Copper Country
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Wisconsin Is Famous for Squeaky Bread Cheese. The U.P. Helped Save It First.
Finnish squeaky cheese, the juustoa Yoopers drop in their coffee, was quietly…
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This U.P. Ghost Town Comes Back to Life One Sunday Every July, and Has Since 1907
Central Mine grew into a Cornish copper town of more than 1,200…
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How Big Annie Became the Flag-Carrying Face of Calumet’s 1913 Copper Strike
Anna “Big Annie” Clemenc marched daily with an American flag during the…
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In the U.P., Finnish Families Built the Sauna Before They Built the House
Finnish immigrants in the U.P. often built the sauna before the house…
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Miners in the U.P. Left Part of Their Lunch Underground for the Tommyknockers
A knock in the rock a mile underground meant something to Copper…
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The Feds Seized the U.P.’s Sacred Copper Boulder in 1843. It’s Still in a Smithsonian Storeroom.
The Ontonagon Boulder, a 3,708-pound sacred copper mass that launched the U.P.’s…
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The U.P. Has Its Own Snow God, Invented by a Radio DJ to Save a Snowmobile Race
Heikki Lunta is the Upper Peninsula’s own snow god, invented in 1970…
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Why the U.P. Is the Most Finnish Place in America
You can hear it in the accent, taste it in the nisu,…
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How Keweenaw Copper Built the U.P.—and Wired a Growing America
Before the California Gold Rush became legend, another American mineral rush was…
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Why Michigan Has the Upper Peninsula: A Lost War, a Consolation Prize, and a Copper Fortune
Michigan didn’t choose the U.P. It got stuck with it. Then it…
