Journal created:
on 25 January 2002 (#449924)
Updated:
on 7 February 2011
Name:
U.P. Native
Website:
Membership:
Open
Posting Access:
All Members , Moderated
Description:
yoopers
This is a community for people living in/from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to talk about the U.P. and their interest in it.
Please feel free to post about yourself when you join.
The U.P. is summed up well in the following quotes:
"It's an edgy place. I mean, in the sense that it still hangs on out there like a rawhide flap of the old frontier, outposted from the swirl of mainstream America. The U.P. is a hard place. A person has to want to hurt a lot to live there".
---- John G. Mitchell, Audubon Magazine, November 1981
"In winter we shovel snow and in summer we swat mosquitoes. During the spring and fall we rest up for swatting and shoveling".
---Peter Oikarinen's reply to the often-asked question of Yoopers, "What do you people do up there?" 1987
"The best thing that could happen to the U.P. would be for someone to bomb the bridge".
---John Voelker, former Michigan Supreme Court Justice, the author of Anatomy of a Murder, and Yooper resident
"That land of wonderful wilderness".
---Edwin Way Teale, Journey Into Summer, 1960
"Nowhere, probably on the continent, is fall foliage more beautiful in brilliancy or contrasting colors".
---George Shiras, National Geographic, August 1921
"It is one of the prettiest places in the world".
---Henry Ford, 1920s
Please feel free to post about yourself when you join.
The U.P. is summed up well in the following quotes:
"It's an edgy place. I mean, in the sense that it still hangs on out there like a rawhide flap of the old frontier, outposted from the swirl of mainstream America. The U.P. is a hard place. A person has to want to hurt a lot to live there".
---- John G. Mitchell, Audubon Magazine, November 1981
"In winter we shovel snow and in summer we swat mosquitoes. During the spring and fall we rest up for swatting and shoveling".
---Peter Oikarinen's reply to the often-asked question of Yoopers, "What do you people do up there?" 1987
"The best thing that could happen to the U.P. would be for someone to bomb the bridge".
---John Voelker, former Michigan Supreme Court Justice, the author of Anatomy of a Murder, and Yooper resident
"That land of wonderful wilderness".
---Edwin Way Teale, Journey Into Summer, 1960
"Nowhere, probably on the continent, is fall foliage more beautiful in brilliancy or contrasting colors".
---George Shiras, National Geographic, August 1921
"It is one of the prettiest places in the world".
---Henry Ford, 1920s
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