Small Town America: Winter in the Keweenaw Peninsula
As a lower Midwesterner, I thought I knew snow. Then I learned Kansas City rarely breaks 19 inches in a typical winter - a tiny fraction of what Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula gets each year. In late February, when I landed at the tiny, single-gate Houghton County Memorial Airport, where just two flights come and go...
Paradise Valley, Montana: A Cabin at the Foot of Emigrant Peak
This story is continued from Western Kitsch: The Black Hills of South Dakota. After our gripping adventure rerouting several hours out of our way from the Black Hills, we pushed on to Billings and then Livingston. Just 30 miles from our final destination, the snow began to fall. In my tiny Prius, we slowed to...