![The Best Pasty Quest](http://www.greatlakesgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Paige-pasty1-470x140.jpg)
The quest for the best pasty continues. Since everyone cannot taste the wondrousness of the Pasties According to Mom that I occasionally (okay, rarely) whip up, I…
![The Best Pasty Quest: Hiawatha Pasties](http://www.greatlakesgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Paige-pasty-470x140.jpg)
Pasties are to the Upper Peninsula as Starbucks is to a trendy neighborhood. US-2, the main east-west highway along the south coast of the U.P., is…
![The Best Pasty Quest: Muldoons Pasties](http://www.greatlakesgazette.com/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
The sunny yellow house on the highway in Munising has been attracting crowds for Cornish-recipe pasties since it opened in 1989. Be prepared to stand…
![The Best Pasty Quest: Mackinaw Pastie Goes Global](http://www.greatlakesgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/road-food-mackinaw-pastie_3351-470x140.jpg)
After years of passing by the cute log cabin near the Mackinac Bridge in Mackinaw City I decided to stop at Hunt’s Mackinaw Pastie & Cookie Co. to sample…
![Touraide: Picture Yourself in Munising](http://www.greatlakesgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Pictured-Rocks-Miller-family-millers_2047-470x140.jpg)
Back in 1966 the spectacular, natural beauty of the region of the Upper Peninsula that hugs the southern Lake Superior shore between Munising and Grand…
![A Glimpse of Grand Island](http://www.greatlakesgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Grand-island-captain_1933-470x140.jpg)
It’s a long way from Decatur, Illinois to Munising, Michigan—about 550 miles on today’s roadways. But in 1840 Abraham and Anna Williams and their 10…
![Fancy This: A Gallery By and For U.P. Artists](http://www.greatlakesgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Open-Wings-CU-bark-purse-Munising_2385-470x140.jpg)
The house on Highway M-28 in Munising in the Upper Peninsula was so decrepit, “it was just swaying in the wind,” says Thomas Baugnet about the building…
![Bowled Over in Munising](http://www.greatlakesgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/munisingware_8291-470x140.jpg)
With the warm weather the garage and yard sale scene heats up, beckoning collectors and the curious to rummage around someone else’s household items for…
![It's Easy to Fall for the Falling Rock Cafe & Bookstore](http://www.greatlakesgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/java-falling-rock_82791-470x140.jpg)
Part coffee shop, part book haven, part community gathering spot, the Falling Rock Cafe & Bookstore in downtown Munising welcomes browsers looking for WiFi or something to…
![Water Way to Enjoy the Pictured Rocks](http://www.greatlakesgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Pictured-Rocks-Miller-family-millers_2047-470x140.jpg)
Ask any sea kayaker who’s been there: paddling is the best way to experience Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore on Lake Superior in the Upper Peninsula. The…