Port Austin

What he found destroyed the noble savage myth, which is why they had to destroy him for publishing it.

In 1964, Napoleon Chagnon, one of 12 kids born to a poor family in Port Austin, one of the first in his family to go to college, traveled to the Venezuela-Brazil border, and he went to live with a tribe called the Yanomamö.

About twenty thousand people scattered across the Amazon ri- rainforest, almost entirely untouched by the states, by markets, by modernity.

He was trying to answer that same central question I think that I wanted to answer when I went on ancestry.com to see if I could fill in the gaps in my family history, when I spent hours pouring over box after box after box, um, that my dad had carefully preserved.

Families are enjoying life.

This past Fourth of July in Port Austin, which is a very big s- hot spot for people to come out, you know, tourists, it was low this year because people did not have the money to come out, and that's sad.

That's very sad to me because that's what drives the towns where I'm from.

For the people out there [laughs] that are looking to, into the future, don't stress too much.

many years.

And he built a house up in Port Austin, which I grew up in Bad Axe, which is just almost to the tip of the thumb.

My lake here and there.

So we'd always be hitchhiking or whatever to go up to Port Austin to go to the beach and whatever when we were kids.

But you don't do that anymore.

No, no, hitchhiking's not a good idea.