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Up North Lowdown

Pen pals

By Max Copeland,
Ed Ronco
Published April 27, 2024 at 6:00 AM EDT
Left: Heather Spooner lives in Williamsburg and owns Ampersand Lettering Lab, an online shop based out of Traverse City. She's helped connect hundreds of people to pen pals, through a project she started during the pandemic. (Photo courtesy of Heather Spooner)
Left: Heather Spooner lives in Williamsburg and owns Ampersand Lettering Lab, an online shop based out of Traverse City. She's helped connect hundreds of people to pen pals, through a project she started during the pandemic. (Photo courtesy of Heather Spooner)
Top right: A U.S. Geological Survey scientist adds sodium hydroxide to ballast water test chambers aboard the M/V American Spirit in 2015. The ballast water of these ships remains largely unregulated, despite evidence that it spreads aquatic invasive species. (Photo: Colin Flynn/U.S. Geological Survey)

This week on the Up North Lowdown: How a northern Michigan woman's effort to get people writing letters helped hundreds of people find pen pals ... and human connection.

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Max Copeland
Max Copeland is the local weekday host of All Things Considered on Interlochen Public Radio and the producer of The Up North Lowdown, IPR’s weekly news podcast.
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Ed Ronco
Ed Ronco is IPR's news director.
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