Film follows Michigan father and son on canoe journey
Source: Detroit Free Press
The U.P. figures prominently in a canoe journey following in the footsteps of Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet, who were among the first Europeans to explore the area. Luckily, it’s all on film.
Excerpt: A real-life father, Steven Faulkner, and son, Justin, set off on the ultimate bonding trip: traveling by canoe along the route taken in 1673 by Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet, famous European explorers of the Mississippi.
“Waterwalk,” Faulkner’s book about the journey from St. Ignace to St. Louis, was published a few years ago by travel writer Roger Rapaport, who grew up in Detroit and now is based in Muskegon.
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Source: Detroit Free Press
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