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Boat Schools & Builders

Visiting the Great Lakes Boat Building School & the Les Cheneaux Islands in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula

There are not many cities that have experienced such social and political extremes in recent history as Amsterdam. In the 20th century alone, Amsterdam faced the atrocities of war for the first time in 400 years, became the radical center of 1960s social movements and witnessed a complete about-face in its core economy. Amsterdam’s progressive, multicultural...