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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.

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
Sawyer, Michigan: Summer Vacation
Narrative Map Project / Nonfiction

Sawyer, Michigan: Summer Vacation

by Dorian Kingman ChongJanuary 13, 2022January 10, 2022
Country Club
Narrative Map Project / Nonfiction

Country Club

by Hannah BensonDecember 30, 2021December 29, 2021
Buildings of My Youth: Flint
Narrative Map Project / Nonfiction

Buildings of My Youth: Flint

by Robert DetmanDecember 23, 2021December 29, 2021
Ashtabula, Ohio: The Biker
Narrative Map Project / Poetry

Ashtabula, Ohio: The Biker

by Elizabeth DevoreOctober 21, 2017February 18, 2020

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