Fine cement dust, sweltering heat from the kilns and backbreaking work define a young college student’s summer at a Petoskey cement plant before its closure in 1981.I wheeled off the Petoskey-Charlevoix road to the Penn-Dixie cement plant that sprawled along the shore...
A collection of Northern Michigan fishing essays from James McCullough, author of "Echoes: Meditations on the Fly," available at McLean & Eakin in Petoskey and Gates Au Sable Lodge. It’s late April and I’ve just returned from camping deep in the jack pines of the...
Get ready as 'shroomers streak, sneak and tiptoe across Northern Michigan in search of morels. Featured in the May 2019 issue of Traverse Magazine. Get your copy. We call each other “’shroomers” as we set about ’shrooming in sacred, secret swales of aspen, ash and...
Dorie Sarns would often run the chairlift for an extra hour on lovely, late-season evenings, so we could all ski just a little bit longer. In this picture, Dorie smiles alongside my parents who are young and stylish, with sporty yellow ski glasses, my mom in a fur...
At a sports park dedicated to snow and ice, generations of Petoskeyites have formed a love of winter that defines them. This story is featured in the December 2016 issue of Traverse, Northern Michigan's Magazine. Get your copy. We shall not cease from exploration. And...
This essay about Northern Michigan Fishing was originally published in the September 2014 issue of Traverse, Northern Michigan’s Magazine. I lumbered through damp birch and bracken fern last August until I had to crash tangled brush to reach the bank of a favorite,...
What kinds of Northern Michigan fishing adventures does a car need to navigate to become a 'fish car'? How many miles of two tracking through Northern Michigan's outdoors does it take to elevate something so banal as a car to that upper automotive echelon? MyNorth...
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