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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Map of the Great Lakes | |
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| Introduction | |
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| East Side Stories: Illinois-Chicago's East Side; Indiana-Hobart | |
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| Suburbia's Waiting Room: Illinois-Chicago's North Side | |
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| The Drunkest City in America: Wisconsin-Milwaukee | |
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| Ya Hey!: Wisconsin-Elkhart Lake, Howards Grove, Haven, Two Rivers | |
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| Door to the North: Wisconsin-Door County, Green Bay | |
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| Yoopers and Trolls: Michigan-Escanaba, the Garden Peninsula, Manistique, Whitefish Point, Paradise | |
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| Boat Nerds: Michigan-Sault Ste. Marie; Ontario-Sault Ste. Marie | |
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| Marquette's Only Son: Michigan-Mackinac Island | |
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| The North Country's Other Great Folksinger: Michigan-Marquette | |
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| A Long Way from a Long Way from Anywhere: Michigan-Isle Royale, Ironwood | |
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| Highway 61 Visited: Minnesota-Duluth, Grand Marais | |
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| Above Lake Superior: Ontario-Thunder Bay, Pays Plat First Nations Reserve, Schreiber | |
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| The Ojibway Way: Ontario-Pukaskwa National Park | |
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| The World's Largest Freshwater Island: Ontario-Manitoulin Island | |
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| Emancipation Day: Ontario-Owen Sound | |
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| Southern Ontario Gothic: Ontario-Point Pelee National Park, Leamington, Port Dover | |
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| Greetings from Niagara Falls!: Ontario-Niagara Falls, Hamilton | |
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| The New Canadians: Ontario-Toronto | |
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| For Queen and Canada: Ontario-Prince Edward County, Adolphustown, Kingston | |
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| The Burned-Over District: New York-Sackets Harbor, New Haven, Oswego | |
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| The Irony of Buffalo: New York-Buffalo; Pennsylvania-Erie | |
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| Ethnic Jazz: Ohio-Cleveland | |
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| Black Bottom Blues: Michigan-Detroit; Ontario-Windsor | |
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| Like 1812 All Over Again: Ontario-Port Rowan | |
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| The Great Bay Port Fish Sandwich Controversy: Michigan-Bay Port | |
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| What Do You Do with a Drunken Sailor?: Michigan-Rogers City | |
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| My Home Lake: Michigan-Mackinaw City, Suttons Bay, Glen Arbor, Ludington, New Buffalo; Indiana-Michigan City | |
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| Epilogue | |