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30 years ago

MARQUETTE — A connection between Marquette and her sister city, Yokkaichi Japan is being fostered through a new Children’s Museum video project series. The cultural exchange, says James Edwards, director of the Marquette Children’s Museum, was started as a way to eliminate stereotypes. The idea of the project was to showcase an average Marquette household family, and in turn, see how an average family in Yokkaichi lives. The data collected through these videos will be applied to a “Japanese Room” at the Children’s Museum which will provide a variety of information about the island.

60 years ago

MARQUETTE — An escapee from the Marquette State Prison was recently apprehended in Florida and will be returned this week. Daniel G. Hammond, 24, was serving a term for larceny when he fled Camp Baraga on October 28, 1964. Michigan Warden Raymond J. Buchoke reported that Hammond was apprehended in Florida and arrested on a vagrancy charge. Daytona Beach police, on learning that Hammond was wanted in Michigan, contacted the Michigan Corrections Department who then sent officers from the Jackson State Prison to retrieve Hammond. Hammond will remain in Marquette at least until he is tried and sentenced on breaking free of his prison sentence. He will be tried in the Alger County Circuit Court in Munising. Hammond is the second of thirteen inmates who fled the prison in 1964.