The third coast : sailors, strippers, fishermen, folksingers, long-haired Ojibway painters, and God-save-the-Queen monarchists of the Great Lakes

Summary: Chronicling the author's 10,000-mile "Great Lakes Circle Tour," this travel memoir seeks to answer a burning question: Is there a Great Lakes culture, and if so, what is it? Largely associated with the Midwest, the Great Lakes region actually has a culture that transcends the border between the United States and Canada. United by a love of encased meats, hockey, beer, snowmobiling, deer hunting, and classic-rock power ballads, the folks in Detroit have more in common with citizens in Windsor, Ontario, than those in Wichita, Kansas-while Toronto residents have more in common with Chicagoans tha.

Record details

ISBN: 9781306033190
ISBN: 1306033195
ISBN: 1569765049
ISBN: 9781569765043
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 338 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Chicago Review Press, ©2008.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"Some of the material in this book was originally published in Gapers block, the Chicago reader, True north, and Stop smiling"--Title page verso.
Formatted Contents Note:	Map of the Great Lakes x -- 1 East Side Stories: Illinois-Chicago's East Side; Indiana-Hobart 1 -- 2 Suburbia's Waiting Room: Illinois-Chicago's North Side 15 -- 3 The Drunkest City in America: Wisconsin-Milwaukee 27 -- 4 Ya Hey!: Wisconsin-Elkhart Lake, Howards Grove, Haven, Two Rivers 35 -- 5 Door to the North: Wisconsin-Door County, Green Bay 49 -- 6 Yoopers and Trolls: Michigan-Escanaba, the Garden Peninsula, Manistique, Whitefish Point, Paradise 63 -- 7 Boat Nerds: Michigan-Sault Ste. Marie; Ontario-Sault Ste. Marie 77 -- 8 Marquette's Only Son: Michigan-Mackinac Island 87 -- 9 The North Country's Other Great Folksinger: Michigan-Marquette 99 -- 10 A Long Way from a Long Way from Anywhere: Michigan-Isle Royale, Ironwood 105 -- 11 Highway 61 Visited: Minnesota-Duluth, Grand Marais 117 -- 12 Above Lake Superior: Ontario-Thunder Bay, Pays Plat First Nations Reserve, Schreiber 131 -- 13 The Ojibway Way: Ontario-Pukaskwa National Park 149 -- 14 The World's Largest Freshwater Island: Ontario-Manitoulin Island 163 -- 15 Emancipation Day: Ontario-Owen Sound 175 -- 16 Southern Ontario Gothic: Ontario-Point Pelee National Park, Leamington, Port Dover 185 -- 17 Greetings from Niagara Falls!: Ontario-Niagara Falls, Hamilton 197 -- 18 The New Canadians: Ontario-Toronto 207 -- 19 For Queen and Canada: Ontario-Prince Edward County, Adolphustown, Kingston 221 -- 20 The Burned-Over District: New York-Sackets Harbor, New Haven, Oswego 229 -- 21 The Irony of Buffalo: New York-Buffalo; Pennsylvania-Erie 239 -- 22 Ethnic Jazz: Ohio-Cleveland 255 -- 23 Black Bottom Blues: Michigan-Detroit; Ontario-Windsor 267 -- 24 Like 1812 All Over Again: Ontario-Port Rowan 287 -- 25 The Great Bay Port Fish Sandwich Controversy: Michigan-Bay Port 299 -- 26 What Do You Do with a Drunken Sailor?: Michigan-Rogers City 307 -- 27 My Home Lake: Michigan-Mackinaw City, Suttons Bay, Glen Arbor, Ludington, New Buffalo; Indiana-Michigan City 315.
Restrictions on Access Note:	NLC staff and students only.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.