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How this 'End of Earth: 2 miles' road sign became a part of Upper Peninsula lore

How this ‘End of Earth: 2 miles’ road sign became a part of Upper Peninsula lore
Updated Jan 26, 2021;
Posted Jan 26, 2021
The now-iconic End of Earth sign was a prank pulled off by Michigan Tech students. Photo courtesy of Michigan Technological University Archives/Copyright John Marchesi
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HOUGHTON, MICH. The sign stood by the roadside for only a few hours, but for more than three decades it has been remembered as one of the best pranks ever pulled off by Michigan Technological University students.
As Michigan Tech Magazine recently told the story, in 1984 longtime friends and MTU students Tim Cocciolone and John Marchesi created a fake highway sign that embodied the wild, remote spirit of their school’s location in Houghton, in the U.P.’s Keweenaw Peninsula. ....

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Bridging Barriers

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Community members move rocks to build the center pier of the bridge across the Rio
Montagua. Image Credit: Mike Paddock
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Passion, the desire to help others, and skill sharing define Michigan Tech’s Engineers
Without Borders student chapter.
Community is one of the Michigan Tech values, nestled nicely with accountability and
tenacity, and many an MTU grad hold those values as guiding principles in their lives.
But what does it look like to put those values into action? That’s the subject of
alumnus Mike Paddock’s 2020 book,
Bridging Barriers: How a Community Changed Its Future with Help From Engineers Without ....

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