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Little Traverse Bay

from Hemingway by Accoustic Michigan

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Hemingway spent the summers of his youth in the Little Traverse Bay area of northern Michigan. He remarked to his bride that he had been to the Bay of Naples, and that in autumn Little Traverse Bay was more beautiful in all it's colors than the Bay of Naples.

Here is an interesting read as to how Hemingway came to say this:

A neighbor was driving the newlyweds through northern Michigan to the train station. The car crested a hill, and suddenly Little Traverse Bay spread out below them, wide and blue and shining. ''See all that,'' Ernest Hemingway told his bride. ''Talk about the beauty of the Bay of Naples! I've seen them both, and no place is more beautiful than Little Traverse in its autumn colors.''

The year was 1921. But Hemingway fans still find almost magical beauty in the places that shaped his imagination when he was young, whether they go there when there are boaters on the bay or skiers on the trails.

The Traverse Bay area of northern Michigan, about four hours from Detroit by car and less than 100 miles from the Canadian border at Sault Ste. Marie, still has a few streams where you can catch salmon with your hands if you wear your waders. Or you can sip coffee at a general store that he mentioned in a short story called ''Up in Michigan.'' You can walk down a road that was steep and sandy when Hemingway was young, and that still has no name. You can sit on the dock where, in the story, the blacksmith Jim Gilmore seduces the waitress Liz Coates. Or you can walk to the spot a few yards away where, in real life, Hemingway was married for the first time. And you can canoe the Big Two-Hearted River, though Hemingway never did.

Hemingway's family traveled to northern Michigan every summer, and most vacationers still do, but some go there as part of a fall camping trip or a winter skiing expedition. Or they stop on the way to the Mackinac Bridge and the far north. They dip a hand in Walloon Lake, which Hemingway's father liked for its pike, perch and large-mouth bass. They find the road sign that says Horton Bay, which Hemingway misspelled in his stories. And they hike through deep forests of pine, fir and beech, perhaps following the trails that blistered and bloodied his feet when he was 7 years old.

To continue reading go to:

www.nytimes.com/1985/11/24/travel/up-in-michigan.html

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from Hemingway, released January 1, 2012

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Accoustic Michigan Mount Pleasant, Michigan

These songs reflect Great Lakes themes. They include Tall Ships, Shipwrecks, Hemingway, and an album about about people and place of Michigan called Michigama.

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