Category: Reminiscences
There’s Nothing like a Good Scare
Brimley, Michigan: Right Town, Wrong Century
A First Communion Story, Brimley, Michigan – 1954
Siblings and a City Dog in Brimley, MI
The Dog Days of August in the Upper Peninsula
Haying in Chippewa County, Michigan
Yoopers, I’m Taking It with Me
Busy as an Upper Peninsula Beaver
Beaver dam — Front door I’ll make this short. Everyone in the U.P. is complaining about the heat as they sit in their air-conditioned homes, ride in their air-conditioned cars, or dine at their favorite air-conditioned restaurants. Consider yourselves lucky. You could be as busy as the Yooper beavers who…
Summer Softball Games on a Brimley Sideroad
Don’t Feel Guilty, Yoopers …Rats Also Prefer Donuts
Princess Cake Popular in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
A Prelude of What Was to Come in Washington
Making Tracks in Grand Marais, Michigan
No Microwave, No Keurig in My Sideroad Kitchen in Brimley Michigan
Rules, Wonderful Rules, in Michigan and Elsewhere
The Official Arrival of Summer in Chippewa County Michigan
Remembering Flag Day in Brimley, Michigan
This article appeared once in the Brimley High School newspaper in the 1960s. Columnist Ann Landers has said it originally appeared in the Stars & Stripes newspaper, a US Armed Forces publication. Reprints have appeared in Dear Abby and many other syndicated columns. Stew Consentino, a Viet Nam vet, simply…
Yooper Kitchen Table Blues
by Sharon M. Kennedy If your kitchen table is like mine, it grows stuff. No matter how hard I try to keep it tidy, it refuses to cooperate. Unopened mail, yesterday’s newspaper, Avon brochures, magazines, bills, cookbooks, condiments, and miscellaneous items litter without the slightest apology. My morning table might…
Typing in Brimley, Sault Ste. Marie, and Detroit
A Yooper’s Obligation to Junk Mail
A Trip to Ontario’s King Optical
Waltzing with My Mother
A New Yooper Arrives April 24, 1947
Junk Drawer Jumble
There’s Nothing like a Good Scare
Brimley, Michigan: Right Town, Wrong Century
A First Communion Story, Brimley, Michigan – 1954
Siblings and a City Dog in Brimley, MI
The Dog Days of August in the Upper Peninsula
Haying in Chippewa County, Michigan
Yoopers, I’m Taking It with Me
Busy as an Upper Peninsula Beaver
Beaver dam — Front door I’ll make this short. Everyone in the U.P. is complaining about the heat as they sit in their air-conditioned homes, ride in their air-conditioned cars, or dine at their favorite air-conditioned restaurants. Consider yourselves lucky. You could be as busy as the Yooper beavers who…
Summer Softball Games on a Brimley Sideroad
Don’t Feel Guilty, Yoopers …Rats Also Prefer Donuts
Princess Cake Popular in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
A Prelude of What Was to Come in Washington
Making Tracks in Grand Marais, Michigan
No Microwave, No Keurig in My Sideroad Kitchen in Brimley Michigan
Rules, Wonderful Rules, in Michigan and Elsewhere
The Official Arrival of Summer in Chippewa County Michigan
Remembering Flag Day in Brimley, Michigan
This article appeared once in the Brimley High School newspaper in the 1960s. Columnist Ann Landers has said it originally appeared in the Stars & Stripes newspaper, a US Armed Forces publication. Reprints have appeared in Dear Abby and many other syndicated columns. Stew Consentino, a Viet Nam vet, simply…
Yooper Kitchen Table Blues
by Sharon M. Kennedy If your kitchen table is like mine, it grows stuff. No matter how hard I try to keep it tidy, it refuses to cooperate. Unopened mail, yesterday’s newspaper, Avon brochures, magazines, bills, cookbooks, condiments, and miscellaneous items litter without the slightest apology. My morning table might…