Tragedy in the Copper Country

Calumet Native Among Victims in
​Pearl Harbor Attack

RPM interviewed Peggy Germain and Bob Valley, to discuss the event that brought them together.  On December 7, 1941, Bob's older brother and  Peggy's Uncle were both killed in the Pearl Harbor Attack.  Bob was instrumental in helping to get Peggy's Uncle's remains brought back to Michigan in 2010.  His own brother was identified and returned to Michigan in 2018.  Peggy is working with RPM to animate her story. 

(photo left -Bob Valley share's his album of photographs and newspaper clippings describing his work to repatriate the bodies of service men who died at Pearl Harbor

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The Italian Hall Disaster - Someone Yelled "Fire"

On New Year's Day, 1941 

Ruth Anne Miller - a little girl's death shocks the copper country

​1968 Miners Strike and Closing of the Mine

Father's Day Flood

​Fire on Fifth Street