Things are different in da UP. A quick and easy glance over the local newspaper, which only comes out once per week, demonstrates as much. The car show in St. Ignace was more deeply and personally covered than the North American Auto Show each January in Detroit is covered by the Detroit papers. It's all glitz and glamor downstate. At St. Ignace, the cars were labors of love. They were all restored classics, and the restorers got the attention of the local press. To be sure, it's a different type of show. It is nonetheless more endearing.
The little ville of Hessel was featured as well, in the St. Ignace News Weekly Wave edition which we have been alluding to. There's an issue with the beach there, and the question of the beach volunteers overstepping their ground in not getting the approval of the local government before getting certain improvements in place. We don't want to say any more than that; we aren't familiar enough with the issue to speak intelligently. But it seems so, well, we hate to say quaint, as that's far too dismissive. The issue matters to the locals every bit as much as Kwame Kilpatrick matters to Detroiters or Robert Ficano to Wayne County residents. Still, it's refreshing to be somewhere where these things matter.
The local Little Caesar's, which isn't exactly local as it is 35 miles away in Sault Sainte Marie, or the Soo, had those little white table like things inside their pizza boxes to help keep from having the toppings smashed into the underside of the lid. You don't get that type of service in southeast Michigan. Passing through St. Helen on the way up here there was an ad for the Charlton Heston Academy Patriots school opening in September. In Chippewa County (where the Soo is) we noticed that Rambo is running for sheriff. Paul Rambo, that is, but there's something very right wing about seeing political signs touting 'Rambo for Sheriff.' which aren't jokes.
It certainly is different in da UP. And we can learn from that.
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