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On the shores of Gitchigoomee
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This lovely lass resides on Highway 2 just west of St. Ignace, Mi. She watches over the shore with her birch bark canoe, totem pole and fur pelts.
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The Pickle Barrel House
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this house is located in Grand Marais, Michigan, a quiet Lake Superior town with an awesome Brew Pub called the Lake Superior Brewing Company (or something similar-after two Pale Ales I kind of forgot). Slip away from the pack and see this town in small groups, it's not the type of place you want to bombard. The pickle house was built for an early 20th century cartoonist who ran a strip called The Teenie-Weenies. (I'll hold my toungue for a momnet, thank you.) He did an add for a brand of pickles in which he depicted teenie-weenie people living in a pickle barrel. The company was so pleased with the add that they built this house for him on the shores of one of the UP's many lakes. The house was visited so often the cartoonist had no privacy and so moved it into Grand Marais for all to gawk at. Like the man said, "take a picture."
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Sherry's Port Bar
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I was camping at Fayette State Park near Manistique, Michigan, a rustic campground built around an old ghost town. I had been hiking all day and my feet were killing me but I wanted to see the graveyard, the only thing I hadn't checked out yet. I was hot, sore and tired as I trudged through the graves and wished I could sit down in some AC and have a cold one. When I exited the graveyard and found the road, I also found Sherry's. This picture only hints at the cool decore inside.
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