Jim Harrison writes about the U.P. for the New York Times

Author Jim Harrison often writes about the U.P. in his novels, and this time, he's done so for the New York Times.

 

Excerpt: Growing up in northern Michigan I was early on mystified by the Upper Peninsula even before I traveled there. In the 1960s I went up a number of times, and it did not cease to mystify me with its wildness. While camping I would study maps to try to figure out where I was other than within a cloud of mosquitoes and black flies, that irritating species that depends on clean water, of which there is a great deal in the U.P. 

 

There is little or no industry, and all of the mines are closed; therefore you can drink the water directly from Lake Superior — at least I always did on my long beach walks.

 

For the whole piece, go here.