Watching this brought me a great joy I cannot express. As a teenager I worked summers mowing grass at St. James cemetery where apparently the Voyageurs stopped to hold mass or eat a possum or something. I have also canoed the Des Plaines River for decades---and now live in Channahon--which means "Where the waters meet"--the confluence of the Illinois, Dupage, Kankakee, and Desplaines rivers--rich with native American history and certainly a stopping point for the explorers. Look forward to part 2
Thank you E.J. ~ Both Tom and I watched the story, the Journey of Marquette together. What beautiful illustrations and the Tiffany etchings!! Quite an arduous and determined voyage this was. Your story-telling voice and intonations was riveting ~ Our Love and Thanks for your detailed research and the telling of this Journey. Tom & Beanie Medlicott
Thank you for this informative video. Here is a video which shows a recent ceremony done this year to relocate Marquette'ss bones you may be interesteed to view.
I guess if they were just looking around and not really trying to hornswoggle the people that were already living there…it would still be an amazing trip to take today!
Watching this brought me a great joy I cannot express. As a teenager I worked summers mowing grass at St. James cemetery where apparently the Voyageurs stopped to hold mass or eat a possum or something. I have also canoed the Des Plaines River for decades---and now live in Channahon--which means "Where the waters meet"--the confluence of the Illinois, Dupage, Kankakee, and Desplaines rivers--rich with native American history and certainly a stopping point for the explorers. Look forward to part 2
Thank you, EJ. I really can see and I appreciate all the work you put into this.
Thank you E.J. ~ Both Tom and I watched the story, the Journey of Marquette together. What beautiful illustrations and the Tiffany etchings!! Quite an arduous and determined voyage this was. Your story-telling voice and intonations was riveting ~ Our Love and Thanks for your detailed research and the telling of this Journey.
Tom & Beanie Medlicott
I’m related to Louis Jolliet
Thank you for this informative video. Here is a video which shows a recent ceremony done this year to relocate Marquette'ss bones you may be interesteed to view.
Merci pour cette vidéo. Très intéressant. On comprend mieux la toponymie de cette région des États-Unis. 👍
I guess if they were just looking around and not really trying to hornswoggle the people that were already living there…it would still be an amazing trip to take today!
I am deaf and don't understand what your video said. Please add a closed captioning to these videos. Thank you !