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1. "Red Jacket miners had sore throats" ("Red Jacket Miners/Salt Trucks")
The Upper Peninsula village of Red Jacket or Calumet was the site of major mining activity in the late nineteenth century. The area, in the 1870s, was responsible for more than half of America's production of which of these metals?
2. "Jimmy Stewart came to Marquette County in 1959
And he was shot for two months there
And all the pines wept stardust for a while
And the Duke would play his soundtrack there
As Preminger had cast him in the film
His character was Pie-Eye" ("Marquette County, 1959")
Which movie, that also featured Lee Remick, is being described here?
3. The song "Lake Effect" contains a litany of freighters lost on the Great Lakes. Which of these was also the subject of a 1976 Gordon Lightfoot single?
4. "She takes musicians to Bois Blanc. She takes the dancers there too and at the end of the long nights, she takes them back by lamplight but until then she stays clear out of view. Before we dock at Richmond there's a hidden tax of merit and all the boaters inherit one dollar for every Lincoln brought in. We exchange them their Loonies and unwind." ("The gales of 1838")
The song is about the smuggling of alcohol during the era of prohibition but which detail is historically inaccurate?
5. "In the distance, old St. Ignace"
The lyric comes from "Across the Bridge" whose title refers to the Mackinac bridge that joins Michigan's Upper and Lower Peninsulas. What, though, is St. Ignace?
6. The song "No. VI" repeats which myth about the naming of the city of Novi?
7. "The lilacs hum against my Schwinn" ("Nightfall at Electric Park")
During the early years of the twentieth century, you might well have traversed Michigan on a Schwinn but on what would you have been travelling?
8. "Down to Electric Park,
Warmer winds are blowing.
Twilight heavy on the road,
Ferries steam across the water." ("Nightfall at Electric Park")
From 1906 until 1928, Electric Park was a major attraction in Detroit but what was it?
9. In "Big Jim Hawkins", the GLMS boys create their own mythology by attributing the formation of the Great Lakes region to the activities of Big Jim and Paul Bunyan. What manner of creatures are Jim and Paul?
10. "It's an Indian summer
And the tap water's brown sand
'Cause the lamprey are crammed
'Neath the Chippewa Dam" ("Isabella County, 1992")
Isabella County's Mt. Pleasant is home to the Central Michigan University but who or what is the county named after?
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