It was a delight to join again with my colleagues at the Michigan Historic Preservation Network annual conference this year. We spent two terrific days in Sault Ste. Marie, at the easternmost edge of the Upper Peninsula. This small city, located at a long series of rapids in the St. Marys River that connects Lake Superior and Lake Huron and that has long been important for the region’s Native Americans, has a remarkable history of European settlement going back to the 17th century. It is most known now for the Soo Locks, an incredible engineering feat that allows for more shipping tonnage per year than the Panama Canal and the Suez Canal combined. It is therefore a remarkable place with fantastic historic resources both architectural and engineering. In addition, we were blessed with a burst of beautiful weather, which made it all the more enjoyable to wander around the downtown area that parallels the incredible Soo Locks as well as the beautiful and historic campus of Lake Superior State University. As always, I brought a 4×5 camera and Ilford FP4+ film, and have attached some samples here.