Fewer than 10,000 people live in dusty Brownsville, TN. It would be easy to blow right past downtown if you were, say, trying desperately to find anything at all worth listening to on the radio. But even if you did, you still wouldn’t miss the town’s biggest attraction, Helen’s BBQ, which sits a mile removed,…
Accidental Chef in the Wild West
PORTAL, AZ – As if we were all Wild West outlaws lowering our bandanas for the first time, my neighbors in tiny Portal, Arizona and I are finally seeing one another’s faces. Never having seen their mouths, I made many of them extravagant Thanksgiving and December holiday dinners, alongside my friend Zola, who’s pushing 90…
New Mexico Christmas Decorations: Chile Red and Cactus Green
New Mexico has ‘Christmas’ year round – that’s how you order half red chile, half green chile sauce. But this mostly very Catholic state goes all out with Christmas decor, from religious to irreverent.
Polish Donuts: The Finest Pączki in all of Chicagoland are at Polish Pączki Cafe
CHICAGO – Don’t feel bad if you didn’t sound it out. [Ponch’-key] wasn’t my first guess either, on my pilgrimage to what I was informed is the best place in Chicago to taste these delightful Polish donuts, the Polish Pączki Cafe. Made from a yeasted dough, hand filled with not-too-sweet plum jam and shaped by…
Cider Making in the Keweenaw: Central and Copper Harbor, MI
The Cornish miners who settled Central, MI left a legacy of apples, apples and more apples.
Foraging for Thimbleberries in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
COPPER HARBOR, MI — It embarrasses me, after all the things I’ve found to recommend the Keweenaw Peninsula, that it was an overpriced jar of jam that first launched me on my journey here. Or at least I thought it was overpriced at the time: $25 for what looked to be one cup of jam,…
A Keweenaw Red Rocks?
Aaron Rogers envisions an amphitheater carved in stone & big-name bands at East Bluff Bike Park.
Keweenaw Leaf-Peeping Color Cruise, Houghton Canal
A Benefit for Donny Kilpela’s Copper Harbor Christmas Lights Display
Tax Talk Premature and Hunting and Fishing Welcome, Keweenaw Landscape Park Coalition Says
COPPER HARBOR, MI – Although various funding mechanisms were discussed at a Tuesday night informational meeting about a proposed Keweenaw Landscape Park, it’s premature to be talking about local property tax increases, the ambitious plan’s organizers say. In addition, hunters and fishermen will continue to be welcome on the property should a coalition of backers…
Trailblazer Aaron Rogers Unveils Ambitious 30,000-acre Mixed Use ‘Keweenaw Landscape Park’
Rock Solid Founder Already Building New Trails on His Own 524-Acre Parcel COPPER HARBOR, MI – Nobody ever accused Aaron Rogers of thinking small. The nation’s largest trailbuilding contractor on Tuesday night unveiled an ambitious plan to acquire up 30,000 acres in northeastern Keweenaw County and develop it for mountain biking trails and several other…
Traveling Between Meals 