The Two-Hearted River in the eastern U.P. has certainly been a favorite for generations of boaters, anglers and hikers. The writer below takes on the task of exploring it with both his father and his son.
Excerpt: The trip has its origins in 10th grade English class. Hemingway’s short, declarative prose and the Upper Peninsula’s landscape captured my 16-year-old mind in ways MTV, during its heyday in the 1980s, could not. The plan is to take my 4-year-old son and father on a canoe trip on the UP’s Two Hearted River. I want to explore father and son relationships, with me being the innards of a generational sandwich.
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Source: MyNorth.com
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