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Category: Narrative Map Project

Seul Choix Point, Michigan: Of Shells and Strata, Time and Terrain
Narrative Map Project / Nonfiction

Seul Choix Point, Michigan: Of Shells and Strata, Time and Terrain

January 29, 2017February 21, 2020

This essay is part of the Great Lakes Review’s Narrative Map project.  I’ve been tracking the Niagara Escarpment, a geologic formation that arcs from Wisconsin through upper Michigan and Ontario past Niagara Falls into western New York. In the Upper Peninsula, …

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Buffalo, New York: A lake forgotten—a performance renewed
Narrative Map Project / Nonfiction

Buffalo, New York: A lake forgotten—a performance renewed

December 30, 2016February 21, 2020

This essay is part of the Great Lakes Review’s Narrative Map project.  Mine is a watery world. Mirages that swell the tales of fisherman as distant sailboats and canoes glide along the edge of a lake forgotten. Lake Erie, at the …

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Marquette, Michigan: Landing
Narrative Map Project

Marquette, Michigan: Landing

October 24, 2016February 21, 2020

This essay is part of the Great Lakes Review’s Narrative Map project.  Our lives play out indoors. We are caged animals and mostly we like it this way. The sensations of earthly dependence have left our bodies but they linger somewhere …

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Kirk Park, Michigan: The Beach at Lake Michigan
Narrative Map Project

Kirk Park, Michigan: The Beach at Lake Michigan

October 16, 2016February 21, 2020

This essay is part of the Great Lakes Review’s Narrative Map project.  Grandpa is usually quite the talker. There are only two things in the world that I know of that keeps him from talking to anybody and everybody still above …

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Garrettsville, Ohio: Indian Summer
Narrative Map Project

Garrettsville, Ohio: Indian Summer

September 26, 2016February 21, 2020

This essay is part of the Great Lakes Review’s Narrative Map project.  Heat shimmers off of the lake, creating a strange in-between place that catches my thoughts and turns them into prayers for iced tea. The sun falls onto my dark …

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Elkhart, Indiana: The Long Afternoon
Narrative Map Project

Elkhart, Indiana: The Long Afternoon

August 15, 2016February 21, 2020

This essay is part of the Great Lakes Review’s Narrative Map project. It’s based on a real unsolved murder that haunted the town of Elkhart, Indiana in 1969. Content Warning: A graphic sexual assault is detailed in this essay. Did her …

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MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN: MILWAUKEE PEOPLE
Narrative Map Project / Poetry

MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN: MILWAUKEE PEOPLE

July 7, 2016February 21, 2020

This poem is part of the Great Lakes Review’s Narrative Map project.   We got 9 inches of snow after 4 was predicted.   While driving home from work I pulled over to the side, knowing I’d get stuck, but a …

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Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Champagne in the Sour Times
Narrative Map Project

Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Champagne in the Sour Times

May 22, 2016February 21, 2020

This essay is part of the Great Lakes Review’s Narrative Map project. I didn’t notice how drunk my coworker Erin was until she fell down for the second time on our way to Summerfest. Erin and I weren’t friends outside of …

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Peterborough, Ontario: Unsettled in Nogojiwanong
Narrative Map Project

Peterborough, Ontario: Unsettled in Nogojiwanong

May 16, 2016February 9, 2020

BY JANE AFFLECK This essay is part of the Great Lakes Review’s Narrative Map project. After twenty-four hours by train and two by bus, I arrived in Peterborough, Ontario with two suitcases and a backpack weighted with books, laptop, and clothes. …

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