For Some In Michigan's Upper Peninsula, A Ghost Town Is Home

Detroit Free Press, Tallahassee Democrat
Sat, 02/17/2018 - 6:59am

The end of copper mining left a lot of ghost towns in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. But not all of them are deserted.

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