by Larry Chabot With one-fourth of the country unemployed in 1933 (45 percent in the U.P.), the nation faced losing much of its youth to total dissolution. One of the first acts of the Roosevelt administration was establishment of the Civilian Conservation Corps “to conserve our precious resources … [and] take a vast army of [...]
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THEY SAVED OUR SONS
Posted by gllteditor on February 9, 2012
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Spanning the U.P. East to West by Jen Varecha
Traveling from West to East across Michigan’s Upper Peninsula you get the feeling you are experiencing America in its earliest days. More affectionately known as the U.P., it is 16,452 square miles of wilderness (mostly) inhabited by black bear, deer, moose, bobcats, snowshoe rabbits, beaver, porcupine and various other forest fauna.
Posted by greatlakeslifeandtimes on December 28, 2011
http://greatlakeslifeandtimes.wordpress.com/2011/12/28/spanning-the-u-p-east-to-west-by-jen-varecha/
The Four Chaplains by Larry Chabot
One of World War II’s most inspiring legends is the story of the Four Chaplains, but few remember the role the Upper Peninsula played in that drama. The saga began in the North Atlantic on February 3, 1943, when a German submarine sighted the American troop ship Dorchester in its periscope and fired three torpedoes. [...]
Posted by greatlakeslifeandtimes on December 28, 2011
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The Hermit of the Gogebic by DennisRolando
James Earl was the first white settler in the Bessemer area in 1843. Around 1850 Horatio Merryweather made surveys of the Lake Superior Country and in 1867 Ralph Pompelli made surveys of the region. One of these parties left a lonesome and unmarked grave atop one of the bluffs overlooking the present city of Bessemer. [...]
Posted by greatlakeslifeandtimes on December 28, 2011
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