The northwest corner of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula is known as Hemingway country. Ernest Hemingway’s family traveled up from Oak Park, Illinois each summer to their cottage on Walloon Lake.
Ernest fished, and camped and caroused in the beautiful north woods. He married his first wife, Hadley Richardson, there. You may know her from Paula McLean’s wonderful novel, The Paris Wife.
He was a patron of the Horton Bay General Store, which opened for business in 1876. Now, the general store has gotten a glow-up. CulinaryWoman’s Micki Maynard talked to the new owners and heard how they are supporting other local businesses.
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