Yooper
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A Scrabble Loss Cost One Man 10 Years of Letter-Writing. He Got “Yooper” Into the Dictionary — and They Botched the Entry.
The Yooper definition entered Merriam-Webster in 2014 after a Delta County prosecutor…
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Every Yooper Knows the Spot: Why Friday Night in the U.P. Will Always Mean Fish Fry
You can get fried fish anywhere. You can’t get this anywhere. Every…
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Are There Mountain Lions in the Upper Peninsula? The DNR Just Confirmed Cubs for the First Time
For the first time in over a century, a mother cougar and…
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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…
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Sisu Is the Untranslatable Finnish Word for Grit That the U.P. Built Into Every Yooper
There’s no English word for it. But every U.P. kid was raised…
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Lake Superior Holds 10% of Earth’s Fresh Water and Could Drown the Other Great Lakes
Stand on a Lake Superior beach and look straight out, and you…
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Lake Superior Whitefish Is the One Taste of Home Every Yooper Misses
Fresh whitefish, pan-fried with a light golden crust, pulled out of Lake…
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Brockway Mountain Drive May Be the Most Beautiful View in the Entire U.P.
From the top of Brockway Mountain, Lake Superior spreads out in front…
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The U.P. Is Bigger Than 9 U.S. States, but Almost Nobody Lives There
Pull up a map and it looks like a strip of land…
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If You’re From the U.P., You Don’t Have a Cottage. You Have a Camp
Downstate they have cottages. Up here it’s always been camp, and for…
