18 Uncles — The Keweenaw Peninsula

Mining ruins, the shores of Lake Superior, and rural American living

Mitchell Peterson
5 min readAug 10, 2023
The tip of the Keweenaw. (Photo by Miles North Creative Co.)

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Our house was on a tree-lined country lane ten minutes outside a tiny single-main-street town. I always say it was kind of like growing up in the 1950s because we were surrounded by forest, it was pre-internet, and we didn’t have cable television, only a microwave-sized bubble TV connected to an antenna my father rigged on the roof that somehow got us one channel: ABC. So, in those chilly autumn months after school growing up, we could gather around and watch Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy, and Seinfeld reruns. We even caught the first season of Lost and early Grey’s Anatomy.

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Mitchell Peterson
Mitchell Peterson

Written by Mitchell Peterson

Freelance writer who spent nine years outside the US, currently in rural America writing the Substack bestseller 18 Uncles.

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