This was an unhealthy trip. And not because of the local beer, porketta, potica, and pasties.
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Historian, Writer, Midwesterner
This was an unhealthy trip. And not because of the local beer, porketta, potica, and pasties.
Continue reading “Barnstorming the Midwest: Iron Range, Lake Vermilion Edition”
When historians talk iron ore and the Midwest, we’re all familiar with the docks of Duluth and the radicalism of the Iron Range. But less often, we talk about the forgotten “twin” of the Twin Ports, Superior, Wisconsin.
Since I’m on this barnstorming tour for the remainder of 2017, I don’t need to live in Milwaukee until the spring, meaning I’m moving out of my apartment. That meant the unenviable task of cleaning it out but also provided the opportunity to use the Marquette University Archives, which play host to dozens and dozens of feet of relevant material from some of Wisconsin’s prominent politicians of the 1980s.
There are 2200 words ahead, click on if you dare.
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