Part 2 of 2. Visitors who have not read “He Was Someone” should do so first. October 4, 1959. A woman picked wildflowers near a culvert on Davis Road in Mequon, Wisconsin. Weather data from General Mitchell Field, an airport thirty miles south, speaks to a pleasant day: temperatures reaching the upper 50s, precipitation holding . . .
Part 1 of 2. His mother named him Chester. The ones responsible for his death called him Markku. He died far before his time in December 1958–not yet seven years old. Born in Houghton County, he spent his entire short life in the Copper Country. He should have been buried with dignity in his hometown. . . .