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Selected pages from the November-December 1959 Michigan Conservation magazine:

Here's a favorite cover of mine, showing in great detail what an average small NLP town might have looked like in hunting season in the 1950s.

In a lot of ways things still look the same, except the cars are bigger now and most have trailers of ORVs and bait, the small stores are transformed to antique stores or tourist traps (if on a main route), or empty; drained by the wal-mart, meijer, and other bigbox stores perched on the nearest I-75 exit urbopolis ... On second thought, this reminds me a lot more of Scottville 1975 as I remember it when I was a kid than Grayling 2016...

Anyway, it looks a lot closer to what I consider civilization in this painting and that's why I like it so much - and you probably wouldn't be assaulted by plastic dale earnhardt gimmicks, modern prettyboy california 'country' music, and gambling machines in the taverns, either!