Hemispheres: Blue Star Power - Roadtrip

[Bruce Nunnally]

Blue Star Power

Taking the uncommonly luxurious Cadillac XTS for a trip down memory lane

Author John O'Connor

I HAVE A MEMORY OF STANDING IN the Dairy Queen parking lot in South Haven, Mich., one August morning, watching two very large men grapple in a knee-deep pool of blueberries. This was about 1980, when I was 7. In my mind it was an actual boxing ring and the men had on old-timey bathing costumes, and at one point things turned ugly, taking on more of a bare-knuckle vibe than the DQ publicity folks had presumably bargained for—but all of this is probably invention. I do know that it was the National Blueberry Festival, held annually to celebrate southwest Michigan’s staggering summer yield (South Haven bills itself as the Blueberry Capital of the World), and that I personally consumed one ton of fresh blueberries that day, for good or ill.

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