Where is Yooperland?
From Da Yoopers School
For Da Truly Ungifted
Yooperland Geography 1034
The state of Michigan is broken up into two peninsulas - the Lower Peninsula and the Upper Peninsula. They are connected together by the Mackinac Bridge.
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During the upper 70s, cartoonist Dan Rosandich stopped in at the Daily Mining Gazette in Houghton, Michigan with some of his cartoons. At the time, the editor was Bob Skuggen.
Those who knew Bob back in the day, can attest to the fact that he was a big proponent and advocate of The Keweenaw Peninsula and tourism in general. Skuggen liked Dan's cartoons but said
that they should focus on life in the U.P. and after a while a new set of U.P. related cartoons were given to Bob for consideration. Although he really liked what he saw, they needed a title and asked Rosandich to come up with a good name for the cartoons. After bouncing around a few names and titles with some friends, Dan came up with the perfect term and that is when "Yooper" was born. The cartoon panel Yooper Bloopers was introduced in an article with one of the first cartoons and soon afterwards the term "yooper" was being used to promote all things which were U.P. related. Browse Yooper-Michigan.com and visit all of the incredible information and links that are available to help educate people about the fantastic part of the world which lots of people call Yooperland and home! Thanks and enjoy.
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Lee using the largest working chainsaw in the world |
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Upper Peninsula Bear |
Lost Hunter from Detroit |
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Below: Some Deer Fun |
Lee uses the Deer Depository Station and takes the deer's copy of People Magazine |
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Below: The deer is driving the truck with people on the hood of the truck (The deer is hard to see in the photos) |
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Yooper rowboat |
Lawn Maintenance bird |
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Who is that in Da Dorkmeister Outhouse? |
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Inside the gift shop store |
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While viewing the Northern Lights the two RV Gypsies met some nice young guys who gave Karen Duquette a " I wanna be a Yooper" pin. It is now on permanent display in their RV. |
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