Keweenaw = Detroit? Not So Much

Postcard of Calumet during mining’s heyday  (via Wikipedia)

A column in the Detroit Free Press has raised a few eyebrows around the Keweenaw Peninsula.  Titled Shades of Detroit in the Keweenaw, it suggests that the Keweenaw is a “miniature Motor City” because the two areas share the visible and infrastructural challenges of communities that were built [...]