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Ryba’s distinctive pink packaging broke the plain white box tradition

Snow on a Lake Michigan beach, Upper Peninsula

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Henry Ford Birthplace, Greenfield Village

At The Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan.

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Decorate in a big way, Frankenmuth

Fantastic, giant ornaments at Bronner’s, the World’s Largest Christmas Store in Frankenmuth, Michigan.

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Daughter Paige at the opening of her exhibition at Cornell University, “What Wears Whom.”

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Good Morning, Lake Superior near Marquette

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Detroit’s Eastern Market

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A hint of fall in the air, at a shop in Shipshewana, Indiana

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Lightkeepers’ quarters at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum, Whitefish Point, Upper Peninsula

 

Vignettes like this make me wonder what it would have been like to be the kid of a Great Lakes lightkeeper at a remote spot on the inland seas.

 

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