Elizabeth Roberts

We're headed to Station Portage/Hancock, MI.

Anyone familiar with that area of the UP?

Elizabeth




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I used to be at Wurtsmith AFB, Oscoda MI.
Traveled thru the UP on the way to home in WI.
BEAUTIFUL land, near three of the great lakes.
Keith
On Friday 12 March 2004 02:06 pm, Elizabeth Roberts wrote:
> We're headed to Station Portage/Hancock, MI.
>
> Anyone familiar with that area of the UP?

TreeGoddess

It's way up at the tip of Michigan's Upper Peninsula....we're way down
right near Detroit so we're not going to be close at all. It's super
gorgeous there. There are at least two colleges in Hancock/Houghton
area and they get many many feet of snow. Plan to buy a snowmobile or
snow shoes. ;) Michigan is *awesome* in regard to homeschooling
freedom and that's a huge bonus. :)
-Tracy-

On Mar 12, 2004, at 3:06 PM, Elizabeth Roberts wrote:

> We're headed to Station Portage/Hancock, MI.
>
> Anyone familiar with that area of the UP?

Elizabeth Roberts

Snow shoes?! Oh Lord!!!

Elizabeth

TreeGoddess <treegoddess@...> wrote:
It's way up at the tip of Michigan's Upper Peninsula....we're way down
right near Detroit so we're not going to be close at all. It's super
gorgeous there. There are at least two colleges in Hancock/Houghton
area and they get many many feet of snow. Plan to buy a snowmobile or
snow shoes. ;) Michigan is *awesome* in regard to homeschooling
freedom and that's a huge bonus. :)
-Tracy-

On Mar 12, 2004, at 3:06 PM, Elizabeth Roberts wrote:

> We're headed to Station Portage/Hancock, MI.
>
> Anyone familiar with that area of the UP?



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In a message dated 3/12/04 4:00:24 PM, mamabethuscg@... writes:

<< There are at least two colleges in Hancock/Houghton

area and they get many many feet of snow. >>

That Houghton was my maternal grandmother's name.
She said her dad had run away from his relatives in Michigan. They were
rich, and owned a lumber company, she said, and there was a town named after them.


It wasn't until I was grown that I discovered it was no little town. <g>

I bet they don't know what happened to that wayward Houghton. His name was
Wyman, and he moved to Texas and married Lucinda Jane Brooks. (Just in case
any LDS geneologists or Michigan historians are in the crowd. <g>)

Hey, I just looked it up (thinking all those names were sufficiently unique
to come up) and some of that's on an online site, but they have the wrong mom
for my grandmother. Wyman remarried and the two girls were by Lucinda Jane
Brooks.

Sandra

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In a message dated 3/12/04 4:24:00 PM, SandraDodd@... writes:

<< She said her dad had run away from his relatives in Michigan. >>

Correction: grandfather. Joseph went to Texas. Wyman was born there, it
seems.

A lot of people ran away to Texas in the 19th century, huh?

Sandra

arcarpenter2003

--- In [email protected], Elizabeth Roberts
<mamabethuscg@y...> wrote:
> We're headed to Station Portage/Hancock, MI.
>
> Anyone familiar with that area of the UP?


A little -- you'll be close to Houghton, a college town (Michigan
Tech). The UP is pretty isolated from the Lower Peninsula, but I
hear Houghton has some things to offer. You'll be on the Keewanau
Peninsula, jutting into Lake Superior, which I'm told is wild and
beautiful. You'll have some serious winters, though the lake effect
will keep things a little warmer than they could be -- lots and lots
of snow, though.

And you'll be not too far from Marquette, where a good friend of mine
lives. Maybe when I go up to visit her, we can meet!

Peace, ya Yooper,
Amy

Elizabeth Roberts

Thanks! So far (outside of the snow!!) I'm hearing nothing but wonderful things about the area. I've been looking at the city webpages for Hancock and Houghton and I think we'll like it there!

Elizabeth

arcarpenter2003 <arcarpenter@...> wrote:
--- In [email protected], Elizabeth Roberts
<mamabethuscg@y...> wrote:
> We're headed to Station Portage/Hancock, MI.
>
> Anyone familiar with that area of the UP?


A little -- you'll be close to Houghton, a college town (Michigan
Tech). The UP is pretty isolated from the Lower Peninsula, but I
hear Houghton has some things to offer. You'll be on the Keewanau
Peninsula, jutting into Lake Superior, which I'm told is wild and
beautiful. You'll have some serious winters, though the lake effect
will keep things a little warmer than they could be -- lots and lots
of snow, though.

And you'll be not too far from Marquette, where a good friend of mine
lives. Maybe when I go up to visit her, we can meet!

Peace, ya Yooper,
Amy



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--- In [email protected], Elizabeth Roberts
<mamabethuscg@y...> wrote:
> Snow shoes?! Oh Lord!!!
>
> Elizabeth

Or cross-country skis -- way fun, and lots of people do it there.

The good news -- you do get a fair amount of sun (unlike us in West
Michigan -- it's usually gray because of cloud cover from Lake
Michigan). My friend in Marquette is winter gardening -- cool.

Peace,
Amy

Lisa H

Snow shoes?! Oh Lord!!!

Elizabeth
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Oh Elizabeth...you had me lol...my family asked what's up? I said someone
i've never met is moving from the south to snow country and this is what she
said....

Oh well - they didn't get the joke...anyway...thanks for the good chuckle...
Lisa H. who loves snow and winter sports almost as much as a good day at the
ocean - there's no such thing as a bad day at the ocean.

Elizabeth Roberts

LOL Glad to know you enjoyed a chuckle!!! OH gosh..I am SO not a winter person! My children though seem to like it. Sarah wants to learn to ice skate, and I imagine Logan will as well...I think hockey is a big thing up thataways isn't it?!

Elizabeth

Lisa H <Lmanathome@...> wrote:
Snow shoes?! Oh Lord!!!

Elizabeth
************

Oh Elizabeth...you had me lol...my family asked what's up? I said someone
i've never met is moving from the south to snow country and this is what she
said....

Oh well - they didn't get the joke...anyway...thanks for the good chuckle...
Lisa H. who loves snow and winter sports almost as much as a good day at the
ocean - there's no such thing as a bad day at the ocean.


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