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The "Five Midwests" Series, Part 1: Overview

The "Five Midwests" Series, Part 1: Overview

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Pete Saunders
Mar 15, 2015
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On two separate occasions as a youth, I traveled not very far from where I was living and found people who talked -- and lived -- very differently than what I was accustomed to.  That provided me with my earliest sense that there were subtleties within places that were often overlooked.


The first time was when my family went on a vacation to Mackinac Is…

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