Editing Escanaba, Michigan (section)

==Culture and contemporary life==
Although the Upper Peninsula is part of the state of Michigan, Escanaba and the western Upper Peninsula sometimes have closer cultural ties to the state of [[Wisconsin]].{{citation needed|date=October 2020}}

===Yooper culture===
[[Pasty|Pasties]] are a significant tourist attraction.<ref>{{cite news |last=Silver |first=Kate |title=Prowling for pasties in the U.P. |url=http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-79544532/ |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |date=7 March 2014 |access-date=29 June 2018 |archive-date=13 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200413224112/http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-79544532/ |url-status=dead}}</ref> Many ethnic groups adopted the pasty for use in the [[Copper Country]] copper mines; the [[Finnish Americans|Finnish immigrants]] within the region mistook it for the traditional ''[[Karelian pasty|piiraat]]'' and ''kuuko'' pastries.<ref>Ojakangas, B. (1988). ''The Great Scandinavian Baking Book''. Boston: Little, Brown, p. 308.</ref><ref name="tech">{{cite web |url=http://www.hu.mtu.edu/vup/pasty/history.htm |title=History of the Pasty |publisher=[[Michigan Technological University]] |location=[[Houghton, Michigan]] |access-date=21 December 2012 |archive-date=4 December 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121204012802/http://www.hu.mtu.edu/vup/pasty/history.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> The pasty has become strongly associated with all cultures in this area.<ref name="american">{{cite book |last=Shortridge |first=Barbara |title=The taste of American place |year=1998 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=0-8476-8507-1 |pages=21–36 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DsDW7DHknCQC |access-date=2018-06-29 |archive-date=2020-05-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200505075207/https://books.google.com/books?id=DsDW7DHknCQC |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Theater and performing arts===
Escanaba is home to the William Bonifas Fine Arts Center, The Waterfront Art Festival, The Players de Noc, The Bay de Noc Choral Society, the Escanaba City Band, and many smaller arts organizations, art galleries, and musical performing groups.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tripadvisor.ca/Attraction_Review-g42185-d1739689-Reviews-Escanaba_City_Band-Escanaba_Michigan.html |title=Escanaba City Band |work=tripadvisor.ca |access-date=2010-08-19 |archive-date=2011-07-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721005628/http://www.tripadvisor.ca/Attraction_Review-g42185-d1739689-Reviews-Escanaba_City_Band-Escanaba_Michigan.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.dailypress.net/page/content.detail/id/508468.html?showlayout=0 |title=''Choral society gears up for annual Christmas concert'' (December 4, 2008) Daily Press. |access-date=August 19, 2010 |archive-date=July 19, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719035016/http://www.dailypress.net/page/content.detail/id/508468.html?showlayout=0 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>[http://bonifasarts.org/bonifas/affiliate.html Affiliate organizations, William Bonifas Fine Arts Center.] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100825174907/http://bonifasarts.org/bonifas/affiliate.html |date=2010-08-25 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.miningjournal.net/page/content.detail/id/547032.html?nav=5004&showlayout=0 |title=Waterfront Art Festival in Escanaba |work=miningjournal.net |access-date=2010-08-19 |archive-date=2011-07-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718225109/http://www.miningjournal.net/page/content.detail/id/547032.html?nav=5004&showlayout=0 |url-status=live }}</ref>