[Public-List] Alden 32 now upper Michigan Rendevous

[George Dinwiddie]

I thought when you went over a bridge you had to stop and pay the troll.

  - George [I think they live in the trollbooths]

Dave Terrell wrote:
> Those who live below the bridge are sometimes referred to as "trolls".
> 
> David
> 
>>>> Michael Connolly <crufone at sbcglobal.net> 12/06/07 9:47 AM >>>
> Gord,
>    
>   Oh......That is Michigan speak for the Upper Peninsula.  Sometimes folk refer to residents up there as "Yupers".  This tradition goes way back, as the Yupers would rather be a part of Wisconsin than the lower peninsula of Michigan.   Yupers usually refer to anyone else as from "down below".   
>    
>   Our family owned and kept residence in the UP for 50 plus years and we were always referred to as the folks from "down below".  The Yupers were not pleased when the Mackinaw Bridge was completed, cuz more folks from down below would be coming up.
>    
>   Fact is that from 1957 when the bridge opened til now I believe that the population of the UP has actually decreased, perhaps an exaggeration, but there was no great increase in population as was originally feared.  Once in the UP it is a different world..................Brian's boat name 'Manana' says it all, hee, hee.
>    
>   The UP is actually a sanctuary from all that is wrong with the rest of the world, and the Yupers know it. It is a place very dear to my soul.
> 
> Gordon Laco <mainstay at csolve.net> wrote:
>   Hello Michael - 
> 
> What is the UP? 
> 
> G
> 
> 
>> Dan,
>> St Ignace is in the UP just North of the Straits of Machinaw, Hilton Beach is
>> on St, Joseph's Channel, the western end of the north channel, CANADA. Brian
>> will have to tell you where the others places are, as I don't know. The USA
>> and Canada.
>> Michael
>>
>> dan walker wrote:
>> so which country are all these locations?
>>
>> Brian Zinser wrote: Dave, Mike, John and others
>>
>> I think we should have an upper lakes Alberg 30 rendezvous next summer.
>> St. Ignace has a brand new marina, or if you all wanted to come a little
>> further north, we could meet at Hilton Beach. Or, if nobody needs
>> services, we could do something in a protected anchorage like Harbor
>> Island, Portlatch Harbor, Long Pt. Cove.
>>
>> Brian Zinser
>> #134 Manana

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   When I remember bygone days                         George Dinwiddie
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