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<\/center><\/p>\nI was educated at Michigan Tech, at the far western end of the Upper Peninsula; the school was founded to produce geologists and engineers to serve industry. When we are in the U.P. and Dawn et. al.<\/i> are picking-up beach stones, I see building material and they see pretty stones and wonder what that strangely-colored, shiny-stuff is.<\/p>\n
The most striking aspect of our visits (to me<\/i>, at least) is how little things have changed since I left Tech; there’s been very little growth, and the place looks little different than it did when I was a student there. Many of the storefronts have the same name.<\/p>\n
Some wise, farseeing legislators designated the southern shore of Lake Superior as a National Lakeshore, with the result that the drive along the shoreline looks little different than it did decades ago. This is a good thing, though doubtless annoying to landowners and merchants. No matter; it’s a beautiful part of the country, and if you’ve never visited you should.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We are home from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and, as always, I am now wondering how I can finagle a summer place up there and winters here in the mid-Atlantic. Our son, John, and his wife-to-be, Nicole, accompanied Dawn and I … Continue reading