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“Up in Michigan” is a tale of an unequal romantic encounter and the disillusionment that results from it. Liz Coates, while obsessed with Jim Gilmore, the town blacksmith, is unprepared for a whiskey-soaked Jim’s sexual advances one fall evening.
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Apr 11, 2022 · Ernest Hemingway’s Up in Michigan, published in 1923 in his first collection, Three Stories and Ten Poems, and more widely distributed in his 1938 collection The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, is one of his most famous stories for two simple reasons—because it was one of his stories that survived the “lost manuscript ...
Nov 17, 2020 · The story takes place in Horton Bay, Michigan (northern Michigan) where Hemingway often spent his summers growing up. The subject matter forces us to confront the loss of innocence: what will Jim do in the morning?
From Ohio to Michigan. Custer was born in New Rumley, Ohio on Dec. 5, 1839, the son of a blacksmith. He was named George Armstrong after a minister in the area, his parents hoping he...
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Is it pronounced Stower (rhyming with myrrh) or Stour (rhyming with hour)? The first thing to grasp is that the name of the river can be pronounced two ways and much debate rages on this topic! If you have a strong Suffolk accent then you will insist on Stower but there is really no uniform pronunciation. There are many other River Stour’s in Engla...
The River Stour Trust was set up on 12th September 1968 to protect and enhance the right of the public to navigate the River Stour. We seek to reinstate through navigation, improve river access points and campaign for a change to the byelaws in order to permit electric boats on the whole stretch of the River Stour. Find out more about navigating th...
The depictions of the Suffolk & Essex landscapes by the artists, Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788) and John Constable (1776-1837), are revered worldwide. Thomas Gainsborough is widely considered to be one of the greatest artists of his era. He was born in Sudbury and spent much of his childhood sketching in its surrounding woods and fields. This same...
These barges operated on the River Stour from 1705 until the early part of this century carrying cargo up and down the river including bricks, grain, flour, manure and coal. Most of the boats were made in a dry dock or Basin at Flatford although others were built on a boatyard at the top end of the former Gasworks Cut near the The Granary, Quay Lan...
Feb 14, 2012 · Malcolm X (1925-1965) lived in the Lansing vicinity from 1928-1940. His time in Michigan tells a very important part of history, full of struggle and defiance in a racist society.
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Born on July 21, 1899, just outside of Chicago, Ernest Miller Hemingway grew up in the middle-class town of Oak Park, Illinois. Hemingway spent parts of his first 22 summers with his family in Northern Michigan, on Walloon Lake near Petoskey .
