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At the Adventure Mine near Greenland you rappel 80 feet to a lower level of a copper mine that worked from 1850 to 1920. The tour is $78, ages 12 and up, through mid-October.
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Britain protected the name Cornish pasty in 2011, and the specification rules out every pasty made in the Upper Peninsula. Here is...
Read storyFinnish squeaky cheese, the juustoa Yoopers drop in their coffee, was quietly dying out in U.P. farm kitchens. The trail that revived...
Read storyAnna "Big Annie" Clemenc marched daily with an American flag during the nine-month Copper Country strike. Her courage made her one of...
Read storyFinnish immigrants in the U.P. often built the sauna before the house and lived in it while they built everything else. Inside...
Read storyA knock in the rock a mile underground meant something to Copper Country miners. It was the tommyknockers, and the Cornish custom...
Read storyThe Ontonagon Boulder, a 3,708-pound sacred copper mass that launched the U.P.'s copper boom, was seized in 1843 and hasn't been displayed...
Read storyHeikki Lunta is the Upper Peninsula's own snow god, invented in 1970 by a radio DJ to save a snowmobile race. The...
Read storyYou can hear it in the accent, taste it in the nisu, and sweat it out in a Saturday-night sauna. Five western...
Read storyMichigan didn't choose the U.P. It got stuck with it. Then it got rich. If you've ever wondered why Michigan has the...
Read storyYears before the forty-niners headed west, a rush for copper built the Keweenaw, and the Quincy Mine still towers over it Everybody...
Read storyYou've heard "Win one for the Gipper" your whole life. The Gipper was a Yooper You have heard the line a thousand...
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