ANATOMY OF A YOOPER
Who we are and what makes us tick..

We are helping the Marquette County History Museum with research
on our identity as Yoopers (we who live in the Upper Peninsula).
They invite any interesting stories, photographs and artifacts.

Please help them answer any or all of the questions below.
Email us your answers: youguys3@charterinternet.com

1. What gives us the idea that we are a group apart from others?

2. What are some of the unique ways we cope with the weather? This could include clothing, snow plowing, shoveling and piling, rusty cars and trucks.

3. Why do Yoopers have such a great work ethic?

4. What are some of our ethnic customs that survive from our families?

5. What are some of our unique phrases and words?

6. What unique foods do we eat or unusual ways of preparing them?

7. Why do we need to have camps when we already live in a remote area?

8. What do these camps look like and what do we do at camp?

9. What are creative examples of recycling and ingenuity that people have come up with? Examples of this include snowshoes made from metal strapping, rag rugs woven from Bunny Bread wrappers.

10. Why do we live here when the weather isn't great, the cost of living is high and wages low, the bugs are bad and isolation is very real?

 

 
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