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The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum at
Whitefish Point features exhibits on the hazards
of sailing the inland seas. The museum houses
the bell salvaged from the freighter Edmund
Fitzgerald, which sank 17 miles off the point.

cape that juts into Superior. We stopped at a village mealforminersandmariners,butmaybenotsomuchfor
called Paradise and had lunch at the Berry Patch diner, travelwriters.
where we were introduced to the U.P.’s other signature Westeppedoutoftherestaurantintoadrivingrain
dish,pasties,pronounced“PAST-ees.”Thismealconsists and headed north to the tip of Whitefish Point, where
of beef, potatoes and other root vegetables enclosed in the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum honors the hun-
apiepastry.Fortifyingandnutritious,thismeatpieemu- dreds of sailors who have been swallowed along with
lates the original pastie from England and is a perfect theirvesselsbyLakeSuperior’stempestuouswaters.

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