By Kirby Neumann-Rea • Of the News-Register • September 29, 2023 TweetBack, and Forth: The Northern Lights one of Upper Peninsula's splendorsA week’s vacation proved no less than luminescent. I was able to take eight days and travel to the family place on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, my mother’s birth territory, which holds a strong sense of kinship for my family. Cousins and a few people from the Upper Peninsula I spoke with had seen the Northern Lights a number of times, and two of my brothers at least once, but this was a first for me. I talked to other Yoopers, as the locals are known, who said they have lived there for years and never witnessed the Northern Lights. Seeing the Northern Lights was a half-hour I’ll never forget.