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Wes
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Date Posted: 09:30:06 03/17/16 Thu
You've got some good points here. I'll have to think about and explore some of them.
>One point of life I have not heard in these stories
>but seems to be of interest to life in rural Wisconsin
>is the county fair. I can't imagine it is much
>different in the UP, or lower Michigan.
Now that you mention it, I'm amazed that I haven't put much attention to them. The only major scenes involving a fair are in Bullring One.
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>Other questions on interest, what happens to a region
>when a major Air Force Base shuts down, that being KI
>Sawyer AFB by Marquette MI in 1995 after 40 years.
The simple answer is that they hurt. Sometimes they are seen as an opportunity for economic development, but the opportunity isn't there. When Kinross, south of Sault Ste. Marie closed, some of it got picked up in the state prison system.
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>Besides one rich homeowner with a windmill house, has
>any one else gone off the grid, again popular, in the
>north country, note a major solar and wind energy
>event in Custer Wisconsin (by Stevens Point) every
>June for the last 20 years.
I know it happens, but you have to be serious about the idea -- and be willing to spend money -- to go seriously off-grid.
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>Are there any mini breweries in the region? Why and
>How?
Yes, and it's something else I ought to look at. Mini-breweries do not have to be large. I remember one in Grand Marais, MI, a town of maybe 400 people forty miles from anywhere -- and I mean anywhere else. I at least managed to sneak a winery into Hiding Patty, although I didn't do anything with it. I will be coming back to that subject in the near future, though.
Thanks for the food for thought!
-- Wes
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