“From over there!”
And he kept a straight face just long to say ,”must be a ghost,” and then started laughing for having caught me off guard. This little comedy routine shouldn’t have surprised me too much.
We were, after all, skiing through a ghost town.
If you’re tired of striding across golf courses, then you’ll find the Upper Peninsula has some unusual Nordic alternatives. One of the best is the ghost town of Fayette.
Located in Fayette Historic State Park, Fayette was a company iron smelting town that in its heyday in 1880s boosted 500 residents, a hotel, a company store, an opera house and the blast furnaces and kilns needed to turn ore into pig iron.
ERIC FREEDMAN
The cover of Wolf Island by L. David Mech (with Greg Breining and Rolf O. Peterson) is shown. (Photo credit: University of Minnesota Press.)
LANSING Looking for a holiday gift with the spirit of the Great Lakes region?
If so, here are some books (arranged in alphabetical order) that Capital News Service and Great Lakes Echo have written about this year, including interviews with their authors.
“Eating with the Seasons, Great Lakes Region,” by Dereck Nicholas. This cookbook combines recipes, language and the history of the Anishinaabeg people.
What the author says: “Back in the day, elders would take their sons and their daughters out fishing and they would use the language. You’d hear how to catch the fish, how to net fish, how to cook the fish. Nowadays, that’s just not the case. If we can revitalize the language and the food, or both, it will all come together as one.”