Originally Posted by Roody

Usually I'm on these forums boring everybody with tales of how great Michigan is. I didn't have to this time. Sault Ste. Marie (we call it "the Soo") was the center of Great Lakes trade and economy even before the French arrived. The fur trade was a dramatic period of first contact between two great civilizations. Mackinac Island was the spritual center of that Great Lakes civilization. The Indians staged a lacrosse game outside the American fort, chased the ball inside the gates and captured the fort without firing a single shot. Very clever strategists. They eventually lost that war between old ways and new ways. The story was eventually repeated all over the continent.

Another great confrontation between old and new ways of living is taking place here now. Michigan is faced earlier than other places with the certain decline of petroleum and the possible demise of the family car. Keep your eyes on this state if you want to see what's going to happen in the rest of the country a few years later. It's pretty interesting.