From the Highland Golf Course in Escanaba, Mike Curtin says, "What does Florida have that the U.P. doesn't?!" I wonder if they've had any snow overnight?. Maybe somebody could give us an update. We had a dusting here in Eagle River.
This is the 5th New Year's Day we've celebrated on the Pasty Cam. Hope it is a prosperous and healthy one for you and your family. Could I ask a favor? If you've been a visitor to this daily feature for some time, and have never posted a message, please scroll to the bottom of this page and leave a New Year's hello, and let us know where you're from. It is optional to leave your email address, but a nice way for old friends to get in touch.
Special note: We've had a number of requests to restore the "Past-E-Mail" page, where you can post a message which pertains to the entire month, not just the daily picture. Feel free to use PastyMail for any feedback, questions or comments which you prefer to be seen with each month's posting.
In PastyMail we'll try to bring you updates on the Resident Van project for Still Waters. There was a burst of individual gifts online yesterday, which put us much closer to the purchase of a new vehicle. Still Waters is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation, and all contributions are tax deductible. Thanks to everyone who has joined this effort.
Happy New Year to all who make this site possible. I have only been on-line since there were 40,000 pasties made. I thought, "Holy Wah! 40 thou pasties"! This is from the snow-less Stephenson, MI area. Pasty Central is by far the best site I visit at least once a day and the closest to a chat room I know how to get into. Really enjoy the comments and the pictures. You do such a wonderful job with this site.
By BWS- T.C. MI. on Wednesday, January 1, 2003 - 08:51 am:
We certainly welcome everyone to write a message today, even old friends. Your note reminded me of the first pasties we ever shipped in August of 1996. I believe it was to a family in Valparaiso, Indiana. Back then we hadn't started the daily pictures yet, only the shots of the residents peeling veggies. And that's the way the whole thing started.
By Yank, Michigan on Wednesday, January 1, 2003 - 09:22 am:
Charlie, I have been coming to Pasty.com since sometime in 1996 and I still keep the site as my homepage. I visit several times a day and really enjoy it. It is fun to read the messages and see where they come from. I have a daughter who lives in North Carolina, and she visits pasty.com to get a glimpse of where her Dad lives. Keep the site going because it makes a lot of people come together from all over the world. I wish everyone a Happy and Prosperous New Year.
By Joe, Aurora, IL on Wednesday, January 1, 2003 - 09:31 am:
I've been visiting the site for at least 3 years now, but rarely post. So maybe it's time to echo the sentiments of so many, as to what a blessing this site is for so many people. Not just with the beautiful photography, but also with the information and knowlege that can be gained from the people who visit. My thanks to all who make this possible, Charlie and contributors. I continue to visit the UP at least once or twice a year, with dreams of someday making it my permanent home.
By Pam, Apple Valley, MN on Wednesday, January 1, 2003 - 09:47 am:
Happy New Year from Knoxville, TN (former MTU grad, though!)
By Mike McCarthy, Michigan on Wednesday, January 1, 2003 - 11:08 am:
I've been a regular visitor since '97 when my son was at da Tech. Orginally from Escanaba and now from the land of wimpy winters (although yous guys aren't doing much better dis year, eh), Kalamazoo, I enjoy the memories, history, and photos. The pics of the Keweenaw and Superior are always spectacular and the occasional ones of Esky are a bonus. Happy New Year, Charlie, and thanks for your work and care to produce such a warm and friendly site.
By JBM ..Warren Mi. on Wednesday, January 1, 2003 - 11:11 am:
I love this site. Literally the first cyber stop I make every single day and usually have Pasy Cam pictures on my screen as wallpaper. Nothing like a glimpse of "home" shining from my computer screen!
Charlie, thank you so much for all your efforts in running this site. It is such a wonderful place to visit. Like going home. All the best in this New Year and may we all pray for Peace on Earth. --JoAnne
By finkin - Macomb, MI on Wednesday, January 1, 2003 - 11:50 am:
Happy New Year, Charlie, and to all the people who visit and post of this site. An Internet friend who lives in Chassell introduced me to this interesting site in the spring. Since then, I start each day off with a visit to the U.P. The photos and captions provide me with a glimpse of the beautiful place my friend calls home. I am also an activities director at an assisted living residence and enjoy reading about the residents at Stillwater. Thanks for giving us the wonderful daily gift of this unique site. Much joy and happiness in 2003.
By Truman Hagbloom, St. Croix, USVI on Wednesday, January 1, 2003 - 12:01 pm:
Happy New Year to you and your staff. Thank you for your site and community services and communications. Your site helps me to stay in touch with my homeland where I will retire to in in the near future.
By Jim Faller, Bethlehem, PA on Wednesday, January 1, 2003 - 12:06 pm:
Happy New Year to all from the Fallers in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
By Tater, Ypsilanti, MI on Wednesday, January 1, 2003 - 12:08 pm:
Happy New Year everyone. I would have posted earlier but I was up until 3:00 a.m. playing Monopoly. Probably just be waking up now if it wasn't for the phone ringing several times with Happy New Year wishes from Family.
I'm also one of those that has pasty.com set as their homepage at home. I'd do this at work too but I'm a good corporate citizen and keep the company's Intranet start page as my homepage. Not sure when I first starting visiting pasty.com but it's been years.
The near 7" of snow from Christmas Day has finally melted away in Ypsi. Now it's brown, gray, and green out.
great site, great messages, happy new year to all!!
By Mary Lou on Wednesday, January 1, 2003 - 12:36 pm:
....HAPPY NEW YEAR DAY....It is another beautiful day in Escanaba.....I am looking out the window at the sunshine on the green grass of the Escanaba Country Club..there were golfers out there yesterday .....and folks were walking out there today...it is 30 degrees but may warm up for the golfers this pm. Not a flake in town..........snow, that is.......
By CT, PA on Wednesday, January 1, 2003 - 12:44 pm:
Happy New Year from Rossville,Ga. to all of my family and friends in the U.P. and also everyone on Pasty Cam and to all of the Stillwater Folks!! Charlie I hope you are especially Blessed in the New Year for all the good you do and the pleasure you bring to all of us who visit this site. It is so nice to view the photos and visit with old and new friends. THANKS!!
By Darrell, Fisher, IL on Wednesday, January 1, 2003 - 12:55 pm:
I have been checking this site everyday for the last year. I love it, only been to the UP once a couple of years ago but plan to return. We did make it to Duluth this past summer. Great area there also. Keep up the good work. Great web site!
By Joy Popke Fl. on Wednesday, January 1, 2003 - 01:07 pm:
Happy New Year to all! Pasty.com is the best. I have to check it every day. And every day proves to be so interesting. Makes me want to be up there. We usually go twice a year. I'm not from the U.P. but both of my parents were, so my roots are there. Keep up the good work!
By Marc, offshore GoM/Tamarack City on Wednesday, January 1, 2003 - 01:42 pm:
Good morning and Happy New Year, everyone!! I'm on the noon to midnight shift and as I do every morning since going to sea in 1997, first thing, I've logged on to check the Pasty Cam:) Your site is a blessing for those of us removed from the Copper Country. Thank you Charlie and everyone at Pasty.com, posters, readers, photographers and all.
By Grandmas Pasties, Minneapolis, MN on Wednesday, January 1, 2003 - 01:53 pm:
Happy New Year to all our friends and partners at Pasty.com. 2003 will be our 7th year at the Minnesota State Fair and we have been proud members of the Pasty Central family for 4 of those years. Imagine, when we first talked 7 years ago about possibly being our supplier (you didn't have your USDA yet) that our needs would grow to 12,000 pasties. Remember the year before last when our order put you over 100,000 pasties, Charlie, and we served number 100,000 at the Minnesota State Fair? We now sell pasties year round in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Best wishes to all for a healthy and properous 2003. **** Sandy and Chuck ****
By jean adamski, Abilene Texas on Wednesday, January 1, 2003 - 02:01 pm:
Hello and a Happy New Year to all my fellow pasty.comers, yoopers and all yooper wanabes. A SPECIAL Happy New Year to you Charlie! Your dedication to maintaining this wonderful site is truely a blessing. What a wonderful age we live in that makes it possible for so many from around the world to keep in touch and feel a connection to "God's country"! Please keep up your great work. p.s. Still NO snow here in Esky :)..come on down ..the golf is GREAT!
By Steve ristola on Wednesday, January 1, 2003 - 02:08 pm:
Happy New Year to everybody from the twin cities.Where the ground is brown and cold.Looking fwd to coming up in feb. for a few days.Go Pack.
By Bill P , Ca on Wednesday, January 1, 2003 - 02:09 pm:
When I was a boy I heard men talking about the mild weather the Copper Country experienced at the end of December 1913, the year of the Big Strike. They talked of moving tables out of the Sweet Shop, owned by the Jasskelainen family in Ahmeek, and playing pinochle out on the sidewalk on New Years Eve afternoon. That was 89 years ago. Looks like warm weather visits Keweenaw every 100 years or so.
By Lynne,DeKalb,IL on Wednesday, January 1, 2003 - 02:16 pm:
Happy New Year from Illinois! We feel that the UP is our home away from home (we try to get up there to the Porkies for every season) and the Pasty Cam is the first thing we check each day on the computer. Thanks for the bit of beauty each morning.
By Helen G., Kansas on Wednesday, January 1, 2003 - 02:43 pm:
Well. I decided I better write something too...I have been following your site for sometime...I spent all my young summers at my grammas farm in Bootjack...The Copper Country is the greatest place on earth as far as I'm concerned...We enjoyed some of your pasties as a winner of the snow contest on the Eagle Harbor site...they are delicious...I don't order too many because I come from a family that has and still does make pasties...all the time. My aunt & uncle in Detroit make hundreds every month at their chirch as a fundraiser for the church. But keep up the great work..not only on the pasties but on the awesome site...I love it!!
By Ken, Kalamazoo, MI on Wednesday, January 1, 2003 - 02:58 pm:
Happy New Year to all. I started visiting this site back in '97 when my son started at MTU. Now I visit at least once a day, usually 2 or 3 times a day. Such a beautiful area to live in. We'll be coming up in February for Winter Carnival and try to get back 2 or 3 times a year for vacation or a weekend getaway. It's always great to be back in the Keweenaw whenever we're there. See ya soon.
By Mike, MS on Wednesday, January 1, 2003 - 03:08 pm:
Let me add a comment as a new comer. I have only visited this site for about the last six weeks, but I am hooked. Great job. I have just accepted a job at MTU and will be moving to the UP next June. I am really looking forward to getting back up north, especially after seeing the great pictures on pasty.com. Happy New Year to all.
By John, Chicago IL on Wednesday, January 1, 2003 - 03:08 pm:
Been visiting your site for a few years now. I'm retired from the Coast Guard. Lots of relatives in the Copper Country. My folks are from Bootjack and Jacobsville. Was stationed on Rock of Ages Light, Passage Island Light, Huron Island Light. Along with Portage Station and Marquette Station. Love Pensacola but will always love the U.P. Happy New Year All!
By Chuck Clarkston,Mi on Wednesday, January 1, 2003 - 03:52 pm:
I check this web site at least once every day. It is a wonderful site and it is great to see pictures of home. The Keweenaw will always be home to me, no matter where I live.
Have been working on my house, The Money Pit, outside of Dollar Bay now for about 5 years. Hopefully it will be ready when I retire in about 10 years.
Christmas Eve my wife informed me that we had run out of Baroni's spagette sauce and Vollwerth's meats. Had to make a resupply run on Christmas day. This is one of the better excuses I have used to get back home. It was great to be back, even for only 2 days.
Charlie,I like that name, you do a wonderful job with this web site. It makes me home sick but I thank you very, very much for your hard work keeping this site up and running for all the displaced Yoopers.
Happy New Year to all the fans of Pasty Central, and especially to you, Charlie, for providing us with a daily serving of "God's Country". My folks raised us in Detroit, but we spent 2 weeks every summer "up home", usually at Little Traverse Bay. I have the fondest memories that live on with my kids, although we can only manage to get to the UP every couple of years.
By Ole Yooper on Wednesday, January 1, 2003 - 04:07 pm:
Just gotta visit whenever I can, usually at least once a day, there have been so many fond memories re-kindled by the photos and messages. Like so many have stated, Pasty.com has been a rich blessing, and for me too...the best site on the entire worlwide web!
By John, Battle Creek, MI, USA on Wednesday, January 1, 2003 - 04:24 pm:
Taking up your invitation to those of us who have never, or perhaps rarely, post. We, like so many, regard Pasty Cam a daily treat - and sometimes, a little 'retreat'. Happy New Year to you and yours, as well as those at Still Waters and the people who make this site what it is: Fresh air.
By RT, MI on Wednesday, January 1, 2003 - 05:38 pm:
Happy New year from Corvallis, Oregon. I vist this site almost daily. I am a Toivola native and moved away for the last time in 1977. Seems Yoopers move away several times before a move finally sticks? Some people even then move back to U.P. after twenty or more years.
I like Oregon a lot and plan to stay here. No rain today but somewhat cool for these parts. 48 degrees and dry. Rain forcast for the next ten days however.
By MARLEY,Baudette,MN on Wednesday, January 1, 2003 - 07:18 pm:
ya sure, you becha! truely a joy to know that this site is there for yoopers! my brother turned me on to it last week. I to look forward to visiting daily.have a safe and happy new year to all! thanks mutty.
By Al,Ca on Wednesday, January 1, 2003 - 07:26 pm:
"HAPPY NEW YEAR" to each and every one. A special one to "Charlie" and his family and all the people at PASTY.NET. Its brown and turning nasty here in Missouri but supposed to change overnight with a big storm comeing in. If I could I'd ship all the snow up to the U.P. so that you all could enjoy your snowmobiles.
By SP, Ann Arbor on Wednesday, January 1, 2003 - 08:20 pm:
I have enjoyed this site for over a year. Hope all have a Happy New Year. My mom was born in Trimountain, and raised in Painesdale. We always went up home for our vacation. My grandmother lived in Houghton, I spent many summers enjoying the beach bus to Sun o Shine. Keep up the good work, always enjoy the pictures, and memories.
By Jan, North Carolina on Wednesday, January 1, 2003 - 09:10 pm:
Seasons greetings from Baltimore. Keep up the great work Pasty cam! Rainy all day here with the total of about 2". Oh....if it could only be snow!
By FHC and NLC on Wednesday, January 1, 2003 - 10:02 pm:
Happy New Year to all from Fl. We spend the winters here, and I check the Pasty Net every day. Really enjoy it. Thanks to everyone that send in all the great pics and sayings.
By Alex Tiensivu on Wednesday, January 1, 2003 - 10:18 pm:
Hello! Been visiting this site regularly since this past summer, but never have left a message. I just loved looking back through all of the pictures from the previous years. One area of the U.P. that I never traveled that much is the Keweenaw Peninsula, and after seeing all of the pictures from the area, I think I must. Here's wishing all a very happy and prosperous New Year! :-)
By Wm. C. Wolkenhauer, Washington on Thursday, January 2, 2003 - 12:11 am:
Nostalgia comes in many forms. I believe that is my Dad's old horse pasture in the background.
By Jennie Largin Daniell , Dallas, Texas on Thursday, January 2, 2003 - 12:23 am:
I have enjoyed your site almost daily for the past year or more. I've live in Dallas since 1979... a lot to do here, but it's no match for the beauty of the U.P.! Unfortunately (but fortunately for my husband! haha) golfing year round is something that is really done here in Texas! Thanks for all the beautiful pictures that keep the memories alive.
By Ken and Betty Colborn, AZ on Thursday, January 2, 2003 - 12:30 am:
I have to add from Sun City, AZ A HAPPY and BLESSED NEW YEAR to all Pasty Cam people. Especially to Charlie and his wife, whom I sure is as involved as he is on here and at the home. As many other people have written, I go to this site, many times a day just to see what people have written in. There is so much history on this. Keep up the good work Charlie and may our Lord bless you richly for all you do and your great testimony on here.
By The Z-Man, Ontonagon,Mi on Thursday, January 2, 2003 - 12:30 am:
You ain't kiddin' Z-Man. I was scrolling forever to get to the bottom. Great to see all the first-time posters who've been visiting Pasty.com over the years. Happy New Year to all.
By Steve, West Bloomfield MI on Thursday, January 2, 2003 - 07:11 am:
Happy New Year, Charlie! I'm also a daily viewer but have never posted. My wife and I are both MTU grads ('86/'88) and visit the Keweenaw at least twice each year. The photos on this sight are so good it's almost like being there. Keep up the phenomenal work.
By Rick Staszewski LaCrosse, WI on Thursday, January 2, 2003 - 07:56 am:
Happy New Year to everyone! I try to visit Pasty.net daily. I discovered the Keweenaw and the U.P. in 1974 and have visited the U.P. at least twice a year. I simply love it and all you youpers! God Bless
By Mary Schei, Florida on Thursday, January 2, 2003 - 08:10 am:
Happy New Year to all at Pasty Central and to all who enjoy this wonderful site. Like others who have posted I'm a far away from home Yooper who enjoys the year-around warm weather in Florida but still checks the pasty cam daily for a dose of home. My father, Cap Schei, had a bakery in Lake Linden until the early '60's and made the best pasties (sorry guys) I ever had. And as the old saying goes, "You can take the girl out of the Copper Country but you can't take the Copper Country out of the girl" I celebrated the New Year with family and friends - many of them also from the UP - enjoying pork pie with chow chow. May 2003 bring health and happiness to us all.
By Carol Greene, Quebec on Thursday, January 2, 2003 - 09:09 am:
Well, since you asked for all of us to log in & comment,I decided to make my first response. Your site is a fun place to visit, especially the comments to the old shoebox photos. Don't know when I first started checking the site out but only within the last year or so. I enjoy the local info and the comments from around the US and world. Happy New Year to all you wannabe yoopers out there as well as the rest of you up here in God's Country. Nice job, Charlie and keep up the good work.
By Frank C, NE Illinois on Thursday, January 2, 2003 - 01:43 pm:
It would not be a good day unless I check out you pic's, transplant here in Indy from Battle Creek but spent lots of acation in the U P as a kid and had a good friend graduate from MTU so made trips there each year he was there, always loved the "Copper Country Tours" every fall, was snowed in Tech Thanksgiving in "71 or '72
Happy New year...I enjoy reading the comments each day and the pictures are just great..thanks for keeping the UP close at hand. We spend our entire life building memories and it is so nice to have many of them come to life on this web site.
By Dave C.,Il on Friday, January 3, 2003 - 09:27 am:
Hei, Toivo, you're right. This is a DEEP one! A long way to da bottom. A HAPPY NEW YEAR!! and many thanks to Charlie, Toivo, Donn, RCW, Taka, and so many others for helping to bring us old and new things to see. Just a light dusting of snow here in Cornell today (monday). God bless America again, please. And keep our boys and girls safe in the service of our country. Let's leave the 'under God' in the pledge!
By mjg-Lake Linden, Mich on Saturday, January 11, 2003 - 01:25 pm:
Just now getting around to reading some to the old postings. Grew up in Ewen (left in 59 Joined the Navy). Now live in Virginia. Surely do enjoy looking at the pics and reading all the comments. Hope each and everyone of you have a prosperus new year. Good health to each and every one of you.
