The third coast : sailors, strippers, fishermen, folksingers, long-haired Ojibway painters, and God-save-the-Queen monarchists of the Great Lakes /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	McClelland, Ted.
Edition:	1st ed.
Imprint:	Chicago, Ill. : Chicago Review Press, ©2008.
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 338 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Subject:	McClelland, Ted -- Travel -- Great Lakes Region (North America) McClelland, Ted. Manners and customs. Travel. Great Lakes Region (North America) -- Description and travel. Great Lakes Region (North America) -- Social life and customs. Great Lakes Region (North America) -- Biography -- Anecdotes. Great Lakes Region (North America) -- History, Local. Lake States -- History, Local. Ontario -- History, Local. Great Lakes Region. Lake States. Ontario. Electronic books. Biographies. Anecdotes. Local history.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11103060

Hidden Bibliographic Details
ISBN:	9781569765043 1569765049 1306033195 9781306033190 9781556527210 1556527217
Notes:	"Some of the material in this book was originally published in Gapers block, the Chicago reader, True north, and Stop smiling"--Title page verso. Print version record.
Summary:	Chronicling the author's 10,000-mile "Great Lakes Circle Tour," this travel memoir seeks to answer a burning question: Is there a Great Lakes culture, and if so, what is it? Largely associated with the Midwest, the Great Lakes region actually has a culture that transcends the border between the United States and Canada. United by a love of encased meats, hockey, beer, snowmobiling, deer hunting, and classic-rock power ballads, the folks in Detroit have more in common with citizens in Windsor, Ontario, than those in Wichita, Kansas-while Toronto residents have more in common with Chicagoans tha.
Other form:	Print version: McClelland, Ted. Third coast. 1st ed. Chicago, Ill. : Chicago Review Press, ©2008 9781556527210

Table of Contents:

Map of the Great Lakes x
1 East Side Stories: Illinois-Chicago's East Side; Indiana-Hobart 1
2 Suburbia's Waiting Room: Illinois-Chicago's North Side 15
3 The Drunkest City in America: Wisconsin-Milwaukee 27
4 Ya Hey!: Wisconsin-Elkhart Lake, Howards Grove, Haven, Two Rivers 35
5 Door to the North: Wisconsin-Door County, Green Bay 49
6 Yoopers and Trolls: Michigan-Escanaba, the Garden Peninsula, Manistique, Whitefish Point, Paradise 63
7 Boat Nerds: Michigan-Sault Ste. Marie; Ontario-Sault Ste. Marie 77
8 Marquette's Only Son: Michigan-Mackinac Island 87
9 The North Country's Other Great Folksinger: Michigan-Marquette 99
10 A Long Way from a Long Way from Anywhere: Michigan-Isle Royale, Ironwood 105
11 Highway 61 Visited: Minnesota-Duluth, Grand Marais 117
12 Above Lake Superior: Ontario-Thunder Bay, Pays Plat First Nations Reserve, Schreiber 131
13 The Ojibway Way: Ontario-Pukaskwa National Park 149
14 The World's Largest Freshwater Island: Ontario-Manitoulin Island 163
15 Emancipation Day: Ontario-Owen Sound 175
16 Southern Ontario Gothic: Ontario-Point Pelee National Park, Leamington, Port Dover 185
17 Greetings from Niagara Falls!: Ontario-Niagara Falls, Hamilton 197
18 The New Canadians: Ontario-Toronto 207
19 For Queen and Canada: Ontario-Prince Edward County, Adolphustown, Kingston 221
20 The Burned-Over District: New York-Sackets Harbor, New Haven, Oswego 229
21 The Irony of Buffalo: New York-Buffalo; Pennsylvania-Erie 239
22 Ethnic Jazz: Ohio-Cleveland 255
23 Black Bottom Blues: Michigan-Detroit; Ontario-Windsor 267
24 Like 1812 All Over Again: Ontario-Port Rowan 287
25 The Great Bay Port Fish Sandwich Controversy: Michigan-Bay Port 299
26 What Do You Do with a Drunken Sailor?: Michigan-Rogers City 307
27 My Home Lake: Michigan-Mackinaw City, Suttons Bay, Glen Arbor, Ludington, New Buffalo; Indiana-Michigan City 315.

The third coast : sailors, strippers, fishermen, folksingers, long-haired Ojibway painters, and God-save-the-Queen monarchists of the Great Lakes /

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