It takes less than five minutes after driving through the gates of the Iosco County Fairgrounds in C/D?s long-term Ford F-150 Raptor to realize that I am altogether too sober for the Michigan Mud Jam. Now in its fifth year, the Jam transforms the normally peaceful town of Hale into what?s claimed to be the ?largest bog in the North.? This, it seems, is a thing to be quantified and compared. Around 15,000 people have shown up for what amounts to a celebration of torque?s ability to conquer gelatinous quagmire, but also?judging from the Confederate flags?a celebration of rebellion. The obvious question of ?why"? is one that has been turned, by the vast crowds and their near-universal inebriation, into ?why the hell not"? READ MORE ??
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