Coming home
MARQUETTE — Upper Peninsula childhoods are never far from the hearts of those who grow up here. Cartographers have been known to forget about this 10.5 million-plus-acre parcel of land tucked away between three Great Lakes, but people who have lived the unique experience that is “the U.P.” invariably come home. Some come home to visit family, some for the opportunity to enjoy outdoor adventure and some might make a trip back north simply to eat a pasty. Mike Melka got to enjoy all three of those things this week. Melka, 50, didn’t move too far away. He left to take a ...