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Category: Narrative Map Project

The Great Lakes region is home to country and coastline, cities and hitching posts, sea glass and Petoskey stones, sex trafficking and opioids. Regionally, it is a rainforest of diversity capable of transcending its natural geography through the written word. If you want to sample that diversity, here’s how. First, read from the selection of short narrative map essays. Each essay is written about a place in the Great Lakes region. Then, when you find an essay you like, take a walk with it. Locate on the map the place discussed in the essay. Learn more about that location. Learn about the people and history there. Perhaps you’ll find a new place to vacation or a new inspiration for a poem or piece of fiction. Or just learn a little more about the Great Lakes and take it with you.

Erie, Pennsylvania: Waldameer Amusement Park
Narrative Map Project

Erie, Pennsylvania: Waldameer Amusement Park

by Michael O'ConnellJuly 3, 2025July 4, 2025
Teeth
Narrative Map Project

Teeth

by Ava O’MalleyMay 15, 2025May 15, 2025
The Niagara River Gorge: A Church Full of Joy
Narrative Map Project / Nonfiction

The Niagara River Gorge: A Church Full of Joy

by Vincent O'KeefeApril 10, 2025April 10, 2025
Going to the Lake
Narrative Map Project / Nonfiction

Going to the Lake

by Emily BrisseOctober 19, 2023October 18, 2023
Summer Harbor
Narrative Map Project / Nonfiction

Summer Harbor

by Karen O'NeilMay 19, 2022
County Line and Lakeshore: Where Ozaukee, Sheboygan, and Lake Michigan Meet
Narrative Map Project / Nonfiction

County Line and Lakeshore: Where Ozaukee, Sheboygan, and Lake Michigan Meet

by Margaret KingMarch 10, 2022March 10, 2022
Shadows of Detroit
Narrative Map Project / Nonfiction

Shadows of Detroit

by Esther Lee DeitchFebruary 25, 2022February 24, 2022
Coldwater: Open Spaces
Narrative Map Project / Nonfiction

Coldwater: Open Spaces

by Lauren SlagterFebruary 10, 2022February 9, 2022
The Trees of Evanston, Illinois
Narrative Map Project / Nonfiction

The Trees of Evanston, Illinois

by Eduardo FrajmanJanuary 27, 2022January 26, 2022

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