Although county lines parcel out the southern shore of Lake Michigan like garden plots, the environmental issues that unify people from Michigan City, Ind. to Chicago do not respect political boundaries.
It’s been 12 years since residents in a small Indiana town learned their well water had been contaminated. EPA cleanup is crawling forward, but some deeply involved in the cleanup deny there’s a problem.
The best food and drink events this week include the National Maple Syrup Festival, not in Vermont or even Quebec, but the tiny town of Medora, population 704, in southern Indiana.
