Seney Michigan - This is the town where Nick arrived by train in
Ernest Hemingway's short story "Big Two-Hearted River." "Nick
looked over at the stretch of hillside, where he expected to find
scattered houses of the town and then walked down the railroad
track to the bridge over the river."
Whitefish Point Lighthouse. Beyond this point is where the freighter
Edmund Fitzgerald sank in an autumn storm in November 1975.
"For some time as he walked Nick had been in sight of one of the
big islands of pine standing out above the rolling high ground he
was crossing."
Whitefish Bay where we camped. Ian said that this beach reminded him
of home, except there are no coconut trees!
Dutch Fred Lake.
Taquamenon Falls
Ian and I went camping up in Michigan's Upper Peninsula in May 2004.
As you can see from the pictures, we found the town of Seney and the
nearby river where Ernest Hemingway went for a camping/fishing trip
soon after he returned from WW1. This trip, which he took in 1919, was
the inspiration for his short story "Big Two-Hearted River."