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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.

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

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

by Shannon TraphagenDecember 30, 2016February 21, 2020
Marquette, Michigan: Landing
Narrative Map Project

Marquette, Michigan: Landing

by Andrea HoytOctober 24, 2016February 21, 2020
Kirk Park, Michigan: The Beach at Lake Michigan
Narrative Map Project

Kirk Park, Michigan: The Beach at Lake Michigan

by Alan HarrisOctober 16, 2016February 21, 2020
Elkhart, Indiana: The Long Afternoon
Narrative Map Project

Elkhart, Indiana: The Long Afternoon

by Gary V. PowellAugust 15, 2016February 21, 2020
MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN: MILWAUKEE PEOPLE
Narrative Map Project / Poetry

MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN: MILWAUKEE PEOPLE

by Ed MakowskiJuly 7, 2016February 21, 2020
Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Champagne in the Sour Times
Narrative Map Project

Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Champagne in the Sour Times

by Tori SzekeresMay 22, 2016February 21, 2020
Peterborough, Ontario: Unsettled in Nogojiwanong
Narrative Map Project

Peterborough, Ontario: Unsettled in Nogojiwanong

by GLR StaffMay 16, 2016February 9, 2020
Garden City, Michigan: Corner of Maplewood and Hartel
Narrative Map Project

Garden City, Michigan: Corner of Maplewood and Hartel

by GLR StaffMarch 29, 2016February 9, 2020
Manistee National Forest, Michigan: The Bear
Narrative Map Project

Manistee National Forest, Michigan: The Bear

by GLR StaffMarch 19, 2016February 9, 2020

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