The May issue of Smithsonian.com devotes several pages to the U.P.
The May issue of Smithsonian.com features a remarkably flattering story on Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The story is written by Jonathan Kandell.
"Immortalized by Longfellow," writes Kandell, "the Midwest's preferred vacation spot offers unspoiled forests, waterfalls and coastal villages."
The article describes Pictured Rocks as "looking like giant, freshly painted abstract works of art."
Kandell also provides extensive description of the Soo Locks, the Keweenaw Peninsula, the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, the Quincy Mine and the interesting village of Alberta, which was designed by Henry Ford to be a sort of utopian home for his workers.
The article concludes with quotes from American naturalist and writer Edwin Way Teale who described the U.P. as a "land of wonderful wilderness," where "sand and pebbles and driftwood" dot the lakeshores, mayflies can be seen "rising and drifting like thistledown," and forest glens are "filled with the hum of bees and the pink of milkweed flower clusters."
Kandell writes that Teale and his wife, while touring the U.P., "were reluctant to even glance at their map while driving for fear of missing a sight, whether small or spectacular."
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