading the word, it might just attractenough attention to work. The logistics of THAT many pennies would be horrendous,but that's exactly what would attract the attention. After all, it would only take35,000,000 pennies. At approximately 180 pennies per pound, that would only beapproximately 194,444 pounds, about 97 tons. Wouldn't this give everybody somekind of sense of the amount of copper that came out of the UP and Isle Royale in an-cient times? Some estimates are as high as a billion pounds that came from thoseancient mines. So when all the copper pennies started rolling in for Mr. Copper, andthe mass started growing, we could say, "Hey, if you think this is a lot of copper, justimagine how much copper was mined by the ancients. Also, it would give a sense ofjust how big this piece of float copper is (some estimates 70 tons, or about 27 tons

less than the pennies needed to save it).

EVERYBODY could participate for just pennies, literally. Even during these hardeconomic times, people could, and I think would, donate their pennies without theirsuffering. And I think a bank in Marquette, in spite of the logistics, would be willing dothis for Fred. [Ed. Note: We suggest you start a penny jar, to bring it to fall confer-ence to dump together with other penny-savers. If you are flying, and you have a bigweight of pennies, you might want to change it into paper at your bank, before con-ference or mailing to us. If a display is necessary for publicity purposes, we can

change your paper back into copper.]

May & August Board Meetings ReportIn our accounts: 7-30-09: Savings - $14,917.86 Checking - $566.24 This is before costs of newsletter product & QuarkXpressElections- AAPS Officers:

Glenn E DeVlaminck (prev. VP) moved into Fred’s spot as President. Newly elected are Vice President: David Hoffman2nd Vice President: Ray Meininger Renewed are Treasurer, Dave Kallio and Secretary, Judy M Johnson.Board Members Renewed and New: Oedith Harris Jim (Hoolie) DeCaireThom Bell Mary TurveyRobert Wheeler Beth WebbWELCOME June Rydholm and Carl Lindquist!

Advisors: Lee Pennington, Jay Wakefield, Myron Paine, Ida Jane Gal-lagher, Jeff Bennett, Rick Osman, Karl Hoenke, WELCOME new Advisor, Charles DuCharme.

We have received a note of resignation from Dan Hornbogen for personaland health reasons. He is regretful that he must do so. We thank him for theyears of sage advice he has given, and we wish him well. David Richarde,citing irreconcilable beliefs & goals, resigned early this year as well.Recent News and Decisions:

After five of us visited “our” float copper and site we decided unanimouslythat we would not build on that remote woodsy site, but seek an existingbuilding in Calumet, perhaps an old mining structure associated with the Na-tional Parks Service. Money would better be spent on that than on an expen-sive road across the easement to the interior forty acres. Judy popped intothe Parks offices on Aug. 6th, ran into city liason to the Parks, executive di-rector of Main Street Calumet, Historic Preservation; Tom Tikkanen, who wasextremely responsive to our plan of having a museum with a focus on an-cient copper. He said “Perfect! People want to know more about aboriginalcopper people and we don’t know what to tell them. We have this great bookby Fred Rydholm, but not everyone can buy that.” I shared some thingsabout our group, our goals to buy the copper and have a museum, and theywant to work with us. Having “copper” in our museum name, will not limit uswhen you consider how copper connected the Americas to the rest of theworld, and it helps get us into a system that wants to help us succeed in hav-ing a museum. By conference we will have more to report on this.

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MES Barry Fell Award

Given to Fred Rydholm

Each year the Midwestern Epigraphic Societyselects a worth recipient for this honor. The organi-zation continues the work of finding, preserving anddeciphering ancient epigraphy whether on stone,

clay, metals or parchments. These words and symbols are key in helping us under-stand our history and our connectedness with the worlds beyond out shores. Thegroup presented the award posthumously, to Fred, being accepted by Lee Penning-

ton. Lee gave a program about Fred and AAPS as well. We are all most appreciative!

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Curious Stone Found on Shores of Lake SuperiorIn the 1960s, Judy’s friend Donna’sbrother, Charley MacIntosh, found asmall marked rock on the north shore ofthe Keweenaw Peninsula. He’s alwayskept it as a treasured touchstone. He’sagreed to show a photograph of it herein hopes that some of our people mighthave a clue as to its origin and meaning.Photo showing front & back, is discolored reddish tone, by flash. White banding indi-cates Lake Superior igneous black basalt as the base stone. The MacIntosh’s ownthe charming Nahma Inn Bed and Breakfast on Lake Michigan in Southern UP. 906-644-2486

AAPS is “Mission Fish” ApprovedCharity on eBay

If you sell or buy on eBay, here’s an easy way tohelp raise funds for AAPS. Judy is selling some of her books on eBay with 10% ofsale price being automatically credited to AAPS’s PayPal account. YOU can do thesame thing when you sell or buy. Just look for the “Donate to a Charity” button, scrollto AAPS or put it in the search to find us. Then select the % you wish to contribute. It is tax deductible as a charitable 501-C-3 corporation. They send receipts

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~MAGAZINES FEATURE ANCIENT UP COPPER

The May/June 2009 issue of Michigan HistoryMagazine featured an 8 page report on ANCIENTcopper pits in the Copper Country. They noted reportsof early historical agents of mines; captains, superintend-ents, and high ranking company officials. They consis-tently reported that signs of ancient miners were mostevident. They said these prehistoric miners were notprimitive, but “were educated and had a broad base ofworld experience.” Maps and photos supported the story;showing positions of ancient copper pits, cribbing holdinghammered copper boulders, and tools. They acknowledged the thousands of pits onIsle Royale alone. The expert contributing this data? John Halsey, the State of Michi-gan’s Archaeologist. Very interesting.

2 issues of Rock & Gem feature Michigan Copper: #36, August 2006, and #39,May 2009. What’s exciting about these articles is they have answered the burningquestion; what’s the chemical fingerprint that can identify Miichigan copper from thatfound elsewhere in the world. It’s the SILVER- and a wee bit of arsenic! Ours is theonly copper in the world that has this intrinsic fingerprint. Bob Jones is the author/re-searcher of both articles. I’ll call him as soon as I receive the issues I have ordered.

Vintage post card showing 5 millions lbs of UP copper awaiting shipment. c.1930s

BOOK DONATED TO AAPSWe received an intriguing book by Stephen W Snuffer, “Mountain Mysteriesand Ancient History: the Prophecy of the 7th Seal and Crystal Skulls” It’s BIG,8.5”x11” & 689 pages, soft cover. Its focus is on ancient archaeology of West Virginiawith a wide smattering of many topics, showing lots of photos of inscriptions andogam writing found inside mounds, on cliffs and at stone forts. Mr. Snuffer is an em-ployee of West Virginia as a substance abuse therapist. Additionally he is an insur-ance agent and private investigator, aiding him in ferreting out evidence of ancientvisitations and their link to native peoples. Read about mounds, pyramids, petro-glyphs, end-time & ancient calendars, and many mysteries.

$55.50, Stephen Snuffer, PO Box 786 Cool Ridge WV 25825. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

SILENT AUCTION AGAIN PLANNED FOR

AAPS CONFERENCE on ANCIENT AMERICA

Our silent auction of donated goods last year at 4th Annual Conf. on AncientAmerica raised $769! thanks to the generosity of our friends. Most itemswere related to archaeological subjects: books, images, mineral specimens,artifacts, tools, etc. A few things were unrelated but brought some incometoo. We again seek donations of goods to support our mutual goals of a dif-fusionist museum. See registration form to pledge your donation, even if youcannot come to the conference. Thank YOU!

Mail to: AAPS, PO Box 216, Skandia MI 49885

Phone Judy: 906-942-7865 or 810-299-5210

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