Defending the dark


The night sky above Eagle Harbor, a village in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula along the shoreline of Lake Superior, Michigan. — Emily Elconin/The New York Times

ON a Saturday in September in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (UP), a dozen people navigated woods to the shore of Lake Superior, where waves licked the land.

Above, a wash of stars stretched across the blue-black sky, cut in half by the Milky Way.

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