Edna and Brad Yonker offer a wide variety of exceptionally high-quality items to help visitors remember their trip to the U.P. – 90 percent of them are locally made. Whirligigs, candles, tote bags, note cards, mugs, signs, lamps, Stormy Kromer hats and mittens … Many of the fabric gifts are made by Edna, a gifted quilter. So many items are...

George “Stormy” Kromer was a Wisconsin railroad engineer and semi-pro baseball player who complained to his wife, Ida, that he was tired of losing his baseball-style cap to the winter wind while working on the train. So he asked if she could sew some flaps on an old baseball cap to keep it snug. It worked so well that a...

About a block from the Nonesuch Gallery is the Gitche Gumee Landing Gift Shop. A totally different kind of experience from its neighbor – both worth experiencing. Here the look is modern, with items spread out on sleek shelves or on walls. You’ll find locally-made candles and jewelry, local minerals made into bookends and clocks and wall hangings and coffee-table...