It's no secret that Ernest Hemingway made his mark on Michigan, but a recent article by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette notes that Michigan, in turn, made it's mark on Hemingway, especially the northern Lower Peninsula.
Excerpt: Hemingway's footprints are gone from here, yet there are trace metals in the landscape and in the towns around northern Michigan that marked his prose.
In Petoskey's City Park Grill, where legend dictates that he sat at the second seat from the end of the 32-foot bar, there hangs a picture of a happy Hemingway, his smile making him look curiously like a large-mouth bass. At the Walloon Lake Lodge, down the shore from Windemere, you can order the Salmon Trout Hemingway, pan sautéed with cognac, mushrooms and shallots. The landmark McLean and Eakin bookstore in Petoskey's Gaslight District has a full section devoted to Hemingway.
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Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette