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 The acronym "Yooper" refers to people who live in Michigan's upper peninsula (U.P.). The usual
 phrase given to folks living north of the Mackinac Bridge back in the 70's was "U.P.'ers". It
 was during this time that 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 he was a big proponent and advocate of
 The Keweenaw Peninsula and tourism in general. Skuggen liked Dan's cartoons but said 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 &
 titles with some friends, Dan came up with the perfect term and this 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
 alot of people call Yooperland . . . and home! Thanks and enjoy ey?!

 

 Send your humorous article or story about life in the Upper Peninsula and it will be considered
 for inclusion on a special "Stories" page. One page or two pages etc. Send as an MSWord file or
 in a text file format or in a basic email template. Chosen material gets the writer a mention and
 link to their preferred web page. Deer hunting or sauna stories, camping or fishing story?

 

 

                           Yooper Giftware Available . . . Mugs, Yooper Calendars etc!  
          

      Learn a little about Michigan's Upper Peninsula by visiting these websites!
 City Of Marquette - Official web on Yooperland's capital city with much info!
 City Of Escanaba - Info for people visiting Eskymo land. "Esky"! You betcha!
 Ironwood Michigan! - Website for city of Ironwood with all kinds of links.
 Iron Mountain - Cool site featuring links and info on surrounding area!
 Sault St. Marie - Yooperland's eastern-most city connecting us to Canada!
 Ontonagon - Located on Superior's "West Coast". . .  Ontos Valley!
 St. Ignace - Located on north side of the "Big Mac" & gateway to Yooperland.
 Manistique - All the info you need for this cool town on Lake Michigan's shore!
 Houghton - The gateway to Michigan's Keweenaw & home to MTU!
 Hancock - "Across the creek" from Houghton. Home of Finlandia University.
 South Range - Five miles south of the Portage Canal. And a quiet main street!
 Copper Harbor - Michigan's northern most town offers alot for outdoors folks!
 L'anse Township - Located on beautiful Keweenaw Bay.
 Baraga - Published by Baraga County Chamber Of Commerce . . . lots of info!
 Wakefield - Detailed site featuring info on surrounding area and other towns.
 Grand Marais - In depth site featuring info on a very unique area on Superior.
 Chassell - Home of St. Urho's Landing & the famous annual Strawberry Fest.
 Bessemer - Not far from Ironwood & Wakefield. Good informative set of links.
 Munising - All about one of the most beautiful places in Michigan's U.P.!

 Upper Michigan TV stations:
 WLUC - TV6 NBC affiliate in Marquette
 WNMU -Public TV13 in Marquette
 WBUP - TV 5&10 in Calumet and Ishpeming
 WWUP - Sault St. Marie TV9&10
 WJMN - CBS affiliate TV3 in Escanaba

 Upper Peninsula Daily Newspapers:
 Ironwood Daily Globe
 Houghton Daily Mining Gazette
 Marquette Mining Journal
 Escanaba Daily Press
 Sault St. Marie Evening News
 Iron Mountain Daily News
 Menominee Herald
 Upper Peninsula Weekly Newspapers:
 Ontonagon Herald
 L'anse Sentinel
 St. Ignace News
 Iron River Weekly Newspaper
 Grand Marais Gazette
 Lake Superior Voice of Ontonagon

 U.P. Church web sites:
 Journeys Of The Heart (A link to Zion's worship page is here)
 Suomi Conference Page

 U.P. Adult Foster Care:
 Westside Residential Care


 

           Map Of Michigan's Upper Peninsula . . . Better Known as Yooperland!

        

 Some Of The Best Sites Relating To Upper Michigan We Highly Recommend!
 The One & only PASTYNET
 JerryHarju.com - Site devoted to all of the interesting books by one of the U.P.'s best writers!
 BigBayOnline.com - Lots of unique info, news & U.P. links right out of Big Bay, Michigan!
 United Sportsmen Inc. - Excellent site devoted to members in Merriman. Est 1969
 Yooper John's - Undoubtedly one of the coolest sites in southern Upper Michigan.
 Yooper Spectator - One of the U.P.'s most introspective  monthly papers!
 Michigan Technological University
 SaunaCorn - A "Must Visit" web site devoted entirely to Yoopers!
 Northern Michigan University - Marquette
 George's Eagle Harbor Web
 Porcupine Mountain Music Festival
 Pine Mountain Music Festival
 JohnDee.com - One of the U.P.'s premiere weather specialists and a site with tons of U.P. info!
 TALENTED UPPER MICHIGAN MUSICIANS
 NightStrike
 Chaisinsteel
 Uncle Ugly
 Conga Se Menne
 Flat Broke Blues Band
 Jeremy Rowe

 
 



 

 

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     Bookmark this page and come back each day to visit and a new cartoon is
  available for your enjoyment. Email your friends about Yooper-Michigan.com!

 
   View this collection of classic Yooper
 Bloopers cartoons by Dan Rosandich
 which were syndicated to virtually
 every newspaper in the U.P. and it was
 once each week in such papers as The
 Marquette Mining Journal, Houghton's
 Mining Gazette, The Daily Globe of
 Ironwood, and a majority of the week-
 ly papers throughout Upper Michigan.
 Rosandich invites comments and any
 questions you might have and all of the
 cartoons are available for licensing if
 you have a product or concept.